I have been in public speaking situations where I meticulously planned for a big event and when I showed up there were only three people in the audience. You can’t just quit and walk away, but you can’t work a plan for 500 on only 3 either.
So what do you do? You turn it into […]
One of the first important lessons a writer learns is that
writing is a process, a series of steps that take an idea from
concept to completed work. This is true whether the work is an
article, a poem, a report, a short story or a book.
Understanding this process — and the role a writer plays in it
– […]
How do you choose a name? Do you put down the first name that pops into your mind? Initially that’s what I used to do, until someone pointed out to me that there are a few things to take into consideration when choosing a name…
1. You Have To Be Comfortable With It
We associate names with people […]
You’re a bright, dynamic executive. You’ve been scheduled to give a major company presentation. You’re sitting in the audience waiting your turn to speak. You hear your name and start walking stiffly to the lectern.
Suddenly you’re all alone and everyone is looking at you. You’re racked with symptoms of tension: […]
Writing articles for distribution has been done for years both online and offline. It is a very effective way of increasing your client base, establishing you and your company as experts in your field, and online it can drive a lot of traffic to your website if done correctly. That however is the […]
Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world. During the story, he is placed under sufficient pressure to force an epiphany, a moment of clarity in which, he sees the world as it is, not as he wished it to be.
A classic example is […]
Our Freelance Writing Needs Defined
We must make freelance niche types fit our needs, wants, values and lifestyles, and we also must make ourselves fit freelance niche types. Of our waking hours, we work more than we do anything else. I keep this in mind when college students come to me concerned about what to […]
Top 10 Reasons to Use a Blog to Publish Your Ezine
Blogs are the hottest thing going these days when it comes to
marketing on the Internet. A blog is a delivery medium. Here are
10 reasons why you should deliver your ezine articles via a blog.
1. A blog is web based so you can update and post […]
In Elements of Style, E.B. White writes: “A sentence should
contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines
and a machine no unnecessary part.” If you agree with the premise of
the early 20th century Ivy League scholar, you’re at the gates […]
Because I’ve written more than a 100 books and even been a book
publisher, people regularly ask me how one writes a book. I
always shrug and say it’s not that hard. But this little article
attempts to provide a better answer to the question by
describing the easy five-step approach that I use and that I
recommend you use.
Step […]