writing

Public Speaking - Why Less Is More

By: Bob Malloney
Over more than 20 years, I have sat through many hundreds of business presentations. Most have one thing in common - information overload. Don't subject your audience to information-overload. The gut reaction of thoughtless presenters is to stuff their talks with far too much material.

Email Etiquette: Get to the Point Quickly

By: Helen Wilkie
Picture this: someone is scrolling rapidly down the email subject lines in his emailbox, deleting anything that doesn't seem important or urgent. Your email message stops him momentarily and he glances at the first line of the message.

The Convenience of Using a Resume Builder Template

By: Neil Morrical
When you are working on creating your resume, you will want to ensure that it is professional and follows the basic rules of resume writing. Many people find that they have trouble formatting their resumes simply because they are unsure of exactly how their resume should appear.

Internet Article Marketing Strategy: How to Write Articles

By: Peter Nisbet
Internet article marketing strategy is an important aspect of advertising your website and improving your traffic and sales. However, before you can use this as an effective online advertising technique, you first have to learn how to write articles in such a way that your readers will feel compelled to visit your website.

Write an Ebook and Become a Published Author on the Web

By: Gwen Tanner
Are you an aspiring writer and have long been craving to see your work published? Worry no more as this is probably the best time to take a plunge into the ebook writing business!

Learn to Write - Three Tips to Finding a Publisher!

By: Lisa Brunel
The very first assumption is that you have the necessary writing skills to produce a children's book, not a need to learn to write. If you have successfully written a children's book, a natural subsequent step is to find a publisher who may be interested in printing your manuscript and distributing it to the general public.

Startle Your Readers By Beginning Your Sentences With Correlative Conjunctions

By: Marciano Guerrero
Why would a master writer like Charles Dickens choose to start his long novel David Copperfield with the correlative conjunction 'whether/or?' Dickens startles readers with an unusual construction prompting them to think, to anticipate and search of more than one hero in the story.

A Fading Fad: Show, Don't Tell

By: Marciano Guerrero
Writing workshops, writing manuals, style textbooks, and many website on writing advocate the technique "Show, Don't tell," as if it was written in stone. Reviving Plato's account of narration and representation, Percy Lubbock (an authority on Henry James' novels and narrative innovations), started a new trend for writers of fiction: the technique of "show, don't tell.

George Orwell: Rules and Standards

By: Marciano Guerrero
Throughout my professional life I had to write countless memos, letters, articles, position papers, essays, and all sorts of other forms of prose, and George Orwell's presence was always by my side to guide my writing.

Easy Steps to Writing Sensational Scenes

By: Cindy A Christiansen
Writing sensational scenes and sequels is an important part of a well written book. It helps with voice, conflict, goals and pacing. Before we can continue to discuss scenes, we must first recap point-of-view (POV): 1.

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