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Concise Doesn't Mean Short

When I teach writing for the web, I tell my students to keep their writing concise and to the point. To most, this often means 'short'. But, as people, we are seldom interested in 'short'. What we're interested in is 're...

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Headline Shortcuts

Today's headline secret is: Give me and I'll . This headline strategy can work incredibly well because it gets straight to the heart of the matter with a powerful promise. If you have a powerful offer - then this may be just the option you...

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Commitment; The Only Way to Get Your Book DONE!

Millions of people want to write a book. However, less than 10 percent of them actually accomplish that goal. The reason, I'm willing to bet, is that the other 90 percent of aspiring authors are not truly committed to the project, and so they ne...

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How to Generate Believable Characters for Your Stories

Readers love getting involved with the characters in your stories. They want fleshed-out real life people that they can sympathise with and feel a connection to. All it needs is a few minutes thought and an action plan. The secret to developing a be...

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Great Technical Writing: The Two-Edged Sword of Reader Experience

Overview When we write User Documents we rely on our Reader's/User's experience to simplify our work. This can cause problems for the Reader. This article will discuss the effects of Reader experience and how to minimize the negative effec...

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Using the Life Cycle in Your Writing

Life is said to evolve in three stages. Creation, survival and destruction. Similar to the life cycle of birth, life, death, and resurrection, these cycles should be reflected in your writing. In the first part of a story, a character may be creatin...

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10 Ways To Increase Your Free eBook Downloads!

1. Anticipate the objections your visitors might haveabout your free ebook offer. You should researchyour target audience's needs and wants.2. Allow your visitors to feel good about themselvesby giving them compliments. If they feel good, theywi...

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Three ways journaling can boost your creativity and your business

I have a friend who has struggled with her creativity for a long time. She's extremely uncomfortable thinking of herself as "creative." We've been working together on it, and making progress. One of the tools that's really helped her h...

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You're Published! Now How Do You Tell The Readers

The first thing you must do is quit thinking like a writer andstart thinking like a reader. That shouldn't be a problem,because you are one. If you don't enjoy reading, you can't writesomething that someone else enjoys reading. So, whe...

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Article Marketing as an SEO Copywriting Service

In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not search engine optimization (SEO) copywriting is dead. Many people argue that it is dead because of the fact that SEO copywriting has veered off track from its original purpose and...

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