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Writing tip: Quick way to write quality article for your blog or website

Gary — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:33:12 +0000

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. Here’s [...]

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Writing tip: Quick way to write quality article for your blog or website

Have some fun with your writing doing useful ‘warm-ups’

Gary — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:24:58 +0000

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, [...]

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Have some fun with your writing doing useful ‘warm-ups’

Today’s tip for writers: Pay attention to details in your writing

Gary — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:32:31 +0000

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 [...]

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Today’s tip for writers: Pay attention to details in your writing

Strive for direct writing, economy of language

Gary — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:54:06 +0000

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. It has taken me decades to appreciate what he said, to really begin understanding what he said. I’m still [...]

Play against type to keep your readers involved in your story

Gary — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:40:51 +0000

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. For example, soft rain pattering on a roof [...]

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Play against type to keep your readers involved in your story

Insomnia? Might as well use the time for your writing

Gary — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:57:00 +0000

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.) What I’ve learned over the years is that a sleepless or restless [...]

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Avoid overextending yourself on too many writing projects

Gary — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:06:18 +0000

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.” This is sort of a cautionary tale to serve as balance to my “pep talk” the other [...]

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Avoid overextending yourself on too many writing projects

Product names, naming revisited: Useful download for writers

Gary — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:06:55 +0000

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 [...]

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Product names, naming revisited: Useful download for writers

Do you blog? Would you like to? Here are some ideas to get you started

Gary — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:49:37 +0000

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 [...]

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Biggest challenge for online writers: How to use keywords effectively

Gary — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:38:58 +0000

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. (On the other hand, I’ve never claimed to have enough expertise at online writing and/or keyword research to make a lot of sense. [...]

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Biggest challenge for online writers: How to use keywords effectively