Reaping Benefit from Your Writing Group

The old saying is true. You do reap what you sow. This goes for your writing group as well. You can reap some wonderful benefits from being a part of a writing group, but there are some things you should remember to get the most of your experience.

Finding the Perfect Writing Group

Writing is often a solitary pursuit, which is why writers at all levels can benefit by a writing group, a place to meet and connect with others who have similar dreams and goals. If you think a writing group might be just the thing for you, you're probably wondering how to go about finding one near you.

Hardball Learning: Six Hard-Hitting Strategies for Capturing Your Listeners' Hearts and Minds

Do you have the backbone to engage your audience in a conversation? Long after the presentation, hardball presenters and their material remain memorable. Use these six simple strategies to shift your position from podium-presenter to focused facilitator.

Article Rewriting - A Professional View

Article rewriting is more difficult than most think it to be. The reason for an article to be rewritten should be clear prior to rewriting since the approach of the job will be dependent on the ultimate objective. Here, we discuss some of these objectives and the reasons why rewriting may or may not be successful.

Writing to Preserve 2006

Let’s face it, memory is a hazy thing. Before you know it, the years have passed and you have forgotten key things in your life. Writing out a year end summary is a way to preserve your life.

Freelance Writers: Make the Most of the Slow Times of Your Freelance Writing Career

Once you get your freelance writing career going, you’ll probably find that it can be either “feast or famine” most of the time, meaning you have TOO much work to do, or not enough, or worse yet, periods when you have NO writing jobs at all to do. Here's what to do during those slow times.

Proving Your Expertise

How does writing a book prove your expertise? Simple, you get third party testimonials from people that have seen your work and read your book before it went to press. There is nothing like a third party testimonial.

How to Create Great Dialogue in Your Book

Get your characters talking and you create a new dimension for your book. Do it write, and you've one sizzling manuscript in your hands.

Freelance Writers - How to Avoid a Major Melt Down in Your Freelance Writing Career

All freelance writers feel overwhelmed from time to time. Follow these steps to avoid a major melt down in your writing career.

Franklin Method - Ben Franklin on Persuasion and Writing

Want to win an argument with your wife? Sell an idea to your boss? Write a persuasive editorial? Represent your nation in a foreign capitol? Long before anyone ever heard of Dale Carnegie's method of winning friends and influencing people Ben Franklin had figured out the formula.

Speed Reading For Comprehension Purposes!

For every prospective speed reader, the first steps needed to jump start his reading skills should be having a good understanding of the concept of speed reading. When you speed read, there are two things you achieve namely comprehension and speed.

Verb

The sound-replacive type of derivation and the stress-replacive type of derivation are unproductive: food — to feed, blood — to bleed; 'import — to im'port, 'transport — to trans'port. The typical suffixes expanding the stem of the verb are: -ate (cultivate), -en (broaden), -ifу (clarify), -ise(-ize) (normalise). The verb-deriving prefixes of the inter-class type are: be- (belittle, befriend, bemoan) and en-/em- (engulf, embed). Some other characteristic verbal prefixes are: re- (remake), under- (undergo), over- (overestimate), sub- (submerge), mis-(misunderstand), un- (undo), etc.

Category of a Verb in English Grammar

The system of the English verb is rightly considered to be the most complex grammatical structure of the language. The most troublesome problems are, indeed, concentrated in the area of the finite verb, and include, in particular, questions tense, aspect and modal auxiliary usage. This seems to be an area of grammar which has always gained the greatest interest in language learning. We can say with little fear of exaggeration that learning a language is to a very large degree learning how to operate the verbal forms of that language.

10 Money-Saving Tips for Writers

All it takes is a little research to find ways to save money as a writer!

The Disability Of Stuttering

Do you know anybody who has a speech impediment? Do you have a speech impediment yourself? Would you consider a stutter to be a form of disability? Are you looking for a solution to your speech impediment? In this article I am going to write about the ways in which a stutter can affect a persons life and make it one huge struggle.