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If you are an online article writer you may need to consider that linear thinking can curb your desired results. So many online article writers worry about quality above all else. They want to make sure these articles are perfect in everyway and that what they have to say gets completely conveyed to the reader.

In doing this their online articles often get very long or at least over 500 words. It is great to see longer articles with more relevant content on the Internet, as maybe this can increase literacy? But is that really the job of an online write? Additionally most people’s attention span is rounding out about 2-minutes or less on the Internet and thus it hardly makes sense to go against the average mean of the Internet users and their preferences.

That is to say that the average Internet reader, reads a little and clicks out and so a long article does not serve them or the author in the online article submission category. Further concentrating on quality is indeed a noble endeavor however an online article writer should also concentrate on quantity, because online article writing is a numbers game you see.

The more articles you write the better you’ll do. In fact I liken online article writer to the balance of nature and nurture in that you are born with certain genes and abilities and weaknesses and it is how you use those to your advantage to determine your sex. So, it is not about quality VS. quantity; it is about both. Choose both and you will win, trust me on this in 2006.

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Your headline should attract their attention and make them salivate for more information. Don’t offer impossible things. Don’t state “Earn $10,000 every Week Using my System”. Nobody will believe you because it has all been said before. It never, ever happens. Offer them something that will benefit them, but make it realistic. Offer them a regular income, or a product that will help them.

“Why Keep Slicing that Golf Ball: Pay us Only if we Cure it For You.”

“If you Don’t Make $800 in your First Month, Pay us Nothing - If You do, Pay us $47”.

These are difficult headlines to ignore. They will likely get a high percentage of readers wanting to read more. The reason is that they resolve a problem, with the promise of you paying only if they succeed. You try them free, and if it fails don’t pay! Marvellous! What could be better. Could you imaging an offline store making that kind of offer?

So that’s the start. The headline that keeps them interested. Now, you must then provide them with the information they now want. Obviously such offers are not going to simply provide them with the tuition, or the software or whatever, then ask them to volunteer to pay later if it works. They are simple other ways of presenting your guarantees – guarantees that you legally have to provide in any case. However, you have just put them into a form of words that make a great headline, and seem as if you are making a fantastic offer that they can hardly refuse.

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Chaos and confusion come when established rules and procedures are not followed. Even mixing and matching systems to favor one’s own position can cause a great deal of consternation. In writing a book, the first rule is to know and understand why you want to write in the first place.

In other words, you need to develop a theme that will answer the question of why you want to write. I usually get a blank stare when I ask a budding author, “What is your book’s theme?” Eventually the answer I get may be the title of a manuscript.

When I explain that a title isn’t a theme, I then may hear, “It’s the story of my life.” That is unquestionably the number-one answer I get. There is a big difference between the title of your book and your theme.

While your title may be the sizzle, the theme is the flavor and is formally defined as a “recurring, unifying subject or idea.” This is the aim or the main message of your book. Generally speaking, in writing there are two themes: the author’s theme and the book’s theme.

The author’s theme is the usual subject matter the writer handles, or the one the writer is most comfortable with. For example, a writer may find his forte in the subject matter of healing or forgiveness. Another may write most of the time in the area of spirituality or motivation.

Don’t confuse the author’s theme with genre, which is the category of writing. In addition to establishing if you are writing fiction or non-fiction, there are several categories your book may fall into. Some of the most popular ones today are biography, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, thriller/espionage, horror, inspirational, historical, and courtroom drama.

Your book’s theme is what the reader should learn most after reading your story. There are two answers that you as a writer shouldn’t give when questioned about your theme: 1) This book is about me and the things that have happened to me and 2) A rambling, almost incoherent dissertation that leaves one asking, “Huh?” Every author should ask and answer the following questions: “Why am I writing? What am I trying to articulate? What kind of outcome will the story have on the reader and what is the outcome I’m aiming for?”

In other words, what is the rationale behind your book? For example in his bestseller, The Purpose-Driven® Life(Zondervan), author Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, takes readers on a “personal 40-day spiritual journey” to find the answer to the question, “What on earth am I here for?” To me, the most important element of your book is its theme.

Writing professors will probably disagree with me, and that is their right. In fact, some say the title is the most important. I understand, because all of this is subjective and mostly based upon personal preference. After all, there are many elements to creating a successful manuscript. But after years of trying to get would-be writers to complete their novels, short stories or even church talks, I’ve discovered that nothing has helped to move them “off the pot” quicker than having a well-developed theme.

Marvin D. Cloud is founder of mybestseller.com mybestseller.com and author of “Get Off The Pot: How to Stop Procrastinating and Write Your Personal Bestseller in 90 Days.”

Creative Writing is something that everyone is capable of. And we can all improve our creative writing – and our enjoyment of it - in a great number of ways.

One of the key factors to writing creatively and freely is confidence.

It doesn’t matter how talented you are as a writer, if you lack the confidence to write and to explore your writing potential you simply won’t create as well or as often as you’re capable of creating.

So here are 5 powerful tips to help you increase YOUR self-confidence as a creative writer –

1. Believe you’re creative. If you didn’t believe you were capable of writing creatively at all, you wouldn’t even be trying, so you’re off to a great start. Now you can build on this core belief.

One way of doing this is to spend some time visualizing how your life would be if you were wildly successful as a creative writer, whatever “wildly successful” means to you.

Put yourself into this future visualization of yourself as strongly as possible. Ask yourself what beliefs you hold about yourself that have enabled you to be this creative, this successful. Then start bringing them into your life today.

2. Use your senses. So much of the time we walk round virtually oblivious to the highly sensory world around us. We may as well stick cotton wool in our ears, a sock in our mouth and bag over our heads!

It’s through our senses we connect with and experience the world. Take some time to go somewhere new and practice using your senses. Concentrate on each of your senses one at a time, what you’re really seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling.

Do this regularly and you’ll have an abundance of rich experiences to draw upon in your writing, which in turn will increase your confidence to write.

3. Set small achievable goals. If you haven’t written for a while - months or even years maybe - then to set yourself the task of writing a new novel this weekend is ambitious at best. At worst it’s simply setting yourself up for major disappointment and blow to your confidence.

Instead, set smaller achievable steps. For example, “Today I’m going to write 250 words about the past life of my book’s new character Jake.”

Start small to build your confidence, then add more challenging tasks for yourself as you go.

4. Write aimlessly. By this I mean don’t set out to write a perfect wartime romance, or a wonderful poem about the cherry trees in your back yard.

It’s great to have writing ideas and aims like this but the problems come when we get too attached to them. Then, when our creative writing takes us elsewhere, instead of exploring what could be a wonderful new direction, we just feel we’ve failed in writing the piece we set out to write.

Pick an inspiring starting point, then just let your imagination – and creative writing – flow wherever it wants to.

5. Join a supportive group. Being able to share with other writers is a very rewarding experience. It can be very supportive and healthy for our confidence on two levels.

Firstly, with other creative writers we get to share our creative writing, the work we produce, and get their feedback, tips and ideas, as each of us look to develop ourselves.

Secondly, we’re able to share the experience of being a creative writer. The joys, the frustrations, the rewards and the disappointments. Knowing that others feel similarly to us can be very reassuring. The help and encouragement of others can help boost our confidence no end.

Increasing your confidence as a creative writer is sometimes the only route to helping you unlock your creative writing potential.

These are just 5 of the best ways you can do this.

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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are frustrated they’re not using their creative talents as well as they could be. See more at his website: CoachCreative.com CoachCreative.com

So why the noise about article marketing? It’s a great traffic generation technique that suits those of us who like being in total control.

If you are one of those people who just wants to know what works no matter what it takes, article marketing is it as far as getting high quality traffic is concerned.

Look at these figures…

One high quality article on Ezinearticles will get around 10,000 views within one year. Let’s say you have 100 such articles, that will translate to around one million page views within a year.

Let’s just say that out of those 10,000 views per article only 500 visit your site, that will mean 50,000 visitors from 100 articles on only one directory.

What if you have those hundred articles on 100 different article directories? Let’s say you get just 50 visitors on average per article per directory?

Let’s do the maths…

100 articles x 100 different directories x 50 visitors per article per directory

You’ll get 500,000 high quality visitors within one year. Now what if you submit 1000 over the same period? If you do, you’ll get 5 million unique visitors!

Take note that we did not include visitors that will come from webmasters who publish your articles in their newsletters and/or sites. Also note that we did not count in the value you get in branding by all those page views. We also did not count in what such a high number of incoming links will do for your page rank and, therefore, free search engine ranking. You know that means a lot more traffic.

If you add up all that happens through article marketing, you’ll see that it is a great way to get massive high quality traffic without breaking the bank.

However, there are ways to maximize your results using this method. I have a newsletter that teaches anyone who is committed to working smart and hard how to get 100,000 monthly within one year or less.

If you are serious about becoming a published author, stop writing novels you hope will sell. Do what best-sellling writers do–plan and write salability into every page.

Mastering basic techniques is vital, but unless you use those techniques creatively and skillfully, your novel may not tempt an editor. Why risk rejection when you can learn what the professionals know.

Learn how bestsellers are planned and written.

Don′t hope for success, make it happen. Write your novel so it sells.

Here are seven essentials a novel must have to compete in today’s tight fiction markets.

1. Make sure your story idea offers something new and different to grab and hold an
editor’s attention. Don’t settle for any idea in its original form.

2. Develop a unique protagonist and a memorable villain. Scarlett O’Hara and Hannibal Lecter weren’t the first pictures the authors came up with.

3. Use your setting to enhance mood and suspense. Would “Rebecca” have endured so many years without Manderley?

4. Build a plot that escalates tension right to the last page. Steadily building tension means the reader keeps turning the pages.

5. Use words that add to the mood and suspense in every scene. Choose words that help create the picture you want the reader to see.

6. Control the pace so the reader can’t put the book down. As the tension increases so does the pace.

7. Give the reader the satisfying, exciting ending he’s been waiting for. Your finale must be the most exciting scene of all. The reader won’t forgive you if it isn’t.

Planning and developing these 7 things as you write your story will put you on the path to success and make that editor say, “This novel will sell!”

Copyright 2007

Marilyn Henderson chose writing as a second career so she could work from home. She had no idea how hard it was to make that bfirst sale then keep selling, but she soon learned the difference between writing a novel she hoped would sell and what agents and editors really want. Now after more than 60 novels published, she mentors writers and shares that expertise with writers who want to build careers or make those first sales.
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The Hero’s Journey (Monomyth) 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. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

[The terminology is most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) to Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Thelma and Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979)].

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 catharses, of which there are usually four).

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

and more…

*****First Threshold Evolution*****

Evolution past the Fish out of Water stage is an integral part of the First Threshold. This is a benchmark upon entry and exit.

In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Jack is better on the horse and Ennis gets tired of beans.

In Straw Dogs (1971), David returns to the bar and buys everyone a beer the second time.

Learn more…

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My teenage granddaughter uses the phrase, “Are you serious?” Any time I say something that is out of the ordinary for a grandmother to do or tell her some Internet marketing stuff I am doing she says, “Are you serious?” Meaning, I can’t believe that my grandmother is really doing this stuff! Or, Does she really mean it?”

When people tell me that they want to write a book. My first temptation is to say in that teenage jargon, “Are you serious?” The wannabe authors get excited as they tell me briefly about their book idea. For a brief time I listen to their great idea. Many of them really ARE great ideas in my opinion. Some want me to help them get their ideas in writing.

We have heard this question many times, “Is there a book inside of you?” Most of us will say yes, but when it comes to really writing that book, even when they have some coaching to help them bring their ideas to fruition, they get stuck. They hit a roadblock.

You Can’t Write a Book By Osmosis.

Wannabe writers now realize that the four-letter words “work” and “time” are involved. They are out of their comfort zone. It will take more time than they are willing to give to write their book.

Even when you have a ghostwriter there is a time commitment required. The reality is that if you want to write a book, you must be actively involved every step of the way whether you write it yourself or you have a ghostwriter do it for you. A ghostwriter needs your time to get your ideas and develop the book.

“I don’t have time,” is the excuse. My question is, “Would you make time if a publisher offered you $10,000?” So, no time is just an excuse. It’s a way of protecting yourself from perceived failure, unsure of how to write the book, or unclear of the purpose behind the book.

If you are really, really serious about writing a book, there are some things you can do to get you started and get your book completed. The tips below are only for the committed: You are ready to write, know your subject well, and are willing to sacrifice some of your precious time to do it.

Four Tips To Writing Success

1.Set a goal to finish your book in 90 days.
If your strategic goal is to finish your book in three months that means you must complete a minimum of one chapter each week if they are long chapters of 10-12 double spaced pages. If they are shorter then your goal is to finish at least two chapters each week. At the end of three months you will have completed 12 long chapters or 24 or more short chapters. If 90 days is not realistic for you, then plan for a longer period of time to finish your book. You must put it in writing and commit to it. For example, “I WILL write and finish one chapter a week.”

2. Schedule your writing time on your calendar.
Write in your calendar or PDA your schedule. You MUST do this. If you are an average typist you can finish a modest 3 double-spaced pages an hour including creative thinking time. Let’s assume there are 12 double spaced pages per chapter. You will book 4 hours per week in your calendar to finish one chapter. At the end of 3 months you will have completed a minimum of 12 chapters. One author I know dedicates every weekend to writing her book. Her goal is to finish one chapter each weekend and she doesn’t stop until she finishes it. She has published four books. Can you do that? Can you schedule the time needed each week to finish a chapter of your book? Can you keep a writing schedule even if it’s just half a chapter a week? If your answer is YES you are ready to write.

3. Believe in yourself.
You can accomplish tips #1 and #2 above if you believe in yourself and believe in your book. Without that belief you will not finish your book. Including affirmations in your daily life is important, but sometimes it is not enough. The best thing you can do is to find supportive and trustworthy friends and tell them about your book. You will discover that they may get more excited than you. They believe in you. They want you to succeed. Your friends can give you the motivation to keep you going. They are your cheerleaders! Keep in touch with them frequently and when your book is published give them a copy with your handwritten dedication and thanks for all their support.

4. Visualize the cover of your book.
Visualization is the key to success. The more vivid your book is to you the more apt you are to finish it. If you don’t have that $10,000 advance from a publisher to motivate you, then create a cover for your book. You can use crayons, marking pens, cut out pictures from magazines and put it on a paper cut out the same size as a cover on a book such as 6″ x 9″. If you know desktop publishing then create a cover design for your book using that tool. Paste your cover next to your computer or writing area. It can motivate you to keep on writing every time you see it.

Be a Go-Getter.

The above four tips give you a plan to write your book, stay motivated, and finish it. Don’t be a “wannabe”–stop making excuses and get started with your writing plan. Next time you tell someone you are writing a book and they say, “Are you serious?” You will say, “Yes!”

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America’s Book Coach, Joan Clout-Kruse, helps business professionals write a book to help attract clients and get recognized as an expert.

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Motive and emotion are a couple of key elements to any action scene.

One book series that immediately springs to mind when I think about action scenes is the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien. I think most of us will have read the books or seen the movies.

Envision the big battle at the end. Throughout the books the author made it clear why this battle had to be, which makes the reader feel involved in the story. There was a good build-up to the battle and as a reader I have chosen a side I want to win and care about the fate of the characters. This makes for good reading.

It is important for me to know why something is happening. Why are those armies fighting? If I don’t know then I don’t feel that same involvement nor do I really care about the outcome of it all.

The same goes for other action scenes. If I don’t know why person A is chasing person B, why should I care if person A will catch person B? I want to know if person A should catch person B, or if I want person B to escape…

Emotion is important as well. It is crucial to every story that the reader starts to care about the characters they are reading about. This does not mean a story needs to be dramatic, but offering insight into the characters is very important. How do they work? What are their responses to the situations you place them in? What is important to them? What makes them tick? And, too, what are their motives for their actions?

How does an action scene affect them? Portray their emotions. Are they scared? What goes through their minds? What are their physical reactions?

A classic example is a person walking through a dark alley. They hear footsteps behind them… what is their reaction?

If you just write it down as:

Sophie walked through the dark alley. Suddenly, she hears footsteps behind her. She is scared and starts walking a bit faster.

This will not really grip the reader.

Why is Sophie walking through the alley? Is she on her way home from work? Is she cold, taking the short-cut against better judgement? Perhaps she has had a long day at work and is very tired.

What are her responses to the dark alley? What is the dark alley like? Has it been raining, are there the usual litter bins?

Maybe she hears something, is startled and realises that it is just a cat. Only to then hear the sound of footfalls behind her.

It could be that she has good reason to fear those footsteps. It could trigger images in her mind of news articles she read, a past experience or something that happened to someone she knows.

What does she feel will happen?

Perhaps, even, Sophie is not supposed to be in that dark alley. Perhaps she is the person that is up to no good… which puts a whole different spin to that scene and a whole different set of possibilities about her emotions and feelings.

The best advice I can give any author is, ”Don’t just tell, show!”

Kit Marsters is an author on Writing.Com/ Writing.Com/
which is a site for Writing.Com/ Writers.

Short Story Writing Tips –

We all have different tastes in what we like to read. Some have a particular taste for horror, while others prefer romance or fantasy or crime stories, etc. My favourite genre in short stories is horror, so once the title grabs my attention, I will enthusiastically read the story.

You may want to leave your readers in no doubt of the type of story you have written. That’s fine. You want to grab all the fans out there and/or recruit new readers into the genre you are so fond of writing.

So, how do you select a title that reflects your story?

Should the title always reflect the story?

Not always. But your title must have some sort of connection with your story.

Is There A Connection Between Your Title And Your Story?

If you choose not to have the title reflect the story that’s fine too. But there should be some relevance between them.

If, for instance, your story is about a man walking on the moon, then it wouldn’t make sense to title it, ‘Walking on Mars.’

If your story is an uplifting tale about two characters finding love, then your title isn’t going to mention death, unless of course one of the characters’ die.

At first your title may not give away the nature of your story. But once having read the story, the reader will understand the connection. Let me give you a few examples…

‘The Fire In The Sky’

This can be the title of a story in which an airplane explodes in midair or a story about a meteorite on its way to earth, etc.

‘An Angel Amongst Us’

Can be the title of a story about a person with extraordinary kindness or about an angel that leaves the heavenly realm to reside on earth, etc.

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You can be ambiguous in your title if you wish. Your title doesn’t always have to reflect your story. Having more than one possible meaning intrigues the reader but remember…

There has to be a connection between your title and your story.

About The Author

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