This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 25, 2022
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 18, 2022
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 11
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What I learned today while making 28 covers with Midjourney and Canva
I take another stab at making AI books covers. And I make 28. Someone, stop me.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 4
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How to use Dall-E 2’s new outpainting tool to make book covers
Today OpenAI announced a new feature — outpainting. It’s like cropping, but in the opposite direction. You can make an image bigger, and Dall-E 2’a AI automatically fills in the background of that image.
How to make a book cover with Midjourney and Canva
I use Midjourney and Canva to create a couple of quick book covers.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 28
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Aug. 7
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Midjourney is a great new AI image generator — if you’re a fan of Discord
A new AI image generator called Midjourney offers images comparable in quality to Dall-E 2, but is open to the public.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 31
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Free cool space backgrounds from NASA
All NASA images are available for free, for any use — including commercial. They’re particularly great for background images on sci-fi author websites.
10 tips for the free Craiyon AI image generator (formerly Dall-E Mini)
I’ve been collecting AI-powered image generation tools for the past year and one has become my go-to over the past couple of weeks — Craiyon (formerly Dall-E Mini).
The best video from this month’s AuthorTube conference
One of the videos from this year’s AuthorTube Writing Conference was so impactful that it deserved to be spotlighted in its own article. The main idea? Stop doing all the things.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jul. 24
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 26
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 29
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 22
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Ringworld the television series, and Larry Niven’s tips on working with co-authors
Recently on Metastellar’s Long Lost Friends YouTube show, we were delighted to spend a couple of hours talking to science fiction legend Larry Niven. During the interview, shared the exciting news that his classic 1970 novel Ringworld is in development with Amazon and MGM.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 15
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Google offers free AI-powered audiobook narration
Today, Google announced a free service to convert your EPUB file into an audiobook, using its AI voices.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 24
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 17
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How to create short URLs to promote your work
Link shortening services can help you track which of your book marketing efforts are actually working.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 10
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Mar. 27
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Feb. 27
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Feb. 20
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BOSKONE Panel: Creating maps for fantasy novels
Sci-fi and fantasy author Julie Czerneda moderated a panel today at BOSKONE 59, the annual conference organized by the New England Science Fiction Association. She and her guests discussed how they created the maps they have in their books, the value of including maps, and their favorite maps.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Feb. 13
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Dec. 26
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