Archive for the ‘Writing and Speaking’


February 6th, 2008

5 Easy Ways To Envigorate Your Copy: How To Keep Readers Reading

Boring copy kills your marketing message. Don’t waste valuable time and throw away your precious marketing dollars with writing as stale as day old bread. Here are 5 simple steps to jazz up your writing so readers will read it:

1. Write like you speak. The cardinal rule of copywriting, this will help you infuse new life into otherwise dead copy. If you find this challenging, then try talking aloud and recording what you’re trying to say in order to write it down later. Nine times out of ten, you’ll say it better than you’d ever write it.

February 1st, 2008

Creative Writing Prompts - Hot Wire Your Creative Writing With New Writing Prompts

Every writer has their own unique creative writing abilities, a way of spinning words together like no-one else. Also, we’re all capable of improving our writing, writing more richly, more deeply, more abundantly.

Often though we simply don’t write.

Our creative writing potential just sits there, desperate to be set free but somehow unable to even start.

It’s like owning a beautiful, elegant and extremely fast sorts car, but it’s just sitting on your front drive and you’ve lost the keys…

So how do you find those keys?

January 27th, 2008

How To Put Together & Sell A Successful Freelance Writing E-course (part I Of Ii)

If you’re a freelance writer who others turn to often for advice, you quite possibly have the credentials to publish a freelance writing e-course - and charge for it.

The beautiful thing about this is, once the course is written, just like a book, it can be sold over and over again without any additional work on your part. It is a constant revenue stream that can pay dividends for years to come.

If you do decide to publish a freelance writing e-course, following are some pointers to ensure its success.

January 27th, 2008

Tips On Public Speaking - The Importance Of Taking Control Of Your Breathing

Are you looking for tips on public speaking? When it comes to tips on public speaking there are many to be considered. However, if you’ve got an interest in perfecting your communicative skills for public speaking, you want to begin with a foundation to build on. You have to start somewhere and this is one of the top tips on public speaking ‘breathing’. Yes, acquiring the skill to get hold of, master and handle your breathing effectively is crucial and an introductory science to you controlling and mastering public speaking. Now lets get started!

January 22nd, 2008

Finishing Your Script

Here’s an important screenwriting tip: If you are a screenwriter with more than a couple half-finished scripts, you really have to stop and take stock. Is this a pattern? Be really honest with yourself. Could you have Scriptus Interruptus?

January 19th, 2008

How To Publish A Book, Top 3 Money Saving Tips

The initial outlay of cash when you are self-publishing can feel overwhelming. All those doubts begin to sneak in. “What if I do not sell enough books to cover my costs?” is a common fear. This is a reasonable fear if you are self publishing for the first time which is why we have provided three great money saving tips, you know, just to get you on solid ground before your book begins to make millions.

January 19th, 2008

7 Compelling Steps To Make Money With Article Writing

If you think that you are a gifted writer, then why don’t you make money by writing great articles? There is really no such thing as fast article writing. Unless you know the subject matter and have some material to write about, you can’t write the good stuff. Then you can only write some fluff.

Be sure about the article subject and content

For fast article writing, be sure about the topic that you want to write about. Do some good and valid research on the topic. This research should be the latest and not 5 years old, else the audience won’t be interested.


January 19th, 2008

Creative Writing Prompts - Hot Wire Your Creative Writing With New Writing Prompts

Every writer has their own unique creative writing abilities, a way of spinning words together like no-one else. Also, we’re all capable of improving our writing, writing more richly, more deeply, more abundantly.

Often though we simply don’t write.

Our creative writing potential just sits there, desperate to be set free but somehow unable to even start.

It’s like owning a beautiful, elegant and extremely fast sorts car, but it’s just sitting on your front drive and you’ve lost the keys…

So how do you find those keys?

January 16th, 2008

5 Must-have Methods To Multiply Your Article Writing

Are you looking for ways to increase your article writing productivity? Here are some useful tips that can tremendously help you:

1. Outline topics to be discussed. This is an important method that is often over-looked. Outlining your topics is a must since it will establish the framework of your article. It will also help you to write related ideas in a cohesive manner. Also, outlining topics will help you save time since you would only have to follow a guideline that you have established. The time you have saved will allow you to create more articles, hence multiplying your output.

January 9th, 2008

When Should You Use Present Tenses To Talk About Future?

When we talk about future events which have already been planned or decided, or which we can see are on the way, we often use present tenses.

The present progressive

The present progressive is used mostly to talk about personal arrangements and fixed plans, especially when the time and place have been decided.

What are you doing this weekend?
I am seeing Alice tomorrow.
What are we having for dinner?

The simple present

The simple present can be used to talk about future events which are part of a timetable.


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