Writing, while considered an everyday skill, can be daunting. It requires skill, patience and a lot of attention to detail. At some point, you are so tired that you cannot be sure that you are not making mistakes your tired mind cannot pick. Even when you are at your most active, you need to ensure...
Writing a relatable and successful children’s book is a dream that many authors hold close to their hearts. After all, there are few other types of writing capable of producing nearly as much sheer joy as a children’s book. Of course, children’s books are a lot of fun to create, and can be incredibly lucrative...
If you want to write a book that is impossible to put down, focus on writing powerful dialogue between your characters. Today we’ll share 6 important tips for how to write dialogue that will help your readers create a strong bond to your characters and your story. Tip #1: Know Your Characters When you know...
Notable errors cut across the use of punctuation marks, numbers, formatting and spelling, grammar andstyle. This article is aimed at drawing our attention to them so as to avoid repeating these errors as we continue with our formal writings. Punctuation: Quotation In quotation, comma (,) and full stop (.) come before the closing quotation mark...
Writing in the 21st Century With digital technology and, especially Web 2.0, it seems, writers are everywhere—on bulletin boards and in chat rooms and in emails and in text messages and on blogs responding to news reports and, indeed, reporting the news themselves as I-reporters. Such writing is what Deborah Brandt has called self-sponsored writing:...
1. Know the Rules This doesn’t mean to simply remember what you learned — or what you think you learned — five or fifty years ago. Careful writers continuously educate and reeducate themselves about grammar, syntax, usage, and style. In preparing to write my posts over the last few years, I have engaged in extensive...
Editing, specifically book editing, is simply the conception, planning and specifying of the contents of a book, in cooperation with the author, for the purpose of transmitting the author’s message to the reader in the best, most satisfying and most profitable way possible (Festus Adesanoye). The editor’s main role is that of an experienced intermediary...
Are you worried about writing articles? Not Sure where to begin? Have a tight deadline to meet? Then this blog on 10 great writing tips for producing articles is just for you – and it contains a bonus! It Shouldn’t Be a Chore Writing articles and blogs can sometimes feel like a chore but...
You will be surprised how some people can judge you based on your writing skills; you could be looked upon as stupid, or as a genius, on account of how well or poorly you write. In order to be on the good side of how people view you as a writer, it is important for...
Are you a romantic person? Would you like to express your love to your Val/loved ones through affectionate words or with a poem? If that is the case, here are few poetry ideas and love quotes you can send to your Val/loved ones: Poems: Elizabeth Barrett Browning I love you not only for what you...
