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All of us are capable of being highly creative, it’s the way we were born, our natural state.

Think about how curious a child is in its early years, how much it wants to explore and find out and investigate.

Unfortunately the majority of us have lost these creativity and curiosity tendencies by the time we become adults.

But it’s never too late to regain them.

Through creative writing we can go a long way to explore our creative potential and express the ideas we have.

But even if you’re a regular creative writer yourself, it’s unlikely you’re actually achieving anywhere near your potential.

Why?

Here are 5 reasons why you may not be reaching YOUR creative writing potential:

1. You’re afraid of being left out or excluded. Being part of a social group or community is a very strong human need. If for example you’re in a creative writing class and your writing is obviously on a different level to everyone else’s, there’s the fear you might be seen as “having it easy” and be resented by others in the class. So you tone down your writing and write well within your capabilities.

2. You just don’t believe you’re very creative. Even if you’re the most naturally gifted writer in the world, unless you have a strong belief in yourself and your abilities, you’ll always hold yourself back. Even if you have encouragement from others, you’ll never achieve more than you BELIEVE you can achieve. So to achieve more, work on those beliefs.

3. You haven’t found the right form of expression. If you’re more naturally inclined to be a novelist and all you’ve written is poetry, you might have always struggled in your writing. Experiment with different forms of creative writing, give each time to develop, and find the ones that you feel most comfortable and most expressive in.

4. You don’t know what it’s like to achieve. Maybe in your life you’ve never had a role model or example of what it’s like to push yourself, to stretch yourself towards achieving your natural creative potential. So for you, underachieving, and playing it safe, is the only way you know how to be.

5. You’re scared of failing. On the surface you tell yourself you don’t have time to write more, or you don’t have the correct set up, and other excuses. But really, you’re just scared of writing more, and exploring your creative writing abilities, because you don’t want to fail. The only true failure is not giving it your best shot in the first place.

These are 5 common reasons why we don’t achieve our creative writing potential.

Which do you most relate to? Be completely honest with yourself, which of them can you recognise in yourself?

The next step, once you’ve recognised why you’re not reaching your creative potential, is to start taking action to get you closer to it.

You can take the next step now and sign up for your FREE 5 part youareacreativewriter.com creative writing ecourse at youareacreativewriter.com www.YouAreACreativeWriter.Com.

Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are struggling to be as creative as they know they can be. See more at his website: CoachCreative.com CoachCreative.com

Dan Kennedy is a freelance copywriter who is regarded as a hero by many of us in the copywriting profession. And for good reason, my copy of his book, The Ultimate Sales Letter, is highlighted, bookmarked and contains many, many of my handwritten notes in the margins. It is one of the best books on copywriting I own. Someday maybe I can even have his autograph in it.

One piece of advice Dan gives has paid me back many times the cost of his book in my work as a freelance copywriter. Not only is it a highly effective way to increase your credibility in the eyes of your reader, it can also help you hold a reader’s attention and it can position your product or service as the owner of its own niche.

As a credibility tool, this bit of Dan’s wisdom has few equals. When you incorporate this technique in your ad copy, it immediately sets you apart from the crowd of “we’re great,” or “our widget is the best” marketers.

As a tool for grabbing a reader’s attention and holding it through your copy, this technique uses both curiosity and self interest. It heightens the reader’s sense that some very strong benefits are about to be revealed that can’t be missed.

As a positioning tool, it helps you create your own category. No longer must you fight with the big fish in the pond. You can now own your own pond and be the only fish for miles around.

What is this wonderful piece of advice? Dan devotes an entire chapter to the concept of “Create A Damaging Admission and Address Flaws Openly.”

Let’s face it, your widget may really be the best on the planet, but it still has its flaws or weaknesses. Not only that, your competitor’s widget is not all bad, with no positive points worth mentioning.

So what do you do? You meet these weaknesses head on. If your product is priced higher than your competitor’s, admit it right up front. But then marry that drawback with a corresponding positive. Why is your product more expensive? What extras come with that higher price tag? What reasons can you give prospective buyers to ignore the higher price and focus on additional benefits they won’t get with a lower priced competing product?

Build honesty and credibility. On rare occasions, I have actually heard politicians praise their opponents (I did say this was rare) and then point out the issues upon which they disagree. When I hear this sort of political discourse, I have several reactions.

First, I find myself experiencing warm feelings toward this rare politician who takes the higher ground, even though I know his campaign workers may be, at that very moment, digging up dirt on that opposing politician).

Second, I find that I give the point of disagreement much more importance than I would otherwise. By admitting a few things he or she liked about the opponent, I am made to care more about those differences.

For marketers, when you do reveal your positives after admitting your flaws, you are building strong credibility. Your prospective customer is much more likely to believe your positive points after you admit your shortcomings.

Suspense. Nothing holds a reader’s attention and interest like suspense. When you start your ad by admitting a few flaws or by praising some features of your competition, your reader begins thinking, “if these guys are willing to expose these negatives, there must be a positive coming that I don’t want to miss.

People know you are paying good money for your ad. And they know you are not doing it to promote your competition. So they start expecting to hear something fabulous about your own product. They know it’s coming, they know it will offer strong benefits and it will appeal to their self interest.

Positioning. Sometimes establishing your uniqueness is a matter of refusing to compete on everyone else’s playing field. When Avis’ famous campaign admitted that they were number two, they were refusing to compete with Hertz for dominance in a race Hertz already owned. Instead they chose to play on the field of “trying harder,” which they explained meant giving more customer service and greater attention to the little things.

Suppose you are writing an ad for a sports car. Sports cars are notoriously impractical and only appeal to a small niche of people who (at least in the eyes of others) are showing off, compensating for something else or just never grew out of their fantasies to be James Bond. How might you promote such a car? Here’s an example:

The Thunderbolt XYZ does not have room to put a child’s seat in the back. In fact, it doesn’t have a back seat at all.

Also, if you are expecting to put six bags of groceries in the trunk, forget it. You can put two, or maybe three bags at the most, in the Thunderbolt’s trunk.

Carpooling a bunch of kids to soccer practice? Not a chance.

But if you want to race down an open country road with an autumn breeze blowing through your hair, if you want a car that hugs corners like super glue, or if you want to make your old fraternity brothers question their entire lives, the Thunderbolt is your car.

Such an ad certainly won’t appeal to everybody, but to its very narrow target audience, it might have a very strong appeal indeed. You might want to also check out my article,

Every successful marketer knows that writing high quality articles are the BIG SECRET to online success. Marketing with articles creates HIGHLY TARGETED TRAFFIC to your site. Every component of writing an article is significant to be publishing and reading with a pleasure your article.

What are the most important components of writing articles? That are the topic, title, content, keywords and writing skills ( grammar, writing style, size and text formatting).

Writing skills are very crucial and can be the ticket to better result of marketing articles. I am sorry to say but many marketers have not good writing skills (count in and myself. I do not know english. I write everything myself with dictionary). That is way we must to improve our writing skills.

The good writing is process include four steps: prewriting, writing, revising, and proofreading.

Prewriting - Choosing the topic, researching keywords, gathering information, and beginning to organize it into a cohesive unit. This process can includes reading, taking notes, brainstorming, and categorizing information.

Writing -The actual writing stage is an extension of the prewriting process. To transfer the information that have gathered and organized into a traditional format.

Revising - Reading over and making an amendment in article. Critiquing one’s own writing can easily create tension and frustration. Revising can include adding, deleting, rearranging and substituting words, sentences, and even entire paragraphs to make their writing more accurately represent their ideas.

Proofreading - This is a chance for the writer to scan his or her paper for mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. The grammar is a very important component of writing. The effective writing includes copious vocabulary, correct word choice, right spelling, proper sentence construction, true paragraph structure and punctuation. spellchecker.net/spellcheck/” target=”_blank Free Online Spelling, Grammar, and Thesaurus Checking is wonderful free online tool that helps you to eliminate all spelling errors, bad grammar and to enrich you are writing skills.

Some publishers prefer articles to be formatted to specific number of characters per line, allow articles body to be formatted to specific number of words. Counting each character or word manually is a hard and very time consuming. That is why you must to use text formatter, character count and word count when you prepare your articles. With
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Everyone have to understand writing as a form of communication. Better writing article mean better communication with readers, more traffic to your site. Have someone proofread your article. Improve your writing skills. Use free online tools and always double check your spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. Writing high quality articles are effective way to strong success.

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Thus, each student shall have sufficient knowledge of what is considered plagiarism in order to avoid errors in writing.

Plagiarism has several evidences which are usually used to prove it. Firstly, plagiarized words and ideas demonstrate the vocabulary and terms which the student does not usually use. The tutors and teachers can easily recognize the specialized terms and academic jargon which the students have not ever used before; or such vocabulary have been taught during the term lessons. Thus, be very careful with your vocabulary and check each term in your curriculum before using it in your paper. If you really want to use some new terms, do not forget to out them in quotes and give a full reference of the source where you have taken them from.

Although most universities and colleges do not admit term papers and essays which contain English grammar errors, perfect grammar may disserve the student if he or she has presented some errors before. This does not mean you should not improve your English and write incorrectly. However, if you ask your English native speaking friend to proofread your paper inform your tutor or teacher before submitting the paper about this. They should know your term paper was proofread by another person whose English is quite better than yours.

Proper referencing, quoting and citing are the most difficult thing to comprehend. The fact is most ideas we produce somebody else has announced or even developed before. That means the student might not have quoted some ideas because he or she was quite confident it was his/her own. Thus, even if the student was accused in plagiarism they do not feel guilty. The students should keep in mind that most ideas were introduced before and they must check their own presentation before the essay submission. The easiest way to check is to use specially designed plagiarism software or simply search this exact phrase or sentences through the Internet. If you find exactly the same idea do not hesitate to use it! Just quote it and give proper reference to avoid plagiarism. Although the highest marks are given for original writing quotes and citations would definitely give weight for your essay be providing the evidence you have done deep research on your topic.

Check, quote and cite must be the core rules for students who do not want to be accused in plagiarism. Check even if you are confident in your writing originality; quote and cite even if you think too many quotes and references would disserve you. It is better to use more quotes and citations than to be accused in unethical and serious crime.

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Social Phobia is an irrational anxiety brought forth by exposure to certain social situations, leading to avoidance behaviour.

Specific Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear in response to some specific stimulus, which commonly results in avoidance of/withdrawal from that stimulus. It could be triggered by an insect or animal (zoophobia), by a situation like being trapped in an enclosed space (claustrophobia) or it could be a fear of disease (pathophobia).

Though it feels real, the fear of public speaking or Glossophobia is what psychologists call “social construction”. This means that it is not a natural phenomenon, but the result of something society has created. We expect it to cause fear and therefore, it causes fear.

Unfortunately it is this “fear of the fear” which causes the problem to perpetuate, creating a vicious cycle.

It is possible for a sufferer to change their attitude to public speaking and thus reduce their fear. If you can figure out exactly what it is about public speaking that scares you, then you can begin to see what you might be able to do about it. This analysis will help you to change your feelings.

For example, if you regard the thought that people might laugh at you to be an important factor in your fear, you should ask yourself when they have laughed at you before. If they only laughed when you wanted them to, then your fear is unreal. Such reflection can make a positive change in your attitude to public speaking.

Steve Hill discusses the fear of public speaking. Learn how to live without fear or anxiety. Read more informative fear, anxiety and phobia articles and information at:

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Steve also has a website at: stammering-stuttering.co.uk/ stammering info

You may not have much time left to prepare for your public speaking. So what are the things you will for your public speech? Here are some pointers that you can use:

1. Brainstorming
2. Short-term goals
3. Long-term goals
4. Evaluation
5. Reflection

Start with brainstorming. If you are in the process of writing your speech you will need to brainstorm the topic. For the next 10 minutes I want you to write as fast as you can, what you want for this speech. Once you are finished you will read aloud the notes you wrote down. As you write however, do not concern yourself with precision rather write down every thought that comes from your mind on the speech topic.

Now that you have written down every thing in your head, continue by evaluating your list of thoughts. As you speak aloud you may notice missing components that could enhance your speech. If you note these elements, accordingly write them down. Next, you will look for commonalities in the subject, i.e. look at the information and bring it together so that you compose working sentences that targets your long-term goal. The long-term goal is finishing the speech, while the short-term goal is putting the speech together.

Now we can look closer at the long-term goal. What is your goal? Obviously it is to become a public speaking star. Therefore, what do you need to reach this goal? How much effort are you willing to put into achieving this goal? How hard can you work to accomplish this goal?

Now you come to the point where you can reflect on your written thoughts, while considering the criteria of the goal. What parts of the thoughts did you write down that reflects on your long-term goal? What did you consider to bring this speech together?

Here comes the time that you must put those reflections in perspective. Underline, or mark the key words on your brainstorming paper. Noting these important keywords can help you to pull the speech together. Are these keywords the point? What other parts of the thoughts could you use to make the key points come together? Remember, the point of your speech is driving a point home, while pulling a speech together so that it flows chronologically and logically. As you finish the speech you want to make sure accuracy is available, as well as make sure the speech lacks grammar and spelling issues.

Now what? Well, if you haven not come up with ideals that will put your speech together you will need to follow these steps again until you come up with a working speech. If you are confused in some areas, be sure to research to find information that will back your topic. For example, if you write in the speech that brainstorming, evaluating and reflecting, as well as goals bring success, yet you have doubts. Find information that will support these claims so that you can give for instances in your speech. For instances are reference quotes that recite, which means that the audience is aware you are supporting your information through research completed and facts verified. You have backup!

While commonly people are aware that brainstorming, evaluating and reflecting are grounded facts, some areas of your speech may not have grounded facts. Please, get the facts and speak them loud and clear as you give your speech. In other words, always tell the truth while giving a speech. The truth is that some people will do whatever it takes a person to the top regardless of the facts. No, do not do that, the truth will set you free.

Joshua Poon has been practising public speaking and has joined a local toast master club. He has been collecting inspiring quotes, stories, poems and music etc as he comes across them. He also writes articles on public speaking. So come and visit his website for publicspeakingmatters.com Public Speaking Matters

If you write for fun, you may never have to worry about deadlines. You can write for the joy it gives you. But if you want to write for publication, deadlines will be a major part of your writing career.

Anywhere you look in the writing world you will find a deadline. Contests have them, magazines have them and even fellow writers have them. Learning to deal with deadlines will help you use your time better.

Contest Deadlines
All writing contests will have some deadline for submissions to be in. Whether it is a month, or a year, there is a cutoff for entries to be received by the contest host. When you decide to enter a contest, you need to make sure when the contest ends. Allow yourself amply time to get your submission written and edited. Do not decide to enter a contest when you only have a few days before the deadline. You will only set yourself you up for disappointment.

Publication Deadlines
Some publications have reading periods when they will accept submissions. Usually editors will return a manuscript unread if received before or after. They have enough to do without keeping track of a submission sent during the wrong time period. Always check the publications web page or submission guidelines to be sure you are sending your work at the right time. You will also want to see if they have a theme for each issue when you check.

Work for Hire
This section is the largest because you will have more issues with a work you have been asked to write.

Editors who have accepted your query for a non-fiction piece will give you a deadline for the finished product to be on their desk. Before you accept the assignment, be sure you can finish it on time. If you cannot, do not accept the assignment. It is that simple.

If you accept the assignment, then be sure you meet it. Nothing annoys an editor more than a missed deadline, especially one they are not told about of ahead of time. They have deadlines of their own, and every one you miss destroys their faith in your abilities to handle an assignment. The more you keep your deadlines, the better your reputation in the industry will be.

If you are going to miss a deadline, let the editor know as soon as possible. Give him a date when you can get the job done, and make sure you keep your promise. The quicker he knows, the better your chance for keeping the assignment.

Learning to Schedule Your Time
Buy a calendar and use it. Keep all of your assignments, with the important dates associated with them written within those pages. Do not accept an assignment without first checking to see if you have anything that might interfere with you completing that task.

Here is a simple trick you can use when scheduling your assignments and submissions. Once you have your final deadline, the date it has to be on your editor’s desk, you need to figure out when you have to finish the draft and edits, and when you have to put it in the mail. Then push each of those dates back by a few days. Give yourself enough of a buffer so you have extra time in case of unforeseeable problems.

Deadlines are a way of life for writers. Learning to keep them will go a long way to making your life run simpler and smoother.

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If you do any Internet marketing you’ve had it pounded into your head that the focus of your keyword research should be to find and use on your webpages, and in your articles and sales letters, the same keywords that your customers are using. That’s certainly true so far as it goes, but wouldn’t your copy be even more persuasive if your keyword-rich copy tapped directly into what your customer wanted to do?

If you were going to open a restaurant, and had an unlimited budget, what single thing would you try to acquire that would almost guarantee your success? A world-class chef? Top designer decor? Topless super models for waitresses? No. The single thing that would most guarantee your success is a starving crowd. Thank you Gary Halbert for the lesson, although Gary himself would probably go with the super-models.

Every time this story is told it begs the question, “Where do I find the starving crowd″? Many SEO writers suggest visiting forums and newsgroups related to your topic to find out the words and phrases that people who could become your customers actually use in conversation. That seems like a good idea but it takes time. Also, although it seems logical, there’s no assurance that the same folks who contribute to forums will someday use a search engine to find and buy what you have to sell. Maybe the forum crowd looks a little hungry but it doesn’t appear to be starving.

So, is there a way to do this, to find the starving crowd without hours or days of research? Yes there is. The way to do it is to start your keyword research with behavioral verbs instead of nouns. Let’s look at an example to see how this works.

Let’s make the topic resumes. People are constantly changing jobs and the net is a natural to catch the attention of these potential job seekers and offer them something useful and informative. Fire up Wordtracker, go to Comprehensive Search and enter the root word “resume.” Go directly to Competition and you will find some attractive keyword phrases. “where can I create my resume″ has a KEI of 693, about 178 daily searches, and 123 competing web pages. You can probably do some business with this keyword phrase. In Wordtracker parlance a KEI greater than 100 is considered good, and a KEI greater than 400 is excellent. KEI is the acronym for Keyword Efficiency Index and it measures keyword popularity and competition. The higher the KEI number the better.

The results we got searching on the noun “resume″ produced something pretty close to a starving crowd, but we can do better. Much better.

What is the behavior associated with resumes? It’s writing. Instead of the noun “resume” let’s use Comprehensive Search again with the behavioral verb “write” as the root word. Go immediately to Competition and what do we find? The starving crowd. The keyword phrase “how to write two weeks notice letter” hits the ball out of the park. KEI 54289, 142 daily searches, and 0 competition.

There is a good chance you can optimize a webpage around how to write two weeks notice letters and get to the first search page on Google fairly quickly. If the customer likes what you’ve done with that topic you have already pre-sold your resume writing service.

It’s not always this easy although this example was the very first one I tried while preparing this article. So what’s the key to finding the starving crowd? Focus your keyword research on what people do (behavioral verbs) instead of what they say.

(C) 2006 by Peter Boston. Peter is an attorney, writer, and netrepreuner who contributes to keywordsniche.com Keywordsniche on writing for the net, search engine optimization and internet marketing.

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

There is only one story.

The Hero’s Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharsis).

d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story.

and more…

BEYOND HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS

“Beyond here, there be dragons″ is a classic warning, and it applies to the vast majority (if not all) successful stories and screenplays today.

This is an important and often elaborated element of the Hero’s Journey (Monomyth), and it often occurs before the Crossing into the First Threshold. It is separate and distinct from the earlier Interdictions.

In Dances with Wolves (1990), John Dunbar is warned not to go to the frontier and then warned not to engage with the Indians.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo is warned before entering the room to meet Morpheus and before taking the red and blue pills.

In Gladiator (2000), Maximus is warned about engaging Commodus, the Emperor of Rome.

In Star Wars (1977), Obi Wan warns Luke before they enter Mos Isley.

Learn more…

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You look at yourself in the mirror and ask “Is that vein supposed to throb like that?” In the back of your mind, you’re pretty sure it isn’t supposed to.

Stress hits everyone at some point in their lives. But it seems to hit writers more often. The solitary life we lead just adds to the amount of stress. Not to mention the deadlines, projects, family obligations, work problems, appointments, meetings, lack of exercise, poor diet, and everything else we have to accomplish in a day. The list of stressful things can go on and on.

Just taking a few moments of time for you when the world is crushing in around you isn’t the easiest thing to do. Here are some things you can do to relax without taking too much time away from your writing, or life.

1. Don’t take on more than you can handle. Keep in mind that the more you promise to do, the less time you’ll have to do the things you want to do. If you really can’t write that article this month either see if you can push the due date to something more doable or just say no. Don’t over book yourself.

2. Music has charms to sooth the writer’s mind, and mood. Listen to your favorite music while writing can lift your spirits and keep your stress levels in check. Some writers even work better with music playing in the background, maybe you are one of them?

3. Walk and stretch at least every 20 minutes. Moving helps keep your body flexible. By taking a short walk, even if it’s just to the bathroom, you are giving your body a chance to increase circulation and decrease stress.

4. Take a mini mental vacation. For just a moment or two, imagine yourself in your most desired vacation spot. Is it lying on the beach in the Caribbean, or riding a double-decker bus in downtown London? Feel the sights, sounds and smells of your location. Don’t let your work interfere with your trip for at least 5 minutes.

5. Drink water while you work. Water keeps your body hydrated, which will help keep your mind alert and thinking. And writing.

6. Learn to laugh at the absurd. Allowing the little things in life to frustrate and anger you just adds to your stress levels. By learning to laugh at them instead of getting angry, you release the frustrations bottled up inside you and allow your mind and body to relax.

Keeping yourself stress free while writing isn’t always possible. But helping your body relax when the levels get to be too much is. Taking just a few minutes out of your day to lower your stress is good for your mind, your body, and your writing!

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