Got Writers Block? Give It The Elbow With These Sure-fire Tactics
More Writing Articles
The Resource Box: An Important Tool in Article Marketing
As a Success and Wellness Coach, Website Publisher, and owner of an Article Director, I have reaped the benefits of Article Marketing and have found it to be a productive marketing strategy. However, like all forms of marketing, there's a way to do it and do it great. One of the key components which has helped article marketing become a leading and effective marketing tool on the internet is the added advantage of the Author's Resource Box.
Stop smoking during pregnancy
If your spouse is a smoker, it is imperative that she give up cigarettes, at least while she is carrying the baby. Smoking during pregnancy is not a good sign for an unborn baby. Here is a list of the ways in which smoking harms the unborn baby: * It increases the mother's risk of a miscarriage.
Ezine Article Writing Tips - Frankenstein's Writing Tip
If you look for article writing tips by searching online, you will find plenty of tips about the best approach to writing Ezine articles. You will also find advice on "article marketing" and any good ebook about niche marketing will contain references to the importance of writing and distributing articles.
Book Review: "The Next Thing On My List"
I think readers will agree with me that "The Next Thing on My List" is a wonderfully written heartwarming story about a woman's self-discovery that will have you hooked from the very first page. Jill Smolinski knows and understands her audience and delivers a winner with her second novel. The story centers around a 34-year-old woman, June Parker, who is living aimlessly and without passion.
Book Review: "through The Eyes Of A Survivor"
"I have told this story to Colette for many reasons. I want people to understand what happened during World War II, to know what was done to us Jews for no reason at all, other than that we happened to be Jewish. I also want young people to learn from the things I did in my life that allowed me to survive.
The Art of Interviewing
For me, the heart of research has always been the ability to elicit information from others. For years, it never occurred to me to go to the library or rummage through magazines or official documents. If I wanted to know about something, I found experts on that subject and tried to crawl inside their minds, to cram everything they would tell me into whatever time they would give me, and to understand things about which I knew absolutely nothing.
Why a Writer Needs People Skills (and how to develop them)
Writing is often perceived as a solitary process. While there is some truth to that perception, it is only half the picture. I think many people actually visualize writers as holed up in our little garrets, shut off from the world, waiting patiently for inspiration to strike. Needless to say, that is a fairy tale, though -- as a freelance writer who spends a great deal of time in one room, on one chair, doing one thing -- on some days, I do feel a bit shut off from the world.
Waiting for the inspiration for a story that just won't come? Got a deadline to meet and your muse has gone on strike? Fire the muse and use these easy tactics to fire your imagination instead.
Do this right now: Go to the mirror, look yourself boldly in the eye and say with as much conviction as you can muster "I am a writer! This is just a temporary hiccup in the great digestive system of life. I vow to be burp free from this moment on".
Now, don't you feel better already?
OK. So let's take a look at two ways I've used to get over this problem in the past. At least one of them should work for you. Try and treat these methods as a game so that you begin to enjoy them, and often your heart will go into it as well as your head.
Method 1 - Talk Rubbish
Rubbish? No, I haven't lost my marbles. This method works like a charm.
What has happened is that your imagination has gone into a sulk. So what we need to do is get it off its derry air and working again.
Begin to write words and phrases, any words, any phrases, just as they come into your head. Don't censor them in any way, just let them flow. Like this:
Flypaper, astronaut, Kentish Town, lucky parsnip, crystal glass, stapler, weekend away, Morris dancing ...
Now we use the writers five good friends What, Where, Why, When & How.
Example: What was the flypaper doing? Falling off the hook.
Why was it falling? Because Tiddles had climbed onto the wall cabinet and knocked it off.
Where did it land? Onto the mortgage acceptance document rendering it useless.
When did the mortgage acceptance form have to be in? Tomorrow at 12 noon.
How did Mrs Huggaby of Plot 12, Buena Vista Caravan Park work through the problem to success? Or failure? (Maybe because it was the wrong house for her/them.)
Now we're up and running and we can take Mrs H along her exciting and emotional journey to a breathtaking and satisfying conclusion.
Start with any WWWWH question and work through one stage at a time until you've got a result that could be a goer. If the first word in your list doesn't go anywhere, try the next and so on.
Method 2 - Fantasy rubbish This is an extention of the previous exercise but this time we write down short sentences where something is HAPPENING. There must be movement going on to get your inner visual imagination into gear.
For example:
Delores watched the balloon bump languidly into the ice cream van...
or:
The F15 fighter plane roared through the valley sending sheep and cattle fleeing...
As for single words, just think of any old sentence, no matter how silly, and don't stop until you've got half a dozen or so down on paper.
Now begin to ask the questions. What, where, why, when and how.
Take the first example. What happens when the balloon hits the ice cream van? Does the dashing young ice cream vendor catch it and hand it back to the blushing Delores? Does a small child, trying to catch it, rush across the road in front of on-coming traffic? Does the balloon burst and frighten a dear old granny buying an ice cream, causing her to drop it?
Not earth shattering story lines I know, but they would make a start - and that's what we're trying to do, make a start. Just keep developing the original incident until you've got the germ of a plot going.
So, there you have it. I hope these block-busters (sorry) will come to your aid and help you get that story started!
About the Author
Mervyn Love is both a creative writer and a writer of articles on the subject of writing. His website http://www.WritersReign.co.uk has a selection of resources, articles, competition listings and links which will benefit any writer from the aspiring to the well published. Subscribe to the WritersReign Article Writing course here: http://www.writersreign.co.uk/WRac.html
Source: Writing Articles on ArticlesTree.com
Recent Writing Articles
Find Names For Your Characters the Easy Way
We've all been there. You know she's called Sandie or Kaylee or some other cool name but can't for the life of you find a suitable surname. You've wrung your hands to the bone, you've drunk the midnight oil, but still a good solid name won't come.
Zooba Book Club - The Good And The Not So Good
Zooba Book Club: Introduction When asked about what would it take to improve the membership experience, an average book club member - or potential member - usually brings up two things: scratch the "negative option" marketing method and give us free shipping.
Articles available in less then 20 minutes
Articles available in less then 20 minutes By Joseph Parish One of our writers once inquired as to the possibility of creating quality articles in a matter of less then 30 minutes. I proceeded to inform them that it was totally possible within certain limitations.
Borrowed Poetry: A Poetry Scavenger Hunt
Borrowed poetry is my own term for the type of poem that is created by scavenging for bits of sentences or phrases from other sources. When done correctly, it is far from plagiarism. Instead, borrowed poetry pays homage, brings new life, or it can bring an added depth to the words of others.
Article Marketing Will Help You Gain Attention To Your Site
The concept of Article Marketing is brand-new to most people. The shift from the original foundation of the Internet to what is now being called "Web 2.0" has caused landmark changes in advertising and marketing.
Article Marketing - Efficient Way To Increase Website Traffic
Article marketing is an invaluable tool used to generate traffic to your website. If you are new to article marketing, it is the process of composing articles and submitting them with links back to your website, to Internet article reprint directories.
Article Marketing: A Unique Concept Of Online Marketing
There are hundreds of methods for web site promotion. However, most of these methods would definitely cost hundreds of dollars. To be successful in the field of electronic commerce, web site promotion is crucial.
Article Marketing And Generating Web Traffic
Article marketing is an exploding concept. It has made it a thrill to go to newly created sites and pick up brand new bits of fresh information. Columns are generally brief and frequently provide knowledge you can put to good use.
A Good Article writing technique I discovered by accident
The first thing you should know is that, this article that you are reading was written using the technique I mention in this article. When I was browsing through some articles on the web I had a feeling that these guys can do a lot better suddenly I had a chain of thoughts.
The 7 Deadly Sins Authors Make... And How To Avoid Them
The most recent data I've seen says that 99% of authors make less than $50,000. Sad but true. Want to find out how to end up in the 1% who make more? Keep reading and avoid these "deadly" sins that most authors make.
Got Writers Block? Give It The Elbow With These Sure-fire Tactics
Waiting for the inspiration for a story that just won't come? Got a deadline to meet and your muse has gone on strike? Fire the muse and use these easy tactics to fire your imagination instead. Do this right now: Go to the mirror, look yourself boldly in the eye and say with as much conviction as you can muster "I am a writer! This is just a temporary hiccup in the great digestive system of life.
Joel Comm's Path To Next Internet Millionaire
Joel Comm created the world's first online reality show, The Next Internet Millionaire, on which contestants vied for the opportunity to work in a joint venture with him. Just a few years ago, he was an aspiring author with an idea for a book that would launch his business.
Article Marketing: An Online Money Maker
Selling articles is a type of advertising that is now universal and trendy among online businesses. Firms have been created solely to provide unique articles with
Article Marketing: Make The Web Work For You
The Internet offers lots of opportunities to earn money at home by taking advantage of article marketing. This would be excellent for writers or people who have been laid off from their regular jobs. It would be ideal if you could accept an assignment from an editor with an arranged payment schedule, but that's not how it works anymore.
How To Self Publish A Book On A Tiny Budget
Can you make hundreds of thousands of dollars by starting with a small budget? If you're writing and publishing a book you can. Self publishing is one of the best ways to make incredible profits and it doesn't have to cost you an arm and a leg to publish a very professional and impressive product.