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COULD YOU (not) REPEAT THAT PLEASE?
I recently read a book where everything was akimbo. Arms were akimbo, legs were akimbo.
Ferreting Out Work
FERRETING OUT WORK
You keep hearing that there's work out there, but so far you haven't found any. Well, where is it? That depends on what you're looking for.
Gaining Writing Experience
GAINING WRITING EXPERIENCE
Some Catch-22, huh? In the writing business, you can't get published until you have some experience. If you can't get published until you have experience, how do you get experience? How do you get publishing clips to show all those publishers who want to see "previously published clips"? It's almost as if Lily Tomlin's telephone operator character came up with this: "Is this the party to whom I'm speaking? Are you the unpublished writer who has published clips I can look at? (Snort, snort!)"
What's an unpublished writer to do? Get published, of course! I'm not being flippant; I'm serious.
Amazing Ways Writing Articles Can Improve Your Business
How to get a lot of traffic to your website FREE? Writing articles. This is one of most cost effective way to promote your website - it saves you a lot of money, in the meantime, you get a lot of valuable visitors.
Write With Passion: 4 Steps To Emotionally Charge A Nonfiction Article
You have just completed a draft of an article. It seemsflat, even to you.
Freewriting: A Strategy That Will Bring Your Writing To Life
Freewriting is a release from the prison of rules. Itallows the fastest and deepest improvements to a writer'screative process.
8 Great Journaling Tips
Mix a martini, don't forget the olives, or pour yourself atea, relax and enjoy!There are no hard-set rules for keeping a journal. How oftenyou write, time you spend, and how rigorously you maintain aregular journaling schedule are matters of personal choiceand circumstance.
Leveraging Your Writing
A frequent conversation I have with my writing clients is how to best utilize their writing to gain more exposure and to create more income. If there is one thing that will accomplish both of these objectives, it's learning how to leverage your writing.
The Writing Game
There are a lot of tapes and books and CD and even videos out there that claim they teach you how to write, but how many actually offer a full 4 part course included in their manual. A course that is offered in London as part of a creative writing school?This one does.
Three Tips to Improve Your Writing Rhythm
As a professional copywriter, not only do I do a lot of writing but I also look at a lot of writing. One of the things I've noticed that set the good/great writers from the so-so is rhythm.
Celebrating Writing and Life
Every morning I excitedly get out of bed. Just a few minutes of goals and visions for the day swirl in my head.
Going On A Word Diet
There are three ways to write a first draft. One is to ink whatever surfaces, in whatever order without regard to grammar, spelling or staying on topic.
Revving Up Your Writing Productivity
Productivity begins by recognizing and valuing your brilliance, time, and space. It starts with awareness of what works and what does not.
Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors
Connectors -- conjunctions, punctuation, and transitional phrases -- allow readers to process information promptly by creating balance and relationships between sentence parts. The connectors are performing the same work as verbs, objects, modifiers and multiple subjects.
Writing the PDA Way
When we think of writing it triggers many thoughts and visions depending on our framing. It could trigger a lone man with a full astray, unshaven, staring at an old plunking typewriter with white blank crisp paper waiting in anticipation for his words.
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Outdoor writers association features New England's bestNorwich BulletinBy BOB SAMPSON Since 1975, I've been a member of the New England Outdoor Writers Association, the oldest organized group of its kind in the nation. The fact that many of the greatest New England outdoors writers are on the membership list makes it an ...and more » |
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Valentine's Day writing workshop is Feb. 11Enterprise-RecordCHICO — Sarah Pape, a poet and educator, will lead a Valentine's Day writing workshop Feb. 11 at 1078 Gallery, open to all levels of experience. "Eros and Beyond" will celebrate writing about the rage against, and/or invoke the God of love, ...and more » |
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Charlotte writer makes the obscure invitingCharlotte ObserverBy Lawrence Toppman "Botanica" is one of three plays Jeff Jackson has co-written that received New York debuts. It opened last week at 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. COURTESY OF PAULA COURT Jeff Jackson's play "Botanica," which opened ...and more » |
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