We love teaching people and helping them improve their days to have more free time so they can go play outside. Well, James loves playing outside. Harry likes to help people. That’s why we decided to participate in RSS Awareness Day happening on May 1st (and you can, too.) The day involves writing something about [...]
When You Don’t Want to Be Big Business
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Writing is intensive work. It takes a good mindset, some creativity, a productive moment and a muse that feels in the mood for love. Creative work can be draining, too. It takes energy to think, and a session with words can leave you feeling mentally exhausted. When you’re a writer or when you have to [...]
Four Ways to Target Buyers With Writing
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Writing copy for a website? Penning some web content for a client? Trying to be compelling with your words? Wait a minute – just whom are you trying to compel? What type of buyer are you targeting? You need to use emotional language that evokes the senses, you need to make it simple and attractive [...]
What To Do With Performance Anxiety
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Performance anxiety. We’ve all dealt with it at one time or another. You need to produce, the whole world is watching (or so it seems) and you feel like your muse has deserted you. You stare at the blank page and suddenly realize that all of your miracle-working brilliance has gone right out the window. [...]
Fiction Writing: Find the Spirit of Aloha
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Aloha: it means hello, good-bye, and I love you. Aloha is more than a word, though. In the Hawaiian culture, aloha embodies the spirit of the islands and its people. It is a mindset and a way of life called “the Aloha Spirit”. Within this Aloha Spirit is a form of spirituality the Hawaiians call [...]
Is Charging More the Right Thing to Do?
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Note: This post is our personal opinion and will most likely set our blog on fire with heated debate and criticism for its controversial content. We ask that all comments remain polite and respectful at all times, no matter what your views may be. “That’s all you charge?” The startled words came back at me. [...]
Drive-By-Shooting Sundays: Musings of the Chatty DM
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The moment was nothing like last week’s hit. “It’s too quiet.” Even Harry’s whisper sounded loud to his own ears. Fog shrouded the streets, meshing the dawn with hazy shadows. Nothing stirred. No cars, no people, nothing but silence. “This fog is misting up my scope,” he cursed under his breath. “I’m going in.” Harry [...]
What Does Writing Mean to You?
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Not so long ago, my friend Charlie from Charfish Design wrote about what it means to him to be a designer. It left me wondering what it means to be a writer – and that’s not a question so easily answered. Once upon a time, I wrote. I wrote often, frequently and on all sorts [...]
What to Do When Low Rates Hold You Back
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“I think there’s something you should know. I think it’s time I stopped the show. There’s something deep inside of me. There’s someone I forgot to be.” – George Michael, Freedom! 90 In 1990, George Michael wrote a song about breaking free. It’s one of my favorite songs, and the lyrics reach me each time. [...]
The Key to Getting an Extreme Reader Response
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With the barrage of content hitting the Internet daily, how are you going to make your words stand out? Do they just come up short or fall flat and lifeless? Or are you giving your readers something more, something a little Extreme? Believe me – if you’re not getting a response from your readers, you’ve [...]
