Archive for the ‘Technique & Guidelines’ Category
Monday, September 24th, 2007 |
Tools is a misnomer… these are techniques as far as I’m concerned. Whatever. Used appropriately, they work. And they work well.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007 |
I don’t usually give out “how to write” advice since, after all, who the heck am I to give writing advice? But advice from Kurt Vonnegut? Oh yeah!
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Monday, April 30th, 2007 |
By Dana K. Cassell
Use your telephone to interview out-of-towners and those too busy to sit down for an in-person interview. I have a tape recorder connected to my phone at all times in order to capture my phone interviews in full.
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Monday, March 12th, 2007 |
Article by Paul Docherty. Good brief article on style guides and why they’re useful… and important to pay close attention to (or assemble) if you’re a freelancer.
Read “What is a Writer’s Style Guide…” »
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007 |
BY NANCY EATON
One of the most important things in writing a good book review is the very first sentence. Open with a statement that will really grab the reader’s attention. It could even be a question. Be sure to write something that will make the reader of the review want to read this book.
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006 |
BY NICK USBORNE
About once a month I fly off somewhere to give a one-day workshop on writing for the Web.
For part of the day, I invite the group to take part in a series of short tasks. In one of these I ask people to write or rewrite a webpage headline, using words of two syllables or less.
What’s the point? Well, the idea is to make people think. It’s often tempting to write with long, complex words. Perhaps it has to do with how we were taught at school. And sometimes we use long words simply to sound clever.
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 |
BY CRAIG LOCK
Artists, like writers should also think like businesspeople; but then any businessperson would have the logic and good sense not to strive to become a writer.†— Craig Lock
Writing articles can provide you with enormous amount of exposure on the Web. You are branding yourself on a shoestring budget — it hasn’t cost you a cent, but a little time and effort writing a free content article is simple and follows a similar professional approach as an article for a standard, paying market.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 |
BY MARTIN LEMIEUX
Writing articles related to your business is a great way to build your link popularity and also to provide more content for your site and other sites. Not to mention it’s always nice when someone finds your site and uses it within their newsletter.
The only problem is, what if people don’t tell you that they were using your articles??? How would you know who to reward?
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