Tag, You're It! (or, How To Write Slogans)
Some call them "tag lines"; others refer to them as"catch lines" or "tie-in-slogans." Whatever the words used to refer to them, they are perhaps the most important part of your promotional writing. Do you recognize any of these? : "Like a rock..." "Fly the friendly skies..." "It's the real thing !" "Quality is job number one" "The quicker-picker-upper" ... |
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Take Baby Steps In Your Writing To Yield A Book
by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ (mailto:shery@writesparks.com)The thought of writing a book is usually daunting for many writers. After all, how and where do you begin writing a book that's anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 words?Big numbers can be pretty intimidating. But there's a way to get around this. And it's by taking baby steps -- writing one chapter or even 300-500 words at a time.This is how I wrote my book, WEEKLY WRITES: 52 Weeks of Writing Bliss!** Every week for one whole year, I wrote one chapter or module. Each module was only 250 to 500 words. It helped too that as I wrote each module, writers were "testing" it. They did the activities in the module I sent out to them every week.When I started, I began with an outline for Weekly Writes. This was just so I could... |
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Taming The Book Proposal
: The Basics Oh, that most maddening of documents! For so many of us eager to move forward with our nonfiction projects, it looms large like a guard at the queen’s castle, blocking the path to publication. Its perfection eludes us yet it stands there teasing, “Complete me, or your manuscript will never see the light of day, m... |
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Tap The Creative Inside You
Imagination is the source of creativity. It's a place where unlimited possibilities reside. It's where pure energy lives.People are innately imaginative and creative. However, most people are simply not conscious of their imaginative and creative sel... |
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Telepathy
By Kenneth J. McCormickWebmasterhttp://aboutfacts.netWhat is Telepathy? It used to be said that it was the ability of a person to send or receive a message from one person to another using only his or her mental powers. Today with the addition of remote viewing, a better definition is the ability of a person to use their mind to trave... |
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Ten Steps To Grow Website Traffic
If you own your own website or have a page supplied by a program, growing website traffic will be one of the keys to your success. You need a growing, self-generating stream of website traffic and plenty of it. Preferably free and preferably preconditioned to buy your product of service.This article provides some ideas for growing website traffic.(1) DirectoriesDirectories are website listings. The trick is to... |
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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 ... |
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The 10 Laws For Writing Letters That Get Results
The following is a letter in response to a question about how to write sales letters. This is something you could model in layout, tone, and ideas, to write your own letters. By the way, this is where your letterhead should go.Dear Fellow Chicago Seminar Attendees,Jerry Jenkins asked me to tell you how to write letters that get read and get results. That’s a tall order! Well, here’s what I think the... |
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The Benefits Of Freewriting
It's 2 am and you're sitting at your desk, no ideas and no thoughts. The cup of coffee to your side is the sixth. But still, the same blank sheet of paper from an hour ago taunts you, there is nothing to show for your effort but a back cramp and a feeling of inferiority.We've all faced it. The loss of ideas and the lack of drive. When we are left wondering why we can't seem to find the right words.Perhaps what you ... |
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The Benefits Of Journal Writing
Everyday we experience many different events. Some good, some bad, some memorable and some that can be forgotten the next day. For writers, these events of our lives are a treasure trove of material that could be very valuable to us. You just had a f... |
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The Bottomless Notebook
Reading through a writer's notebook or journal is like discovering pearls, rubies and diamonds amidst a pil... |
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The Difference Between Critiquing And Criticism
A work in progress is susceptible to immediate extermination from the most unlikely sources: A spouse, parent, child or close friend can often be the worst people with whom to share your work in progress.... |
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The Domain Name Game
You probably know that a domain name is a name given to a website or email account. Because IP addresses mark individual computers, the domain name is usually much easier to remember as it can be a catchy phrase or an on target description of what the... |
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The Importance Of Content – Adding A Weblog To Your Site
Continuing my theme of how as a small business you can improve your search engine results. In a previous article I extolled the virtues of article writing and in this one I shall consider the practicalities and usefulness of adding a weblog to your site in or... |
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The Key To Distributing Articles
So you have written a great article on your area of expertise, but how are you going to distribute it? This is where many people fall-over in the article publishing business. If you create an article and put it on your site people aren’t just going to turn up and read it. This reminds me of an old story I was told by a friend. When he was a child he decided to make chips and sell them to make some pocket money. He made the chips and set up the stall in his parent’s kitchen. Of course being young and naive, he didn’t tell anyone he just expected people to turn up! Of course they didn’t. The same goes for your article writing. In order to be successful, you must circulate the article.The best way to circulate the ar... |
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The Proof Is In The Proofing: 7 Tips To Develop Great Proofreading Skills
In many professions, especially writing and internet marketing, the primary form of contact with customers is via the written word: website content, displ... |
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The Psychology Of Effortless Writing
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James MichenerWriting has always been a highly pleasurable form of art for me. I find it surprising that many people vie... |
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The Published Novelist: Nine Essential Qualities
So what does it actually take to make it as a selling writer? And beyond that, what does it take to ride out the tough spots in a highly competitive field?These are questions I get asked on a regular basis from readers, as well as people who are just plain curious about someone who chooses to sit alone for hours at a time, creating characters and whole lives out of thin air. Admittedly, they’re good questions. Following are nine qualities I believ... |
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The Purpose Of Custom Writing
Have you ever thought why university professors require only custom papers? If your teachers just wanted you to get more knowledge about the subject and ... |
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The Search For The Story: One Writer's Approach To Fiction
The process of writing a book starts, for me, with a place in time that I find intriguing. I begin to do a little research -- if possible, with novels written at the time -- and then, if all goes well, I experience a kind of flash of complete understanding a few weeks later. Every character, every setting, every moment of tension, choice, betrayal, and resolution comes into perfect focus. But only for an instant. It’s as if I’ve been given this one chance to see how the book is meant to be, and the rest of the pro... |
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The Secret Source Of Clear Content
You can do anything in four easy steps!An outrageous claim, no? But I can prove it. Because you're doing it now.Imagine your laundry basket. What are you going to wash today? Ah, socks. How will you wash them? In the machine. Now you do the wash and when the socks come out of the dryer, you wonder, "are they done?" Are they really clean and dry? Are they both there? Don't you have to match them and fold them and put them away? Because what you really want is socks that are ready to wear. And soon enough, they'll be back in your laundry basket again.This is the circle of life: you decide what you want to do and how you want to do it; then you do it and check whether it's really done. The pattern's easy ... |
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The Secret To Writing A Captivating Speech For Any Occasion
You're going to write a speech. And you're scared to death. Sure, I know you're not afraid of the speechmaking. Spouting it out is comparatively easy. In fact, it may be fun. But writing-ah! That is another story.At the start let's write this speech to Joe. We'll pick out a typical Joe from your audience, a fellow who is a fairly good composite of the group. Then we'll write our speech directly to Joe. How do you think of the group to whom you're going to talk? Perhaps you think of them as gentlemen and scholars. Again as brothers. Or maybe more familiarly as 'you guys' or 'you lugs.' But no matter how yo... |
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The Storyteller, Volume I
The StorytellerNew Book Offers Supernatural Tales Involving Everyday PeopleMartha Whitt... |
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The Top Ten Secrets Of Successful Authors
Judy Cullins ©2005 All Rights Reserved.If you are not a successful author yet, incorporate the following ten secrets: 1. Tre... |
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The Truth About Article Marketing
It seems as though article marketing is the biggest thing in Internet marketing right now. How do you get your name out there? Articles. How do you become an expert in your niche? Articles. How do you [insert money making phrase here]? Articles. But why? And how?“You Should Believe Me Because I Know All”Well written articles are powerful things - they demonstrate your expertise to readers better than any ad, website, or banner can. And once you’re considered an expert, people listen to you. If a lice... |
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The Truth About Bunker
Addressed by friends and family as just "Eddie," Edward Bunker lead a life of crime and did not even realize it - so he says - until his mid-twenties and then continued on only to gain more material for his novels.What many may not know is that No Beast This Fierce was not actually his first novel. It was his sixth, but Bunker doesn't like to talk about the others because they were so bad.Indeed it took him those six first novels and countless of other short stories... |
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The Truth Behind Musician Press Kits
The Truth Behind Press Kits, Bios, and Controlling Your ImageA lot of what you have been told about creating your image is false. This article is meant to be a simple list of things that might surprise you as a musician. Some of you have had “managers” misgui... |
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The Write Way To Market
The internet has always being fuelled by an adrenaline rush ofinformation. All this content means more traffic for webmastersand this is the lifeline of any website.Many of the newbies that are being exposed to the internet on adaily basis have dreams of running a website and making itsuccessful. For some, this is a grueling task and leaves them short-winded trying to do so.There are numerous marketing techniques that can be used togenerate traffic on a regular basis. Out of all of them I havetried, writing seems to work the best.Writing articles ... |
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The Writer And The Web
If your dream is to get published, the chance is before you.The web has opened the portals of opportunity to all aspiring writers and freelance writers. It’s a whole new world with unlimited access to ideas and subjects for writers. Endless resources and information are available at the click of your mouse to help you get started and keep you going.It’s up to you to exercise due diligence to make your dream of writing a reality. It does not happen overnight. It all starts with that first, small step towards pursuing your dream. The internet offers all kinds of avenues for anyone who has ambitions to write. Where do you begin?Read what the multitude of e-zi... |
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