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		<title>A Writing Exercise That Increases Awareness And Description Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practice attaching words to feelings requires time to do. Without a system that helps you monitor that time, the minutes or hours could feel unproductive. With the right exercise, you can then use that time wisely, as well as save you time and frustration. Learning to apply the right words to our six senses is a top ingredient to the mixture of writing. Its language brings the reader into the story. All of us easily know how we feel, or what we&#8217;re seeing (okay, most of the time), what we&#8217;re hearing, smelling, tasting, and sensing, and can usually explain it in 50 words if pushed to do it. But, how do you describe it in one or two words without the pushing? Also, by beginning with good material, the remaining part of the writing process becomes easier. This exercise will help you improve your beginning. This is a simple exercise that you can do anywhere, anytime, in a space of minutes or longer. You can practice Monday mornings in the garden, the doctorÃ­s waiting room, or in the lunchroom. It can last as long as a television commercial (oops those aren&#8217;t short any longer), or you more aggressively with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Article Writing Philosophy &#8211; Do You Have One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a well thought out reason for writing articles? That is most likely your article writing philosophy, but in case you don&#8217;t have one, let me make a few suggestions for developing one. Thousands of articles about writing articles are bouncing all over the internet and the printed media at any given time. Most of these articles are tips and advice, a few are about grammar and clarity and yet others are about subject matter and how to find it. A philosophy for writing articles is none of the above. Simply put an article writing philosophy is not about how you write but why. Although it is acceptable to write articles for publicity or hits to your website it is not the strongest motive. Then there are those who write by researching the most sought after keywords on the net and write articles that lead people to those words, thus to their sites. This also qualifies as a reason to write but only in the most strained sense of the word. Writers are somewhat like preachers, they have a soap box called the printed page and they have a message just like the minister, even if the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ad Copywriting: Building Brand Equity one Word at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah advertisements, those wonderfully adorable little vignettes that come to us at all hours of the day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year. Seventy percent of them are ineffective. Probably more than that actually. And a lot of them can become very annoying. But then there are those ads &#8212; those special ads that stand out and make you say, &#8216;Hey, that was a really good ad!&#8217; For us in the ad and copywriting business, that may happen a little more often, simply because we tend to pay more attention to things that interest us. But, when it happens for you, what do you think it is that is making you take notice? Well an advertisement is obviously an image, coupled with a message (copy). But not all the time. Sometimes it&#8217;s just an image, other times it&#8217;s just copy. But more often than not, it&#8217;s a combination. Well, in this article, we&#8217;re dealing with the Copy aspect. And in my opinion, that&#8217;s the most important part. But then again, I&#8217;m a little biased! Well, anyway, here are some tried and true methods for making sure you have written world-class ad copy that can begin to build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advertising Copywriting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Top Ten ClichÃ©s and Why You Should Avoid Them We&#8217;ve all seen them plenty of times. Frankly, once is too many. Copy clichÃ©s are more likely to put off prospective customers than convince them to buy your product or service. If your advertising copywriter comes up with them, find another advertising copywriter. Here are the worst offenders in the UK &#8211; and the reasons why you should never use them. Expect the unexpected &#8211; This is number one on the list for a reason. It&#8217;s the advertising clichÃ© you&#8217;re most likely to be subjected to and, ironically, it disproves what it&#8217;s actually saying. Think about it. You&#8217;ve seen it so many times, you just know what to expect when you see a phrase like this. Something everyday, so-so and &#8230;.expected. The best just got better &#8211; Are you (and the Advertising Standards Authority) quite sure about that? And what happens when that which got better gets&#8230;even better? Tomorrow&#8217;s xxxxx today &#8211; Just about acceptable when first coined, but soon devalued by overuse &#8211; and the realisation that the accuracy of predictions isn&#8217;t what it used to be. A once in a lifetime opportunity &#8211; Precisely how many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this free email course, I&#8217;ll tell you everything I know about improving your writing, publishing it electronically and in print, and promoting it after the sale. Two questions you should ask: (1) What will it cost me? (2) What does this Michael LaRocca guy know about it? Answer #1 &#8212; It won&#8217;t cost you a thing. The single most important bit of advice I can give you, and I say it often, is don&#8217;t pay for publication. My successes have come from investing time. Some of it was well spent, but most of it was wasted. It costs me nothing to share what I&#8217;ve learned. It costs you nothing to read it except some of your time. Answer #2 &#8212; &#8220;Michael LaRocca has been researching the publishing field for over ten years.&#8221; This quote, from an ezine (electronic newsletter) called Authors Wordsmith, was a kind way of saying I&#8217;ve received a lot of rejections. Also, my &#8220;research&#8221; required 20 years. But in my &#8220;breakout&#8221; year (2000), I finished writing four books and scheduled them all for publication in 2001. Then I spent almost a year as an editor and Author Development Specialist for one of my publishers. After my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An SEO Copywriting Makeover &#8211; Turning &#8216;Not&#8217; Into &#8216;Hot&#8217; (Part 1 of 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Karon Thackston Â© 2003http://www.copywritingcourse.com I recently took on a project for a Web site that sells gas logs that I thought would make an interesting case study. As many people ask me what goes through my mind when I write search engine optimized copy, I took this opportunity to make notes as I wrote. I&#8217;ll now share that information with you so you can make the necessary changes to your own copy. The site had a lot of potential, but in its current state the sales orientation of the index (home) page and the keyword saturation were causing less-than-stellar results for the client. My job was to rewrite the index page (from scratch) in order to boost SE rankings. The Assessment When I first viewed the index page of http://www.eiklorflames.com my first impression was one of curiosity. I wondered why certain approaches were taken. Rather than draw the site visitor in, it gave me the feeling of being pushed away. I also questioned the use of features and benefits on the page. While features were mentioned, they were conveyed through industry jargon with no explanations. (See the original copy at http://www.copywritingcourse.com/Eiklor/EiklorFlames.html.) The product was great, the client obviously understood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple Recipe For Writing Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Write something every day. DISCIPLINE and DEDICATION is the key to eventual writing success, I believe. Also practice makes &#8220;purrfect&#8221;. *Always remember, that getting published takes commitment and hard work. PERSISTENCE and PATIENCE too are vital ingredients in the mix. * Treat your writing as a career, as you would a &#8220;normal&#8221; job. Throw yourself into it with &#8220;gay&#8221; abandon and reckless enthusiasm. * Be open-minded and be open to criticism. As in&#8230; &#8220;This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown away with great force.&#8221; &#8211; Dorothy Parker HOWEVER, other people can give you ideas about your work and be subjective about it. I believe that most people genuinely want to help you get ahead, so don&#8217;t take comments too personally. * Listen to your heart and write about what you love, your PASSIONS &#8211; ideas that &#8220;move you&#8221; and which make you &#8220;tick ock&#8221;. * Learn everything you can about the writing and publishing &#8220;business&#8221;. Also learn about the internet as a tool/medium of online publishing. * Join a writers&#8217; association and/or critique groups. N.B: Believe in yourself. This is THE vitally important ingredient in writing success. You have something unique to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teacher Who Influenced My Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mine was Mrs. Martha Harrison, my eighth grade English teacher. She made us write, and write, and write. She would put a sentence on the blackboard (I used to be the one to clean it..remember that), like &#8220;If A Pencil Sharpener Could Talk&#8221; and make us write a 200 word story about the subject. She also made us create a poem book. Not only did we have to write the poems (they were famous poems like &#8220;Fog&#8221;, &#8220;The Raggedy Man&#8221;, &#8220;The Highwayman&#8221;, and my favorite &#8220;If&#8221;) but we also had to illustrate them. I had got a chemistry set for Christmas, so I mixed up some chemicals and made water colors for mine. My art work wasn&#8217;t pretty but the colors were! I received a 95 for my efforts. What was funny that I have a sister, Linda, that is a year younger than me, so in the eighth grade, she had to do a poem book. Well, Linda wasn&#8217;t into the academic part of school, just the social part. She got my poem book, changed the cover (not the contents written and illustrated by me) and turned it in as her work. Of course Mrs. harrison recognized my handwriting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Your Writing Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Simple Contest with a Strong Message for All Writers: Wake Up Your Writing Spirit The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we&#8217;re getting far more entries than we expected. It&#8217;s because along with entries, we&#8217;re also getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world. I&#8217;ve run a few contests before and received quite a few entries, but I&#8217;ve never been personally emailed and thanked by so many writers. What&#8217;s the difference with this contest? I think the main reason is that the idea actually came from writers. Even though the writers at our company work in publishing, they find it a little sad that there&#8217;s so much focus on writing what can sell instead of writing what truly matters to you. They wanted a contest that would allow people to write whatever they wanted to write. From that idea came Blogfest, a contest designed to encourage all writers to get the project of their dreams done. Unlike most contests, we decided not to offer publication and not to pay the prize for a completed work. Instead, we decided to offer the prizes based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Thoughts On Writing International English</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my &#8220;dime&#8217;s worth&#8221; (see learning &#8220;American English&#8221; , or at least your expressions already) on the subject of writing for an international audience on the world wide web. The Web offers you an opportunity, unique in history, to speak directly to millions of potential customers. Some commentators advise that if you want to be listened to, speak to them &#8220;in their language&#8221;. I only partially agree (but then, I&#8217;m always breaking the rules!)&#8230; When I write articles for &#8220;the international market&#8221; of the net, I don&#8217;t target particular countries and try to adapt my writing style. I&#8217;ve found that people around the world don&#8217;t seem to mind the fact that I may use &#8220;funny&#8221; words or spelling &#8211; small details, like &#8220;s&#8217;s&#8221; instead of &#8220;z&#8217;s&#8221;, color or colour&#8230;as long as the grammar is reasonably correct. I just try to write in my &#8220;natural style&#8221; &#8211; one in which I feel comfortable (seeing I was brought up in South Africa with British English) and suggest you writers do the same. Incidentally, I put this short note at the end of all my articles&#8230; &#8220;PS: Dear Americans, please excuse my British English spelling. Very Colonial! I just write and use [...]]]></description>
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