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Stop Struggling and Write Your Article - Part II

Don’t let overwhelm hold you back— follow this expert advice and start writing your promotional article today.In Part 1, I talked about the importance of planning and structuring your article. Here are three more essential steps to help you make sure your article is ready to go. 4. Avoid clich. . .

What I've Learned From My Subscribers

As editor/publisher of Book Promotion Newsletter, I am fortunate in having an eclectic group of subscribers who number in the thousands. The ezine is interactive and subscribers are encouraged to share their innovative marketing techniques.Since starting the ezine in March 2003, I have learned a . . .

Weaving Your Personal Statement Together

1. SECRETS TO SUCCESS2. MAKING A POWERFUL FIRST IMPRESSION3. AVOID AMBIGUITY4. MAKING A PROFESSIONAL IMPRESSION4. BONUS SAMPLE PERSONAL STATEMENTThe failure of the vast majority of students to get admission to their chosen university is one of the great unpublicised stories of our time. Why do t. . .

Knock-Out Writer's Block: Listening To Your Inner Voice

When I was young, I used to talk to myself. Long, drawn out, one-sided conversations. I didn’t have an imaginary friend, I just talked to myself. My mother says that’s why I became a writer: because of my overactive imagination. I admit she may be right. Those conversations currently get me throu. . .

Stop Struggling and Write Your Article

Don’t let overwhelm hold you back— follow this expert advice and start writing your promotional article today.As a writing coach, I frequently work with independent professionals who have great ideas for promotional articles, but no idea how to start writing them. Here are the first three of six. . .

How Does Santa Make Out His List? (humor)

I’ll let you in on a secret: I know Santa Claus. And I received a letter from him with his Christmas list.“Dear Kristin,“Thank you for the homemade cookies last year. For some reason, people seem to forget that I’m not planning to lose weight, thank you very much. I don’t have a peanut allergy. . .

Ten Quick Tips for Inexperienced Writers

One of the biggest problems that inexperienced writers have is simply knowing how to get started. If you’ve unsure of your writing skills, then here are some quick tips to help you get started.1. Get yourself a thesaurus—or better yet, two of them. These can be tremendously helpful tools when y. . .

Creative Writing Tips - Does The Name You Chose Suit Your Character?

How do you choose a name? Do you put down the first name that pops into your mind? Initially that’s what I used to do, until someone pointed out to me that there are a few things to take into consideration when choosing a name…1. You Have To Be Comfortable With ItWe associate names with people we. . .

Do You Plot With Your Character In Mind?

Creative Writing Tips –You are plotting the story. You write down what will happen, what problems will arise, what obstacles you will place so the character won’t reach his goals immediately, what he’s going to do to overcome these problems etc… So all these things will be happening to your chara. . .

How Are You Plotting?

Creative Writing Tips –Writing is a creative process and how every writer chooses to create, is individual to them. Likewise, with plotting, every writer plots at a level they are comfortable with.Some just plot the bare essentials. They have a firm idea of the story they want to write and have a. . .

Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire?

Creative Writing Tips –Complete a character questionnaire for each of your main characters or even secondary characters that play a vital role in your story. This way you will know your character(s) well before you start writing about them.Fill in as much information about them as possible. Don’. . .

A Few Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue

Every writer expends a great deal of creative energy developing a story line and limning well-balanced prose with evocative sentences. That's what writing is all about, after all. But fiction writers have an additional aspect to creation--effective dialogue. Very few stories, novellas or novels a. . .

Writing Articles

You say, I can’t write an article, I have no knowledge of writing. Let me tell you yes you can! Why write an article?It can help you build your business! Yes, writing articles can help build your business. You say how can this help? First, imagine if you will, you have posted your article in an o. . .

What Can Go Into A Plot?

Creative Writing Tips –We all tackle plotting differently. How you plot will be individual to you, as it is with every writer.Below is an outline of what can go into a plot. How much you choose to develop each point is entirely up to you.So some basic questions to ask are… Briefly what your story. . .

You Can Be An Author

“You should write a book.” For years, I had been hearing this comment. Writing an entire book seemed completely overwhelming, and so, for a long time, I contented myself with writing short articles. One day, inspiration for an article hit me and, as I started writing, paragraphs began flowing out. . .

Finding Experts, Sources and Contacts

I was asked to write an article on a short deadline. No problem, I thought. Then I got the article specifications which included quoting several experts in the article. Instead of giving up, I got online and within 12 hours had more experts than I needed and a finished article. Breaking into a ne. . .

Effective Editing: It Spells the Difference!

If you think proofreading equals editing, then you're wrong! Editing is a lot more than just scrutinizing your manuscript for misspelled words or missing punctuation marks. As a whole: Edit only *after* you've written the *whole* piece. If you stop to edit after every paragraph or sentence, you w. . .

Something in the Ether

There is something stirring in the world - a kind of intellectual buzz coming from seemingly nowhere. This buzz is causing a great deal of imaginative inspiration and the uncovering of ancient truths once lost to mankind and now being re-found. When I was writing and researching for The Serpent G. . .

10 Profitable Tips For Article Writers

1. Write to one person. When you're writing your article picture one person that you are writing to. This will make your writing more personable and help you to keep your readers interested in your article. 2. Use lots of white space within your article. Using lots of white space will help you to. . .

The Top Five Mistakes That Companies Make with Regard to Technical Documentation

I’ve seen it time and again. One of the most common weaknesses that I’ve seen in engineering companies—indeed, an almost universal fault—is the lack of proper technical documentation. Some would laugh this off as a minor detail; however, the repercussions are often severe. A company’s entire futu. . .

Good Writing

Good writing is like sex. Two people are involved – the writer and the reader. Bad sex usually satisfies only one person, most preferably, the writer – the person who leads. Good sex not only satisfies both people, it pleasures them. So, like sex, writing must have all vital points that reach unt. . .

The Value of Adding Images to Technical Documentation

It’s cliché, but true—a picture does paint a thousand words. This is an important message to remember when writing any sort of user documentation, such as an installation guide or an instruction manual. A document that makes judicious use of images and diagrams will be much easier to understand. . .

Writer's Block is No Longer a Problem

"If you're like me, than I'm sure you're pretty familiar with the well-known writer's block.From time to time, when you have to start writing something, be it an article, an ebook, or just a letter, there is that moment when you just stare at the blank sheet of paper (or at the vibrant colors of . . .

Dance With Words: A new Writers Portal for the experienced and the amateur writer

Are you a writer looking for a great place to share stories, experiences, to communicate with other creative souls? And individual who wishes to meet new and interesting people? If so, you need to visit www.dance-with-words.comA diverse culture of writers with a wide range of experience and savv. . .

Writers Turn to the Internet for Support, Friendship and Advice

Riding on the fumes of potential, you take pen to paper or keyboard to monitor. Endless hours of creativity intermingle with apprehension, but your need to write engulfs your spirit. You swim high on the waves of excitement and trudge forward through the waves of doubt. Finally, your manuscript i. . .

Ten Tips to Help You Finish Writing Your Novel

1. Set aside a time to write and keep it sacred. Make this a time when you know you are at your best and feel most creative -- Saturday mornings, late at night, whatever works for you. Make writing a priority and arrange other parts of your schedule around it. 2. Remove all distractions while you. . .

Don't Forget That Manual!

No user manual? Surely you jest!It may seem comical, but it’s a surprisingly common situation. I’ve encountered many companies that don’t provide any user manuals with their products. If they do, their manuals are often horribly incoherent, or else years out of date. It shouldn’t happen, but . . .

Fear Before The March of Flames Interview

TheBeep's own Mike Willaford had the chance to talk to Adam of Fear Before the March of Flames about what has been going on and what might be coming later on down the road. Mike hit up Adam on their way to the Portland, Oregon show and had a little chat. Adam: "Hello?" Mike: "Adam? Hey this is . . .

An Easy Way To Write Articles To Promote Your Biz

If you're not a born writer, a simple way to begin writing articles to promote your business is to write list articles. Your list articles could be a top ten list or top seven list that deals with a specific subject. You could also write up a list of tips that deals with a broad subject such as. . .

How to Get Started on Writing Killer Articles

I once wrote an article in which I offered the following tip on how to speak eloquently in public: Talk about something that you’re passionate about. When we speak about matters that are dear to our hearts, we often find wellsprings of eloquence from which we can draw.I offer similar advice to a. . .

Have You Settled On First Choice When Choosing A Title?

Short Story Writing Tips - We’ve established what a title should be and we’ve also established your title is your selling tool. So if it can make or break the sale of your story, then we’ll have to agree that it is extremely important. How much emphasis have you placed when selecting a title? Y. . .

5 Benefits of Keeping a Personal Journal

Everyone who has kept a personal journal knows that writing is a therapeutic process that helps integrate seemingly unconnected life events. Some believe the process works because the physical act of writing (using your hand-eye coordination) occupies your left brain, leaving your right brain fr. . .

3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals

1. Make your goals achievable.By achievable, we mean realistic and attainable. You might unconsciously have set a goal even others will have a hard time achieving, even if they had the means and the time to do so.Here's what you can do: break down your goals into small, realistic goals set agains. . .

Does Each Element of Your Story Further The Theme?

Creative Writing Tips –Whichever theme you choose, all the elements, which make up your story, dialogue, conflict, scenes, etc should be written with the theme in mind. Your theme should progress the story. If you find that anything in your story doesn’t progress it, it should be cut when you are. . .

Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot?

Creative Writing Tips –How we usually begin the preparation stage in the writing process is… We think of an idea for a story We think of a suitable theme We plotOnce we come up with a theme and we begin plotting, we have to see how the theme and the plot match up. Sometimes as we plot we find tha. . .

Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story?

Creative Writing Tips –It’s no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and about one situation or happening in those characters’ lives. By concentrating on that one thing, our stories are focused. You will need to focus to maintain a level of. . .

Does The Title Reflect The Story?

Short Story Writing Tips –We all have different tastes in what we like to read. Some have a particular taste for horror, while others prefer romance or fantasy or crime stories, etc. My favourite genre in short stories is horror, so once the title grabs my attention, I will enthusiastically read . . .

Does Your Story Have A Theme?

Creative Writing Tips –It should. A theme is a one-line explanation of your story.. Every story should have one because our stories are about something. When I say should, I mean that this isn’t always the case. Especially so for beginner writers, who may not know, that the theme carries the stor. . .

Can Your Theme Be Proved In Your Story?

Creative Writing Tips –Your theme has to be something you can prove in your story - It doesn’t have to be a universal truth. This means that your theme doesn’t have to be something that happens in real life all the time (providing our logic can accept it, in order for us to believe it).Whatever s. . .

Write your eBook Fast--First Steps to Finishing Line

Why write an eBook? You want ongoing, lifelong multiple streams of income. You want to raise your credibility and trust ratings with clients or customers. You want to get your message out so the world can be a better place. You want to spend only a little time on it. (Would you be willing to spen. . .

Writing Good Dialogue.

There’s nothing that kills a scene like hackneyed dialogue. Just stop and think about the average B-Grade Hollywood Movie. Sure, at times the plot is bad and the characterisation woeful but most of the time, what stops it from being a good movie is the dialogue. Cringe-worthy dialogue.So, how . . .

Format Each eBook Chapter Before you Write It

Do you have a problem creating a focus in your chapters? Does your writing slip around, leaving a muddy path to the gold--your unique, useful message? Format each chapter in your book. Your consistency, your organized, focused copy will compel your reader to want to read every chapter because the. . .

Vital Verbs

Conditions of use: Editor: The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication, or on your web site, as long as the content is not altered, and the copyright and author credit box at the end are also included. Notification of use would be appreciated.Vital VerbsRemember. . .

Write Your Life

Take out a white piece of paper and place it on your kitchen table. You now have two choices. You can write or draw on it, or you can leave it there. If you write or draw, you control the paper's destiny, the words or images it will express, the character it will display, the very meaning of i. . .

Writing Without Style

Conditions of use: Editor: The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication, or on your web site, as long as the content is not altered, and the copyright and author credit box at the end are also included. Notification of use would be appreciated.WRITING WITHOUT STY. . .

New York Code Orange Jaisini new art series

New York Code Orange Jaisini new art series The creativity of Jaisini is not designed to be preaching or too critical. Paul Jaisini reached his level of mastership to know exactly that life is worth living to look in the future having no regrets about the past.In the aftermath of sept 11 there wa. . .

Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution?

Creative Writing Tips –For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things… Character Conflict Resolution What’s the reason for this? If your theme doesn’t contain these three essential elements, then you won’t be writing a proper short story. It. . .

How to Catch the Writing Bug

If you earn income as a writer, or use writing as a marketing tool, you know how difficult it can be at times to write. I started writing for my website and newsletter a few years ago. Sometimes it would be two or three weeks between articles. Sometimes writing would be torture. Then one day I ca. . .

Is Your Title Compelling?

Short Story Writing Tips:Your title is your selling tool. It’s the first thing readers will scan and contemplate whether to read your story.What your title’s job is, it has to lure the readers into your story – it has to be so compelling that they won’t even have a chance to ask themselves, ‘Will. . .

Do You Know What A Plot Is?

Creative Writing Tips –What a plot is and what a story is can be sometimes confusing. If you think they are the same… They are not. A plot is the outline of your story. The story is everything included. I will illustrate the difference by asking you to visualize two pictures…1. Visualize a skelet. . .

Keys to Characterisation

Far too many inexperienced writers create flat, stereotypical characters: the brave fireman, the damsel in distress, the strict schoolmistress. The best characters are those who evoke emotions within the reader – fear, admiration, affection, laughter, horror… If the writer fails to make us care a. . .

Creative Writing Tips - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start?

In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his problems. What his goals are and whether he’ll achiev. . .

Does Your Plot Suit Your Characters And Vice-Versa?

Creative Writing Tips –When an idea comes to us for a short story, we either think of a story line first or a character first. Whichever we think of first, and later on build, we have to make sure the plot and the character suit each other.Example one – We think of a story line first.Your story i. . .

Have You Tested Your Plot?

Creative Writing Tips –Our plotting stage is our testing area. Everything in the plot should be tested for its effectiveness before we put in into our stories. If you believe something in your plot could be better, make it better. Figuring everything out in your plot will save you time rewriting . . .

Have You Plotted Your Story Before Writing It?

Creative Writing Tips –The writer, who doesn’t have the time to plot, always finds the time to rewrite. Sound familiar? I’ve been guilty of this too, back in the early days of my writing apprenticeship. I was so eager to get stuck into writing my story that I wouldn’t bother with plotting.Plottin. . .

6 Power Packed Tips For Article Writers

1. Offer an email course, multipart report or a free subscription to your ezine in your resource box.Have your readers come to your site to get your report, course or subscription to your ezine so that they'll be able to see what your site has to offer them.If you use your resource box to promote. . .

Self Publishing Success Starts With Marketing

Self-publishing is not for the faint of heart. The publication process is lengthy, involves a considerable number of detailed, administrative tasks and can be expensive. This is the easy part; the real challenge involves “S & M” – sales and marketing.For an author to become a successful self-pu. . .

The Run-on Sentence: From Here To Eternity

If you find your sentences filled with commas, and they wend from one topic to another, then you, like many people, may be guilty of writing run-on sentences.The run-on sentence is annoying. The run-on is boring. Most important, utilizing run-ons in your work is a sure-fire way of losing your r. . .

Poetry in a Nutshell

Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to the point where it just "sucks." Poetry is about expression. Poetry expresses the way we feel on a certain subject through im. . .

Is The Theme Reinforced In The Ending?

Creative Writing Tips –By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our theme has to do more than reach its conclusion – it has to be reinforced in the end and by doing this, it will strengthen all that we have said in our story.So if we. . .

If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?

Creative Writing Tips –I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be kept on the main character. This shouldn’t be taken to the extreme though. In other words, you don’t just write the story of the main character without tellin. . .

Ten Essential Tips For Submitting Articles

Submitting well planned articles on-line will increase traffic and can even launch your career when handled right. They'll drive traffic from all over the net and show an excellent return on your time invested. Write Your Article Like You're Writing to a Friend Even though it may be seen by th. . .

Why Self-Publish Your Book?

When I meet an author with a great book concept, one who’s definitely the right person to write that book, right away I’ll often encourage him or her to self-publish. This is because I know that, if an author is thoroughly invested in what they have to say, and if they’re determined to create a b. . .

Timer Magic for Writers

If your writing muscle isn't in shape, writing a novel may seem like a sheer, unscalable cliff. ("Gee, I don't think I can write today. I left my climbing shoes in my other backpack...") Keep in mind that you don't need to write the whole book today, so stop beating yourself up. Instead, just sta. . .

How to Pitch a Story

How to Pitch a StoryEver wonder why we refer to convincing an editor a story is worthy by “pitching a story?” I have. I’m a baseball enthusiast, and it makes a lot of sense to me. When the editor is at bat with you, he or she has a few swings to make before making a connection – through the story. . .

The Bottomless Notebook

Reading through a writer's notebook or journal is like discovering pearls, rubies and diamonds amidst a pile of rubble. That little notebook is a powerhouse of ideas for every writer: The more you write down bits and pieces of your thoughts and observations, the more you are adding into the well . . .

5 Ways to Enhance Your Creativity

We're born creative. However, this innate characteristic becomes buried as we get older. Our logical left brain usually takes the driver's seat. Here are 5 ways to help you unearth your creative self. 1. Surprise Your Mind. List laughable, ridiculous, outrageous and bizarre ideas. Don't limit you. . .

Becoming the Total Package

Being a great writer is no longer enough if you plan to score a big publishing deal, especially as a nonfiction author. Particularly if your book idea falls into the how-to or self-help categories, you not only have to sell your terrific writing, but you also have to sell yourself as the books. . .

The Write Habit: How to Strengthen Your Writing Muscle

Writing is a muscle that needs exercise to stay in shape. I realized how true that saying is when I took what I called "a well-earned break" after I finished my first novel. The last few days of writing that novel felt as sweet as whipped cream--I was in a writing groove, humming along. I figured. . .

Write Strategy: Think, Believe, Attack

Think of writing like karate...it's about DISCIPLINE.Writing, like other forms of art, work or talent, requires discipline. It won't ever be enough that you say to yourself that you are a writer. Only when you write and write with discipline can you call yourself one. Before you can earn a black . . .