This lifetime contains as many masterpieces as you allow. Every week we talk with entrepreneurs. We talk about successes and failures. We spend time with complete newbies, seasoned veterans, and everything in between. One topic that comes up over and over again with both groups is mistakes made in starting businesses.
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These conversations have been fascinating , so we compiled a list of the 10 mistakes we hear most often into a nifty lil' guide. Give it a share:. Awesome post and very timely as I just released my first self-published non-fiction book this week. I elected to not opt-in to the KDP Select initially but may try that at some further point.
I initially launched to my email list providing a coupon code to save on the eBook bundle. But having the print version to sell and send to friends and supporters is awesome also. Although it added a lot of over-analyzing pricing structure for all the different formats.
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I find myself sending free copies to people all the time also as I just want to help people. I admire your commitment to adding value to peoples lives.
Make the world a better place and good things will follow. Inspiring to read about the story that made it so popular. Then again I am one of those people who was your reader prior to the book as well via the Minimalists. This is an inspiration and it goes to show that you do not eed to write 1 , words for you to be able to publish your own book.
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Amazon kdp and prime has made everything so easy that you canpublish without breaking a sweat. I love 5 It Takes Time. It is so true even for myself to spend more time than I realize doing non value-added activities. And I mean things that do not add value to my overall goal of freedom. Time is really the only nonrenewable element we have here on earth. Especially for me and especially now. I quit my full time job in order to be able to write my first novel. Very good tips here!
Definitely was the kick in the pants I needed to get me closer to the end of my first piece of fiction. Thanks for writing this post. I wrote a short story that was complete and just had to put it together for publishing. My computer and phone hard drives, both of which had parts of the story on them, died, causing me to lose some really well written parts of the story. I have been contemplating organizing what I do have saved and re-writing the parts that were lost. This post is the last thing I needed to push me over the edge and get it going.
Thanks so much for sharing it.
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It is the story of a child without a family who finds an older woman living on the streets and befriends her on Christmas Eve. The famous poem by Clement Clarke Moore about one Christmas eve and the arrival of you-know-who down the chimney. Dulce Rodrigues explains the history of the famous story about Rudolph, the most famous reindeer of all and retells it in her own words.
Helena must fix her costume for the Christmas play AND shop for the disco. Read short stories to your kids on any PC, laptop, tablet, iPad or smartphone. Print or send to your Kindle. Search by author, by reading time, age or story type. Hundreds of stories for children available waiting for you any time of the night or day. In "A Haunted House," a ghost couple searches for buried treasure in the house of a living couple. Mysterious in topic and writing style, the story takes on the power of love.
Read it for free here. This short story by Orwell follows an English policeman in Burma who is called upon to shoot an elephant.
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The strain of imperialism is represented through the officer's anguish while watching the majestic creature suffer and slowly die. It is also a great companion read to Orwell's novel Burmese Days. Ray Bradbury wrote 11 novels — and over short stories. He was famous for writing a story every week , a practice many other writers have since tried to emulate. While the nightingale is a character you would expect in a fairy tale, willing to sacrifice herself for true love, the lovers in this story are quite a surprise.
This story follows a serial seductress as she runs into her old high school crush on vacation 50 years later — and starts planning his murder. Salinger is considered one of the best American writers of the 20th century, but he only actually wrote one novel: The Catcher in the Rye. His other works were all short stories or novellas. This one follows the comical conversation of a woman on vacation with her husband, who has PTSD, talking on the phone to her concerned mother.