Here’s a question that came in recently during the *E*mail *E*xtravaganza along with my honest response: Has your e-book publishing produced enough results to make it worth the effort? [MEMc] Well…what a question…ha! All of these things are so tied into one another that it’s hard to say what does and doesn’t make a profit. [...]
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If we tell the truth, procrastination and perfectionism are often related. I certainly cannot cure you of perfectionism, but I can tell you it is not your friend as far as writing is concerned. Here are three tips to help keep your writing going – and to halt (or at least postpone) your writing procrastination. [...]
I was having coffee with a friend of mine recently and she started telling me about the “voices” inside her head. As soon as she described the voices, I laughed in recognition, “Oh, we all have devils on our shoulders!” Do you know what I mean?A shoulder devil is a plot device for dramatic — [...]
Starting and stopping writing… not starting and stopping procrastination, although I guess if we are starting writing, we are stopping procrastination. Hadn’t thought of it that way, but it works. Once again, writing helps us know what we know. So, what are some tips that you can use to start writing and stop procrastinating? Here [...]
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Notes from 30 Articles call-in May 24, 2011 Discussion points ranged far and wide – excellent information and success stories from all. It was pointed out that academic writing can be dull and hard to read (and hard to write) with the rigid, formulaic expectations. Understandable on one hand but too bad that more of [...]
A question came in this morning from a 30 Articles in Just 30 Days participant asking for suggestions for different formats for writing articles. Here’s what I wrote back: Go to EzineArticles and search their blog on “article template” – here’s what I found: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/?s=%22article+template%22 If you keep scrolling down (page after page), you’ll find [...]
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Chuck Frey is the creator and publisher of The MindMapping Software Blog and someone I follow. Recently, I found an excellent post of his: http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/50-web-content-buzz-builders/ - so if you’re looking for writing ideas (or other prompts to get going on generating content), take a look.
Tags: Chuck Frey, generating content, MindMapping, writing
A colleague just sent this great link: http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm All kinds of resources and places to view and share your own mindmaps and other graphic representations.
Writing Advice pg 54-60 from Writer’s Digest May/June 2010 issue link: http://www.agentquery.com/downloads/101BestWebsites2010.pdf
Although you have an electronic record of all of the articles you have written for an article director, you may also want to have a paper version, for any number of reasons. For example, You might like to have some paper copies of your articles to distribute at a presentation you are doing. You might [...]
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