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5 Benefits for Authors Who Exercise Regularly

Are you wondering what exercise has to do with authors? More than you think! While the benefits of regular workouts are obvious to most of us, weight loss, endorphins that make us happy, more energy and many more, but there are some specific benefits that help authors who include regular exercise in their day.

Here are five benefits of exercise for authors:

1. If you write after your workout, you will be at your creative peak. This is scientific fact.

2. Regular workouts make you the writer into a better thinker.

3. Many writers including some famous ones such as the poet William Wordsworth have discovered that when they are moving they are at their most creative.

4. Regularly exercising before working on your writing will clear out all the non-important stuff there is in your brain. And if you go for a walk or run with the intention of thinking about your writing in most cases, you will come back with what you need to get started and to write well.

5. There is a protein in the brain only activated when you are exercising hard, it’s the BDNF and it makes your neurons healthier, and you a better …

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How to be a More Productive Writer: Get Inspired by #VirtusSaga BDSM MMF erotic #excerpt from The Game!

While learning how to market and promote your books is very important, as an author you must have something new to promote often. If you don’t, readers tend to forget about you and move on to other authors. Staying in the minds of readers should be one of your goals as an author. In order to that, you have to be productive.

Like most things, productivity doesn’t always come easy. However, it doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some things you can do to help your writing time be more productive so you can create more stories and more worlds for your readers to get lost in.

1. Shut the door. As strange as that sounds, it’s probably going to be one of your most important tasks in order to be a more productive writer. If the door stays open, it gives others the illusion that it is okay to interrupt your writing time, so close the door.

2. Decide ahead of time what your word count for the day is going to be and stick to it.

3. Write. Don’t spend your time re-reading what you wrote yesterday or last week. The dreaded self-editor can be a writer’s …

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5 Tips for How Authors Can Best Use Google

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering how you can possibly fit one more social media thing on your busy marketing calendar. After all, isn’t Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn enough? I know I used to think “enough already!” It’s an unfortunate fact that most of us are so linked in to our computers and the internet these days that we’re probably looking for a way to spend less time on the computer rather than more. So the idea of one more social marketing network to be aware of and use to market our books is just one more too many. That’s what I used to think anyway. That is until I realized one fact, and this is a fact that bypasses Twitter, FB, and even LinkedIn. I’ll bet you’re wondering what it is. Well, it’s this teensy tiny little fact that makes Google+ different than just about every other social marketing tool out there; what you post on Google+ shows up in the results on Google’s search engine. So, if you’re key word, hash tag (yes, you can use those on Google+ too) and even slightly marketing savvy, then you can save a lot of time and energy if you …

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