FuN wItH wRiTiNg
In this post, let me share ideas with you to allow your creative juices and imagination to flow, by me naming people, objects, places and incidents in their own terms. Not necessarily to mock them, but to bring out their actual trails. The greatest writer of all, who we knew played around with the names of their characters effectively, was Charles Dickens. Remember his characters Fagin, Uriah heep (yes, later to be an 80’s band), Mr. Bumble, Mrs. Sparsit and so on. Contemporary Scottish writer, Irvine Welsh, also often plays with this form, through his otherwise dark and brooding characters.
So, let us start by playing with names to extend our imaginative faculties a little. Choose a couple of unnamed photographs. After you have a considerable number of them, sit down and makeup you own nicknames for the characters. Closely observe their body language, background, and attire. Now spin write a fun account of the reasons to the origination of their names. Have their caricature play on the group photographs, the result is intoxicating humor. After you have names and explained the origins of the characters, give a name to the entire group and have a fictive reason for them coming together. You can do similar caricatures for the people around you. The next time someone bugs you at the office you can just take a look at your creation and laugh to yourself. From time to time, add and subtract features so your characters reflect reality more.
Write Like You Have Never Written Before…
One of the most important aspects of writing is in the background research. No matter how well you know a subject there is always room for more knowledge. There are always going to be opinionated differences on the subject you are writing about, so acknowledge the opinion of others as well. After research has been done, it is essential for the writer to make a structure of what he or she wants to write. This helps you write with linear thought and allows you to experiment writing whenever you want. When you sit down to write, write what you know as this will give you confidence and your writing will become interesting (hopefully anyway).
Choosing the right subject to write about is very important. We also have to know where to limit ourselves when we are writing about something we are passionate about. We cannot become carried away when writing for a topic that captures our interest. At the same time, do not tread into territories that you are unsure of, because this will be reflected in your writing even if you want to hide it in a mesh of a glorious profusion of words.
Experience Makes You Perfect
Experience is a bad teacher; it takes your test first and teaches you the lesson later. Rightly said, isn’t it? Who said people are born great writers? Just like other things that you do, getting better at writing requires regular practice. After all, practice makes you perfect and experience certainly counts! By practice, I do not mean reading some writing tips, listening to lectures on writing, or attending readings. I mean actual writing, daily, on meaningful topics or maybe writing about something that interests you.
The more you write, the easier it gets, and this motivates you even more. The key word here is experience – there is little to substitute it. The more experience you gain with writing, the more confidence you will gain and the better you will get at it. Each time you write something, you will come up with better ideas. With each draft, the quality of your writing improves, or so experts feel! Improvement is bound to take place with time and due effort, spent by you in writing.
Brilliant writing does not just happen overnight or in just one week. It takes years for writers to get the confidence they need so that they can actually write well. Some fear writing, for they fear making mistakes. However, who does not make mistakes? It’s the ones who learn their mistakes that turn out to be great writers and excel in their chosen field. So, don’t fear the unknown, as unless you unravel new areas, you will never know where your skills lie!
Good Marketing Concepts Make All The Difference
Here are some web marketing concepts that make a difference. Adopting them might just pave the path to your success and of course, customer satisfaction.
Think audience and not market - Have you ever been asked by a web consultant what your market is? Is it 20-year-old college students, or 35-year-old women who hate their husbands? Alternatively, maybe the question itself is wrong. The web is not about markets at all, it is about targeted audiences. In this case, audiences need to be understood, entertained and engaged. In case your pitch doesn't do that, you are never going to establish your goal! Start treating web visitors as an audience and not as market, and in due time you will find what it takes to be triumphant on the Web.
Think people and not customers - Have you ever wondered why half the people you attract to your website (through painstaking SEO changes), hardly buy anything? It is because they have been treated more like customers than people. Yes, that's right. By people we mean two-legged creatures looking for their needs and desires to be fulfilled, by you helping them spend a little money of course.