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DO YOU NEED A NEW, UNIQUE STORY IDEA? Do you feel like it's missing some magic ingredient that makes you addicted to writing it? If so, don't worry-you're not alone. Lots of writers feel this way, even if they really LOVE their book and have "done everything right." If the thrill is gone… it's time to brainstorm new ideas! In this video, I'm sharing my favorite prompts for brainstorming NEW IDEAS, guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing and give you a springboard to explore new possibilities for your book. Grab a notebook and let's brainstorm together!

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of blog posts on every topic. The only thing that makes yours worth reading is a truly original idea. Here's how to create those ideas.

Margaret Mason begins this book by making the point that blogging has brought about a new generation of people who, for the first time, voluntarily publish writing in a public sphere, and calls it "a renaissance in personal expression".

People who don't write for living think it's easy to be an author. All you need to do is have an idea and find the time to write the piece you've envisioned. However, real writers know better: ideas can be torturing and they have to spend loads of time to research, think, write, and edit to perfection. Even a short article can consume days of a perfectionist's life.

Launching a blog is easy but ensuring that it serves its purpose in the context of audience engagement, lead conversion and increasing traffic, is no cakewalk. Imagine you enter an extremely crowded market where you need to struggle even to stand properly but all of a sudden, your eyes get fixed on a personality striking some unusual style statement. It may be an unfamiliar hair colour like red or purple, it may be countless body piercings, it may be an exotic giant tattoo or some stunning outfit. Yes, you are getting it right. No matter how crowded digital landscape is becoming with time, there is still room for creative infusion in the form of fresh blog post ideas in the content landscape. Below, you can find the best blog post ideas brought to you by Pepper, one of the most creative and resourceful outsourced content creation platforms

When you present big ideas it's easy to use big words to amplify your meaning. But, before you write, think about the structure of your piece. And while you are writing, focus on clear writing. You may be writing a web page that presents how technical aspects of a product work or a white paper on a political idea. However complex your subject matter, you don't need big words or long, complicated sentences to explain it to your readers.

This idea can sound intimidating, but it works. Creative writing allows writers to step away from their personal life, and create an entirely fictional universe in which they are in control and there is no longer a need to conform to anyone else's ideas or opinions.

A blog featuring writing tips, exercises and ideas.

Some pre-research and reporting to find out if a story idea is worth pursuing.

Tips and ideas are provided for improving a blog to increase readership, along with how to increase the web presence of a blog within a niche.

Everyone gets bored from time to time. But is that such a bad thing? Are there positive aspects to being bored? And how long does it take you to be bored, a couple of hours or a matter of seconds? If we can't stand to be unoccupied for a few seconds is that genuine boredom or something else? And what is it with those eureka moments? Why is it when we're bored we suddenly get such great ideas?

When you start writing a novel, you have so many ideas in your head that you are eagerly waiting to get them all onto paper. However, things always turn out to be harder than you initially anticipated. Without proper motivation and the right tools at hand, it will be impossible to stay productive and finish the novel within the planned timeframe.

Strategies are provided for marketing online articles and blog posts to support a writer's efforts to increase their readership and monetize their work. All too often after completing an online writing project or blog post, writers fail to take full advantage of the online resources available to them for promoting their work. Building a web presence is an essential component of writing, which cannot be overlooked. Writers who desire to capitalize on their ideas and knowledge must employ as many social media tools as possible to expand their readership.

"When you dreamed of becoming a powerful businessman, you assumed that your main responsibilities would involve communication, idea generation, and budgeting. You never imagined that your reputation would be based upon the way you write; otherwise you would pay more attention to those academic writing assignments that you hated at college."

JURGEN WOLFF'S tips, ideas, inspirations for writers and would-be writers and other creative people

The University of Guelph provides this resource page, with links through to overviews over the writing process, brainstorming and developing ideas, structuring, thesis focus, overcoming writers block. Slanted to the university student, there is still much here for the new writer.

StickySorter is a program created in the Microsoft Labs, concentrating on allowing the user to create and sort multiple simple sticky notes, and share these as sorted. The process in gathering multiple sticky notes and organising them is based on the affinity diagramming process used by project teams all over the world for brainstorming and organising ideas.

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