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Getting Lorem Ipsum Text
Need a way to get a feel for what your document or file will look once it is filled out with text. That’s what Lorem Ipsum is for. What it is and where to get it are both here.
Archive for the ‘Writing Tips’ category
Best Quick Writing Tips #1
A new series here on the ArcticLlama blog. Quick writing tips to make you a faster, more productive, and thus higher earning freelance writer. Sticky Note Dictionary Find yourself always misspelling certain words? Especially words that you have to frequently use? Of course you want to get those into your spell-checker’s auto correct, but what [...]
Adventures With The AP Stylebook
Today’s AP Stylebook adventure takes us to the land of screen saver, which the AP Style manual assures us is two words. That’s just great. Too bad I came here looking for information about ‘screenshot’ versus ‘screen shot’. Oh well, to the dictionary…
Adventures In AP Style – Episode 2
A professional freelance writer chronicals his various encounters with the AP Stylebook and AP Style.
Write What You Know
People keep asking me how they should get ideas for their writing. This question boggles my mind a bit because frankly, as a writer, I have more things rattling around in my head than I can ever hope to write. Of course, what they mean is how can I get ideas to write something right [...]
Deal for Freelance Writers
I don’t know how widespread this is, but a couple of the Barnes & Nobles around Denver have the nice trade paperback sized Associated Press Stylebook on the shelves in the clearance section for $5.98 which is a heck of a deal. If you are a freelance writer, sooner or later you are going to [...]
Greatest Web Developer Tool Since Sliced Bread
Use Firebug to find exactly what line of CSS code needs changed to implement the changes you want, and then see a preview of your changes before you touch a single file!
What is AP Style
Everyone talks about AP Style, but does anyone know what it is? Here is the rundown on the ubiquitous AP Style and The Associated Press Stylebook.
Writing Great Essays – Conclusion
Writing a great essay means writing a great conclusion. These simple steps will lead you to a powerful ending.
Writing Great Essays – Middle
Ok, we talked about writing the basic five part essay, and the intro paragraph in Writing Great Essays Introduction. Now, it is time to write the middle paragraphs. In an essay, the middle paragraphs are the meat. This is where you get to show how much you understand the material. All the flash, all the [...]
