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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 [...]

Tags: Ezine articles, formats, templates, writing

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.

Tags: MindMapping, Tufts University, visual thinking

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 [...]

Someone in a recent teleseminar about writing sent me a question about self-publishing.  Here is part of my response to her: Here are some places with some recommendations: from the Life of E’s blog: http://meggin.com/lifeofes/wordpress/2008/06/resources-for-publishing-ghost-writers/ From Speaker Net News (which is absolutely worth subscribing to, free) and they have questions and compilations of answers. This [...]

Tags: Advantage Media Group, Lulu, publishing, self-publishing, Speaker Net News, writing

Notes from the 30 Articles phone in Wednesday, July 28 , 2010 I called in just before 5 pm PDT and waited for twenty minutes but no one called in. I hope that none of you called in later and wondered where on earth I was off to. Well, I have been off to all [...]

As you know, I am a huge fan of Paulette Ensign – and she recently was my first-ever 2nd time guest for a teleseminar.  Here’s where to access her jam-packed 90-minute session (free). I am a subscriber to Paulette’s newsletter and recently, she included this information, which really got my attention: Then there is always [...]

Here are some links to wonderful sites to know about if you’re a writer.  Take some time to peruse: http://www.writersdigest.com/101BestSites http://www.writersdigest.com/101BestSites/?m_sCategory=WritingCommunities&m_nYear=2008 http://www.writersdigest.com/article/101-websites-2009