A large box arrives from a New York Publisher. Its hereYOUR BOOK! You hurriedly rip it open and take the first book out. There it isYOUR NAME as the author of your first book. You forget to breathe and your heart skips a beat in excitement.
You caress the spine and read the title and your...
If you are between the ages of 8 to 18 and love to write, be it short stories, plays or poems, then you are a young writer. For the writer nothing is more satisfying than finishing a story, play, poem etc. In fact some young writers decide to make it their career of choice. This is not always an...
Youre Not Done Yet: Eight Strengtheners For Your Sales Copy
Writing sales copy for a new or to-be-relaunched product takes a lot of energy and concentration. When you finish that first draft, take a rest. Then go back to what youve written with this sales copy checklist, which outlines...
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
Some of the special skills discussed in writing may have you feeling as if there is really no room for expressing your own...
If you expect your potential clients to read the texts on your site, be especially particular about the content. Writing for the web has its own peculiarities in comparison with common publications. It is known that 79% Internet users just skip over the web pages, but rarely peruse them. It...
During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, Great Sky Woman. There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question How in the world do you do that? Twenty novels!
The truth is that I know many...
As you may know, Im a great fan of the works of the Canadian author, Robertson Davies. So, when Im looking for inspiration and ideas, I turn to his articles on writing. I came across a speech he gave in 1990 for the Tanner Lectures in New Haven, Connecticut. One is entitled simply Writing, the...
When preparing your resume make sure the skills you list are accurately conveying your experience and knowledge in each area. It is also recommended that time be spent reviewing the skills the company is looking for in order to highlight these skills in a job interview or cover letter. The cover...
Like most creative professions the question of a qualified success in writing is not easy to concentrate into one definitive answer.
Just as there are a multitude of writing styles, so too are there many examples of writing success.
Examples
1. “If I can just finish my...
I hear it all the time from my students and at the seminars and workshops I lead. The writers that I work with are excited to work with a “real” writer. Most people define a “real” writer as one who is published. Therefore I, with three published novels and innumerable...
There’s nothing like writing a story. It is a truly satisfying creative process. In order to write a story that people will enjoy. You need to understand the key elements that all good writers use in stories. In this article we will explore these elements.
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Short article writing is as not as difficult as you think. No, it is not a daunting task if you know what to do. Just remember that when you write, the important thing is that you catch your readers attention. You must make them want to read what you wrote. Here are the tips that you can...