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AutoCrit
Plan, write, and edit your next masterpiece from start to finish in a fully-featured writing platform packed with in-depth, interactive editing tools that build your confidence and let your stories shine. AutoCrit is like Prowritingaid Plus. Check out the different plans they offer here. You can even get a lifetime deal if you go through one of their courses! We did that through taking their fantastic horror writing course Nightmare Fuel (check out our review video of the course). If you want to see AutoCrit in action, we demonstrate how I use its unique genre and author compare feature in this video.
Dabble Writer
Like Scrivener, minus the learning curve, and with the added bonus of rapid real-time, cross-platform syncing. Dabble is a beautiful word processing platform where you can plot, write, and export your novel or story. The interface is sleek and offers a distraction-free writing experience, among many other features that are constantly being added. Dabble is our favorite word processor and what we personally use for our manuscript drafting process. It’s simple, straightforward, and user (writer) friendly. We touch on Dabble in our video on our favorite writing tools. We also write about Dabble’s new features as well as a direct comparison between Scrivener vs. Dabble so be sure to check these out!
Jasper AI
Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps you create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online – for writers, this means helping you promote your work more efficiently. Curious about how it handles fiction? Check out how it fared with writing part of our novel!
Herd
A community for Entrepreneurs, Founders, Side-hustlers, and Curious minds. Get Inspired. Get Support. Join forces with people who will help you realize your goals. Grow your own way™. Why do we love Herd? Because as writers we are all of the above. Being a part of a community that aspires for continual growth is invaluable!
SaunaSpace
Incorporate more uninterrupted reading time into your daily routine while also practising self-care. Why do we love it? Because we can kill two birds with one stone: have health and wellness while furthering our writing and business. SaunaSpace products are all made from incredible quality materials and they even offer a smaller more portable red light option for traveling writers! Read more about our experiences with this amazing sauna here or try one out yourself for for 100 days – FREE!
SiteGround
Set up your author website with the fastest and most reliable website hosting server out there. This very website is hosted with SiteGround! Why do we love it? Because it’s simple! Also, we can host multiple websites on the same server along with an unlimited number of subdomains. It’s simple to set up and the customer service is phenomenal. There’s a reason why it’s so highly recommended across the board! As an added bonus, it comes with WordPress and WooCommerce already integrated.
Medium
If you are a writer, we highly recommend building a following on Medium. We like to call it “YouTube for writers”, because it really is exactly that. The one difference is that if you are not a member, you can only view up to three articles per month. For less than a cup of coffee, you can become a member and read & write an unlimited number of posts, build a following, and get paid for it!
CTA (Coach Training Alliance)
Now we know what you might be thinking: What does coaching have to do with writing? The answer is: More than you think! Coaching is a useful skill to have paired with any field you are in. It’s a valuable skill to learn how to effectively coach people – we see it as a form of communication. If you are thinking of coaching writers or other creatives with their craft, apart from the obvious choice of the Author Accelerator Advanced Book Coach Certification, CTA is a great one to start with if you don’t have the funds yet for Author Accelerator or if you want a more broad approach. It goes through the entire process of starting a coaching business from the ground up and it’s highly beginner friendly too! You get to have your coaching evaluated by an ICF-trained instructor as well. If you are thinking of adding coaching to your set of skills, this certification may be for you!
Scrivener
Scrivener is a staple for many. It’s a word-processing program and outliner designed for writers of all kinds: novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, and more. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes, and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research, and whole documents for easy access and reference. We write about how you can customize your Scrivener workspace as well as a direct comparison between Scrivener vs. Dabble so be sure to check these out! We personally have used it to draft our entire series that we have up on Amazon now. Try out Scrivener for 30 days free to see if it works with your writing and drafting process!
Freewrite
The Freewrite series of devices are known as the best modern distraction-free devices on the market today. You can think of them like electronic typewriters (since that’s essentially what they are). Are Freewrite Devices Actually Right for You? Check out our article on this to find out. If you are interested in getting one, check out: Which Freewrite Device Is Actually Right for You?
Publisher Rocket
Publisher Rocket helps you get your book in front of more Amazon shoppers by finding the best keywords for your book. It basically lets you see all the ways you can increase your sales. It gives you real data that shows you exactly what Amazon customers type into Amazon, as well as how many people search for those keywords every month. With a click of a button you can see your potential competitors, their book cover, list price, number of pages, as well as their daily and monthly earnings. By understanding what works for your competitors, you can create book titles, subtitles and descriptions that convert better, increase your Kindle rankings, and sell more books. Spend less time marketing and more time writing.
FirstEditing
If you are looking for a professional human editor to take a look at your finished manuscript before pushing it out to public eyes, look no further. FirstEditing is a professional editing service based in Orlando, Florida. The folks at First Editing offer a range of options for any kind of writing that needs some editing love, from first-time fiction authors’ manuscripts to peer-reviewed articles being published in prestigious journals. You can send them a short 5,000 word sample of your work and they will assign one editor to you (based on the kind of writing sample you provide them) who will give you a free edit along with a quote for how much a full project with them would cost (depending on your word count and what type of editing your work would require). The editors charge a mere few cents per word, which is a pretty good deal if you are just starting out and are looking to put out the most polished version of your story you could possible publish. Check out our video about our experience with FirstEditing.
QuillBot
We like to call this handy writing tool “ProWritingAid Plus”, since that’s exactly what it is! It’s great as an editor in itself—it can rewrite, expand, shorten, simplify, and even professionalize the text you’ve written. It can also write alongside you via the Co-Writer. We use this tool and all its features for a lot of our writing projects. It’s very useful, especially with the added benefit of being able to research directly from the platform and then cite those sources. Check out our article on how QuillBot differs from other Generative AI writing platforms for a more in-depth analysis of this awesome tool!
QuickWrite
This tool is the true AI assistant for writers! It has been created specifically for writers, both fiction and nonfiction. It’s currently the cheapest option out there for AI writing tools (if you use the link below), since they are allowing us to offer you lifetime access for less than $200! This is a real steal for the amount of use you can get out of this tool. You can use it to generate content across any topic in both the fiction and nonfiction realm. It even currently offers unlimited a beta for AI image generation! Like I said, it’s a steal for the price it’s currently at!
QuillBot
We like to call this handy writing tool “ProWritingAid Plus”, since that’s exactly what it is! It’s great as an editor in itself—it can rewrite, expand, shorten, simplify, and even professionalize the text you’ve written. It can also write alongside you via the Co-Writer. We use this tool and all its features for a lot of our writing projects. It’s very useful, especially with the added benefit of being able to research directly from the platform and then cite those sources. Check out our article on how QuillBot differs from other Generative AI writing platforms for a more in-depth analysis of this awesome tool!
MockupShots
In one click and less than 10 seconds, MockupShots puts your book into over 1,200 amazing settings and themed images. Get unlimited lifetime access to the largest instant book mockup archive for under $100! MockupShots features a variety of styles of images to promote and sell your book on any platform or medium, including the perfect image for your websites and landing pages. It also creates memes, testimonial graphics, cover reveal photos, animated action shots, and even book promo videos! If you click around on our website, you’ll see us using MockupShots in a variety of ways. (Go ahead and scroll to the bottom of this page and you’ll see what we mean!) It’s very versatile and definitely our go-to for mockups.
Transformation Academy
This life coaching certification program is both the cheapest and the most comprehensive coaching certification out there today. It has anything you can imagine specializing in, and for a cheaper price than any other coaching program out there. I have to admit, I was skeptical at first—their page does seem a bit too-good-to-be-true—but this is because everything is automated so they don’t have to charge high prices to offer coaching education to their students. In my opinion, this program is great when you pair it with another one that allows you to practice what you learn (such as Coach Training Alliance). That is the route I went, and I am glad I did!
Transformation Academy Monthly or Annual Membership
This is your one-stop shop to becoming a life coach. It walks you through every (and I mean every) aspect of life coaching. Here are the 3 steps they offer, all within their certification program:
STEP 1: FOUNDATIONAL LIFE COACH CERTIFICATION—Get started as a Certified Professional Life Coach! This complete life coach certification program is designed to teach you the foundational knowledge and tools you need to know to be an effective coach, including feeling CONFIDENT as a coach, getting your clients RESULTS, and starting your coaching business.
STEP 2: ADVANCED NICHE TRAINING—Take your coaching to the next level by becoming an expert in a niche of your choice and learning advanced coaching processes. Choose from 35+ niche certifications that provide done-for-you coaching programs with all the activities and tools you need. Or become a MASTER COACH! Choose from 6+ advanced training programs, each of which includes 4 niche certifications focused around one broader niche.
STEP 3: SET UP & GROW YOUR BUSINESS—Create a THRIVING business doing what you love! Stop playing small, wasting time and money on marketing strategies that don’t work, and spinning your wheels; find out what ACTUALLY works for growing a life coaching (or related) business and make money while you make a difference.
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