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How To Add Colour To A Grey Day
June 9th, 2008 |The winner of Ted Demopoulos: Secrets of a Successful Blogging System digital audiobook with What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting (in which Meryl appears) from Write Funny: 3 Timeless Rules of Comedy That Every Writer Should Learn entry as selected by Random.org… {eDrum roll}… comment #1! Congratulations, Mathew Patterson! This entry’s prize comes [...]
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Elephants and Our English Language
June 6th, 2008 |My mom sent me this joke (have yet to see proof this is a true story) and it’s making its way around inboxes everywhere. Regardless, it makes me laugh. Some five-year old students are learning to read. Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said, “Look at this! It’s a [...]
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Links: 2008-06-06
June 6th, 2008 |Add Spark to Your Writing with These 3 Simple Tweaks: I shy away from sentences where I use repeating words even though a comma separates them. This convinced me otherwise. So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Four part article with advice from the pros. [...]
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Write Funny: 3 Timeless Rules of Comedy That Every Writer Should Learn
June 3rd, 2008 |The prize of the day is from Ted Demopoulos: Secrets of a Successful Blogging System digital audiobook with What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting (in which Meryl appears). Leave a comment with at least 30 words (to ensure they provide value) by June 7 and you’ll get an entry to win [...]
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Links: 2008-05-30
May 30th, 2008 |Stay out of the Recession with Email Marketing A New Game! What happens when self-published books skip the editing process. [Link: Lori Cates] 70 Million Definitions of “Blog” and Counting: I love an intelligent discussion and this is one. Friday Word Fun: [...]
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WSJ’s Confusing Email Subscription Page
May 28th, 2008 |< p style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 8pt; width: 160px”> The suspect: The confusing WSJ subscription page. Click to view larger. Wall Street Journal meant well when its staff created the email center page. I like that it has all the e-mail subscriptions on for managing. When a resource has multiple e-mail newsletters, listing all of [...]
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Links: 2008-05-16
May 16th, 2008 |Small Business Administration Free Online Courses Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers. 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event [...]
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How to Show Something Is Really Yours
May 10th, 2008 |Just had to share this grammar blooper from PC Magazine’s Mother’s Day article. Perhaps, the magazine wanted to emphasize Mom belongs to you in superlative terms. Of course, I wanted to know what gadgets they recommended for us geeky moms.
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Links: 2008-05-02
May 2nd, 2008 |10 Clever Ways to Wow Your Clients Are You Approaching Freelancing All Wrong? The Only 12 1/2 Writing Rules You’ll Ever Need poster. Should get this for my office. Actually have wall space. [Link: Deb Ng] Four Ways to Target Online Buyers [...]
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Links: 2008-04-18
April 18th, 2008 |Five Words You Can Cut: Blogged about this in the past… cut modifiers such as “really, very, much” is a good start. I use “just,” but more to add “conversation” to writing. If it’s an article or something formal, I omit it. [Link: John] 35 Essential Elements for [...]
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