I realize the title of this article is completely simplistic. It’s the sort of “Zen like” simplicity, I think, that we all must face every day of our lives if we are writers.
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Careful organization combined with self-discipline are a must for successful writers, aren’t they?
Or, are they really?
Perhaps a better question would be: What works best for you when it comes to your writing career?
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That trusty little netbook I bought a few months ago paid off last week as an excellent writing tool during a couple of days I spent in the hospital. No, I wasn’t sick. But my wife was.
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I’ve been doing a lot of article writing in recent weeks, focusing on keywords that people are searching for in Google which relate closely to my websites. That’s how I expect to draw traffic to the site and, hopefully, earn some money for my efforts through products and services I market on the site.
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You can have some fun with your writing and stimulate those “creative juices” for the day by doing some useful “warm-ups” to get the words flowing.
One of the most useful writing exercises, and certainly one of the simplest, is to look at a story or news article — look online, check your local newspaper, try your favorite magazine, etc. — and simply ask yourself, “what if …” then fill in the blank.
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I’ve mentioned on this site before the importance of paying attention to details when you write. In this case, I’m thinking of details and accuracy in your fiction writing.
When I mentioned this in the past, I think I used an example from a novel I was reading some years back about Adolph Hitler. It made reference to Hitler’s piercing black eyes. As it happens, I was editing some material just a couple of days before I read that scene which made reference to Hitler’s “icy blue eyes.” Ah, I thought, what color were Hitler’s eyes? Isn’t there a way of finding out — and shouldn’t one of those writers have checked their facts more closely before making reference to Hitler’s eyes? (Hitler’s eyes were blue.)
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Long ago, I had a writing teacher somewhere emphasize what I’ve put in the title of this little article. He said I should always be very direct in my writing and strive for economy of language.
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Truly well written fiction — which I do not claim to do — captures a reader and keeps his attention. One simple way to do that is to avoid writing cliches by playing against type, doing the unexpected in a scene or with a phrase you’re writing.
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Last night was very restless for me. It seems the older I get, the less I can sleep soundly at nights. (We won’t even get into some of the standard aging and Old Guys reasons comedians seem to find so funny. It’s not.)
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After a few weeks or perhaps months of steady writing, especially if your writing involves work that you don’t truly love and have a passion about, you can easily find yourself overextended, even facing a sense of “burnout.”
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Not long ago, I published an article here about the funny or odd sounding names companies, particularly pharmaceutical or drug companies, come up with for their products. In that article I mentioned how drug or pharmaceutical names, ranging from names like Sarafem to Lipofuze, are created to give the product a “sound” or feeling that will resonate to the public and to physicians as powerful or authoritative.
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I have a question for all you bloggers out there: How do you decide what you’re going to write about?
I’ve known many people in the last few years who have started blogging. Many of them really don’t know what they want to write about, but they’ve decided it would be a good thing to blog, so they start blogging.
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This article is probably not for “noobies” to online writing and blogging. You probably need to do some work on fundamentals about keyword research for website content before it makes much sense.
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When I first started making a substantial part of my income by writing, I did a lot of assigned writing for a religious publishing house. (My long ago undergraduate degree was from a Bible college.) The assignments they gave me, mostly carefully defined as to length and content, were such things as Sunday school quarterlies and daily Bible-based devotionals.
Affiliate marketing is as much an art as “science.” No, it’s actually probably more of an art. And one of the best tools you can use for affiliate marketing is to write careful, unbiased product reviews.
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