The Seven Deadly Sins for Non-Fiction Writing
on 2012-01-27
Even the most compelling writing and subject can fail if you let the small irritations get in the way of that connection with your reader. Make your writing worth reading and take it from good to great by avoiding these seven pitfalls.
1. Poor organization. If your reader can't follow your line of reasoning or organization, they will eventually give up. The writer may not have created a beginning, middle, and end that readers get hooked on and want to take to the end. As a writer, you are ...More…
7 WAYS OF MAKING MONEY ONLINE BY WRITING
on 2012-01-26
7 WAYS OF MAKING MONEY ONLINE BY WRITING
Do you know that you could convert you're the various writing skills into a money making venture by offering your writing skills online for various purposes.
Below are the various ways, you could use it and make money online.
(a) Writing about product review and services that you have use before as testimonials for others to see and create a link to the website that sells the product with your affiliate link inserted into the links.
(1) Writing article ...More…
7 Tips to Help You Find Writing Gigs Locally
on 2012-01-25
Tip #1 to Find Writing Gigs Locally
Chamber of Commerce
You can find writing gigs through the Chamber, if you do it right. It'll cost you - but you should designate part of your revenue to use for marketing expenses. On top of the membership fee, you'll pay for lunches and breakfasts. It's not the cheapest way to go, but if you find writing gigs there, your expenses are covered pretty quickly.
Tip #2 to Find Writing Gigs Locally
Bring Your A-Game
Usually you get about a minute to introduce ...More…
Inklings and Writing Groups
on 2012-01-24
Did you know that some famous fantasy writers were part of a writing group? The Inklings was a group of literary enthusiasts who encouraged writing fantasy. The four most prominent members were C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. Other frequent members included Tolkien's son Christopher, C.S. Lewis' older brother Warren, Roger Lancelyn Green, Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, Robert Havard, J.A.W. Barnett, Lord David Cecil, and Nevill Coghill. Warren Lewis described the group ...More…
How Specialization Can Jump-Start Your Writing Career
on 2012-01-23
Professional writers and those who aspire to earning a living from writing may or may not be familiar with the argument of generalization versus specialization but they surely know the concept. Should a writer be an expert in the field in which he or she is writing? Or can writers write about anything they please and take assignments as they come along? What is the role of subject expertise for the professional writer?
If you intended on earning a living as a writer or even just making serious ...More…
Essays writing
on 2012-01-22
Appreciating the finer elements in their appropriate sense is a key feature of essay writing.
Essay writing could be on a wide range of topics from science to literature and business to technology. Academic essays are also included in this type.
Science and technology essays require a greater expertise level and are handled by masters in the said subject. They require innovativeness and subject knowledge for well equipped content with modules and sub modules and finally integrating them all ...More…
Are You Enjoying These Article Writing Rewards?
on 2012-01-21
One of the most formidable marketing tools available today is your computer keyboard, and you can use it to generate an extremely comfortable livelihood through the writing of articles. The benefits you can gain include enormous exposure, credibility, influence and profits... all for next to nothing.
Ezine publishers and webmasters are constantly on the hunt for fresh information and ideas to educate their subscribers and visitors. Unfortunately, not all of them have the skill or desire to ...More…
The Ethics of Copywriting: Writing with Respect
on 2012-01-20
A marketing director from a large creative agency once told me, 'Always concentrate on producing great work, and never let the client interfere with the creative process. Clients come to you for guidance on each project, so you should be prescriptive about the work you give them. The day you start to care about their input - is the day you should get out of the business'. Astonishing isn't it, and I completely disagree.
The agency in question, (which will forever remain nameless), had won sack ...More…
Writing Sales Copy: Make Your Product's Benefits Sparkle!
on 2012-01-19
The other day, I had the dubious pleasure of reviewing sales copy submitted by a new group of my beloved cubs. Each cub was told to write benefit-oriented headlines for a series of natural supplement products.
The first headline jumped up and shouted ... Get Off The Hormone Roller Coaster!
"Well," I said to myself, "THAT certainly sucks!" And so I turned to the next one ... Balance Blood Sugar Levels Naturally!
... And the next ... Flush Deadly Toxins Out Of Your Colon!
Not a single one of ...More…
Just Start Writing!
on 2012-01-18
I have just finished writing three articles on helps for writing an autobiography: Getting Started, Autobiography Characteristics, and the importance of writing your autobiography.
I failed to mention the most important thing: to write.
Just start writing. That's the most important thing.
Your style will improve the more you write.
Pick up a pen. Now.
But I don't know what to write about.
Here are some helps:
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Clubs you have belonged to. ...More…