Useful Writing Blogs #1: The Creative Penn

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Sourced from my useful list of writing blogs, this series of biweekly articles aims to explore a writing blog in more detail, highlighting three useful articles from them as well as ways to keep in contact with them. Please take a moment to check out the links offered!




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The Creative Penn is an Australian writing blog focused on writing, publishing and internet marketing resources. Run by Joanna Penn, author, blogger, speaker and business consultant, her blog has been listed at no.4 at the Top 50 Australian Writing Blogs for the past two years as well as coming eighth in the Top 10 Blogs for Writers in 2010/2011. Besides providing a useful list of resources for all writers, her blog consists of:

:bulletblue: Regular blog posts covering aspects of writing, publishing and book promotion.
:bulletblue: Podcast audio interviews with authors and people in the publishing or marketing industry.
:bulletblue: Monthly Ezines containing round-ups from the industry and useful articles.

As sourced from the About page.



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Every blog post, ezine and podcast audio interview from The Creative Penn has been very useful and insightful, so picking three out of these articles has proven to be quite difficult. However, if you like what these articles below have explored, feel free to browse the archives at the site.

:bulletred:Killing the sacred cows of publishing with Dean Wesley Smith

In this podcast, Penn talks to a bestselling author about a variety of things writing-related, but most importantly about his series of articles on Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing. There is definitely a lot of surprising insights to be found in this podcast about the nature of publishing.

:bulletred:Podcast on Self-Publishing: Your Questions answered with indie author April Hamilton

This is another podcast, although there is an attached transcript to it as well. This time, the blog interviews an indie author who has a lot to say about self-publishing. For anyone interested in going down the self-publishing route, this is quite an interesting podcast.

:bulletred:7 Reasons why you should read your book out aloud

As the title suggests, there is definitely merit in reading your novel drafts out loud, including gauging how good your dialogue is and the pacing of the novel.



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If you found this writing blog interesting, you may check out this page here and contact them in any way, whether through Facebook, Twitter, email and more.

I hope you enjoy this article, and please :+favlove: it to show your support! If you have any questions, thoughts, discussion or future writing blogs that I am yet to add to my journal listing, please feel free to leave a comment or note me about it. :)
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I've pimped it in my poll! :D