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The nearly Ultimate Guide to Better Writing
The writer’s journey traverses peaks and valleys. There are moments when we are on a high and feel great about writing. There are also times when motivation slumps and inspiration dries up.
This book contains essential nourishment that will help you overcome barriers and find fresh inspiration on your path as a writer.
Most of the articles in this book were originally published on Write to Done. We’ve chosen the best for you so that you can grow as a writer.
This book contains essential nourishment that will help you overcome barriers and find fresh inspiration on your path as a writer.
Most of the articles in this book were originally published on Write to Done. We’ve chosen the best for you so that you can grow as a writer.
118 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2011
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July 26, 2015
I read this eBook to find a nugget or two to improve my writing. I know when I start reading an eBook that is a compilation of several blogs that most of the topics will not be on interest to me or enhance my writing skills, but I am always looking for a point or two that will help me be a better writer. This eBook did provide a few nuggets that will be of value to my writing.
This eBook was compilation of writing articles published on the author’s website – Write to Done. The eBook is described as the best writing advice on the Write to Done website. There are articles ranging on topics from finding motivation and inspiration in your writing, suggestions to increase productivity, how to start a writing project, successful blogging guidelines, and how to proofread your work.
There were some articles I found interesting with some good writing advice such as the following:
- How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers by Ali Luke: some guidelines on how to start finishing projects that have been setting around for years. I liked the idea of not starting any new projects, finishing projects that are closest to completion and setting goals when you are going to complete a project.
- 12 Essential Blog Writing Tips for Building a Successful Blog by Leo Babauta: recommendations for making your blog successful.
- Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan: good ideas how to improve proofreading your work. I learned some key tools to better proofread my writing.
Some of the articles dealt with how to be motivated or inspired to write. I come from the camp that motivation and inspiration are poor excuses for lack of commitment and willingness to work. Motivation and Inspiration come after you have put in the work by showing up, putting pencil to paper (or typing on your keyboard), and being persistent. Needless to say the inspiration and motivation articles were not a hit with me.
There was a Zen component to several of the articles that did not appeal to my liking. I seem to lose interest in any writing that advocates Zen concepts.
I recommend giving this eBook a quick read, it will only take two or three hours, to find a couple of good nuggets of information that will improve your writing.
Favorite Quotes
- “Make several passes for different types of errors - spelling one pass, grammar on another, punctuation, links and format on other passes.” Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan
- “Get familiar with you frequent mistakes - document frequent mistakes in a checklist and verify specifically for the errors.” Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan
This eBook was compilation of writing articles published on the author’s website – Write to Done. The eBook is described as the best writing advice on the Write to Done website. There are articles ranging on topics from finding motivation and inspiration in your writing, suggestions to increase productivity, how to start a writing project, successful blogging guidelines, and how to proofread your work.
There were some articles I found interesting with some good writing advice such as the following:
- How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers by Ali Luke: some guidelines on how to start finishing projects that have been setting around for years. I liked the idea of not starting any new projects, finishing projects that are closest to completion and setting goals when you are going to complete a project.
- 12 Essential Blog Writing Tips for Building a Successful Blog by Leo Babauta: recommendations for making your blog successful.
- Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan: good ideas how to improve proofreading your work. I learned some key tools to better proofread my writing.
Some of the articles dealt with how to be motivated or inspired to write. I come from the camp that motivation and inspiration are poor excuses for lack of commitment and willingness to work. Motivation and Inspiration come after you have put in the work by showing up, putting pencil to paper (or typing on your keyboard), and being persistent. Needless to say the inspiration and motivation articles were not a hit with me.
There was a Zen component to several of the articles that did not appeal to my liking. I seem to lose interest in any writing that advocates Zen concepts.
I recommend giving this eBook a quick read, it will only take two or three hours, to find a couple of good nuggets of information that will improve your writing.
Favorite Quotes
- “Make several passes for different types of errors - spelling one pass, grammar on another, punctuation, links and format on other passes.” Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan
- “Get familiar with you frequent mistakes - document frequent mistakes in a checklist and verify specifically for the errors.” Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work by Leah McClellan
February 4, 2015
Book of articles choosen from already published /on site Write to Done/.
Some of them are really great. I like those from:
- Larry Brooks
- Leo Babauta
- Ali LukeA
- Joanna Penn
It's free for registration on Write to Done website, so... I don't know how to rate this booklet.
Sometimes it's poorly formated. Every article use different formates /maybe it's a idea to let every author use his own style/...
Can be great if you have 30-50 minutes time...
but a guide for better writting? I don't feel it this way, sorry.
Some of them are really great. I like those from:
- Larry Brooks
- Leo Babauta
- Ali LukeA
- Joanna Penn
It's free for registration on Write to Done website, so... I don't know how to rate this booklet.
Sometimes it's poorly formated. Every article use different formates /maybe it's a idea to let every author use his own style/...
Can be great if you have 30-50 minutes time...
but a guide for better writting? I don't feel it this way, sorry.
June 29, 2014
This is a pretty inexpensive book, sign up for the mailing list at Writetodone.com and it's yours, but the title oversells the contents. There are so many things about writing which it doesn't address that it is not nearly a ultimate guide to writing.
Still, it's not a bad book. There are quite a few interesting articles in it. A lot of this book is about blogging, which didn't do much for me, but there is at least enough practical advice in it for me to think that it is worth a read.
It is what it is, a collection of blog posts combined into a free book to advertise the site and I have to say I found some of the contents on the site more interesting than in book.
Still, it's not a bad book. There are quite a few interesting articles in it. A lot of this book is about blogging, which didn't do much for me, but there is at least enough practical advice in it for me to think that it is worth a read.
It is what it is, a collection of blog posts combined into a free book to advertise the site and I have to say I found some of the contents on the site more interesting than in book.
June 19, 2016
Not so much a novel as a compilation of articles from the website. Given away free when you signed up to the website ‘write to done’.
1. Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft By Barrie Davenport
Remember why you do this - to serve the reader.
2. 6 Key Steps to Finding Your Passion As a Writer By Barrie Davenport
Know yourself… and have a plan.
3. Blood, Sweat and Words: How Badly Do You Want This? By Larry Brooks
Brooks reminds us of his own athletic past and how as a writer you have to keep putting in the hours, keep learning, and keep hitting the word gym.
4. Why You Should Stop Waiting for Inspiration By Kat Eden
Yep. Don’t wait for the muse to strike… sit at your keyboard, pick up your pen or whatever… and write.
5. 31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing By Leo Babauta
I don’t actually have an issue with this - I am flooded with ideas. But it lists a heap of places to start for people who do have an issue.
6. How to Touch Your Creative Soul: A Zen View By Mary Jaksch
Mary is a zen master… who knew?
7. How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers By Ali Luke
Sighs… now THIS is my issue… Step #1: Stop Starting New Projects, Step #2: Assess Your Current Projects, Step #3: Choose One Project to Focus On, Step #4: Decide What “Finished” Will Look Like, Step #5: Set Some Milestones (And Start Hitting Them)
Yeah yeah… oooh… shiny.
8. 10 Simple Ways to Double the Speed of Your Writing …Right Now By Henri Junttila
I really think the biggest of these is outline…
9. Recover from Writing Burn Out: 18 Tips for Writing with Gusto By Tess Marshall
Okay… a few good ideas in here.
10. It’s Time to Finish Your Book: 9 Productivity Tips for Writers By Joanna Penn
Talking from the pov of someone who still has a day job. Ditch the TV - ha - our aerial broke months ago and nobody seems to care. Crack apart a work from one of your heroes.
11. How to Write Like an A-List Blogger By Leo Babauta
Create amazing content… snorts. Well, that sounds easy. Rolls eyes.
12. 12 Essential Blogwriting Tips for Building a Successful Blog By Leo Babauta
13. 11 Ways to Write an Irresistible Intro to Your Blog Post By Mary Jaksch
14. How to Make Your Free eBook a Magnet for New Readers: 5 Crucial Tips By Tess Marshall
Reader magnets work. But a lot of people use them these days. A free book is great if you have enough works to give one away - or the first of a series. But it also helps if you can offer readers something they can’t find anywhere else. This is my hint btw…
15. Writing an eBook: How to Get Started (and Finish!) By Cara Stein
Non fiction writing… I think.
16. Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work By Leah McClellan
I agree that nothing throws me out of a work faster than when my reader brain gets overtaken by my editor brain. Too many errors shifts it from one to the other
17. How to Rescue a Piece when You Write a Frankenstein By Mary Jaksch
She’s talking about short works here…
18. The (Nearly) Ultimate Resource: 177 Tips for Writers By Mary Jaksch
177? That’s a really odd number… I see, she wants people to make suggestions so that they can reach 200.
What the hell is ‘ugly paper’?
Really hard to rate… I guess it was useful.
3 stars
1. Write to Serve: Giving Deeper Purpose to Your Craft By Barrie Davenport
Remember why you do this - to serve the reader.
2. 6 Key Steps to Finding Your Passion As a Writer By Barrie Davenport
Know yourself… and have a plan.
3. Blood, Sweat and Words: How Badly Do You Want This? By Larry Brooks
Are you writing hard, or are you writing smart? And do you realize you have to do both to make it?
Brooks reminds us of his own athletic past and how as a writer you have to keep putting in the hours, keep learning, and keep hitting the word gym.
4. Why You Should Stop Waiting for Inspiration By Kat Eden
You don’t have to wait for inspiration to strike in order to be inspired. When you start writing regularly, without inspiration or even an idea, inspiration gradually finds you.
Yep. Don’t wait for the muse to strike… sit at your keyboard, pick up your pen or whatever… and write.
5. 31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing By Leo Babauta
I don’t actually have an issue with this - I am flooded with ideas. But it lists a heap of places to start for people who do have an issue.
6. How to Touch Your Creative Soul: A Zen View By Mary Jaksch
Mary is a zen master… who knew?
7. How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers By Ali Luke
Sighs… now THIS is my issue… Step #1: Stop Starting New Projects, Step #2: Assess Your Current Projects, Step #3: Choose One Project to Focus On, Step #4: Decide What “Finished” Will Look Like, Step #5: Set Some Milestones (And Start Hitting Them)
Yeah yeah… oooh… shiny.
8. 10 Simple Ways to Double the Speed of Your Writing …Right Now By Henri Junttila
I really think the biggest of these is outline…
9. Recover from Writing Burn Out: 18 Tips for Writing with Gusto By Tess Marshall
Okay… a few good ideas in here.
10. It’s Time to Finish Your Book: 9 Productivity Tips for Writers By Joanna Penn
Talking from the pov of someone who still has a day job. Ditch the TV - ha - our aerial broke months ago and nobody seems to care. Crack apart a work from one of your heroes.
11. How to Write Like an A-List Blogger By Leo Babauta
Create amazing content… snorts. Well, that sounds easy. Rolls eyes.
12. 12 Essential Blogwriting Tips for Building a Successful Blog By Leo Babauta
13. 11 Ways to Write an Irresistible Intro to Your Blog Post By Mary Jaksch
14. How to Make Your Free eBook a Magnet for New Readers: 5 Crucial Tips By Tess Marshall
Reader magnets work. But a lot of people use them these days. A free book is great if you have enough works to give one away - or the first of a series. But it also helps if you can offer readers something they can’t find anywhere else. This is my hint btw…
15. Writing an eBook: How to Get Started (and Finish!) By Cara Stein
Non fiction writing… I think.
16. Get Your Eagle Eye On: 10 Tips for Proofreading Your Own Work By Leah McClellan
I agree that nothing throws me out of a work faster than when my reader brain gets overtaken by my editor brain. Too many errors shifts it from one to the other
17. How to Rescue a Piece when You Write a Frankenstein By Mary Jaksch
She’s talking about short works here…
18. The (Nearly) Ultimate Resource: 177 Tips for Writers By Mary Jaksch
177? That’s a really odd number… I see, she wants people to make suggestions so that they can reach 200.
132. Write on ugly paper because it tricks the brain to really believe that it doesn’t have to be perfect.
What the hell is ‘ugly paper’?
Really hard to rate… I guess it was useful.
3 stars
December 10, 2013
It kind of inspired me while reading and I'm pretty sure I'll forget all about it within the next 10 minutes, but a good read regardless.
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