A Technical Writer Guide To Understanding Readers

Learn how readers function with regards to technical writing. Get the inside track on how readers skim and scan, want to know the how and why of a technical writing document before they get the details and judge a technical writer on content and writing quality.

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : Shape Shifter

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey you need to know about...

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : Transformation Mentor

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about...

Fluency Disorders: Stuttering vs Cluttering

While the spoken word is taken for granted by most of us, the use of the verbal language is challenging for millions of individuals living with speech-language disorders. It is estimated that approximately three million individuals, of all ages, suffers some form of fluency disorder. For many of those individuals daily communication is a struggle and their verbal ability does not open doors but closes them in the areas of academic, interpersonal relation, professional development, and personal achievement.

Voice Coaching & Vocal Skills to Enhance Your Personal Impact

When used correctly the voice can be a powerful tool in most situations. Some simple, practical techniques can help you make the most of your voice and get your point across with greater clarity and conviction.

Elocution, Accent Softening & Voice Coaching - Stage 1

Elocution has been around for centuries as a means of helping people to speak with more clarity and finesse. But can some simple elocution or voice coaching lessons actually help improve your impact when you speak today? And does it really have some place in business training? Try some of the very simple exercises in this and a followup article and see for yourself if elocution or voice coaching might offer you a means of creating more impact the next time you are speaking.

Improve Your Vocabulary

There are some easy ways to improve your vocabulary that don’t take long hours of studying boring dictionaries. Here are a few ideas.

Ten Tips for a Successful Public Reading

There are a number of things you can do to ensure a successful public poetry or book reading!

Verb

The sound-replacive type of derivation and the stress-replacive type of derivation are unproductive: food — to feed, blood — to bleed; 'import — to im'port, 'transport — to trans'port. The typical suffixes expanding the stem of the verb are: -ate (cultivate), -en (broaden), -ifу (clarify), -ise(-ize) (normalise). The verb-deriving prefixes of the inter-class type are: be- (belittle, befriend, bemoan) and en-/em- (engulf, embed). Some other characteristic verbal prefixes are: re- (remake), under- (undergo), over- (overestimate), sub- (submerge), mis-(misunderstand), un- (undo), etc.

Hero's Journey (Monomyth): The Importance of Symbolism in Stories

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about....

How To Supercharge Your Blog And Improve Your Visitor's Experience

Learn how to set your blog up to keep your visitors coming back again and again.

Freelance Writers: Make the Most of the Slow Times of Your Freelance Writing Career

Once you get your freelance writing career going, you’ll probably find that it can be either “feast or famine” most of the time, meaning you have TOO much work to do, or not enough, or worse yet, periods when you have NO writing jobs at all to do. Here's what to do during those slow times.

Get Published by Avoiding Common Mistakes

More people than ever are spending a lot of time writing books, but the sad truth is, most of this mountain of work will never see the light of day. You must keep at it! Try these hints and tips to help you on your way.