What is possible in your life if you could overcome limiting beliefs? Those with a fully expanded belief system would answer that virtually anything they want to do or become is possible. Those with limiting beliefs often find themselves stuck in different areas of their lives. When they are stuck, they begin to self-sabotage any…
What is onomatopoeia? Do you ever wonder why children and adults can be entertained with comic books? In addition to the condensed story, it’s the words on the page that delight and entertain. In a fight scene in a Batman Comic, you will see one word in colorful brackets. These words, POW, BAM, BONK and…
If we read the newspapers or watch TV we know that advertising sells. What about free advertising and publicity? But even those big guys who do all the advertising aren’t sure what works best when it comes to advertising. A huge retailer once said that advertising works, we just don’t know how, why, or where…
Have you ever wanted to write a novel? If so, here’s what you need to know.
Rejected manuscript? Sometime ago, an aspiring children’s author hired Melissa Abramovitz to critique and edit a short story that children’s magazine editors kept rejecting. Since some of the mistakes this writer made are very common, Melissa decided to share how she helped her correct them. These errors put many manuscripts on a fast track to…
Travel as education can be fun so my family is planning a trip to Charleston, South Carolina. My husband wants to take our sons to see the World War II aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown, perhaps visit the recovered Civil War Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and possibly even make it to Fort Sumter. However,…
When to Write for Free Forget what you’ve been told about writing for free. You know: the “expert” advice that contends that writers should never write for free. That doing so devalues our collective worth as professionals. That it will brand you as an amateur and stunt your professional growth. Not true. Not always. And…
Immigrant stories from writers are a great opportunity for them to connect the “dots” of their lives. Often, these dotes come in the form of understanding the complexities of the writer’s emotion. Sharing a Common Language in a World of Cultural Diversity: The Power of Emotion Immigrant stories written by Sandra Cisneros, Jhumpa Lahiri,…
Freelance writers who earn a nice income from their writing have a constant supply of interesting assignments. One way they find these assignments is through the many, many online job boards available today.
Look around you. Story writing tips can be as close as the car parked outside your door.
In a previous post I wrote about some common writing mistakes seen on the web and elsewhere. The web is also full of sites that deal with ways to avoid some of these writing errors. Yet many writers continue to present work that either brands them as amateurs or sloppy writers. If grammatical errors are…
What is the difference between writing voice and style? Style is the particular manner of writing individual to an author, the unique way an author puts his words together. Different authors have different writing styles and sometimes their styles are directly related to the type of book they write. For example, historical writers may write…
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