Writing 101: Getting an Idea for a Children’s Story

The hard thing about writing for children is to find an idea that would appeal to a child. If you remember that everyday things are what most children’s books are about, you will find it is easy to get started. I took a story idea from this morning’s classifieds and wrote the story in this article. You can do it too!

Organizing Researches With Binders

Binders, book binders, loose leaf binders, and clips are useful tools in organizing researches.

Learn When to Use the Lesser-Used Punctuation Marks

Everyone is familiar with the more commonly used punctuation marks: the comma, the period, and the question mark. However, many people, in their writing, don't use the semicolon, the colon, the dash, the parentheses, the bracket, the ellipsis, and the slash as much as they do other punctuation marks.

Avoiding Sexism in Your Writing

What is sexism in writing? It is the assumption that people are all male or all female.

Pens - All Pens Are Not Created Equally

What is there to a pen? Bend some metal into a nib, fill the bodies of the tube with soluble ink and you have a pen to write with. Or to be in touch with the modern times, make an ink concentrate, fill it in a small enclosed plastic tube, attach a tiny spring and there you have a ball point pen. It is not as simple as you think though. The niche market for exclusive designer pen is getting bigger and bigger. Every Jones wants a pen of unique design and he doesn’t mind the cost.

10 Step To Publish Your Books

Learn how to publish your novel, poetry, memoir, how-to book, children's books.

Heros Journey: the Romantic Challenge and More

The Romantic Challenge is an intricate part of many stories. Often it is one of the four major challenge: Outer, Inner, Greater and Romantic.

Hurricanes Make Great Writing and Speaking Material

If you are a professional writer or public speaker perhaps you might consider discussing or writing about hurricanes, as they make great writing material and help illustrate a point during public speaking. Many a public speaker will dramatize a hurricane disaster in order to make a point about perseverance, commitment or an inspirational point of contention.

Speaking Expert Says: Great Speakers Can Make Fine Writers

Mostly, it’s taken for granted that spoken and written discourse differ, but I’m here to tell you, at root, they’re very similar. Moreover, if you’re a great speaker, there’s no reason you can’t be at least a capable writer, though the obverse doesn’t always apply, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author, international keynote speaker and seminar presenter, and consultant to the Fortune 1000.

Rate Number 1 with a Conference Director

Never attended a writer's conference before? This article will give you tips on conference behavior, what to do if you have special needs or requests, have problems with the registration info, want to volunteer to help, etc.

Writer is Just about Writing

Everyday, from dawn to dusk, we see countless things to learn from or to store in library. It is true that we will never be able to catch all the things happening in each day; however, we suppose to learn as much as possible or most of the things. How can we do that?

Book Authors

Writing the great American novel is a dream project of many of us. One can be a book author and write about anything on this planet including cooking, child psychology, flowers, birds, shells, or furniture; or one can write coffee-table books or even computer books—the field is wide open.

Speaking Anxiety -- Are You One of the Many Sufferers?

Speaking Anxiety is the number one social phobia and if you are one of the many sufferers it can make your life much more difficult than it needs to be.

Watch Out: Internet Want Ads for Freelance Writers!

Good grief! Imagine my surprise when I applied for a freelance writing position that turned out to be something totally unexpected.

Online Tools Make Translation (Chinese/English) Easier

A list of online tools which may help to do translations, especially in Chinese (traditional and simplified) and English.