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Wikipedia defines copywriting as “the act of writing copy for the purpose of marketing and advertising a person, business, opinion or idea”. Yesterday’s post Note 339 – What is a copywriter? included Socyberty.com’s definition of copywriting which a “unique representation of an idea to hook more and more readers”. According to The Cambridge Dictionaries online a copywriter is … Continue reading
Thank you to my 80 WordPress followers and everyone else who has supported me on Twitter and Facebook since My Writing Challenge began on 1st May 2011. With only 26 days of the challenge left to go, I am feeling on top of the world, as not only have my blog stats (number of hits) reached 10,000 just a few minutes ago (I … Continue reading
I’ve often wondered what a copywriter actually does and thought I would do a bit of research today. Copywriting or ‘writing copy’ is the act of writing or editing content for a living. “Commercial writers or copywriters have been around since the world became literate” says Allena Tapia in her post What exactly is a copywriter? (About.com). She explains that the ‘content’ they … Continue reading
You may remember from Note 336 – The 7 advantages and 7 disadvantages of daily blogging, that I always tend to leave the task of ‘writing or editing my blog posts’ until late at night (which isn’t always my most productive time). Now, I’d like to introduce you to a book I read a couple of years ago … Continue reading
It’s now April – the final month of My Writing Challenge. I can feel the pace picking up as I head towards the finishing line. Now for today’s post… After been horrified with myself the other day for writing the word lesson instead of lessen (and quickly correcting it before posting) I thought I’d add a note in my writing notebook. To use … Continue reading
11 months down, 1 to go! With just 30 days to go on my 366 day Writing Challenge, I am pleased to say that it’s been an enjoyable experience, but also very time-consuming. Blogging every day (in addition to a day job) without a break can be exhausting some days and it’s not something I’m … Continue reading
I would like to thank Janet Koops (Postcard Fiction) for nominating me for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award. It’s an honour to receive it. The rules for receiving this award are: 1. To thank the person who has awarded you by linking back to them 2. To share 7 things about yourself 3. To pass the award onto 7 … Continue reading
Cambridge online dictionary defines insatiable as a desire or need “too great to be satisfied”. According to Wiktionary.org, nouns to which insatiable is often applied are appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need and greed. Sentences using the word insatiable The man had an insatiable curiosity about life He constantly read books to feed his insatiable thirst for knowledge … Continue reading
Sited, cited and sighted are homophones, which are words that sound the same but are spelt differently. I accidentally wrote sited instead of cited in one of my blog posts the other day, but fortunately spotted it (or sighted it) it before posting. The sentence I wrote in Note 330 – Do you write snuck or sneaked? was “snuck (as opposed … Continue reading
If you see the word theirs with an apostrophe before the ‘s’, it is incorrect. Theirs is a third person posessive pronoun used in place of their + noun, for example, if you say “the house is theirs” you could split theirs into their + noun which makes it “the house is their house“. Putting an apostrophe … Continue reading
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