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583 Sensory Words to Take Your Writing from Bland to Brilliant

Smart Blogger

By using sensory words to evoke the sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell; smart and attractive writers just like you are able to make their words burst to life in their reader’s mind. In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e.

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The Bastardization of Writing (and How I Learned to Live with It)

Men With Pens

So what’s the writer who has a message to share with the world to do? Not because I wanted to be a business writer, but because I wanted to be heard. In a world where there are too many messages, too many writers, too many people demanding our time, we have all learned to filter out what’s non-essential.

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How to Win Your Spot in the DFW Writing Course

Men With Pens

Why becoming a better writer could literally change your life. There are no points given for fancy words or brilliant prose. How to Win Your Spot in the DFW Writing Course first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Come back here and leave a comment that links to your post. That’s all.

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How to Write a Winning Post for the DFW Writing Course

Men With Pens

Why becoming a better writer could literally change your life. There are no points given for the fanciness of the words you choose or the quality of your brilliant prose. How to Write a Winning Post for the DFW Writing Course first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. That’s all.

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How to Fight Your Way Through the Writing Gap

Men With Pens

One of the biggest barriers facing a new writer – a blogger, a novelist, a copywriter – is the self-knowledge of just how far away you are from their ideal. If you’re having a hard time as a writer because you look at your own work and you think, “This isn’t good enough,” that’s a good sign. Closing the Gap Takes a Long Time.

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The Mindset And Business Of Selling Books Direct With Russell Nohelty

The Creative Penn

Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? So I did my first—it wasn't even a Kickstarter, it was an Indiegogo campaign—in 2011. Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. So welcome to the show, Russell. Russell: Sure.

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Writing Nature Memoir With Merryn Glover

The Creative Penn

And I think as I've grown up and become a writer, it's just the adult version of talking to yourself in lots of ways. But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. Merryn: Yeah, so writing plays is just kind of wonderfully different to writing prose, particularly fiction.

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