Category Archives: writing techniques

Techiques, methods and skills to add to your freelance writing toolbox.


Stop Thinking: 3 Simple Steps to Writing Anything You Choose

Are you thinking too much? When my sons were tiny, I said that I’d have “Go and wash your hands!” as my epitaph. These days I spend a lot of time coaching writers, so I’m choosing: “You’re over-thinking this” as … Continue reading

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Writing Success: Use Organic Writing to “Grow” Your Writing

Want to get stuck with your writing? Here’s a guaranteed way: approach your writing cold. Sit down at your computer without having the slightest idea of what you want to write, and why. Avoid this, please. You’re wasting time and … Continue reading

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Improve Your Writing Skills: Read Aloud

Want an easy way to improve your writing skills? Here you go: read your writing aloud once you’ve written the final draft. You’ll pick up awkward phrasing, and much more. When I read aloud, I stay alert for tautologies; they … Continue reading

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Write More, And Make More Money: Writing Isn’t Typing

You’re a writer. The more you write, the more money you’ll make. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Until you try it. Then you realize that when you “write more” you’re writing a lot of junk. That’s fine. That’s what’s supposed to … Continue reading

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Pre-Launch: Easy-Write Process — Make Writing Much Easier

Happy days — if you contacted me with pleas over the past year or so, I promised you that the Easy-Write Process would return, bigger and better. It’s available now. Here’s the press release, Angela Booth Launches New Edition of … Continue reading

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Develop the Writing Habit: Conquer Procrastination

I’ve had several questions about finding time to write this week. As I’ve pointed out many times, you can find time to write, no matter how “busy” you think you are. “No time” is simply an excuse for procrastination. Somehow … Continue reading

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Writing: getting it done one baby step after another

Are you completing your writing projects in a timely manner? If you’re not, chances are that you haven’t discovered the fine art of chunking. You “chunk” by breaking each project into small tasks — baby steps. Each task should take … Continue reading

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Writing today: print journalism looks silly on the Web

Print-style writing sounds plain silly on the Web. Read Jeremy Wagstaff’s article in which he explains that in the online world, print-style writing sounds ridiculous (he uses the term “archaic”) loose wire blog: The Context of Content, in the Back … Continue reading

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Freelance Writing: Increase Your Productivity and Increase Your Income

Do you want to increase your freelance writing income? The only way to do that is to increase your productivity. Let’s look at five ways you can do that. By the way, here’s a hidden benefit of increasing your productivity: … Continue reading

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Hash tag searches in Twitter

Further on searching Twitter using hash tags, which I mentioned in this post. Here’s how to do it. Go to Twitter Search and enter your search term. Above I searched for #freelance. That’s all there is to it. Follow me … Continue reading

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