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Monthly Archives: May 2010

What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Yann Martel

I’m not terribly interested in penning critiques week after week; I’m way too much into Read-It-For-Fun for that. However, upon occasion I do come across a story I enjoy so much that I want to delve more deeply into it by analyzing, speculating, ruminating, and other gerunds of a thoughtful nature. Yann Martel‘s Life of Pi is one of those stories that makes me want to write about it and write about it, and then write about it some more…

How to Write, Share, and Review with Google Docs (Part 1)

Learn how to get started with Google Docs, so you can take advantage of free cloud storage and easy collaboration and review tools for your documents.

Pitch and Tagline (Technical Writing Exercise)

This week’s technical writing exercise asks you to prepare short descriptions of what your unwritten e-Book would be about, and why it would be worth reading.

The Week in Words (May 8)

The Week in Words is a weekly roundup of my active projects, review of the site’s activity, and links to interesting writing articles that caught my attention.

My Felony (Creative Writing Exercise)

This week’s creative writing exercise is a writing prompt. Tell us about your big brush with the law. What’s the most interesting trouble you’ve been in?

How to Build an e-Book from Your Fiction

I just launched an e-Book full of Tech Writing tips for the business writers, but there are useful technical processes that apply to creative writing, too.

What I Learned about Writing this Week…from Aaron Pogue, Redux

…There’s this thing we writers are supposed to have…a thing about reading our work out loud.

Oh no. By all the gods of menthol tissue and postnasal drip, please no…

How to Build an e-Book from Your Blog

Most professional bloggers recommend writing and selling e-Books to get the most out of a professional blog. As a Tech Writer, I wrote an e-Book explaining how.

About Page (Technical Writing Exercise)

This week’s Technical Writing Exercise calls on your to create an About page for your blog (real or hypothetical) to help focus your planning and development.

How to Build an e-Book — Time’s Running Out on Reader Discount

Tweet I just wanted to post a quick reminder that there’s a 40% discount for you, my loyal readers, on How to Build an e-Book. I don’t know if any of you are interested (and it doesn’t hurt my feeling if you’re not), but if you are, you should get it now. The 40% discount […]