Writing Articles (Sorted by date)

Time & its significance

TIME & ITS SIGNIFICANCE This essay is about Time, the past, the present and the future. It is also about the things that are in time. Life is brusque, and is an ample of time, which goes leisurely, at a slow pace.
HAJERA HASAN.June 05, 2007

Prevent Plagiarism; prevent the plague in writing and researching

One of the most vital rules that a writer or researcher should live by is to prevent plagiarism. The act of committing such is considered more than deplorable in the field of journalism and researching.
Ellen Joy CastelJune 03, 2007

Charles Manson and The family

‘A criminal is not a criminal by birth but made by the world’. This holds true in the case of Charles Manson. Born on 12th November 1934 to an unwed teenage mother in Cincinnati, Charles never knew his biological father.
Carlos Cabezas LópezMay 03, 2007

Tips For Writing A Poem

At least once in our life, we’re all faced with having to write a poem of our own. Some of us succeed on our first try. Others fail at first, but keep trying until they get it right.
Raul PopMarch 24, 2007

Voice in Narrative and Dialogue

One of the nice things about being an author is that we can break any rule we want. (I just did.) It's part of our job description. Language changes through usage -- definitions, spelling, grammar -- and authors can help it do this.
Michael LaRoccaDecember 12, 2006

Promoting Your "How To" Book - Customer Confidence Building

Once you have your book completed and out in the marketplace you cannot sit back and hope the sales will be great unless you have no desire or care to see it sell, YOU have to promote it.
Michael MouldDecember 12, 2006

The Wordos Are Coming! The Wordos Are Coming! A Wordo Alert

Actually, the wordos are already here. Probably have been ever since people started using that new-fangled tool – writing – to make something other than inventory lists.
Bill Moore aka Prof. WordoDecember 12, 2006

Write A Super Bowl Ad: No Writing Skills Needed?!?

I want to make this point crystal clear: if you write a Super Bowl ad and it gets produced and shown on the big game down in Florida, your life will be in jeapordy.Why?Because the people in the ad business that live and breathe advertising have...
Kevin BrowneDecember 12, 2006

The Worth of the Wicked

Sometimes writers mistakenly devote most of their attention to developing the main character while leaving the antagonist flat and underutilized. Yet so much of the meat of a story can be found in the doings of a well-written bad guy who experiences...
Stephanie D. TysonDecember 12, 2006

Writing a Memoir: Should You Do It?

With the tremendous success of such memoirs as Frank McCourt’s "Angela’s Ashes," Mary Karr’s "The Liar’s Club," and Dave Eggers’s "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," the 1990s and early...
Lisa SilvermanDecember 11, 2006