In a writing seminar I once attended (actually, it was the only one I ever attended), the speaker noted how some writers had the tendency to “over-describe”. When presenting readers with the story at hand, they tend to mistake “exaggerated” for “detailed”.
It’s not that you should be stingy when it comes to presenting your story.
A detailed story with enough meat and bones to satisfy readers is always good. You want your readers to find something they can sink their teeth into. I suppose you’ve come across articles …

You might have noticed the exclamation mark in the title.
Sorry if I’m a bit excited, but this has never happened in this site before. Usually, I get 50 - 60 hits tops each day. Today, though, I got a whopping 110 hits! I was shocked, of course, quite unbelieving when I saw the data. My first thought was that there was some sort of glitch in the matrix, but then it checked out. I did get 110 hits in a day.
I had to check the …

One thing that stumps most writers trying to eke out a living in the field of academic writing is the plethora of citation styles available. One only has to google “citation style” and out will come all these weird acronyms and terms that seem more suited to aged librarians than modern writers.
Rest assured, however, that these styles are lot less complicated than they seem.
I never had a problem with citation styles simply because I took up a course in college that would put a little too much emphasis on …

I’m a little bored today and I’m not exactly in the mood to write, so I decided to surf around the net for a nice meme on writing for a change. As I told you previously, a meme can be quite helpful when you’re running out of ideas. Here’s something I found on Writing Wrongs. Lovely site, and the posts are insightful. Anyway, here’s the meme with my answers:
What’s Your Writing Style?

It’s always been my dream to write a travel blog (or column), but I don’t have enough travel experience to do so. I’ve only been to a few cities in China and a few provinces in the Philippines. Of course, all my experiences in these places were really remarkable and quite memorable. Still, a travel writer should be able to cover more than two countries. Otherwise it would be boring and quite lacking in variety.
That’s a problem that I noticed in a lot of “travel” websites.
These …

Apart from choosing the domain name, one other dilemma that has bloggers rolling around in grief is the selection of the appropriate theme for the website.
The theme, after all, is the face of your website. It’s the first thing that greets your visitor’s eye, even before they get to read the content proper. The theme’s colors, layout and overall appeal is a representation of you and your blog. Whether you intend to or not, your choice of theme inevitably speaks volumes about you, your credibility and the …

As a blogger and reader, one thing I’ve realized is that there are some blogs I don’t bother to read at all. It’s not that these blogs are horrible; alright, some of them are. However, my point is that I don’t take time to view some blogs that might actually be worth reading, simply because getting them to open is a difficulty in itself. A lot of times, we find blogs with interesting titles, only to get bored halfway through because loading takes a few minutes …

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Previously, I mentioned working for a few essay writing (or academic writing) companies online. Almost always, I faced late payments and convoluted pay methods.
Both companies (Allwriting and EssayWriters) paid me, although AW owes me a bit and hasn’t responded yet and EW lacks projects. Unfortunately, I always get some sort of paranoid feeling in my gut when working for these companies, because you can find complaints against them all over the internet.
I’ve talked to people who have very good experiences with AW and EW; however, this doesn’t negate …