Writing Life
How to Write Creative Transition Sentences
Creative writers and journalists sometimes have a problem with transitioning smoothly from one paragraph to the other, especially when they are changing the subject. Learning transition sentences is not really that hard. When we hop from topic to topic w/o a transition sentence, we “jar” the reader. While sentence transitions may be the last line…
Read MoreHow to Maximize the Life of Your Articles – Turn Them into Surveys
Calling all publishers, editors, writers, and freelance journalists. It is time to breathe more life into your copy. Turn your articles into living pieces that spark measurable debate, get closer to your readers, and engage their mind and soul – we’re talking revolution. As it was in the beginning Publishers have for many years relied…
Read MoreHow to Write Well and a Lot by Accepting Your Uniqueness
Secret of Productivity Productivity in writing is no rocket science. Here is the secret of how to write both well and a lot: try to accept your uniqueness. That’s perhaps the HARDEST part of writing well. We all do have a different perspective on things – if only we could admit it! But we usually…
Read MoreThe Typical Day of a Successful Writer
Bob Bly is one of the most successful writers I’ve known. He has always been one of my role models as a professional writer. So here is a newsletter that I received from Bob this morning. I liked it so much that I asked his permission to reprint it here. He kindly agreed. Read the…
Read MoreHow to Write Well and a Lot
Writing well and writing a lot are closely linked. Take a look around you. Usually, people who write well write a lot too. And those who cannot write well cannot write anything at all. There does not seem to be a middle ground. There is a reason why that is so. A very good reason.…
Read More10 TWITTER Tools for Writers
Twhirl http://www.twhirl.org/ · runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX · connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts · displays notifications for new messages · shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd) Twitterific http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific · Supports multiple Twitter accounts · Replies and direct messages are displayed inline · Delete…
Read MoreTechnical Book Review – "Letting Go of the Words"
© 2009-2010 Ugur Akinci There are some books that can launch a career. This is one of them. After reading Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works by Janice (Ginny) Redish and digesting its main principles, you can easily put up a web site and start marketing yourself as a “Content Strategist.”…
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Writing Articles – Don’t Jump Tracks without Warning
When writing articles, avoid “jumping tracks” in the middle of your copy by shifting from one topic to another without any advance warning. The result would be confusion on the part of your readers and erosion of trust in your abilities (and perhaps even “good will”) as a writer. If you’re going to shift from…
Read MoreStewart, Cramer, and the Question of Values in Technical Documentation
© Ugur Akinci Did you watch the way Daily Show’s Jon Stewart grilled Mad Money’s Jim Cramer yesterday? It was a trashing well deserved by Jim Cramer in particular, and CNBC in general. As an American citizen who has lost 40% of all his life savings within the last 9 months, I thought it was…
Read MoreA Top Copywriter on the Importance of Loving What You Do
by Bob Bly www.themillionairewriter.com In his book “Confessions of an Advertising Man,” David Ogilvy quotes an old Scottish proverb about happiness: “Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.” The idea is that you should do everything in your power to be happy now, because tomorrow you might not be here. Given…
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