If you are reading this post, there is an eight out of ten chance that you found the link on a LinkedIn Group. LinkedIn is perhaps the most effective networking tool out there on the ‘interwebs’. Those who use it well can grow their profile and business. But did you know it can also dramatically … Continue reading
I recently wrote a short story for the Australian Securities Research Centre. It was awarded third place and has recently been published (see previous post). I have just received a .pdf version of the published collection of stories and thought I would share it with you all for free! My story is the first cab … Continue reading
I’ll give you a hint… It’s not – “I’m Prince of Nigeria!” It might surprise you to know that after having written many sales emails, one phrase that seems to get the most opens is: “You are not alone“. I use Aweber, which counts each email that’s been opened, even if they’re from the same … Continue reading
Working on deadline teaches you a few things. Firstly, you will never have enough time to write the way you want. And secondly, you need to learn to write fast if you want to earn a living. That said, writing quickly doesn’t mean you have to compromise on quality. Quite the opposite, some of my … Continue reading
English is one of the richest languages in the world. It has adopted, molded and reinvented countless times since it’s creation. Yet surprisingly, we still don’t have all the words we need to describe all of our experiences and feelings. Enter the obscure foreign words: Have you ever burnt your mouth eating hot food? Buli … Continue reading
WHAT’S YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS TWITTER? Is it: “If I just sat there reading Tweets all day, I would never get anything done.” “It’s all just spam.” These are common complaints I hear about Twitter and truth be told, Twitter does feel like that sometimes. So how do you avoid your own tweets from getting lost … Continue reading
So kid, you want to be a writer, huh? Yeah, well being a writer is not as easy as it looks. Just ask any novelist with writer’s block, any journalist on a deadline or any copywriter creating a passage on a subject they know nothing about. From the outside looking in, writing seems to be … Continue reading
Junee – now with flushing toilets! When I was approached with some tickets to a tour of ‘The Most Haunted House In Australia”, my initial reaction was of excitement. Ever since I was a child I had had a fascination with the supernatural. My father would often recount the stories of the haunted house we … Continue reading
Writers would be familiar with seeing lorem ipsim in many drafts of copy, as would those who are in the design or publishing game. No doubt you would have recognised the words written as a filler for a webpage or a blog post. So what does ‘lorem ipsum’ mean? Well other than confusing the hell out … Continue reading
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