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Present Participle as Adjective - 0 views

  • the present participle always ends in -ing.
  • Used with helping verbs, the present participle forms the continuous tenses
  • Used without a helping verb, the present participle functions as an adjective.
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    Another article for Daily Writing Tips.  A great site to subscribe to and read daily if you are any type of writer.
John Lemke

Five scientifically proven productivity hacks | Freelance Advisor - 0 views

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    A list of some good lifestyle ideas for productivity.
John Lemke

6 Embarrassing Grammar Mistakes You Simply Don't Want to Make - 0 views

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    Point one, I make em', you make em', we all make em' and everyone makes these mistakes.
John Lemke

Writer Unboxed » To Pseudonym or Not to Pseudonym - 0 views

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    I think I kind of get it.
John Lemke

Final U in English Words - 0 views

  • “English words don’t end in u,”
  • The only two native English words that end in u are the pronouns thou and you, but they probably shouldn’t count because they really end in ou.
  • There remain 50 or so “English” words that do end in u. I put English in quotation marks because most of these u-words obviously came undigested from some other language, most from French.
John Lemke

3 Big Reasons Your Freelance Writing Dreams Go Nowhere - 0 views

  • When you have access to materials that could help you create a plan for launching your business, but you never use them, you’re not serious about this.
  • Sitting around beating yourself up about what you don’t know or haven’t taken action on yet is not going to help you take the plunge into the uncertain world of freelancing.
  • Your dreams are not puny.
John Lemke

5 Tips For Working from Home - 0 views

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    More and more of us are going to be working from home. These are 5 great tips to start with.
John Lemke

Hyphenating Prefixes - 0 views

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    Personally, I err on the side of using the hyphen. However, there seems to be much disagreement on the topic of when to hyphenate.
John Lemke

How to Find Inspiration for Your Blog Posts (38 Experts Reveal Their Secrets) | The Cre... - 0 views

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    While a writer must write whether motivated or not, it is nice to hear how others deal with inspiration.
John Lemke

Is Paranoia Preventing YOU From Finding Success as a Writer? | Positive Writer - 0 views

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    A good perspective to stay motivated.  Also includes a link to a free e-book.
John Lemke

The Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars | Mental Floss - 0 views

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    There has been a long debate about what some call the Oxford comma. Personally, I use it. I use it for clarity, out of habit, because I feel it "looks" right, and likely because I lean OCD. Do you use it?
John Lemke

7 Writing Prompts to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing - 0 views

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    I think these are some decent writing exercises.
John Lemke

Theme Week: Publish Your Blog Post Without SEO, and 1000s of Visits Will Be Forever Los... - 0 views

  • Search, and Google in particular (with 90% of worldwide share), still drive vastly greater quantities of traffic than all the social networks combined (some good research from DefineMG here). Given Google’s 3.5+ Billion searches performed each day, that shouldn’t be a surprise, but to many bloggers, thinking about search, Google, and all that “SEO stuff” has been put aside in favor of Facebook shares, likes, tweets, +1s, and the more visible feedback and applause that come from social sources.
  • Thankfully, you can resolve to make this a priority in the future. It may sound like a bad infomercial, but you can substantially upgrade your blog’s SEO potential with less than 5 minutes per post. Here’s how:
  • The other keyword research source I’d encourage you to pursue is Google’s autosuggest.
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  • Once you’ve found a few keywords that might work, modify your blog post’s title to include it if you can.
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    Most people publish to be found and read.  If that is the case, how can you ignore SEO?
John Lemke

Theme Week: How to Socialize Your Posts for Maximum Effect : @ProBlogger - 0 views

  • If you have more time on your hands, you can of course choose to engage in more social networks. Just don’t overcommit and end up spreading yourself too thin!
  • Get 10 successful bloggers from different niches in a room and ask them which social networks are best for driving traffic to their blogs, and you’ll get a different answer from each one as to where their readers hang out in greatest numbers.
  • One of the things that I’d highly recommend you ponder when it comes to this is to think about developing a rhythm to your sharing.
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  • Of course the other thing to do when you’re resharing the same piece of content is to mix up the timings of your updates. If you first tweet a piece of content at 9am – at least wait a few hours to reshare it so that others in different parts of the world are likely to be online. The same thing applies to other networks (although I’d wait longer than a few hours to reshare on networks like Facebook or Google+). Also consider avoiding sharing during those times of the day that are particularly ‘noisy’. Sometimes sharing during times that you’d think your audience isn’t online is actually best. Dan Zarrella calls this ‘contra-competitive timing’ and has some great data on the topic here.
John Lemke

Top 10 Incredibly Useful Windows Programs to Have On Hand - 0 views

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    While I am a Linux user, I often get asked for recommendations by Windows users. This is a great list of utilities. Especially the malware software.
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