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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 16, 2008.
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When it pertains to your writing, your grammar is an important part of making a good impression.
You may not realize it, but you are judged by what you write. Using correct grammar not only conveys a precise meaning, it also gives readers confidence that you know what you’re talking about. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 15, 2008.
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Whether you or your organization have a need to apply for a grant or want to undertake another form of fundraising, in The Everything Improve Your Writing Book you’ll learn there are certain rules that apply.
Defining Your Goals
Make a wish list. Grab a piece of paper and write down everything you’d like to see accomplished. If you’re working with a group, brainstorm all the ideas you can come up with. The sky’s the limit on this one-just keep writing down ideas, no matter how ludicrous or bizarre they seem. This is a great way for generating ideas. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 14, 2008.
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Everybody likes to laugh. It’s therapeutic. It’s nonfattening. It’s fun! Even more satisfying than laughing yourself is the ability to make others do so. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
Like so many things in life, humor is a skill. Perfecting a skill takes work — and, in this case, study. Before you put your personal humor-writing abilities into practice, it helps to learn and understand the theories and concepts on what makes something funny.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 13, 2008.
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Lateral thinking is a creative-thinking technique by which you use apparently illogical methods to solve problems.
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 12, 2008.
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Whether you need to write a personal letter, a complaint letter, a thank you letter or note, or an e-mail, there are books available that can help you simplify the process.
Writing a letter is like any other form of writing. There are steps you can take to help you organize (or outline) your work. Doing this streamlines the editing process, thereby saving you time overall. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 11, 2008.
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Whenever you’re writing for publication, there are certain rules to follow. Manuscript style preferences and submission standards vary from publisher to publisher-and by imprint within larger publishing conglomerates. Submission standards for fiction also vary from those for nonfiction. The content needs and expectations for general interest publications differ significantly from those of academic, literary, religious, and scientific periodicals. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 10, 2008.
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Memoirs and family history are written as ways to revisit parts of the past and record those events as a means of self-discovery, or to preserve those memories for future generations. While a memoir is often associated with a full-length book, it’s a form of expression that can be as simple as one’s written impression about a memory or event. A scrapbook is a pictorial record that can include memoir or family history as a means to document the photographs. Whether such documentation is a lengthy passage or a simple phrase to describe a photo, this way of preserving family or other personal history is known as scrapbooking.
Anecdotes and other forms of humor, reviews, and personal essays and memoirs are ways you can personalize your writing. An understanding of these forms and how to write them can add further dimension to your skills. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 9, 2008.
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Whether or not you’re actually writing a story for the newspaper (as a freelance writer or in the form of a press release submitted by your club or organization), you’ll use the same techniques the professional journalists do. Regardless of how you structure the beginning, the middle, and the end of your story, it needs to include that ever-essential who, what, when, where, why, and how information. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 8, 2008.
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Whether it’s for a Web site, e-mail, or other electronic media, writing for the Web has its own rules and conventions.
New rules have surfaced since the advent of the Internet; it, too, requires its own unique approach. With high-speed Internet access more widely available, keeping page-loading times short isn’t as important as it once was, but readers still expect information to be presented in much smaller segments. That’s why in most cases, short paragraphs and clear and concise language are a must. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on June 7, 2008.
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Whenever you’re writing for publication, there are certain rules to follow. Manuscript style preferences and submission standards vary from publisher to publisher-and by imprint within larger publishing conglomerates. Submission standards for fiction also vary from those for nonfiction. The content needs and expectations for general interest publications differ significantly from those of academic, literary, religious, and scientific periodicals. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn
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A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of 18 published books.