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This compilation of useful writing advice is from The Success Manual , 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities . You might also want to check out Rules for Writers , a compilation of writing wisdom from great authors and some highly useful books on writing. Also Read Part 2, 125 More Tips from 20 All Time Great Writers - writing advice from Steinbeck, Ballard, Naipaul, Gladwell, Russell, Capote and more great writers. 1. A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same.

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Elmore Leonard : Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways than an Eskimo to describe ice and snow in his book Arctic Dreams , you can do all the weather reporting you want.

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Here are some basic rules to improve your typography across either web or print. Of course, these rules are only to start with, and rules are meant to be broken. But if you want something to look neat, clean and generally well designed they are a good set to follow. Don’t use too many typefaces Consistency throughout a document or website is helpful.

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We're not all blessed with grids of monitors that seem to provide endless desktop real estate, and some of us like the simplicity of less. Regardless of your situation, if you don't have much screen space to work with you don't have to resign yourself to a life of pain and suffering. Working on a small screen can actually offer a lot of benefits and there are plenty of ways to make the best of the limitations. Here's what you can do. I used to use a desktop with two 24" monitors and my laptop was a 15" MacBook Pro with a 1080p hi-res display. Today I work with one 24" monitor on the desktop and an 11" MacBook Air (which is what I use for the majority of my work).

7 ways to move beyond procrastination

Almost everyone is held down by what some call “the silent killer”. Procrastination strikes everywhere. We all want to avoid the pain or discomfort of doing something we feel is boring, stupid, pointless, hard, complicated, risky, possibly really emotionally painful and so on. But even though we know that we will have to do it eventually and that we’re just deluding ourselves we still put it of. Often with reasons we know deep down are weak and we really just made up. We get stuck in a vicious circle of doing too little of both what we want and what we don’t want.