Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

Copywriting taught me to make each phrase count, and my prose is better for it. The Bastardization of Writing (and How I Learned to Live with It) first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. I thought I needed to be a verbose writer, because words were cheap. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 9, 2013

There are no points given for fancy words or brilliant prose. How to Win Your Spot in the DFW Writing Course first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Come back here and leave a comment that links to your post. Pat yourself on the back. That’s all. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e. That’s the power of content that incorporates sensory details. And this power isn’t limited to cinema classics capable of making grown men cry. sensory) words faster than other words.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Even geniuses, even people who were practically born with their blood humming with prose so gorgeous it makes the greatest poets weep in their graves, even those people wrote screeds of bad, bad stuff. How to Fight Your Way Through the Writing Gap first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 20, 2012

There are no points given for the fanciness of the words you choose or the quality of your brilliant prose. How to Write a Winning Post for the DFW Writing Course first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. That’s all. There are no points given for correct grammar or spelling.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

So I did my first—it wasn't even a Kickstarter, it was an Indiegogo campaign—in 2011. Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. I think the change is—and I've been talking about direct sales in the prose side since 2016, at least, when I ran my first three prose campaigns.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

But that wasn't till about 2011 it really started to accelerate this interest in her. Merryn: Yeah, so writing plays is just kind of wonderfully different to writing prose, particularly fiction. And you just don't have all these luxurious, long descriptive passages that you might have as a prose writer.

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