Top Ten Tips (Part 2)Written by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons)
Golden Rules For New Writers - Things you need to know before you begin. Rules govern everything we do in life; even if those rules are of unwritten kind we abide by them and expect other people to do same. Why should writing be any different? It shouldn’t be and it isn’t. The following rules are basis for good writing. If anyone tries to tell you that rules are made to be broken, remember that you have to learn those rules before you try to bend them or break them otherwise you are just being sloppy, not radical. If you missed Part 1 of this Article, you can read it in its entirety at my website: http://www.huntingvenus.com/ecwart1.htm _____________________ Spell well You need to be able to spell in order to write properly. If punctuation is putty in your windows, spelling is bricks out of which your house is built. If you don’t have bricks, you cannot build yourself a house. You will probably find this hard to believe but spelling used to be taught in schools in olden days. Nowadays most people who write do so on a word processor with a spell check function. It is apparent that many of these people do not bother to use their spell checker. This sort of laziness cannot be excused. At same time, you should not rely entirely on spell checker: it is only a machine trying to guess what word you have scrambled. If you are not sure about a word, look it up in a dictionary: it never hurts to know correct meaning of words as well as correct spelling. Never forget that spell check will take your words out of context: if you type "He sold his soul to Santa", you can’t blame spell checker for not knowing your really meant "Satan". People would snigger cruelly if you failed to correct this. Keep to point Never make mistake of padding out your writing with unnecessary or irrelevant details. Keep to subject announced in your title, after all, title is probably what attracted reader in first place. If body of your work does not relate to expectation aroused by title, reader will feel tricked and nobody likes that feeling - your reader will move on to read somebody s/he can trust. Do not attempt to pad out your writing with unnecessary words: inserting a few adverbs or adjectives to boost word-count never works and makes article difficult to read. Keep it simple, whether people are reading for pleasure or enlightenment, they will not appreciate lumpy prose and they are not reading your work to marvel at your cleverness or your vocabulary. If you run out of things to say before your work is length you wish to achieve, you are writing on wrong subject or from wrong angle.
| | How to get Rich!Written by Gerardo Flores
Many people (1000’s) of people will go through life hoping and wishing that one day something will come along that will change their life for better. It’s sad but true to say that more than 60% of hard working people will retire with nothing more than a few hundred dollars a month to live off of. Did you know that more than 35% of people that retire after working their whole life end up dying a few months later? It is shocking to believe, but it’s cold hard facts! Maybe it’s because their work is their life, and after they stop working they stop living. They’re so used of working that when they do finally stop they have nothing more to look forward to. Still, regardless if people hear about these horrible facts, they continue to depend on their jobs. They go on thinking that it won’t happen to them, that “they will one day win lottery”, “they have been going to casinos feeling really lucky and one day will win”. They completely give their lives to poverty on a silver platter because they refuse to build a plan that will set them free from mediocrity. By you reading this article, will I be right if I said that you want to change your life? That you are looking for a way to get out of this “slavery” of a 9 to 5 job? That you know there’s got to be a better way to live? If you’re answer is yes, then you are 80% of way to being rich! Believe it or not, way you think has everything to do with how your life will be. I know… I know…you’re probably thinking, “what does way I think have to do with me being rich”. Right? Well, your thinking has *EVERYTHING* to do with how you’re life will be, be it health wise or wealth wise. You have to understand that ALL negative thinking will create negative effects in all aspects of your life. Once you really understand this universal truth, you will be rich quicker than you ever thought possible!
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