Finding Your Writing Voice

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As a blogger, I’ve been writing online for seven years. In that time, I’ve had a chance to write posts, short articles, an ebook, and publish a mystery novel. In each one of my writing projects, I’ve had to create and refine a particular writing “voice.” To develop my voice, I found that reading and [...]

Is Your Writing Holding You Back Online? Five Quick Ways to Improve

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This is a guest post by Ali Luke. She is a writer and writing coach, and blogs about writing on her site Aliventures. You can find her on Twitter as @aliventures, where she’s always happy to answer questions about writing. Although podcasts and videos are becoming more and more popular online, we still live in [...]

Weekly Highlights

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This was our fourth theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was metaphor, but it really should have been about blogging frequency. The week ended with an important creative decision on my part. Theme: Metaphor The week started out with a fundamental argument on blogging. It boiled down to this. Should I blog [...]

Writing A Manifesto

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Have you ever wanted to take an idea and really run with it? Take the thought and research it thoroughly? Create an outline, with lots of bullet points. I know I have. When the idea takes shape, the real fun comes in… You want to share it with the world. I’ve wanted to do this [...]

Three Things Every Writer Needs

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While I have been putting the initial outlines together for my new book, I’ve been trying some new things to organize my thoughts and put together the pieces to start writing. I’ve had a great experience with Evernote, to capture all my ideas in one place, accessible from the cloud on most almost all of [...]

Stop Telling Me!

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What? You always tell me what’s wrong. You tell me what he did or she did. You tell me what time it is and what I should be doing right now… Tell, Tell, Tell. I’m tired of you telling me stuff!!! Instead, when you are speaking or writing, I want you to show me stuff. [...]