Interesting discussion I followed yesterday, about the numbers-game. And whether a search-engine could figure out whether an article has original content.
Would you please excuse me that I do not agree with this numbers game, more if it is about writing (articles).
Of course you can only improve the quality once there is a quantity. Once you […]

Novels to screenplays and screenplays to novels…sometimes a work shines in both forms.
I know because I’ve written seventeen screenplays and converted three of them to novels. I’ve also worked in the other direction, ghost writing a screenplay into a novel.
Since most of you are novelists, I’ll look at the process from that side. The biggest […]

Writing is a form of preserved talk, talk that has been pinned down on paper so the words can be heard again. The basic principles of good writing, apart, from grammatical correctness, might be presented as follows:
1) written sentences should sound like natural speech;
2) the words we use must be exact, fresh, full of […]

If you write articles, you probably know how important it is to use keywords in helping to get them indexed by search engines, and in getting the attention of publishers who might want to use your content.
Most people submit articles to directories while maintaining a copy on their website, often creating two nearly identical copies […]

If you are reading this first sentence then the answer is yes.
You see, the objective of the headline is to get the reader to keep reading.
Whether it’s an article, a sales letter, an ezine ad or just the subject heading in an email, the objective of the headline is to get the reader […]