Articles tagged: "stories"
1: Do You Have Your Stories or Do Your Stories Have You?
Do you have your stories or...Do your stories have you? A wise teacher once said, “Faithful servants make for terrible masters. Everything in its proper place!” So true indeed – especially when it come to our stories about ourselves, others, and our lives.
2: Strategies for Starting School - Is My Child Ready for School or Not?
Is your child ready for school? A top author, parent and teacher discusses age, intellectual, physical, emotional and social aspects of this decision. Free Parent Newsletter and Story Starters Chatterbox.
3: Story Writing Quiz for Children - Does Your Home School Student Use These Professional Techniques?
Need to improve kids' writing skills? Students all make similar errors when they write. Here are the seven advanced techniques authors use to make stories powerful. Share this quick writing quiz to see which skills your kids use. Also free worksheet and free parent newsletter with more tips and activities. Terrific for gifted students and the home school curriculum to make learning writing easier.
4: Is Your Home School or Gifted Writer Missing These Professional Story Structure Skills?
Stories need structure, so planning is an important step when you write. How can you help your child to learn to plan effectively? A top children 's author offers these questions to prompt your budding writer. Also free worksheet and free parent newsletters with tips and activities. Terrific for anyone who wants to make writing easier.
5: Writing Skills for Children - Better Story Starters
Do your kids write stories that start too slowly, with little room for the adventure? Here 's how to overcome this problem. Learn how authors 'cheat' to keep the story moving. Great for the home school curriculum and for gifted students. Also free story starters worksheet and free parent newsletter.
6: Story Writing with Children - Ban Boring Stories
Help children to write better stories with more action for greater impact. No 'I woke up' story starts or 'then I went to bed' endings. Useful for the home school curriculum, gifted students and anyone who wants to make writing easier and fun.
7: Children 's Writing - Should I Correct My Child 's Spelling?
How important is correcting spelling when helping children with story writing? Home school or mainstream, gifted or not, students all make similar writing errors, but where do parents start? Here is an insight into the publishing world that explains where spelling correction fits into story editing. With a free Parent Newsletter full of useful writing tips and fun exercises.
8: The Do 's And Don'ts Of Writing A Press Release
What do you need to do before you even put pen to paper and start writing a press release Although writing a successful press release is pretty straightforward, unless you do it correctly your hard work will be rewarded with the STB technique
9: The Do 's and Don'ts of Writing A Press Release
The best form of marketing is that which is Free. This article looks at what you must and must not do to ensure your press release gets published and you can get some free marketing for your business.
10: Stories of Our Life
We all have a gazillion stories that float through out our psyche. We have stories about our childhood. We have stories about relationships. We have stories about lots of different experiences. Then, there are the stories that we carry about friends, coworkers, our ancestry, our community, o
11: Story-Telling Basics - 7 Powerful Steps to Telling Great Stories!
Throughout time, the greatest orators and teachers have illuminated their lessons by telling powerful stories. Story-telling is a great way to engage your audience and show them how your topic, point or lesson relates to them specifically. Unfortunately, not everyone is born a great story-telle
12: From Writer To Author – A Self Published Author’s Journey
As a newly self published author, I am amazed by how many people have told me that they have a novel or idea for a book that they always wanted to have published I usually tell these aspiring writers that it can happen and, if they are willing to listen, I tell them my story about how I self published my book
13: Cover/Query Letters
The recipe for creating the perfect cover/query letter is simple: give editors and agents what they want, no more and no less. That 's it. Basically, you need to prepare a letter that provides what the editor/agent requires and then "gets out of the way" so your writing (as illustrated by your w
14: Examining The Resilience Of Responding To Rejection
Resilience: Use this information to help you develop the ability to recover and adjust easily to the rejection that is a necessary part of your writing life. With this in mind, developing a thick skin to the submission process and rejections can be difficult. Here are some statistics and inform
15: Do You Need An Agent For Your Book Project?
Why not just send your manuscript directly to publishers? Writers ask companies to help them find publishers for their book projects all the time. The business of finding a publisher for your work is a multi-step process. After your manuscript has been completed, edited, and formatted according
16: Movie Stars and Western Movies Took My Parents Place as a Child Causing Real Life Confusion
Many of you probably had experiences with movies like mine when you were growing up. Your parents (if you were lucky enough to have at least one) would use the TV or Movies to keep you occupied (out of their hair). My Dad would give me two dollars every day for entertainment so I spent it mostl
17: Wacky World News Stories from 2006
Here are a collection of some of the bizarre and strange stories over recent times.Good Samaritan arrested for drunk drivingA German man was arrested for drunk driving after he mistook a police spot check for a breakdown and stopped to help. Officers inspecting a car by the roadside suspected t
18: Responding to Your Thinking
What You Think: What you think influences what you see. What you think influences what you do. What you think greatly affects your experience. What you think determines what you learn. What you think makes work and life easy or hard. What you think creates wonderful or broken relationships
