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EPISODE 6: BE CONSISTENT! Four Writing Practices Where You Need to Keep Things Uniform

Your writing needs to clearly communicate with your audience what it is that you are trying to say. Part of that process is demonstrating to readers your authority over your writing form.  While you want to show that you know what you’re writing about, you also want to demonstrate that you know what you’re doing as writer as a well.

Our new WritingandEditingTipsandTricks.com video—Be Consistent!: Four Writing Practices Where You Need to Keep Things Uniform—offers best practices that will help you craft a skilled and effective piece of work.

The four areas that Episode Six looks at are: Continue reading “EPISODE 6: BE CONSISTENT! Four Writing Practices Where You Need to Keep Things Uniform”

BE AN IN/CONSISTENT WRITER Two New Episodes Coming Soon

Which practices need you to be consistent?  Which practices need you to keep changing things up?

Our next two episode outline eight rules of writing that will help you craft a skilled and effective piece.

Be An In/Consistent Writer: Coming Soon!

EPISODE 4: SPEAKING ALOUD AS A WRITING & EDITING TOOL Use Your Voice to Find the Right Words

Struggling with Writer’s Block?

Even if you have created your story skeleton and are clear on what you’ll be writing about, you still may  find it difficult to get the actual writing underway.

In Episode 4, Speaking Aloud as a Writing & Editing Tool (Use Your Voice to Find the Right Words), I’ll explain how speaking aloud can be employed to get the words flowing, and then help edit those words when the drafts are done.

Watch and find out how to use your voice to unblock and get your writing underway.

EPISODE 3: GET WRITING & KEEP GOING How to Unblock & Get the Words Flowing

Do you find it difficult to start your writing project, even if you’ve created a story skeleton and are clear on what you are going to write about? Keep getting stuck on those first words? Find the task at hand overwhelming?

Find out in Episode 3 how to unblock and get the words flowing, keep going, and “dress” your skeleton.

EPISODE 2: BUILDING YOUR STORY SKELETON How to Structure Your Topic Ideas Before You Begin Writing

Having a hard time getting starting with your writing because you can’t organize your thoughts?  In Episode 1, I introduced you to a solution for this problem: The Story Skeleton.

Putting a skeleton together involves ordering the topics and sub-topics that you will be writing about into a logically structured series of bones.  However, the actual task of building the skeleton can be frustrating in itself if you are sill not clear in your thinking and can’t seem to put the bones into a logical order.

In Episode 2, I take a more in-depth look at the skeleton-building process, with me sharing some tips and tricks to help you strategically classify and order your thoughts, build your skeleton, and get writing.

EPISODE 1: THE STORY SKELETON How to Organize Your Ideas & Get Writing

Learn how to overcome blocks and get writing by organizing your thoughts into a story skeleton. Creating a skeleton will give you a roadmap, allowing you to de-stress and go forward with clarity and confidence.