Archive for January 27th, 2006

50 strategies for making yourself write

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You can find the strategies over here. Some of the ones I like include:
  • Write a story or chapter each week
  • Have someone pay you for writing, even if it’s with cookies or chocolate syrup…
  • Write while listening to music
  • Challenge other writers to finish a story a week, those that fail to buy dinner for those that succeed
  • Remove all games from your computer
  • Use every spare moment to write something, even if it’s just one sentence

And so on. Enjoy

4 mistakes to avoid when writing articles

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Poor headline

Straight away you must capture the reader’s attention with the headline, or title of your article. If you’re not sure what to write for the headline, then wait until you’ve finished writing the article. The theme of the article can help you decide what the headline is going to be. Keep it short, but descriptive. Use important keywords.

Poor beginning

Federation’s End (story) - #5

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Reunion

“Freeze!” was the loudly voiced command from the two men that came rushing through the door, pointing large phaser rifles at Duo. They were quickly followed by another 3, all of them wearing Starfleet security uniforms, enhanced with light body armour and tactical helmets.

Duo froze, for a second, then slowly turned to face the security officers. It only took him a few seconds to assess the situation, and it didn’t look good. There was no way he could overpower five armed guards, even if they hadn’t been wearing armor, in his present condition there was just no way.

Title tags and optimising for search engines

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Title tags are those words that you can see at the top of your web browser. They tell search engines what the page is all about.

Search engines love titles. In fact, they love them so much, that they’ll reward you for having a descriptive title by taking more notice of it. The result of this little reward is that you’ll end up near the top of the search list when people are searching for words or phrases that are included in your title, and you’ll get more people visiting your site.


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