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Writing With Power: 5 Snappy Rules For Success
Author: Carson Day
Almost everyone could profit from enhancing their writing skills. From writing more crisp meta-tags - which search engine bots find quite sexy - to turbo-charging your blog readership by writing with punch, a skilled pen can propel any online effort in the right direction...
Top Ten Great Headline Ideas
Author: Judy Cullins
What Makes a Great Headline? Headlines are far more important than the copy beneath them. If you don't use headlines within your chapter or in your Web site sales letters and article titles, you will lose your audience's attention in a few seconds. And, that's serious...
Whats Missing in your Nearly Finished Book?
Author: Judy Cullins
Bookcoaching clients come to me at different stages of writing their books. The ones who start from ground zero with a coach and learn what goes into each chapter to make it more readable and sell better...
Be Concise
Author: Top Seven Ways to Write your Print or eBook Fast
Want to write your book? But, need a blueprint on why it will help your profits and brand your business? Need to know each step so you can delegate it to an assistant or do it yourself in just an hour a day for less than a month?...
Best Writing Advice I Ever Got
Author: Rix Quinn
I've been in the communications business a long time?over 25 years. During that period I've gathered writing suggestions from all over, and put much of it in my new book "Words That Stick."...
A Beginners Guide to Writing a Novel
Author: Rachelle Arlin Credo
No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem but the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it and if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as writing ABC. Writing is actually not a very complicated thing...
You Cant Always Believe What You See On Your Computer Screen
Author: David B. Silva
You may not remember this, but in the early days of the personal computer, many industry insiders were predicting a paperless society...
Finding The Book Writing Resources, Tips, And Help You Need!
Author: Freelance Writing Jobs
Writing can be more difficult that just compiling your thoughts on a few pieces of paper. In fact, it can be a challenge to find something new, interesting, and publishable to write about...
Aesop, Abraham Lincoln, and You
Author: Rix Quinn
May I tell you about a writing technique shared by Aesop and Abe Lincoln? Let's look first at Aesop's timeless tale about the tortoise and the hare. It's the one that ends "slow and sure wins the race." The entire story is about 160 words long...
Benjamin Franklin: His Ageless Writing Tips
Author: Rix Quinn
If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would be...uh, very old. But his writing style would be as current as e-mail, yet as timeless as the man himself...
Learn How To Write Poetry!
Author: Nadia Brown
A poet isn't born; you must work at crafting your art. If you have the desire to write, you can learn how to write poetry or simply improve your writing...
On Giving and Receiving Feedback
Author: Esther Susan Heller
Writing is a personal and introspective process. To share with another what we wrote is to risk. Some of us are more hidden than others, some of us tolerate risk better than others. When you critique someone's work you don't know where on this continuum the writer stands...
Story Building with Imagination
Author: Debbie Long
In the words of Aristotle, "happiness is self contentedness helping to make children deeply and quietly glad that they are who they are, and gives them a priceless legacy: the strength to meet life's stresses and the courage to become committed, responsible, productive, creative, and fully human adults...
Planning Time To Write
Author: Karen Bianchi
In his book, "Achieving Financial Independence as a Freelance Writer," Ray Dreyfack, a full-time freelancer for 30 years, suggests that writers "ease" into full-time writing while maintaining their day jobs...
A Mode of Transportation
Author: Karen Bianchi
Great writing transports one vicariously to realms that the reader would not otherwise experience...
Extreme Research: 10 Snappy Rules For Success
Author: Carson Day
So you want to learn to research well, and not waste any time. Let's do it. Here are a few NECESSARY preliminary points. First, adopt an aggressive I-am-taking-over-this-place mindset...
Cheap Therapy
Author: Aaron Paul Lazar
I call it cheap therapy. That gushing, near-religious, poured-from-the-body stress release that comes after writing my heart out for hours each day, delivers more balm to my soul than years of psychoanalysis...
Screenwriting, Screenplays, Screenwriters - Writing a Screenplay Using Structure
Author: Kal Bishop
Effective screenwriting relies on the good understanding and use of structure. Inexperienced screenwriters may believe that structure inhibits creativity, but experienced writers know that following a template helps them to problem identify, generate ideas, select good ideas and develop them to reach that all important words-on-paper first draft - structure is not a hindrance but an enhancer of creative output...
Screenwriting, Screenplays, Screenwriters - Good Ideas for Stories
Author: Kal Bishop
The principle for writing good screenplays begins with good idea generation and then the use of structure to extrapolate that idea into a coherent story...
What is Screenwriting?
Author: Mr. Mark S. Gonney
Simply put, it is the art of writing scripts for a visual medium. Unlike a play where the action is "talked out," the action within a screenplay is "acted out" visually. The old saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was never more appropriate in relation to screenwriting...
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