Archive for the ‘ Writing ’ Category

How to Find Rhyming Words for Poetry

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

How Poets Can Find Words that Rhyme Learning how to find rhyming words for poetry helps poets and songwriters who are struggling with that one line they just can’t find the right word

How to Find and Replace Text in Microsoft Word

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Replacing Text in Microsoft Word Knowing how to find and replace text in Microsoft Word lets you quickly change all instances of a mistaken word or phrase throughout an entire document. Whenever

How to Become a Better Writer

Monday, August 16th, 2010

How to Become a Better Writer Part of the job of a writer is to improve their writing skills over time. As with most jobs, experience will make you better. But if you gain lots of writing

How to Publish a Short Story

Friday, July 16th, 2010

How to Publish a Short Story “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” –Maya Angelou You either have the writing bug, or you don’t have it. Some

How to Write a Television Pilot

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

How to Write a Television Pilot A television pilot, or “spec script”, is a script intended to be the first episode of a new television series. Pilots are written for networks so that

How to Write Sonnets like Shakespeare

Friday, October 30th, 2009

I’m a poet by hobby, and people ask me all the time how to write sonnets like Shakespeare. People around the world love Shakespeare’s sonnets, the vast majority of which are love poems

Words That Sell

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

I’m going to strike off in another direction today. I want to talk to those writers of sales copy who might be reading “Word Skit”. Yeah, that’s right, we’re talking

Why Is Q Always Followed by U?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Why Is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language is a hardcover book by Michael Quinion which was released recently (July 2, 2009) that many

Word Clouds

Monday, July 6th, 2009

What is a word cloud? Word Clouds are visual depictions of the word content for a website: a keyword used to describe a piece of information used on a website. This description is known as a

Glitter Words

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Here’s a question for the ages I was asked from a reader: What Are “Glitter Words” and “Myspace Words”? MySpace Words and “Glitter Words” are used as

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