Sometimes we create our own troubles by sheer force of habit. For instance, if you don’t consider yourself a good writer your first reaction to being required to write a school essay might involve fear, anxiety and worry. If your classes involve report or research-based writing, your primary reaction may be to put off writing […]
Freelance Writing – Top 10 Ways to Develop The Speed of Writing
Choose a topic, set your writing mood, get your focus, and start writing. Freelance writing skills and research skills always go together. This means that freelance writers need to develop both research and writing skills to enhance their freelance writing speed. Freelance writing research skill is crucial to creating the outline, choosing reliable resources, collecting […]
Academic Writing – 5 Suggestions for Improving Academic Writing Skills
There are tons of academic writing essays and custom essays that have been specifically made to understand and to provide information to students that want to have their work done for them. Often times there is a difference when it comes some of the information that is being provided and whether or not the information […]
Can Our Differences Bring Us Together?
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt~ Does this seem like a strange question? We usually try to think of ways to get along with others despite our […]
How to Rock Your Personal Statement
With all the burdens that come with it, one does particularly stand out. It’s a personal statement. A personal statement is a short document that presents and proclaims your motivation to apply to a college or university. A well-written article will show your qualifications, experience, qualities and unique components of you as a promising candidate. […]
Writing Essays – Seeing the New View in Carl Sagan’s Essay, The Abstraction of Beasts
If you’ll follow and learn this three-step method of analyzing published essays I show here, you’ll be able to understand published essays and write your own essays about them. Carl Sagan has written an excellent essay, “The Abstraction of Beasts,” providing another strong illustration of the old view – new view pattern intuitively used in […]
Elements of Novel Writing
INTRODUCTION: A novel, often subdivided into sections, chapters, and scenes, and entailing expository, narrative, and narrative summary writing, creatively depicts a protagonist’s journey, usually fraught with obstacles and restrictions, toward a personal goal. “All novels have similar elements,” according to Walter Mosley in his book, “This Year You Write Your Novel” (Little, Brown and Company, […]
Appreciation of Poetry
A lot of students are expected to write a literary essay based on appreciation of poetry. To make the task enjoyable we need to define poetry. What is poetry? Edmund Clarence Stedman said the following: “Poetry is rhythmical, imaginative language expressing the invention, taste, thought, passion, and insight of the human soul.” Poetry is the […]
Acclaimed Children’s Writer Amy Friedman Interviewed
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of the book reviewing and interviewing site Bookpleasures is excited to have as our guest, Amy Friedman, acclaimed writer who wrote Tell Me a Story for Universal Press Syndicate. Good day Amy and thank your for agreeing to participate in our interview. Good day, Norm, and thanks a million for having […]
Writing Adds Life to Stories, Romance or Entertaining Content – Enjoy All That Writing Entails
***There are so many things to share with writers’ that I have learned, on my own, that is very helpful in the writing process. Making writing more fluid and free-flowing and discovering what works best for you is your biggest asset throughout the writing process. You can achieve this by having a conversation with your […]