In case you missed them the first time around, here are Clear Sight Books’ top 10 blog posts for 2020–along with a little commentary. Discover your fellow authors’ biggest concerns.
Writing in Small Steps to Reach Big Mile...
When writing a book feels overwhelming, try writing in small steps. Leverage your existing content development plans to make progress toward your ultimate (increasingly attainable) goal.
On Reflection: The Joy of Creating Books
Creating books is one of the ways I’ve found joy this year, giving me 3 priceless rewards. How have you found your joy? And what’s next for you? Will it be creating a book?
Word Tip: Finding Your Word Count
Use your word count to manage the writing process, know where to revise, and create a better reader experience. Here’s how to find your word count in Word.
How Arithmetic Can Help You Write
Too little content? Too much? Lopsided content? This post explores how a simple spreadsheet can help you wrangle your book into being. Whether you’re just starting or nearing the end, adding some number-crunching to your wordsmithing can bring clarity and structure to your writing.
Word Tip: The Navigation Pane
Word’s navigation pane can be a handy tool for working in large documents (like books). Discover how to use it to check structure, hop around, and move whole sections of text.
The Prick of New Growth: On Writing and ...
A few words of encouragement: Writing a book is more than a project—it’s a personal growth effort. It might be uncomfortable, but hang in there—the transformation is coming.
How to Begin Writing a Nonfiction Book
It can be hard to know how to begin writing a nonfiction book. Here, we cover three elements to align up front–purpose, audience, and subject–with concrete examples to get you started.
Word Tip: Creating En and Em Dashes
You can use Word’s autocorrect feature to automatically create en and em dashes. Here’s how to check your settings, use the right keystrokes, and look like a pro.
Proofreading Oversights You Don’t Realiz
You want to self-publish your book, but you don’t want your book to LOOK self-published. Do these proofreading oversights give you away? Yes? Learn how to fix them.
The MS Word Editor: Going beyond Spellch...
The MS Word Editor can do way more than check your spelling and basic grammar. But you may need to turn on the options. This article shows you how.
When the writing process feels hard, can...
Sometimes the writing process is easy; sometimes, not so much. Does it matter to the reader what your writing process is like? Learn why waiting to feel inspired before you write doesn’t really work.