Top Ten Tips for Writing a Professional Overview or Biography

Learn how to write an effective professional biography to showcase your talents.

Turning Your Passions Into Poems

Writing poetry can be a phenomenal method for writers to reduce stress in their life.

Reality Check: New Year's Resolutions-Followed or Forgotten?

Did you make any resolutions this year? Did you write them down? (Stupid question for a writer, right?)

How To Evaluate Writing Contests: Six Starter Questions

Ask yourself these questions before entering a writing contest or competition.

Learn Italian in Florence

This is the story of Clarissa, an American woman who planned to visit Italy and learn about the Italian culture. She loved the Italian language and wanted to learn it in a fast and easy way. Her additional incentive was being able to communicate with her new Italian friend, Carlo, whom she met in a chat room a few months ago.

Storytelling - The Inherent Power of Success

Storytelling is the one skill, if developed properly, can bring you unimaginable success ...

Public Domain - The Philosophy of Freedom

The philosophy behind the public domain is simple and very powerful. To elaborate we must first look at the traditional way in which Art and Intellectual property is governed. It is controlled by one thing, and that is...

Five Essential Steps to Set up Your Author's Web Site

You may already have your web site up. You may be ready to create one. The biggest mistake most people make is that they don't write their Web site to sell before they contact their web master. Here are five solutions.

Speak With E's Part 3

“Educate, Energize, Entertain, and provide an experience for your audience” 1. Use direct eye contact. You can focus on one person when making a point… and everyone else in the audience will thi...

Write and Speak for the Ear

You and I may not aspire to write great books or make great speeches. But almost all of us want something to happen when we write or speak. And, the more we direct our words to the ears of readers an...

A Freelancer's Journey, Part Two

Don't give up on the journey of being a freelance writer. Learn from this year's Academy Awards.

Build Confidence & Credibility: First-person Pronouns Get Your Messages Heard

Irritating speech habits destroy our professional credibility. Examples of irritating speech habits are sentences that end with dangling prepositions (Where did you hang your coat at?) and conversati...

Chinese Writing Characteristics

A introduction about different styles of Chinese Writing Characteristics.

Why It Pays To Listen Even When You Think They're Nuts

My first published work became a bestseller as soon as it hit the bookshelves back in 1995 and it has been topping the lists ever since. Lucky you, some might say.