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i Need Some ideas on How to start it off.. The emotion i want to use is sad,like say i’v just lost someone i love & the memories on how we used to come on this beach.. how things have changed.Pleasee Helpp me start x
- x.Sh33na.x

If you must have to advertise and write articles on the net you have to do it right. The art of persuasion is by and large carrying out a win-win situation. It is presenting an instance that visitors find favorable to agree with. It is making them an offer they can hardly refuse. Article marketing which can spawn higher tick through rates and lower cost per tick.

1) As in anything there are techniques that can make your job easier and your case more convincing. Although there are exactly no hard and fast rules there are strategies that are used commonly because they simply work.

2) Before anything else, know your audience. It is significant that you have targeted the right audience. Know their knowledge level because people who are able to understand what you are driving at can easily adapt your ideas.

3) Choose a topic that you feel comfortable with. It can be a topic or article which feels good when it can help others that may have struggled with the same problem.

4) Be repetitive. It is essential in creative writing. Repetition gives emphasis. This way a reader can easily understand what you are trying to say. Be repetitive in a good way. It could either be through an example, using a story, or quoting a famous person.

5) The figures of speech like metaphors, similes and analogies can be a writer’s best friends. Comparisons can make it easier for the readers to recognize the picture you are painting. It is like being in common grounds. There is nothing strange or something the readers are not familiar with.

6) Use power words that agitate and stir opinions. Your words have to be emotion-ridden. But at the same time they give solution as an answer that things will be better. These are words that eventually provoke response. But you have to make sure that the specific phrase has something to do with your business. Make every word count.

7) Consistency in ideas shows integrity and rational actions. Being consistent would make it difficult for the reader not to agree with you. It has been established in sociology books that consistency in our thoughts and actions is a valid social trait.

Connect to the future. Provide your readers with a glimpse of what is to come. Try to extrapolate recent events into probable future results. Here is where your credibility stands. If you are able to back up with remarkable credentials and obvious understanding of the subject matter, this will become a powerful technique of persuasion.

9) Never bother with commercials in your article. Your readers are humans who have al the right to benefit from your article. With the use of the resource box don’t fill it with commercials. This will establish your credibility as an expert author on your chosen topic.

10) As much as possible make your article short. Let your ideas flow naturally in clear and short article. Write an attention-grabbing title and give it away for free. Make an alliance with others and encourage them to give your e-book as bonus for their paid products.


- irinaM

No matter how fantastic the short story you have written may be, without a catchy title the chances are good that an editor will not read it. The title is the most important part of the story as this is what first captures the reader’s attention.

A good title should grab the reader and make them wonder what the story is about. A bad title will probably cause the reader to skip the story altogether. This holds true when submitting your stories for publication. Editors are busy people and will pass on the story, often without reading the first sentence, if your title doesn’t capture their interest.

The title of your story will tell the editor a lot about your creativity. If your title is strong, an editor will be more likely to look at your story with a positive attitude.

So how do you come up with a good title? Below is a small list of tips to help you come up with an attention grabbing title.

1. Keep it short, no more than four or five words. Even two or three word titles are generally more than enough. If you can come up with a single word that conveys something about your story, even better.

2. Avoid boring titles. Don’t name your story something like ‘The Monster’ or ‘The Sea’ as these are dull and boring, and too generalized. Instead, try for something that evokes emotion. ‘Under the Bed’ would be a good title for a scary story and ‘High Tides’ works better for a story based on the ocean.

3. Make sure your title fits your genre. Don’t name a whodunit with a title that could be confused with a romance story.

4. Make your title easy to remember. This is another reason to keep the title short. Use your creativity to come up with something catchy that relates to the theme, the action, or the characters of the story. A memorable title allows your readers to recommend your story to others.

5. Research the title you come up with. Although titles are not copyrighted, you don’t want your story confused with another story of the same name. They can be similar without being exact.

So how do you spark your creativity to come up with the perfect title for your story? The following are a handful of ways to awaken your muse.

a. A short line of dialogue or a memorable sentence from your story can sometimes be the right choice.

b. A common phrase or expression can often be found that sums up the theme of your story. Or use a play on words, where only one element of the phrase is changed.

c. Borrow a line from an established work. Look at Shakespeare, the Bible or other well known book, song or movie.

d. Use one your main characters’ names. Think along the lines of ‘Tom Sawyer’ or Stephen King’s ‘Christine’.

e. Likewise, your title can be your setting. Think of Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Space, etc…

f. A good title can convey the main idea of your story. ‘Misery’ or ‘Legends of the Fall’ are good examples.

g. Use word association to link together elements of the story.

h. Allow the action to determine the name. By adding an ‘ing’ to the first word, you can come up with a catchy title. Some examples of this could be Chasing Rainbows or Dreaming Life Away.

Often, you can spend hours coming up with a title only to have the editor change it after accepting the story for publication. Sometimes the new title will make little sense to you. While you may think your title is perfect, the editor knows the publication’s readers well and may think the alternative is a better choice. And while this may irk your ego, knowing the story will be published is its own reward.

However you come up with the title to your short story, remember it is the first impression the editor will have about your writing abilities. Like the logline to a screenplay or the first paragraph of a novel, the title should represent the story they are about to read. At the end of the day, you want the editor to remember your story and place it in the ‘accepted for publication’ stack on their desk.


- Kristy Taylor

Okay, so we have to find a poem or passage from a book to interpret for our speech class. We have to read the poem/passage in front of the class and give it “emotion”, etc… It has to be 2-3 min long, so any ideas would help. Thnx in advance.
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I know you use italicizing for showing character’s thoughts, or expressing a lot of emotion or emphasis on a certain word or phrase, but what about bold and underlined?
- punk1rocker23

Everyone, even the most successful of writer’s, goes through writers block at some point or another. It’s hard enough to write when you have a muse, so what happens without one?

 

Experts relate this mental block of creativity to a subconscious sense of fear - fear of the unknown or a lack of courage to submit to the flow of your extensive imagination. Either way, your rather theatrical slump needs to be wrestled with - and soon! Time is always of the essence so let’s take a look at a few quick tips that may help you out…

 

*Keep a journal - Simple as it may sound, when you keep a daily journal of your thoughts and feelings, you force yourself to write each day. Remember, this writing is just for you, so don’t fuss with spelling and grammar – take the liberty to put yourself on paper.

 

*Reflect - Find a quiet place, sit comfortably and close your eyes. Think of an emotion -any emotion- and then reflect on your strongest memory of that emotion. Now observe that emotion as the mature writer that you have become…finding the space between objectivity and subjectivity. Now when you’re done, try and write out your experience.

 

*Move out of your work space – The environment in which your creative juices flow becomes crucial to your movement out of writers block. It may be a good idea to move out of your usual writing space and forget about your pc for a while. For example;  take a walk, sit in your garden or even lay in a bath for hours – just remember to take paper and a pen along with you…you will never know what may catch you off guard.

 

*Get exotic – Hire a foreign film that you have never seen before, in a language that you don’t understand. Watch it without subtitles. Then write out what you think the story line is. This is rather fun, and it gets you writing from your own perception. When you’re done, watch the film again with the subtitles (just for the heck of it).

 

Hopefully these simple steps will help you to get cracking on your keyboard once again. If not, at least you would have discovered how to be your own muse.

 

When you’ve finally worked around your writers block, finishing your creative masterpiece, you might want to track your titles’ sales and have your title promoted? If so, simply visit www.ranktracer.com for more info.






- Elodie