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FRIENDLY TIP FOR ONLINE WRITERS: If you have only a few points to make, try not to write a whole book to make them. An unusually high number of submissions this week fall within the well-written-but-just-too-effing-long category.

What’s the big deal? Because if I had the time, I’d go buy the book and read it relaxed on my couch, which is infinitely more pleasurable than reading anything on the computer screen. But if I’m on the Net, sure I want my brain feed nicely written, but I want it quick (so I can then go to the couch with the book I really did buy).

But hey, your call of course. Two simple choices:

• Write well and long; please those who love you and lose the lazy snots like me.
• Write well and short; please and keep us all.

Now where did I put that book? Oh, let’s do this week’s Carnival first…

Let’s start with Tim King’s account of What it’s Like to Finally Finish My First eBook. The easy part, he says, was writing it, and his post shares his experiences with nine more issues he’s had to deal with in releasing and putting his ebook up for sale on the Net.

Those of you suffering from writer’s block, however, will obviously disagree with Tim. So off to Miss Copy Rebecca Dean’s very short How to Kick Writers’ Block. It’s only a two-pointer, so it’s easy enough to absorb and remember for when the chronic blank page next ails you.

Now here’s a breath of fresh air: Amid the mass of gung-ho-you-can-do-it-rah-rah-rah articles out there, Writing Career Coach Tiffany Colter’s When Do You Give Up on a Project? quite intelligently and reasonably covers the reality of knowing when to put a project aside.

Let’s say you did manage to get your book project through to the point where you’re now promoting it. Woohoo! But tread carefully… in the Publishing Basics blog, book promoter Dan Smith teaches us The Seven Deadly Sins of Book Promotion. Or, as he puts it, “the mistakes and actions that can destroy an author’s chances to get substantial media coverage.” Qualifies as a must-read too, don’t you think?

Onwards to the online-specific publishing world…

Are you into podcasts? If you’re always pressed for time to read, they’re definitely worth checking out. But don’t you wordpreneurs just smell opportunity whenever you hear podcast? Best see what’s out there. Here, start with this list of links to the Top 100 Entrepreneur Podcasts by Jessica Hupp in Bootstrapper.

And finally, I’ve so far stayed on Google’s good side (knock on wood), but in How to Prevent Google From Suspending Your Adsense Account, Etienne Teo shows how easy it is to make Google go all ballistic on you (and understandably so). Good thing Etienne gives us some really useful tips on how to keep this from happening.

That should do it for this Carnival. And yes, although Thanksgiving is upon us (much sooner than I thought it would, frankly), I fully intend to do a Carnival next Saturday, tryptophan OD notwithstanding. See you then, and Happy Thanksgiving!

SUBMISSIONS: Have a blog post or website article you think would be perfect for inclusion in this Wordpreneur Carnival? Simply contact me and send the URL. It’s that easy!

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