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5 Industry Trends Requiring Every Writer’s Attention

By Jane Friedman

If you’re a totally new, unpublished writer who is focused on fiction, memoir, poetry, or any type of narrative-driven work, forget you ever heard the word platform. I think it’s causing more damage than good. It’s causing writers to do things that they dislike (even hate), and that are unnatural for them at an early stage of their careers. They’re confused, for good reason, and platform building grows into a raging distraction from the work at hand—the writing.

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again: 

1. 5 Industry Trends Requiring Every Writer’s Attention http://ow.ly/jaEkU via @JaneFriedman
2. 7 Things joining KDP Select Can and Can’t do for you http://ow.ly/jbznA
3. Be Your Own Book Doctor http://ow.ly/jbG3Q via @janice_hardy
4. Is KDP Select Salvation or Damnation for Indie Authors? http://ow.ly/jbQhT
5. 5 Quick Tips to Writing More: http://t.co/IxKDjWCWa8 @kathysteffen RT @elizabethscraig
6. 3 Critical Things that Make Your Guest Posts Rock http://t.co/TpvvCHkOrR RT @evelyn_puerto:
7. 6 Facebook Metrics Marketers Should Be Measuring http://ow.ly/jcM9I
8. Social Media 2013: User Demographics For Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram [INFOGRAPHIC] http://ow.ly/jcMpj
9. One Word Can Mar Your Meaning http://ow.ly/jcR1q via Daily Writing Tips
10. How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers http://ow.ly/jcRe5
11. Branding 101: How to Promote Your Blog Like the Big Guys Do http://ow.ly/jcRNm 
12. 18 Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts http://ow.ly/jd8DQ
13. Critical Thinking by Heather Day Gilbert http://ow.ly/jdaYN via Seriously Write
14. One Simple Trick That Makes Editing Less Painful http://ow.ly/jdbqM via @JodyHedlund
15. 5 Ways Authors Can Promote Their Books http://ow.ly/jdbGM via Southern Writing Magazine
16. Thins I Wish I Knew When I First Started Self-Publshing: Indie Authors Share Their Insights http://ow.ly/jdcaJ
17. Allowing Your Characters to Have a “Wicked Sense” of Humor http://ow.ly/jdcwr via @MarcyKennedy
18. Social Media Success Formula http://ow.ly/jdcQc 

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Happy writing & running, Kathy

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