Writing Without Style

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Write Your Life

Take out a white piece of paper and place it on your kitchen table. You now have two choices. You can write or draw on it, or you can leave it there. If you write or draw, you control the paper'. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 4 of 6

LATER, LATTERrLater means afterwards; latter is the second of two things.r"Later that day we went for a walk."r"We have two choices. The latter is the more reliable, but the former would be cheaper. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 3 of 6

ELICIT, ILLICITrElicit means to extract or draw out; illicit means not legal.EVERYONE, EVERY ONErEveryone means every person in a group; every one means each person and is always followed by "of".r. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6

BAITED, BATEDrBaited usually refers to traps or snares. When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated:r"She watched with bated breath."rI've yet. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6

PASSED, PASTrPassed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone.r "Time passed and we all forgot the incident." r "In times past it was the custom for women to wear hats in church.". . .

Editing Secrets

Once you've plotted out your book, developed the characters and written the last word of text, the real work begins. As busy editors are bombarded with hundreds or even thousands of submissions a y. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 1 of 6

By Laraine Anne Barker ACCEPT, EXCEPTrNot commonly seen even from unpublished writers, who are probably familiar with the difference because they're all waiting for an acceptance!r"We accept your i. . .

Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 6 of 6

SALE, SAIL rSale is either offering something for purchase ("for sale")or offering it at a special price ("on sale"); sail is partof a ship or boat.SELL, CELLrSell is to exchange for money; cell is. . .

Be Concise

Concision. (Sounds like I made up another word.) It's the idea of being concise in our ongoing communication with others, both written and oral.Many take forever to say so little. These are the sam. . .

Writing Press Releases That Get Noticed

Among the various foolproof methods used to boost traffic to your site (ezine advertising, and search engine submitting, to name a couple) one method seems to be forgotten about by many new Interne. . .

An Inside Look at Proofreading

This is the ideal topic for us all to think about. We do it everyday, especially those of us that use the Internet the majority of the time. Web pages, business letters, articles, news releases, do. . .

Impulse Writing for Better Ad Headings

Writing headlines for your ads is the most important part of your online presence. When posting your ad to classified sites, directories, message boards, newsgroups or mailing lists, the only par. . .

Tips On Writing A Killer Sales Letter

Writing a sales letter doesn’t have to be that difficult all you need is the right writing style and some tips to knock out a killer sales letter Benefits The first thing you need to do is focus on. . .

Tips For Better Writing

It is certainly true that we don't get a second chance to make a first impression. As the impression we make on the Internet is almost always with the written word, is it unfortunate that there is . . .

Don't Rely on your Spellchecker - or - The Importance of ...

Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to demonstrate how professional you are. Not only does a . . .

Writing For The Web: Where To Get Article Ideas

A friend and I were talking the other day about writing. He liked to write, but even so his biggest problem was finding things to write about. My friend was astounded at the volume of writing that . . .

Is Someone Plagiarizing Your Work?

About two weeks ago I received an article submission that immediately attracted my attention. The title was identical to the title of an article I wrote and which was published in 'WebProNews' in M. . .

Writing Made Them Rich #4: Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho was born on August 24th 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At age 17 he announced his intention to be a writer. It was a decision bitterly opposed by his parents, partly because Brazil at. . .

Writing Made Them Rich #3: Richard Bach

One day in the mid-1970's a young man stumbled into a diner somewhere in the United Sates. Slung over his shoulder was a kit-bag that contained everything he owned. He was unshaven and needed a sh. . .

How To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob

"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured."Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' on it.""But if I put 'author' on, none of those big compani. . .

5 Easy Steps To Writing Your Appealing Letter

You must write a hypnotic persuasion letter to help you achieve all your goals! Get the boss to give your a raise, induce that beautiful blue-eyed girl to be your lover and persuade your mother to . . .

Get An Attitude About Your Writing

(This excerpt is taken from my new writing workshop Writing To Sell In the Internet Age.) Writer John Clausen, in his excellent book about freelance writing: Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal,. . .

An eBook Publisher's Dilemma: Should I Use PDF or Exe For...

If you write and publish eBooks, sooner or later you will probably be faced with a dilemma - should you create your eBooks as .exe files or .pdf files? PDF, which stands for Portable Document Forma. . .

Writing Made Them Rich #2: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Portsea, England, in 1812. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, stationed at Portsmouth. Although his job was well paid, his father had a weakness for spending. . .

Money Savvy 101

(NC)-Life is full of transitions, from high school to university, from first job to the next. Each of these changes brings with it a financial 'first': How much will it cost to go to college or uni. . .

Hooks, Lines & Sinkers

Hands up if the title to this article made you think that you'd strayed into a fishing feature?Perhaps you didn't quite go that far, but hopefully you were puzzled or curious enough to wonder what . . .

A Newsletter Publisher's Main Task: Packaging Value Content

The main task of a newsletter publisher is to select and package quality content of direct, practical relevance to its specific readership audience.This might sound quick and easy, but it is not. P. . .

A New Way To Self Publish

More and more good authors are turning to the Internet to self publish. There are several reasons for that. All of them are probably well known to every writer by now, so we'll not go into them he. . .

Writing Made Them Rich #1: JK Rowling

Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, England in 1965. She began writing at the age of 6 with a story called 'Rabbit', which she never finished. In high school her favorite subject. . .