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Want to be a successful author? Write short. Whether you write short stories or articles or both, you'll find a wealth of benefits from writing short and sweet. Whether you are a new author or a long-established pro, Write Short to Succeed will teach you new, different, and unique techniques for writing short.

Writing short is the easiest way to produce and market your work. This, the fourth in Conda’s Write Short to Succeed series, is a workbook full of fun, short writing exercises you can immediately use to successfully sell what you write. It’s a master writing class in everything you need to know to succeed at selling your writing, whether long, short, or both.

Writing short works allows you to practice, practice, practice, and then succeed in all your writing endeavors. In this writing course in an audiobook, you’ll discover fun, quick, and easy exercises that will show you how to: Use best writing techniques to skyrocket your work to another level, strengthen your writing voice, avoid major writing mistakes, or twist them to become writing tools, create an interesting page look and more.

In this workbook for writers of all levels, you’ll find oodles of exercises to get you writing, and writing well, right away. All the while you’ll be writing short, quick, and easy. With over 60 exercises, there’s a wealth of different ones to choose from. Learn how to get words down on the page, no matter what - with a rock, in your dreams, by passing a hat and other fun, easy, and different playful methods.

Jeweler Dora Starke believes creating her own jewelry line with no money and no time is her biggest problem. She's mistaken. When her estranged recluse dad shows up and thrusts a stolen, cursed necklace worth millions at her face and demands she sell it or he's dead, she knows this must be her biggest problem. She's wrong.

Within this audiobook, you'll discover award winning tales of weaponized fall vegetables, huckleberry wars with bears, a sheriff from the 1800s whose biggest problem isn't that he's dead, dogs with bad karma, lethal jewelry, plus a bonus story with a recipe and much more.

Conflict in your writing draws listeners who want to listen to your work. Conflict keeps them listening. With conflict in every paragraph and sentence, you’ll create writing that sells.

You will succeed as an author if you learn how to live as successful authors do. Failure stalks writers who focus on only the nuts and bolts, frustrations, or the end results of writing. They miss the most important element—live in the passion and engagement of an author’s life.

In these dozen mystery short stories, you’ll find a newcomer’s ignorance used as a murder weapon, a modern, murderous twist on an O’Henry story, an old Irish myth that haunts a teen in an Idaho ski resort, the myriad ways to die in the desert, and much more.