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15+ Diction Examples for Any Voice and Style (Formal & Informal)

Smart Blogger

Looking for diction examples to inspire your next writing project? Ready to add some interest and flair to your prose? Compare that to a webinar script where, even for an expensive product, it will come across as more casual (even as the speaker demonstrates authority on the topic). Which type of diction will you try first?

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). The contest is open to entrants from anywhere in the world (English language only please) A prize of $150 will be awarded for the winning story. Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). The contest is open to entrants from anywhere in the world (English language only please) A prize of $150 will be awarded for the winning story. Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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19 Ways to Win, Attract, and Retain High-Paying Clients

Freelance Magic

Or their poetry-dripping prose. One week later, I followed up with some content ideas I had for his blog, and we signed a retainer contract after one project together. What projects do they take up? Here’s a script you can tweak: “Hey {name}, I hope your day is going well so far! Maybe it’s their decades of experience.

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Transmedia And Self-Publishing Comics And Graphic Novels With Barry Nugent

The Creative Penn

And yes, so your website talks about Unseen Shadows as a transmedia project. I think it was one of the draws for how the very members of the creative team got involved with it was what I said was, ‘Any of the other projects were 100% canon to my stories.'. Maybe I could write a script for a comic, another comic.'

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The Mindset And Business Of Selling Books Direct With Russell Nohelty

The Creative Penn

So I was like, well, I've read a bunch of the scripts that I've been on camera with, and they're all not very good. Then comics are really expensive, and they take forever, so I started writing books in the interim between comic projects. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects?

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Writing Fast, Collaboration, And Author Mindset With Daniel Willcocks

The Creative Penn

So when I'm working on a project, I'll binge write. Myself, I've kind of gone from being a regular writer to being, as you say, a bit more of a binge writer with projects. So if I'm in a project, I can definitely hit some bigger word counts, but then I'm sort of done for a few weeks. That works for them, they publish books.