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Aug | 26 | 2008

A Closer Look At Proofreading

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorials News We have talked about editing and proofreading several times – we just cannot emphasize this enough. Sometimes, however, our proofreading does not work. This could be due to a variety of reasons. So here are some tips that could help you proofread your work more effectively. Concentrate Sometimes, when you edit your work, you tend to be lax and your mind wanders. This could be due to tiredness – after all, you just spun out several hundred words. Still, if you want a clean piece of work, then you have to focus on your task tightly. ...

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Aug | 24 | 2008

How Do You Start Your Posts?

Posted by Jimmy as Tips, Writing The headline or title is the most important part of a blog post. At least that is what some people say. However, as important as the headline or title of a post is, you cannot discount the other parts and one other very important part is your opening line (or lines for that matter). How do you open your blog post? Remember, though you may have hooked readers due to your great headline, you still have to be able to keep them engaged with your opening line. That is how important it is. One of my favorite ways ...

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Aug | 23 | 2008

The Active And Passive Voice

Posted by Jimmy as Tips, Writing It’s ok, don’t panic. We are not going back to grades school English grammar lessons. I just thought that it would be good to have a refresher post on this topic as it would make a big difference on your writing. So which is which? The active voice is the sentence structure wherein the subject actually does the action. Here are some examples of sentences in the active voice: The girl hit her brother. The girl is the subject and she performs the action, which is to hit. Writers have expressed their concerns to the authorities. Writers is the subject and ...

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Aug | 20 | 2008

Some Commonly Confused Words

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Good blogging is good writing. I have said that many times and stand by it. If you remember, I posted something on the difference between entitled and titled. To refresh your memory, entitled means to give someone the right to something while titled means having the title of (such as books, movies, and other works). In this post, let us look at a couple more pairs of commonly confused words. Affect versus effect Sometimes we see or hear one word being used instead of the other. This could be due to the fact that sometimes, when ...

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Aug | 16 | 2008

Finding Time To Write (Part 3)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Still don’t have enough time to write even with the tips we have been looking at for the past two blog posts? Well don’t fret, here are several more things that I have in mind that might just help you out. Make your lunch break more productive The average employee has 1 hour for lunch. Think about it, though, do you really need an hour to eat lunch every day? Perhaps two or three times a week, you can spend a shorter time for eating lunch. What you can do instead is to spend the remaining part of ...

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Aug | 15 | 2008

Finding Time To Write (Part 2)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Have you tried setting your alarm a bit earlier than usual yet? Did it work? I suppose that it also involves some sort of discipline on your part. I remember how many times I have set my alarm only to actually get up an hour after it goes off. So anyway, here are more ideas to help you find the time to write. Write on the road Now this tip will only work in certain cases. If you take the train to work or someone else drives for you, then you can spend the minutes on the ...

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Aug | 12 | 2008

Finding Time To Write

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing You can be the best writer in the world but if you cannot find time to write, how can you be productive? Not all bloggers are doing it full time. In fact, there are probably only a few who really do blog full time. Most bloggers I know actually have day jobs and very busy lives. As such, there are times when they simply have no time for writing. I know this kind of situation very well as I am one of those bloggers. As much as I want to spend all of my time writing ...

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Aug | 10 | 2008

More Secrets To Writing GREAT Headlines

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing In the last post, we took a look at some tips that we could use when writing headlines. I got the idea from Ben Yoskovitz over at Instigator Blog. The first two points that we talked about are using top [something] lists and being braver in writing headlines. Here are a couple more. Use Available Tools. Now is not the time to be a hero. When you’re trying to think of another word for “good” and your brain is saying “zzzz…” check out the thesaurus. Develop habits for helping yourself write so you can rely on ...

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Aug | 04 | 2008

The Secrets To Writing GREAT Headlines

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion, Tips, Writing Coming up with great headlines is not an easy thing to do. In fact, there are people who find this endeavor one of the hardest parts of writing. I think it’s time to make a confession – I am one of those people. That is why I continuously do research on how to come up with titles that would be better each time. I ran across a very inspiring and useful post at Instigator Blog titled “How to Write Eye-Popping Headlines while Exhausted.” Ben Yoskovitz outlined several tips that I find really useful. Take a ...

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Jul | 30 | 2008

Do You Write Too Slowly? (Part 3)

Posted by Jimmy as Blog Tutorial, Opinion, Tips, Writing Here is the last installment for this mini-series. In the last two posts, we talked about making an outline and then just letting all the words flow without editing first. What else can you do to help you speed up your writing? Time yourself This is particularly useful for those people who work under pressure. Are you the type of person who performs better when he/she is cramming? I know a lot of people like this. They would normally wait until the last minute to do their project and then when crunch time arrives, they would deliver ...

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