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Writing Help & Advice
Writing Tips and Help
10 Habits of Frequently Published Wrters p1
Are you ready to sign off on your first project or publish more of what you have already written? Have you been wondering who will publish your work? The publishing industry is changing in the new mi...
10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Book Endorsements
Endorsements, sometimes called "Blurbs," are wonderful and often witty comments about your book provided by respected authors, journalists, entertainers, and industry experts connected to your topic....
7 Keys to Writing a Children’s Book that Sells Like Hotcakes
There are seven fundamental reasons that some books succeed and others collect dust on the author’s bookshelf. These seven keys to success as an author are simple, obvious even, and yet in the midst ...
A Strategy For Coming Up With A Great Book Title
Go into a bookstore and browse through the titles in the bestseller section. Book publishing companies hire high-priced people to come up with a title or “headline,” because book publishing is a big ...
Creative Writing Technique: Visualization
Visualization is one of the best techniques to use when plotting a story. It's like watching a movie in your mind, only the movie is your story. You can see all the scenes and events playing out, fro...
Defeating Writer's Block
If you're a writer, or a student, or anyone who's ever felt the desire or need to write, you know all about the dreaded thing known as writer's block. You sit at the computer, or your're at your des...
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written--Fast! - Part 1
Why don't you write a book? Most people complain it takes too long. They are too busy. One professional coach said she was not a natural writer. An entrepreneur feared it wouldn't sell, or it would b...
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written--Fast! - Part 2
Why don't you write a book? Most people complain it takes too long. They are too busy. One professional coach said she was not a natural writer. An entrepreneur feared it wouldn't sell, or it would b...
Four Useful Lies About Writing
Most writing “experts” favor a particular way of looking at plot, and will adhere to it for years or an entire career. That’s all well and good, but its important to realize that any way of modeling ...
How Not To Become The Victim Of Plagiarism
The idea is the most valuable intellectual property. And the interesting idea requires quality protection from the plagiarism. Before we start discussing why it is not worth plagiarizing, let’s clear...
I've Got All These Goals, Now What?
Setting goals is the first step in achieving success. The goals themselves are useless if we don't achieve them and sadly the majority of goals and resolutions created fail to materialize. So, once...
My Favorite Errors to Correct (Don’t make these mistakes, and your writing will rise above most other writing.) Part 1
Following is a compilation of the kinds of mistakes I see most often in writing, often by successfully published writers. This article is adapted from a handout I give my lifewriting students. I base...
My Favorite Errors to Correct (Don’t make these mistakes, and your writing will rise above most other writing.) Part 2
Negotiables: These are rules that the experts largely agree can be broken to good effect. In formal writing (such as a doctoral dissertation), the strict rules would still apply. But in informal writ...
My Favorite Expert Advice on Writing the Stories of Our Lives, Gleaned From My Favorite Books on the Subject
This outline is adapted from a handout I give to my lifewriting students. The points made here apply to writing in general as well as to writing our life stories in particular. I. Why should we write...
Secret Tricks For Making Your Writing Sound More Compelling
Online learning becomes more accepted, that’s why it is getting harder to identify, which online educational establishments require students to finish legitimate coursework, and, which are diploma mi...
Ten Tips For Budding Authors
1. For me the most important tip is to write, write every day, 365 days a year. Remember practice makes perfect. 2. Very few authors are published on their first attempt; it’s a hard slog and you’ll ...
Ten Tips on Writing and Creativity
1. Don't think. Creating a story or book has little to do with the intellect or language when we first begin. Our best ideas will emerge as a spark or image. Like dreams, they will make little sense....
The "Casablanca" Secret
Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world. During the story, he is placed under sufficient pressure to force an epiphany, a moment of cla...
The Bible - The Source Of All Copywriting Secrets
I've been a student of the Bible for practically all my life. There is a lot of reason why this book remains the number one best-seller year after year. I think that it is the source of ALL wisdom, y...
The Billionaire Writer's Secret
During a career spanning twenty-five years of novel, film, and television work, I've two major tools most valuable: the yogic “chakras” for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s...
The Da Vinci Code, The Best Selling Novel
One of the best selling novels since hundreds of years is Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. One of the best selling novels since hun...
Tips To Help You To Write With Success
Writing is something that everyone can enjoy! Writing is freeing and fun and exciting, if you really let your imagination go writing can take you to places that you have never been before. The world ...
Vital Tips to Create Well Crafted Article
People have found new technique of marketing online business, “Publishing newarticles” on various sites and directories. It is the rapid and effortless methods to come up there. It also helps to build y...
Who Is Your Inner Critic?
Spend time listening to your Inner Critic. He or she is not comfortable with the risks demanded by a creative endeavor. By becoming aware of the foul jabber of your Inner Critic, you can see how your...
Word Frequency Analysis as a means to improve writing quality
In the old times of Windows 1.0 back in the 1980’s there was a tool called Word Frequency that came with the MS Word distribution package. As someone who uses English as a second language I used it...
Write What You Know
We've heard the words, Write What You Know, but do we understand what they mean? The words can be misleading and may discourage new writers from branching out to try new genres. Do they mean we sh...
Writer’s Tool: A Treasure Chest
While taking a creative writing course in college, my instructor introduced me to an invaluable tool—a Writer’s Treasure Chest. This tool is easy and fun to make and will come in handy time and again...
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #2
Writing a three act story - dealing with the middle act. In the second or middle act, you get to expand the story past the initial 'inciting incident', and develop the characters and their various dr...
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #4
Style is one of the most important considerations when writing a bestseller, and as we mentioned in previous newarticles, they key is consistency. It's almost a hallmark of a top 10 best seller to have ...
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #6
The Basics of Plot. Although you will obviously be familiar with the concept of 'plot', most people don't actually think in a plot-like fashion. As you write a book, the logical, compelling step-by-s...
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #7
Secrets of the Plot The one overriding principle you have to remember when creating a blockbuster of a plot is to avoid randomness. A good story is a chain of events, and each link in the chain is bo...
Writing a Book - Tips From An Author #9
Writing specific Genres What is a 'genre'? It's a fancy French word for 'type' or 'kind'. A 'Thriller' is a 'type' of story. Thrillers therefore make up a 'genre'. Some genres have become so 'reduced...
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author: Tip 1
Any good work of fiction has a basic set of components. Without these various elements, your book will be unsatisfying, or worse, unreadable. Many new authors make the mistake of copying or 'aping' a...
Writing a Child Story: 8 Elements to Consider
While writing an entertaining child story is obviously more art than science, most successful child stories pay attention to the following 8 elements. #1: Theme A good child story has an underlying t...
Writing and Walking – Beating Writer’s Block
Writing and walking are a seemingly odd mix of topics for an article, but they go well together. Particularly if you write during breaks in your walk. Writing Journals Whether you are writing articl...
Writing Help for College Students
Your literature professor has asked you to write a 7-page essay comparing Medieval and Renaissance poetry; your economics professor wants 15 pages on how globalization is affecting the economy in thr...
Writing Nonfiction
All of us are authors, and all of us have a book already written within us that needs to come out. I believe that fiction is the easiest to write because none of what you write can, or needs to be ve...
Writing Resources: 7 Books For Improving Your Manuscript
Whether a crawling novice or polished professional, writers from every walk of life have room for improvement in their work. An endless array of rules and techniques must be kept in mind when writing...
Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)
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 q...
Writing Well-- 6 Steps to Being Your Own Best Editor
One of the first important lessons a writer learns is that writing is a process, a series of steps that take an idea from concept to completed work. This is true whether the work is an article, a po...
Your First Steps To Becoming A Writer
What's the first step to becoming a writer? You'd think it would be "write", but it's not. In speaking to other writers and from what I know of my own journey to becoming a writer, I've come to reali...
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