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Stop Shouting at Your Readers: The Perils of Overusing Exclamation Points
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From Field Notes to Fiction: Turning Military Experience into Storytelling Gold
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How to Zoom with MWSA
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Mastering the Semicolon: A Guide to Correct Usage
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What Is a Comma Splice—and Should You Ever Use One?
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Goodreads Tips for Authors
A List of Helpful Resources Regarding Scammers
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New Year’s Resolutions—MWSA Style
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Types of Narration
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3 Stages of Editing
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Security Review of your Publication
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A Goodreads Primer by Jim Tritten
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Tips for Self Publishing by Janette Stone
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Writing for and About the Military by Jim Tritten
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Since it's been a while, here's a new tip
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Self-Publishing & MWSA
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Comma Wars
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How to make your book cover design stand out on the shelf
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Want to put song lyrics in your next book?
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Saving your Kindle notes and highlights
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How to link to your book on Amazon
Make Your Book More Discoverable with Keywords
Writing Dialog by MWSA Author, John Schembra
Self-Publishing Presentation by Pat Walkow and Jim Tritten
Tips for Illustrations and maps
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How to share/lend your Kindle eBook

Self‑Publishing & Book Marketing

Tips & Tricks
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Goodreads Tips for Authors
goodreadsLogo.jpg
A Goodreads Primer by Jim Tritten
selfPub.jpg
Tips for Self Publishing by Janette Stone
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Self-Publishing & MWSA
Make Your Book More Discoverable with Keywords
 

Writing Craft & Style

Tips & Tricks
TTExclamationPointImage.png
Stop Shouting at Your Readers: The Perils of Overusing Exclamation Points
FieldNotes.png
From Field Notes to Fiction: Turning Military Experience into Storytelling Gold
Narrator Types.jpg
Types of Narration
WritersEd.png
Since it's been a while, here's a new tip
BBB.jpg
Want to put song lyrics in your next book?
Writing Dialog by MWSA Author, John Schembra
 

Editing & Publishing Prep

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3 Stages of Editing
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Security Review of your Publication
 

Cover Design & Visuals

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How to make your book cover design stand out on the shelf
Tips for Illustrations and maps
 

Technical Tools & Platform Guides

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A List of Helpful Resources Regarding Scammers
KindleNotes1.jpg
Saving your Kindle notes and highlights
Make Your Book More Discoverable with Keywords
amazon page.jpg
How to share/lend your Kindle eBook
 

Community & Engagement

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New Year’s Resolutions—MWSA Style
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Since it's been a while, here's a new tip
 

Operational & Organizational Tips

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How to Zoom with MWSA
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Security Review of your Publication
 

Grammatical Grousing

This section is for those of us who are too far removed from high school English to remember all those pesky rules.

Browse through a series of articles about the technical aspects of writing, i.e., grammar.

Remember, those “little” grammatical mistakes can pile up and turn your great story into a bit of a mess.

Have a tip to share? Let us know!

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Stop Shouting at Your Readers: The Perils of Overusing Exclamation Points
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Mastering the Semicolon: A Guide to Correct Usage
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What Is a Comma Splice—and Should You Ever Use One?
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Comma Wars

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