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How many times have you stared at a blank page, deadline looming, and felt the trickles of sweat on your forehead? Or cringed at the thought of writing a thesis, term paper, business proposal, or status report? Or dreamt of writing a book, novel or screenplay, but pushed it aside as “too difficult; it would take forever”? Alright. Enough procrastinating. Let’s cut through the waste and nail down the solution, right here, right now.
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I stumbled upon an interesting article today about writing a name in chinese characters. There is no such thing as a chinese alphabet, so how can your name be written in chinese? It works this way: someone who knows Chinese will pick up the characters which sounds like your name, or closest to it. As the article explains:

“Now how does this work in reality? As you may imagine, the Chinese read the news of the world in Chinese and when, say, Bill Gates visits China, they write his name in Chinese. They use two words which sound like “gai” and “ci” (pronounced together as “gaitsu”) for his surname and “bi” and “er” (pronounced together as “beer”) for his first name. So his name in Chinese is Bier Gaici (beer gaitsu). All of these 4 characters originally have a meaning but it becomes irrelevant as soon as they are used for a foreign name.”

By Laura J. Thompson

Disciplining yourself to write isn’t an easy task, but you’ll get better at it with time. The trick to this is creating a writing schedule which forces you to write every day. If you don’t have a schedule, you’ll wind up watching television, reading books and surfing the Internet rather than creating your latest story or article.

The problem that many writers face is that there are only twenty-four hours in a day. You have to set aside time to sleep, eat, socialize with your family and go to your day job, if you have one. This leaves precious few hours to actually write, which is why you have to examine your typical day and determine when it will be most convenient to write.
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By Judy Cullins

You are far more likely to successfully write and publish your book if you follow these tips before you write a single chapter.

1. Write your book’s working title. It helps you focus and answer the readers’ questions about the topic. Most non- fiction has subtitles as well. It’s better to be clear than clever, but clever and clear are fine. _Passion At Any Age: Twelve Ways to Unleash It_, _Self-Promotion for the Creative Person_, _Quadruple your book’s Online Sales in Less Than One Month_.

2. Write your book’s thesis. A thesis is a sentence or so stating the audience’s main problem and how your book will solve it. Knowing the thesis before you write the book keeps you on track. All chapters should support it. The thesis could be “Each of you has passion and you can unleash it through these twelve steps.”
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By Mike Pavlish

Successful website copywriting is very different than traditional copywriting.

Based on what actually works best –and does not work– from writing dozens of websites for our clients, here are our Top 10 website copywriting secrets. If you apply them, your website will be a major marketing success for your business and its bottom line.
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By Steve Manning

Here’s a string of tips on writing a book. They’re brief, succinct and very useful. These tips on writing a book have been designed to get you up and writing your book as quickly as possible.

They’ll help you start writing, continue writing and finish writing your book. Your manuscript will be ready for the agent, or the publisher, or on its way to self publishing success.
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By Linda Correli

The whole point of writing is to create something a great deal better than we “really” talk – a great deal more interesting, more thoughtful, and more effective in every way – but to make it sound as natural and effortless as talk. What can help us? Only one thing – the rhythm of speech. This is the one thing we can borrow from it, the one thing we must borrow if our written words are ever to achieve an air of naturalness.

All spoken language, no matter who the speaker may be or what his subject is, has a natural rhythm. We hear this rhythm, wherever we hear talk. Rhythm is the way how the writing sounds. “It is considered to be a delicate and subtle aspect of writing, which is felt deep inside, and is actually, quite tough to teach.” Michele Pariza Wacek
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By Dana Goldberg

Writing is something that everyone can enjoy! Writing is freeing and fun and exciting, if you really let your imagination go writing can take you to places that you have never been before. The world would be a sad and empty place without good writer to cheer it up!

If you are having trouble starting to write all you need to do is sit down and do it. Do not worry about writing well, just write anything that comes to mind. This kind of free flowing thinking is a great way to get the old writing muscles working. You can always go over things and edit later, or just throw out that bit of writing but it will get your imagination flowing like it needs to in order to be a successful writer.
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By Sophfronia Scott

Writing a book is a huge endeavor. It means someone has decided to dedicate a certain amount of time to putting words on paper. But so many people don’t finish what they start. Maybe they’ve run out of ideas. Maybe they lost interest. Maybe they got hopelessly stuck. However I believe the core of all these issues lies in one thing: the writer doesn’t know why he or she is writing in the first place.

All you have to do before you venture into the ever-tangled writing forest is leave a few breadcrumbs behind so you’ll know how you got there and you’ll know the way out! Lay them out by asking yourself the following questions about your work. Use them to challenge yourself, to get inspired, to put your writing front and center in your life. It’s hard to get lost when you know exactly where you are.
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By Deanna Mascle

Every writer can benefit from a study of the effectiveness of their individual writing process. You can write more and you can write better by making some adjustments in your writing strategy.

Recently one of my writer friends complained about their declining word output.

“I spend more time at the computer than I ever did before and I’m just not producing like I used to,” she griped.
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