Writers Block – Finding the Cure 0 comments

So you decide to become a writer and plan everything you need to succeed in your chosen path. Whether you are writing articles, ebooks or a novel, there comes a time in every writer’s life when you will be hit by that dreaded curse, writer’s block.

It’s comparable with the marathon runner who hits the wall before the end of the race, the tennis player who suddenly finds he let two sets run away from him. There are times when our brain simply hits overload and our mind just becomes so full of information it switches off. A writer is lucky, we can do something about it, but an athlete has to just hold in there.

Everybody is different; we all have various ways of overcoming writers block. I know of friends who say if they get stuck on one project, they just turn things around and start something else. Personally once my mind goes, I cannot complete even a shopping list! I do the best thing for me; I switch off the computer, walk away and take the dogs out. I find the peace and tranquillity of the countryside very relaxing, even on a normal day I gather my thoughts while on a walk. Many of my articles have been written while outside, I never leave the house without a micro cassette recorder.

With the introduction of the internet and the opportunities rising today for new authors to start writing from home, it comes as quite a shock when writer’s block suddenly prevents you from working. Be assured it happens to every writer, no-one is immune, even the top novelist’s in the world dry up at some stage.

Taking tips from others may help you: play an online game, listen to some music or bake some cookies. The clue’s here are simple in thought; take your mind off your writing. Following just a short break you will find your senses are heightened, your words begin to flow again.

The next time writer’s block hits you and I hate to sound pessimistic, but it will it’s an occupational hazard, you may find all you have to do is start to perform a writing exercise. Take the alphabet, for each letter try to think of a different niche you could write about. Take notes of your ideas and feel grateful for all the new material you have just gathered for future reference.

Now you can feel assured that writer’s block is not as daunting as you first thought when faced by that plain white sheet in front of you. It could even be a blessing.

7 Tips to Explode Your Business Writing Articles 0 comments

n today's highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of e commerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.

There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.

1.Reach more people

When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.

2.Free Advertising

Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.

3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking

Create a new web page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search-engine friendly. Use top-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new web page to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a very effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.

4.Increases Link Popularity

Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource box. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get as many link partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.

5.Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking

By making your site keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search-engine optimized.

6.Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation

By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.

7.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies

Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedback's and testimonies when you publish them in e-zines and free article sites. Record these positive feedback's and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedback's, as it will create a good impression on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility and trust may be the only things you need to attract new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business.

Tips for Writing a Successful Article 0 comments

One great way to convey your thoughts and feelings with the goal of becoming a professional writer, is writing articles.

Remember that Content is King. The better way you organize your ideas, the more publicity you get. Two basic points to be kept in mind while writing an article are:-

1. Use the simplest language possible

In order to contact as many people as possible with your words, you need use simple language. Why? It will appeal to a greater audience. Professional writers most frequently target an audience at what they call the fourth grade level.

It means that they are using the simplest possible language to express their reporting news and opinions.

Dont confuse this practice with a lack of ability to write using higher language skills. Simple language is used to expose the writing to a large audience. Naturally, not just any topic can be handled in this manner. Politics, social issues, and technical commentary demand more complicated language. These niche markets are the exceptions, not the rules. A direct, easily understood writing style that is readily grasped by a large number of people is the best recipe for successful writing.

2. Represent your ideas in an interesting manner

Readers will want to gain something beneficial from what they read. If your ideas are well arranged, they will draw the attention of more readers, so be entertaining! One useful way to hone your skills is making good use of a very well known style of article writing, often referred to as a five paragraph essay. These are frequently used online and in magazines. The approach is great for brief, yet interesting articles that maintain their quality from the first sentence right down to the very last. Dont fill them will unnecessary descriptions that can bore your readers.

Five paragraph essay - Step by step guide

1) First Paragraph: Introduction- Presents your topic and mentions ideas connected to it

2) Second, Third, and Fourth paragraphs: Making good use of creative simplicity, these paragraphs develop your topic and supportive points from the introduction.

3) Fifth paragraph: Conclusion " Combines a summary of your points and emphasizes the articles intended goal.

Learning to write five paragraph essays skillfully will enable you to produce clear, attention capturing, well written articles for magazines and online sources. A simple, easy to understand writing style combined with well arranged thoughts (not to mention your computers priceless ability to check both grammar and spelling) will have you writing confidently and successfully before you know it!

How to write a novel in 100 days or less 0 comments

How to write a novel in 100 days or less
by John Coyne

How many times have you finished reading a novel and said, “I could have written that book.” You know what? You’re right. All of us, I believe, carry at least one novel around in our heads or our hearts. Novelist Toni Morrison put it this way: “If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Writing a book is no easy task. Nevertheless, every day another book is published.
In 1996, according to Books in Print, 1.3 million book titles were in print. The number of books published in 1996 alone was 140,000 in the United States. So, why not you?

What you need
I believe that if you can write a simple English sentence (after all, that’s what Ernest Hemingway wrote), are alert to the world around you, and want to write a salable novel — really want to, not just kind of want to — then you can do it. I don’t think anybody ever became a writer by going to a workshop, reading a book, or even reading this article. Writing comes from something internal in a writer. However, this article will save you time, point you in the right direction, and help you write a novel in 100 days or less.

Possible?
It works. I’ve done it myself several times.
I know what it means to squeeze in an hour or two a day (or night) of writing. It is not easy to write a novel, not when you have a full time job, family, and responsibilities, but it can be done. Most writers, in fact, have had to carry on two lives while they wrote their novel. But once you sell your first book, than maybe you’ll be in the position to quit your day job and devote the rest of your life to writing full time.

Great writers have done it
Yes, you have a job. Yes, you have a family. Neither have stopped great writers in the past. The poet Wallace Stevens was a vice president of an insurance company and an expert on the bond market. The young T.S. Eliot was a banker. William Carlos Williams was a pediatrician. Robert Frost was a poultry farmer. Hart Crane packed candy in his father’s warehouse, and later wrote advertising copy. Stephen Crane was a war correspondent. Marianne Moore worked at the New York Public Library. James Dickey worked for an advertising agency. Archibald MacLeish was Director of the Office of Facts and Figures during World War II.

Drawing from pure emotion
What makes a writer? Perhaps it is a single incident — one that happens early in life and shapes the writer’s sense of wonder and self-awareness.
Take the case of José Saramago, the first Portuguese-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The son of a peasant father and an illiterate mother, brought up in a home with no books, he took almost 40 years to go from metalworker to civil servant to editor in a publishing house to newspaper editor. He was 60 before he earned recognition at home and abroad with Baltasar and Blimunda.
As a child, he spent vacations with his grandparents in a village called Azinhaga. When his grandfather suffered a stroke and was to be taken to Lisbon for treatment, Saramago recalls, "He went into the yard of his house, where there were a few trees, fig trees, olive trees. And he went one by one, embracing the trees and crying, saying good-bye to them because he knew he would not return. To see this, to live this, if that doesn’t mark you for the rest of your life," Saramago says, "you have no feeling."
Begin with that pure emotion. Turn it into prose.

Let us begin
Sinclair Lewis was invited to talk to some students about the writer’s craft. He stood at the head of the class and asked, “How many of you here are really serious about being writers?” A sea of hands shot up. Lewis then asked, “Well, why aren't you all home writing?” And with that he walked out of the room.
So now it is time for you to be writing.
What follows is your daily log — each day may have words of encouragement, advice, or wisdom or a task for you to do to get your book written. It is what you need to do each day for the next hundred days to write your novel.

Blog Writing Project: Tips & Tricks 0 comments

It is time for another blog writing project! The last one was very successful, with plenty of traffic and backlinks for all the 118 participants. The format will be the same, but this time we will have a cash prize of $500 for the five winners ($100 for each one).

The project will be sponsored by BidVertiser, a pay per click advertising network where advertisers bid against each other for the advertising space. With BidVertiser bloggers are be able to customize and have full control of their ads, and the payments are sent directly to your PayPal account with a minimum payout of $10. They also offer $20 in free clicks to all new advertisers, so check it out.

As you probably guessed from the headline, the topic for this project is “Tips & Tricks.” Just write a post sharing your tips and tricks around any subject. It could be “Tips to Improve your Website,” “3 Easy Ways to Become a Better Writer” or even “Tricks to Keep your Weight Under Control.” You are free to get creative.

Rules:

* Write a post as described above (only one entry per blog).
* Use the Contact form and send me the URL of the post, the title and your name.
* Once I publish the final list of participants, you will browse around them and post a list of your favorite entries (it can be a Top 3, Top 5, Top 10 or anything else).
* Points will be assigned to the entries mentioned on these “favorites” lists (1 point per mention, regardless of the position), and the authors of the 5 entries receiving more points will win $100 each.

This format incentives people to read and link to the participant entries. It is also meritocratic since the participants themselves get to vote on the entries and to decide the winners of the cash prize.

You have until the midnight of next Tuesday (18th September) to submit your post. Good luck to everyone and let’s have fun!

get coke film 0 comments

Coke Happiness Factory Coca-Cola Happiness Factory : Coke Happiness Movie : Happiness Factory



Det hele startet med en animert spot gjort av Psyop for Kull og byrået Wieden + Kennedy. Siden lansering i 2006, den originale "Happiness Factory" har gått på å bli den høyest rangerte globale spot The Coca-Cola Company noen gang har testet. Annonsen har vunnet flere priser, inkludert en "Silver Lion" i 2007 Cannes annonsering utmerkelser, "Grand Prix Gold Prize" i 2006 Epica Awards, og senest en nominasjon for en primetime kommersielle "Emmy" i USA.

Jeg tror jeg sett dette mange ganger utforske kjærlighet og sjel som gikk inn å gjøre denne historien. Du straks at mange mente gikk inn i hver karakter for å sørge for at de legger til story-line. Du kan klikke Storyboard nedenfor for å se det større og se hvordan ideene er tegnet på papir.

Display Blogger widget only in home page 0 comments


Usually , widgets in Blogger blogs are displayed in all pages .For eg: , look at the Get posts by email widget on my right side bar . It is displayed in all pages of my blog . Now if you want to display Blogger widget only in home page , you have to edit your Blogger template with the following strip (in blue) of code . Here is HTML2 is my widget id for "Get posts by Email ".There may be different ids for different widgets .
In each case , should be added to make them fixed to the home page . 


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Open your Blogger templates Layout and then Edit HTML
Click on expand widget templates . With Ctrl+F search for each widget with its ids or given label .
Now paste the code as specified and save your template . The edited Blogger widget would appear only in the homepage .

Note : You can display Blogger widget in all pages except home page by altering above code(in blue) with this one .


Or you can display a Blogger widget only in a particular post page by changing it with following code .

Fixed post or sticky post is post that can be attached permanently to the top of the Blogger home page . There no actual direct solution for this , so we are applying some tricks to keep the post fixed on the Blogger home page .

First of all you need to create the post that is to be fixed in the text editing area of your Blogger blog. Now publish the post as usual . Just after publishing , click edit and return to the text editor . You can see a post options menu on the bottom left hand side of the window . Change the post date to a future date and publish the post again . Now this particular post will be fixed on the home page of your blog

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