By Richard Lowe, Jr. / Published on May 7th, 2008 / Writing
A friend and I were talking the other day about writing. He liked to write, but even so his biggest problem was finding things to write about. My friend was astounded at the volume of [..]
By Tony Murtagh / Published on May 7th, 2008 / Writing
Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to demonstrate how professional you are. Not [..]
By Donald E. Wetmor / Published on May 6th, 2008 / Writing
Concision. (Sounds like I made up another word.) It's the idea of being concise in our ongoing communication with others, both written and oral.
Many take forever to say so little. These [..]
By Laraine Anne Barker / Published on May 6th, 2008 / Writing
ELICIT, ILLICIT
Elicit means to extract or draw out; illicit means not legal.
EVERYONE, EVERY ONE
Everyone means every person in a group; every one means each person and is always [..]
By Laraine Anne Barker / Published on May 6th, 2008 / Writing
LATER, LATTER
Later means afterwards; latter is the second of two things.
"Later that day we went for a walk."
"We have two choices. The latter is the more reliable, but the former [..]
By Laraine Anne Barker / Published on May 5th, 2008 / Writing
PASSED, PAST
Passed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone.
"Time passed and we all forgot the incident."
"In times past it was the custom for women to wear [..]
By Laraine Anne Barker / Published on May 5th, 2008 / Writing
SALE, SAIL
Sale is either offering something for purchase ("for sale")
or offering it at a special price ("on sale"); sail is part
of a ship or boat.
SELL, CELL
Sell is to exchange [..]
By Laraine Anne Barker / Published on May 5th, 2008 / Writing
By Laraine Anne Barker
ACCEPT, EXCEPT
Not commonly seen even from unpublished writers, who are probably familiar with the difference because they're all waiting for an acceptance!
"We [..]
By Laura Backes / Published on May 4th, 2008 / Writing
Once you've plotted out your book, developed the characters and written the last word of text, the real work begins. As busy editors are bombarded with hundreds or even thousands of [..]
By Alwyn Botha / Published on May 4th, 2008 / Writing
The main task of a newsletter publisher is to select and package quality content of direct, practical relevance to its specific readership audience.
This might sound quick and easy, [..]
By Sue Kendrick / Published on May 4th, 2008 / Writing
Hands up if the title to this article made you think that you'd strayed into a fishing feature?
Perhaps you didn't quite go that far, but hopefully you were puzzled or curious enough [..]
By News Canada / Published on May 3th, 2008 / Writing
(NC)-Life is full of transitions, from high school to university, from first job to the next. Each of these changes brings with it a financial 'first': How much will it cost to go to [..]
By Anna Kathryn Bir / Published on May 3th, 2008 / Writing
More and more good authors are turning to the Internet to self publish. There are several reasons for that. All of them are probably well known to every writer by now, so we'll not go [..]
By Lenore Wright / Published on May 3th, 2008 / Writing
Hundreds of writing contests tempt screenwriters with the lure of prize money, instant film industry contacts and personal feedback from film professionals. But contests can be costly, [..]
By Mani Sivasubramanian / Published on May 2th, 2008 / Writing
How To Use The Power Of HOT 'In-Demand' Niches To INSTANTLY Get More New Business Than You Can Handle!
Everyone's talking about profiting from "Niche Marketing"
- but no one's telling you [..]
By Phil Wiley / Published on May 2th, 2008 / Writing
The Importance of Emotive Writing
By Phil and Kate Wiley
Are you getting plenty of hits on your sites but your conversion rates leave something to be desired?
Have you tried changing the page [..]
By Phil Wiley / Published on May 2th, 2008 / Writing
It's always nice to give freebies away. Especially one's that help
you learn something. Here's a free ebook on exactly how to write
winning ad copy.
The copy that comes with the book puts it [..]
By Willie Crawford / Published on May 1th, 2008 / Writing
Copyright 2004 Willie CrawfordThirty years ago, I sold information via small classified ads in "ad-sheets" on how to make money teaching others how to make money. We sent out these packets of [..]
By C.C. Collins / Published on May 1th, 2008 / Writing
Frustrated Internet Marketer?.....Here's how you can turn frustration into "Dollars In the Bank"
Are you a frustrated internet marketer? Do you spend countless hours and dollars trying one [..]
By Chuck Huckaby / Published on May 1th, 2008 / Writing
NetPreneurs fail all too often because they wrongly assume that marketing on the Net is a "no cost business" when, in reality it is simply a low cost or targeted cost business.
The most [..]
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