Creating Styles in Microsoft Word®
When it comes to interior book design, there are two ways to format your text: one seems easy and straightforward but risks errors, the other is simple and effective.
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Write What You Know
This old guideline, “write what you know”, seems like good advice. But is it? Let’s explore the alternative.
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9 More Writing Tips
There always seems to be one more tip that writers can learn in order to improve the quality and efficiency of their writing. The more tips you know and use, the more fun writing becomes. And that’s enough motivation to keep on writing.
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Imagine Your Writing
Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, it’s important for you to imagine what you’re writing about. Whether you’re describing an action scene or a process or a piece of knowledge, you need to be able to “see” an image of that in your mind’s eye. If you can’t see it, how do you expect your reader to?
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Disciplined Writing
The key to effective writing is to know what you’re trying to achieve at every step, and then balance your effort at each one. Knowing what you’re supposed to be doing all along the way will steadily improve your results. There are four steps, and here’s what you should be doing in each one.
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How to Structure Your Text
Effective writing means that, before you write one word of your text, you need to think about the structure of your piece. Structure is the skeleton of your text. It’s the framework that will help your readers understand and appreciate your message.
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Why Your Text Structure is Important
Text structure is the way an author arranges ideas in a text in order to help readers more easily understand what they’re reading. If your content is clearly structured, whether it’s a blog post or a book, you’re more likely to attract readers.
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Writing for Reading
Written hodgepodge! Irrelevant, poorly-written text is everywhere these days. The question is: Are you a contributor? Following are some thoughts and ideas that may help you become a more valued writer.
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How to Choose the Right Font
Selecting an appropriate typeface or font for the text of your project should not be left to chance. The best starting point is to know who your audience will be. Take time to investigate fonts and choose the most appropriate.
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Rules or Tools
One problem that some writers face is whether to construct their work following the rules of grammar or just write freely. Actually, it may not be an either-or situation.
