We all know what an ISBN is, right? But the question is, does an ebook need an ISBN?

Have you ever found that when you’re writing on a particular topic how easy it is to get distracted by the information and research that’s available?

I’m delighted to say that the Writing to Inspire site is now set up for writers to post their work online. What’s more there’s also a facility that allows readers, other writers, friends and family to offer comments and feedback. How exciting is that?

How do you feel about your work once you’ve submitted it for publication or to a competition? Are you anxious, waiting to hear back? Do you just forget about that piece of work and move on to the next? Or are you somewhere in between?

I was writing up the Writing Tips for the Bodhi Tree newsletter today and it got me thinking on the old question of how many words do we know and how many do we actually use.

here is some information about the calculations you’ll need to do if you’re looking at putting your book into bookstores.

n every day life almost all of what we know and assume is absorbed through what we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. The challenge though is that we all have a primary sense, a few that are average and one sense that definitely lags behind.

Many people, when starting out, think that the hard part about creating and self-publishing a book is the writing itself or maybe the process of self-publishing. Yet, in all honesty, I would have to say that both of these pale in comparison to promoting and distributing your own book

Now I have to admit to not using hot water for laundry, I rarely water the lawn (and it shows), I put plants under taps that refuse to stop dripping, etc, but it does occur to me that as a writer I’m in a business that requires paper and in most cases electricity to write on it.

Well, with less that three weeks to the closing date of the Writing to Inspire ‘First Line’ Short Story competition, I delighted to say that the entries are rolling in at a steady and consistent pace.