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The Unword Dictionary. Scribus.net. Taller literario Escuela de Escritores - Comunicación escrita y escritura creativa. Premura Servicios editoriales, agencia literaria. Recursos para Escritores y Servicios para Empresas y particulares. Portal del escritor. P.O.W.E.R. Copywriting: Write simple ads in 5 steps. When I was asked to teach a copywriting class for a special program at The Ohio State University, I discovered that teaching writing is far more difficult than the writing itself.

Many of the things I did naturally from experience or instinct were a complete mystery to my students. So, in order to make the copywriting process a logical and painless operation, I devised a simple method for writing ad copy for novice writers. I called it POWER Copywriting, an acronym for the five steps in the copywriting process: Prepare, Organize, Write, Edit, and Review. This represents years of copywriting experience boiled down to the basics. I won’t promise that this will help you create a masterpiece of copywriting brilliance. Step 1: PREPARE Good ad copy begins with good information. Don’t try to wordsmith at this point. Description. Step 2: ORGANIZE After you’ve answered these questions, organize your information.

Don’t take shortcuts. Here are the essential items you will need to write your copy: Five Common Writing Problems and How to Fix Them. This is a guest post from Annette Lyon, author, freelance writer and editor. As a writer, I’ve been edited, so I know how it feels. Most of the time, I’ve had talented editors, but periodically I run into an editor who tries to change my voice and personality rather than doing their job by polishing my work.

So when I’m on the other side of the fence, wearing my editor cap, I work hard to maintain a client’s voice and vision while making their work even better. My publishing credits include seven novels, a cookbook, and over a hundred articles. My editing work has included writers who run the gamut of experience and skill, from wet-behind-the-ears beginners to New York Times bestsellers. Over and over, I find many of the same things cropping up in manuscripts. 1—Point of View Intrusion This weakness usually shows up for writers who know enough to use point of view but who don’t yet have it mastered. For example: Tom heard a truck rumble past on the street. 2—Undefined It 3—Would as Dead Wood. Refine, reuse and request data.

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Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software - Writing Software for Novelists. yWriter - Word Processor for Authors. The Online Community for Writers. Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing. 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills - Smashing Magazine.

Advertisement Today, too many websites are still inaccessible. In our new book Inclusive Design Patterns, we explore how to craft flexible front-end design patterns and make future-proof and accessible interfaces without extra effort. Hardcover, 312 pages. Get the book now! Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. Of course, effective writing requires a good command of the language in which you write or want to write. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link We collected over 50 useful and practical tools and resources that will help you to improve your writing skills. 1.

Use English Punctuation Correctly6 A quick and useful crash course in English punctuation. HyperGrammar7 An extensive electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa’s Writing Centre. Grammar Girl8 Mignon Fogarty’s quick and dirty tips for better writing. 2. Dr. 3. 4. Headlines and Trigger Words Link 5. 6. 7. Professional copy editing services for writers looking to self-publish or submit to agents. . . . putting the fun back into writing! | Fear of Writing. By guest blogger Charlotte Rains Dixon “To sleep: perchance to dream . . .” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Photo courtesy John p. of Everystockphoto How’d you sleep last night?

Like a baby? Like a dog on a rug? Like the dead? Or how about this: maybe you didn’t sleep much at all. Reality is, this kind of wild creativity is hard on our bodies. Many of us (myself included) do our best work first thing in the morning. (Bear in mind that some researchers claim it’s not so much the amount of sleep you get, but the quality of it.

And in case all these ideas have not convinced you, let us not forget that in sleep, we dream, and our dreams are rich fodder for our creativity. So how do we get ourselves a good night’s sleep? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Are you getting enough sleep these days? Charlotte Rains Dixon CHARLOTTE RAINS DIXON is the author of Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior. Recursos para escritores. Writer's Muse: Coaching to help writers overcome writer's block, procrastination, and fear - online with Skype or by phone. Literature and Latte.