Social Media Marketing: Writing Tools for Business
Social media marketing is a phenomenal tool used to advertise, promote, inform, and generate business. There are hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of potential consumers at your fingertips. Keep in mind, there are also thousand of other businesses vying for that same attention. Social media marketing requires concise, compelling utilization of language to gain attention. Newsfeeds condition the user to scroll through quickly. Your concise, compelling post may be
Dialogue: The Emotion Within My Story
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired, In-Spirit Publishing Dialogue: The Emotion Within My Story Dialogue brings your characters to life. It is the expression of their personalities. Dialogue is extremely important within your nonfiction work. There are some important things to know about dialogue. Dialogue is always a new paragraph. It belongs on the next line, indented and preceded by an open quote. When dialogue for the first person is completed, it needs a closed quote. When the next
Journaling: Articulating Your Thoughts
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired, In-Spirit Publishing Journaling: Articulating Your Thoughts As a writer, the ability to articulate your thoughts is crucial. It can also be difficult. In addition to writing, journaling may be beneficial to your writing. Journaling keeps your writing consistent. Part of completing your manuscript, means being self discipline enough to work on it often. Journaling can assist you in creating the habit of writing. If you work diligently towards this, your
Developing Clean Manuscripts
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired In-Spirit Publishing Developing Clean Manuscripts Writing is a skill. It's one that should be practiced and developed, often. The best way to do this, is to create good writing habits. One of the writing habits you should work hard to develop is the proper way to write. In a world filled with FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, text messages, etc., where communication comes in small bursts, it's easy to communicate in textese. What is textease, you ask? Acron
How do I Find Time to Write?
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired, In-Spirit Publishing How do I Find Time to Write? Writers often ask me, how am I able to publish a novel, every single year. I have four works published in four years. My answer is consistency and discipline. I make time to work on my manuscripts. I make time to write. As a wife and mother of a teenager, two small boys, and a newborn, I have as many obligations and responsibilities as anyone. How I utilize my time to get things done, is key. Take a t
How to Work Through Writers Block: Daily Meditation On Your Work
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired, In-Spirit Publishing How to Work Through Writers Block: Daily Meditation On Your Work Writers block can really be a challenge to writers. The further into the story you worked, the more annoying writers block can be. Before putting the manuscript away to collect dust, try the following: Meditate on your writing, daily. I write in my head the majority of my day. This is done during activities that don't need my undivided attention. I construct and devel
Just Write!
ERIN N. SIMON Inspired In-Spirit Publishing Just Write! As a published author, I am often asked, "How do I begin writing?" While the writing process has no right or wrong way, here are a few suggestions: Just write. Write every single detail that you see in your mind. -What do you see? -What does the character or characters look like? -What are they doing? -Why are they doing that? -If more than one character is present, what at they discussing? -What emotions are involved? -
