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Your Ideas Deserve a Story—Here’s How to Make Them Real for Your Audience

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Your brilliant ideas don’t exist in a vacuum—but they sure can feel like it when you share them without a story to ground them. Data alone doesn’t inspire. Stories do. If you want to use storytelling to make your ideas actionable, you need to show your audience how those ideas work in the real world. […]

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Your brilliant ideas don’t exist in a vacuum—but they sure can feel like it when you share them without a story to ground them. Data alone doesn’t inspire. Stories do. If you want to use storytelling to make your ideas actionable, you need to show your audience how those ideas work in the real world. […]

Your Ideas Deserve a Story—Here’s How to Make Them Real for Your Audience

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Struggling to connect with your audience through storytelling? You might be making one of these three common mistakes: being too vague, skipping the emotional hook, or not knowing your audience. Learn how to fix these storytelling blunders and start building stronger, more meaningful connections.

3 Storytelling Mistakes That Are Killing Your Connection (And How to Fix Them)

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Guess what! No one sounds great in their first draft.

The Key to Impressive Writing? Ruthless Editing.

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Furious-George

Spoiler: It goes way beyond your job description

Yes, you should talk about what you do in your book

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How do I find the right editor

Am I the right editor for you and your book? Maybe. Maybe not.

Swipe Left! Four Reasons Why I’m Not the Right Editor for You

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Does your book fulfill the promises you set out in your introduction?

The make-or-break question authors forget to ask: Does my book deliver on its promises?

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Types of book editing

Type “book editor” into the search bar and you’ll turn up all kinds of different results—but what does it all mean?

For the love of god, can someone please explain the different types of editing to me before I abandon society to live in the woods?

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