My high school English teacher, Mrs. Taylor, was a piece of work. She wore thick glasses, bright floral dresses and Navy nurse shoes from World War II. She also had a red pen permanently attached to her right hand, and she wasn’t afraid to use it. The woman literally corrected our conversations in the lunch [...]

Want to know the secret to creating MEMORABLE promotional copy? Sales copy that actually stays with your customers long after they’ve finished reading it?
Then master the art of using words to create pictures in your customers’ heads.
If you can describe your products or services in such a way that it forms images in [...]

1. Be Inspired. Oftentimes, a songwriter can come up with a hundred hindrances for writing. Yet one of the biggest challenges of being a songwriter is motivating oneself. The first step on learning how to write a song is to get that mental and emotional stimulation. You have to set your mind on a goal, [...]

Writing is never easy, especially when you encounter the so-called “writer’s block”. Add to that process, the idea of synchronizing melody to the words you write – now that is even more difficult. With the many hit songs in mass media today, it’s hard to find your own voice as a songwriter. If you’re thinking [...]

There are numerous ways on how to make money from writing. I’m not talking about publishing a novel or writing a screenplay! There are easier ways to make money from writing than these. Today’s fast-paced industry requires people to churn out more articles and columns; hence, it poses a need for competent writers. A great [...]

Ten years ago my husband interned as an English teacher at a public high school in Orange Park, Florida. For nine weeks he taught five standard-level eleventh-grade classes, his classroom bursting beyond capacity as the student-to-teacher ratio appeared to rise each day. Suffice to say, between the crowded
environment and the apathy among his students, many [...]

Over the years, writing experts have recognized that English writing skills are one of creative communication’s most essential aspects. Furthermore, today’s modern age of immediate communication has reinforced the requirement to write clearly, fully, and compellingly.  True enough, creative writing is a process that must be given a lot of consideration and effort. First, you [...]

I began writing my first novel in 1997. Six years, five drafts (give or take), two sons, and one major surgery later it was finally complete. Then it took another two years to get Cryptid published and on bookstore shelves. And don’t even ask how much Cryptid has earned me. The gravy train is certainly [...]

Writing articles for the school paper can be fun and interesting.  You can be the journalist who covers the school’s basketball game or spring concert.  Maybe you will go to school board meetings and report back to your fellow students on the decisions the board made.  You might interview the principal about the new classrooms [...]

You want to write that novel. For years you’ve dream of taking time off to transcribe the idea you’ve nurtured for years. You can see the action taking place and you know every detail you want to convey, right down to your heroine’s eye color and her favorite foods. Maybe now you do have the [...]