The Daily Port of Call: May 2, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find how to put your readers in your characters shoes, how being creative in your day job improves your writing, discover the secret that great storytellers know.

Connect with your readers: Put them in your character’s shoes emotionally.

Uncover three habits that set good writers apart.

Being creative in your work improves your writing.

Find out how one author wrote three books in three years.

Discover the secret that great storytellers know.

Use your inner reader to improve your writing.

The Daily Port of Call: May 1, 2014

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In today’s Daily Port of Call, you’ll find productivity for authors, lessons learned, and using personality indicators for character development.

Productivity for authors: Joanna Penn shares how she is fighting overwhelm and refocusing her workload.

The fountain pen and the fire hose: “People don’t want to have to work to know what you know.”

Steven Pressfield shares lessons learned from a writer’s first novel.

What killed it for me from Becca Puglisi: Accept that readers have personal preferences.

You can use personality indicators to develop character.

Here are Elizabeth Maxwell’s top five writing tips.