Effective Writing Skills – Pro Blogging Style Will Make You Successful

Each day hundreds and thousands of books are published world wide, some are written by well known authors and some are from the new struggling writers. I have seen many cases in which a writer is just a first time writer and his very first book  was a great success, what do you think, what separates them with other lots of writers who are struggling even after their 10th book? Is it writing skills or their individual talents? I feel it’s the combination of both, for how long we will keep talking about destiny and our so called luck factor. To make it to A-listers of writers, I feel an individual obviously needs a good set of skills plus a passion to write something unique, not copied from somewhere.

Like other skills, even writing is one skill and you can expertise in it with writing practice, there were a few times where I was hung in the midst of writing for finding the words which I dint quite know at that time but my efforts and willingness to learn and then implement them in my writings made it a huge success. The people with natural talents, I give hats off to them but for new writers who are planning to make it big in writing as a author, I had advice not to give up till you drop! Meaning that you go on and on till the time you feel your resources are at the fullest. It doesn’t take much of the efforts to write, although it takes time to hone your skill set but practice will make you perfect as the time moves on.

There are many a strugglers in the world of blogging, even after trying their best they are not able to pull in audience into their networks, the reason, poor writing skills! Although for blogging, the written content is the criterion, I had still advice people to sharpen their skills in knowledge and then implement them in written words, once when you have knowledge you can somehow emerge in to creative stuff. Everybody makes mistakes; even big authors might have made mistakes in gulping down few grammatical words, so what! Does that stop them from publishing their books? Of course, NO, because they are well known writers and sometimes there are printing errors too.

Learning by itself is an ART; you can develop your writing skills in your own art factory where you can collect different books or learn more about grammar and than go on to sharpen your skill set, even born writers need to do some home work before heading out. I advice my young fellow writers to concentrate hard on what they are writing and please do not compare your work with other writers, as individual is born to be unique and so you cannot have same writings. Give your best shot and emerge yourself out from the self made mould that is obstructing you from achieving your targets.

Be in love with your writing so that whole day you keep writing and one day you shall emerge as an established writer of all times. Learn from your minor mistakes and become perfect in them and get set to conquer the world with your magical words, given below are some of the things I had like to advice you on improving your writing skills:

1. Write fluently; don’t stop in the middle of your writing that might distract you from what you were writing naturally. You can edit your work later.
2. Write whatever comes to your mind at first go, you never know that might be one of the tools that will take you to successful ladder.
3. Make use of words that you find fancy, those might just be the words that can make you famous for your thoughts on that.
4. Study the art of writing creatively.
5. Comparison is the worst things you can do to yourself as writer that may ruin your whole career altogether, so stop comparing and write your inner thoughts.
6. Invest more in physical books then internet reference material; enjoy the joys of holding your favorite book in a total isolation.
7. You can highlight some famous quotes, some short story you found interesting in the reference books.

The first few pages you write might be a complete waste, but these are just a few obstacles for your journey to pleasant world of good writing so all the best and get going and remember no one is a born writer, develop that skill in yourself if you really want to be a WRITER, all the best!!!

Read this, “She sells sea shells on the Sea Shore”, how does it feel to speak all this words at one go in a sentence, some might have tumbled upon or some might have even read it half way and then repeated the sentence. It’s a common phenomena where we often come across such words which are mind confusing, although the sounds might be the same, the words mean different, spellings are different, grammatically they are used in different contexts and so on. The language English have many such words in its dictionary, even if you are a highly English literate person, you are sure to make the mistakes in selecting the perfect use of such words. These words actually change the whole meaning to what the author is trying to say in his/her writings.

As per the research, it’s a human nature that while reading a word in a sentence a person browses through the whole sentence so as to mentally prepare the mind of spelling out the next few words, it often happens while someone is writing, there is often misuse of similar types of words like then-than, this-these, she-sea, to-too, sells-shells, etc. even if the reader might come across such mistakes, in 99% of cases, he wouldn’t be able to make out the mistake the reason being it sounds so similar with actual meanings of the sentences. Today, we are going to discuss few of these misspelt words in English dictionary and try to find out how to make our English better.

Then-Than – these are the most misused words I have come across, the word “then” is used for reference to time or to portray something that results in some action. Most of the time you might have noticed the word “then” is used after “and”,

the example of such sequence is, “he robbed the bag and then he entered the departmental store”. The word “than” is used to replace instead of or meaning a preference, the example is, “I had rather party with my friends than my enemies”. The correct proofreading in your document will help you make use of the correct “then” or “than”, you have to think wisely.

This-These – the word “this” is mostly used to state a particular object or a thing, mostly used for singular objects and “these” are used to state a group of, or the herd, or more than few things together.

For example: 1) this bag belongs to me, 2) are these books yours? The words this and these are quite confusing to spell, when it comes to spoken words but that largely depends on the writer how he wants to say something, the correct usage will never lead to any confusion.

She-Sea – there are very confused names in English language, to study English grammatically is not an easy job, especially when it gets difficult to pronounce the words sounding so similar having different meanings. The above words, she and sea might not be difficult for a person who speaks English but for non English speakers, it might coz a serious sleep of tongue, do you agree with me?

The examples are: 1) she is my best friend; 2) I could see the vast treasure below inside the sea.

To-Too – it is simple the word “too” refers to the number 2, this word is used to imply as something similar or same types. It also means something which is in excess. The word “to” is used normally as to speak of some action, of giving, taking, bringing, going, etc. it is the most often used word, the examples are: 1) you gave me too much of drinks yesterday night, 2) I am going to market.

Sells-Shells – just one glance and you would understand the difference between the two words but they are often misused in the type of example I stated at the starting of my blog. Both of these words are simple to understand although meanings takes you to another world of English diction,

the examples are: 1) he sells cookies by the roadside, 2) the hard core shells are being sold at the outlet.

Affect-Effect – these are the most difficult for people to interpret and use them in sentences, each of these words are used differently as noun and a verb. When the word “effect” is used as a noun, it means result and when used as a verb means bring about. The word “Affect” means to influence,

the examples are: 1) your suggestion was very effective as it affected many lives, 2) the challenge might effect or serve a good reason for working of the whole company.

Farther-further – the word “farther” means a distance and the word “further” refers to quantity or time, for example: 1) how much farther do we walk? 2) You can do your further studies abroad, 3) try to get further knowledge on your degree.

Cents-Since-Sense – cents are the coins, since is used for saying the time reference and sense means intelligence or feelings,

the examples are: 1) how many cents you want? 2) I can do anything, since you are here 3) do you have any common sense?

The above mentioned are just few of the words which are often misused and as a result there is a huge communication gap between people and often there are mistakes and misunderstandings happening. But with perfect knowledge and use of words as required, you can make your sentences perfect.

I propose to my readers, to send in more such words which might be helpful to other people online.

As i have promised last week that i will share my experience with regards to Traffic, Keywords & Income from Kontera, for the website on Africa Travel niche which i had developed before around 7 to 8 months & then i was optimizing the website until june 1st week. This week website got around 55,000 Impressions & Earnings of $44.77 according to Kontera & as per awstats around 25,000 unique visitors have come on the website from various search engines. I was surprised to see around 11800 keywords were being searched in just 7 days, don’t you think it’s amazing ?? Now i am heading towards 2nd week let’s see what happens.

Tomorrow i will be posting about how my First Kontera website performed for last month, after earning about $1105 in First, Second & Third week of July 2009.

Many people set out doing business at very young age and they do really well in their life, there are many people who envy them but that doesn’t stop them from achieving their life goals, what do you think, what makes that X factor running behind them to be that successful in life that no one can stop them? Is it a sheer hard work, luck, or just the zeal to be ahead in life? I feel it’s the combination of all and plus the right attitude and right mannerisms that they apply to their business that does the batting! Today I am going to discuss with you whole set of ideas and different ways to become the best entrepreneur to get the maximum output for the work you put in and tips that will let you stay ahead in the competition.

We all know success is not easy; some may distract you from taking the path of hard work because they well know it’s going to pay you in future, those are not your best friends, so follow the path which seems to be hard and you will get to the top in no time. Let go off the obstacles in your business like some red signal, stay cool and calm, decide on the path which you want to take while you are still waiting at red signal and go ahead when it turns green. There are some useful steps given below which will help you to be the best entrepreneur you can:

1. In business, everyone has a purpose, a purpose to make money, before you set out on your path to go to your office today, think of the money you want to make. It is not going to take you more than 5 minutes to decide as to how much money you need to live a lifestyle you really need. Day in and day out you must have seen yourself, rush-in and hush-out to make ends meet, when you think over from life’s point of view, you will know that it takes only some money to fulfill your requirements, what drives you crazy is to stay ahead in competition. I advice you to take a break and have a meaningful purpose in making money, for some of you the amount of money you calculate for living with all the luxuries must be much more than you are earning now. The best way to design your finances are to write them down, think over what you need to buy and the total money you will buy with, it could be anything and everything, may be a good luxury home, a dream holiday, some good sports car, or enough money to do some more shopping for home. No person would like to spend more than what he actually earns, if you set up your finances well at the beginning, nothing should stop you from buying the luxuries in life.
2. Some people are well satisfied with their earnings, you don’t need a million dollar home to live with all the luxuries in life. Sitting back in a small cottage home is more than enough for someone to enjoy life with all its pleasures. The best way to do a relaxed business is to stop innovating and start copying others in the field, don’t copy someone to the extent people will call you COPYCAT, take ideas from other businesses but use your own creativity. Bring that entrepreneur quality in you. Earning a decent money is no big deal, provided you are ready to work for the work given to you, a couple of my friends, I know, had started with trash, selling cookies and now they are earning million dollars each month. Look out for the work you will really enjoy doing it and not thinking over making million dollars directly, start with small whatever you can and make a difference in your living style. And if you are already in a business line then think over the ways you can change your current situation that will bring about a change in the amount of money you make.
3. There are circumstances in life where nothing works as per your choices, some times we experience that something good happens for something bad that happened in past so for every loss there is an equal amount of profit. You might not be bringing around the perfect product for your customers, but your customers might be well satisfied with what you are serving. In such circumstances, you might just not want to change your current settings, if something goes wrong you might loose totally of it, so it’s better to keep track of the path that is being followed in your company and the style of doing business remains same unless something modern stuff comes up. You can take online interviews of your customers to know their opinion about the products, what exactly they are looking out for, etc. there are times when you may fall out on providing the best service, but that shouldn’t stop you, try to adapt to changes quickly and serve your customers.
4. If you are very sure of achieving something in life, it is best advised not to deviate yourselves from the goals of life. Don’t get distracted if something doesn’t work as per your wishes or some new business opportunity arise, new opportunities are going to come your way, “if one door closes, another opens up”, I truly believe and live by this statement which has made businesses work and to fulfill your life goals, concentrate on one thing at a time. Resist the temptation of moving out to new business offers, even if they seem to be very profitable, follow first what you have already taken up and work consciously to achieve your life targets. Consuming everything that is available on a platter will cause you indigestion the same applies to business line; don’t keep on jumping from one track to another.
5. Always be ready to learn something new in life, don’t stop just because you have already achieved your targets for the month, try new things after achieving the older targets. If something new comes up, don’t stop yourself from learning it. No matter if you are the master in your field, remember that each generation brings in something new for the older generation to learn and adapt to. Be open to make changes in your business, don’t stick by the old rules and regulations or the methods of working. When you get modern stuff working in your business, it will attract the talented younger generations to work for you.
6. Whoever said it, said it right, “work hard and party harder”, as much as you are earning, you need to relax and enjoy with the amount of wealth you have earned. If you keep dragging yourself on and on, one day you might feel exhausted and feel like not continuing at all. Don’t keep on working for a full 12 hours at a stretch, even when you are loving the work, you need to take steady breaks that will relax and calm your mind of all the clutters happening in office. The best you can follow on this is:
   1. To take break while working on longer projects, taking breaks in middle will help you refresh your mind and help you work more enthusiastically and more efficiently.
   2. Do extra ordinary work out of ordinary; it need not be something out of the box or going out of your way spending money to achieve something, arrange for small party, a family get together or office picnic that will freshen up everyone in your circle. The end thing is to reduce your stress levels.
   3. Develop the work style in you and create an energetic work environment around you that will motivate everybody to work. You can start with small things like planting flowers that will create a colorful environment, putting up motivational posters, setting up a help center for the needy, etc.

By now, I hope you have already made your choices regarding the business and next time you will be more open to adapt to changes around you and stick by the rules you have made for yourself, don’t get distracted or diverted from what you are already doing. It’s a human nature to get attracted to new things which will make more money, but remember to fulfill first the existing requirements.