Tag: Writing

Waiting for Writing Success? Here’s Some Encouragement!

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Results, Now! is a book by education writer, Mike Schmoker. The title was intended to motivate and encourage educators of diverse learners. The title, however, is applicable to my subject today because Results, Now! is how so many of us feel about our blogs and our books. We’ve put in a lot of work and we want […]

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Create a Crave and Give Your Characters an Added Dimension

.Reading time 7 minutes.

I love a pretty shoe. Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, and Christian Louboutin—they light up my eyes and cause my heart to race. I walk into a fine department store, head for the shoe section, and just breathe in the new shoe air. My eyes caress the soft leather and stroke the many colors. Sometimes, I […]

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How to Write a Biography Your Readers Will Love

.Reading time 4 minutes.

So you’re writing a biography. Why? Ohhh, because your subject is interesting. She was a pioneer at what she did and her story deserves to be told. Sorry, that doesn’t make her interesting to me? I hope your subject struggled to be who she was. I hope she battled herself and the disbelieving, disapproving world to reach her heights! Is […]

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Stop! Have You Quoted Your Source?

.Reading time 4 minutes.

We’ve all failed to cite a source at one time or another, whether intentional or not. That omission has not always been relegated just to text. Bloggers are voracious readers and at some point we’ve discovered an article or book and right away wanted to share a golden nugget from it with our own audience. While it was […]

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