Writing craft

Internet Marketing Mistakes: Underestimating Practice

Posted by Jan Bear on August 9, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Image by zaui via Flickr When I first stated this game, I took the gurus too literally when they said, “Drive 7 billion visitors to your site in 24 hours,” or, “Make $800 kazillion in 2 days.” I thought they were talking about me. Then when I tried to secret method or the super technique, [...]

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Why I Hate (and Love) PLR

Posted by Jan Bear on July 30, 2010 at 11:00 am

Private label rights, or PLR, is what they call it when you can do anything you want with the information item you’ve just acquired. Let’s say you’re just read something terrific in a book under copyright and would like to post it on your blog. You can quote it, or you can write about it. [...]

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The most dangerous grammar error

Posted by Jan Bear on November 16, 2009 at 12:25 pm

You can get away with a lot of writing errors: too-informal language, wrong verb forms, and run-on sentences. If you don’t overdo it, readers might overlook an error like that, consider it a minor mistake, and figure out your idea despite your means of expressing it. When you put a modifier in the wrong place, [...]

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Clear, forceful writing depends on verbs

Posted by Jan Bear on November 16, 2009 at 12:11 pm

No matter what you’re writing, fresh and lively verbs can mean the difference between a reader who reads to the end and a reader who wanders off to check his email. The verb is the heart of every sentence, and a golden verb makes the whole sentence shine. By contrast, a dull verb can make [...]

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Affect, effect — What’s the difference?

Posted by Jan Bear on November 16, 2009 at 12:09 pm

A lot of people have trouble with the words “affect” and “effect.” The words have similar but different meanings and spellings, and they usually sound exactly the same when spoken. But when they’re used wrong in writing, they brand the writer as not very knowledgeable about the language and perhaps — though this may be [...]

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