How to write

Do you want write something? But you don’t know how to write. You don’t know how to express yourself. You don’t know how to shape your thoughts in words. You are sure that it’s difficult. It isn’t. Just know these rules and follow them.. You are sure that it’s difficult. It isn’t. Just know these rules and follow them.

1. If you write every day, you get better at writing every day

2. If it’s boring to you, it’s boring to your reader

3. Get a writing routine, and stick with it

4. Poetry does NOT have to rhyme. Poetry does not NOT have to rhyme

5. Resist stereotypes, in real life and in your writing

6. Writers read. Writers read a lot. Writers read all the time

7. Make lists of your favorite words and books and places and things

8. There doesn’t always have to be a moral to the story

9. Always bring your notebook. Always bring a spare pen

10. Go for walks. Dance. Pull weeds. Do the dishes. Write about it

11. Don’t settle on just one style. Try something new!

12. Learn to tell both sides of the story

13. Stop reading this article. Write something!

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How to Choose the Right Gift

We offer gifts from time to time all our life. Finding good gift is always difficult. “What must I choose? I have no idea!” Choosing of gift is creative task. You need calm down and think. And don’t forget: giving gift makes people happy. Follow the next rules to make easy the process of finding a gift.

1. Ask person what does he or she want

It is can be ridiculous but it is the best way to know what person likes and wants to receive as a gift. There will no effect of surprise but you make him or her very happy.

2. Ask third party

If you want to make a surprise but don’t want to make a wrong gift ask the person’s closest friends and colleagues what he or she might like.

3. Listen carefully

In the most of cases in the everyday life the person mentions what he or she wants. Person can say about something that he or she saw in a shop window or in the internet or in the tv ads. He or she will be very happy if you remember this and will give it.

4. Find out person’s interests

Talk to this person, know what he or she interests in. Pay attention to his or her choices, to what he or she likes: movies, music, books, food. What is his or her hobby? Which country he or she visited or wants to visit? All this information can help you find out the sphere of interests of this person and choose the right gift.

5. Ask for help

Visit Gift Idea Websites. Many of these sites can generate gift ideas according to a person’s. It very useful.

6. Don’t afraid to give wrong gift

There are no wrong or bad gifts. The gift is first of all your attention. So you can experiment. Try to give something unexpected like hard hat or brick. It’s funny. But don’t forget to prepare your special gift speach.

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How to understand design and designers

1. Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood

2. The purpose of design is to make the ordinary extraordinary

3. The best designers are the ones who find the good clients

4. Design must seduce, shape and more importantly, evoke an emotional response

5. Good design can be planned but great design just happens

6. Design the right things, design the things right

7. Imagination is more important than knowledge

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How to write good texts for blogs, social networks and micro-blogging services

Internet has its own rules of verbal contacts. It is insufficient to be a good writer. Texts for Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, your blog must satisfy the requirements of effective web writing. The text for print campaigns is not suitable. If you want to earn money with your blog learn these rules because the most important things in Internet is the copy.

1. Define your objective and do the plan of your text

It is common rule for any texts, but it is very important for web writing. You should have a clear picture of the result. When you have a plan your writing will be clear.

2. Define your audience

It is very important to know who will read your copy. Web writing is easy to target to different groups of people. Remember that the text should be different for Facebook, for Twitter and for your blog. Before writing a new copy or changing old one you must figure out who you are going to speak.

3. Write shortly

Big texts frighten off your potential readers. They haven’t time to read large text. Shorter texts attract more attention.

4. Your text should be scannable

Before reading visitor scans the text. He decides is your text worth for reading. Make your copy easy to scan:

• Write short paragraphs;
• use descriptive headers and sub-headers;
• use bullets lists;
• add images and diagrams;
• highlight key points of the text.

5. Be creative and flexible

Different services have its own constraints of writing. Tweeter for example allows you use only 140 character, Facebook have limited formatting. To create effective copy and compress large information in small text you should work hard and use all your creativity.

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How to create Good Logo Design

1. Do not use more than two fonts

2. Three colors is maximum

3. Keep away from bright, neon colors and dark, dull colors

4. Do not use taglines in the logo

5. Do not use clipart. Never

6. Photo is not a logo. Don’t use it

7. Design must be simple. Logo must be easy to describe

8. Start draw in paper. Sketch out ideas using pencil

9. The logo must have some connection to what it is representing

10. Avoid recent logo design trends

11. Create a lot of variations. Develop idea

12. Function is preferable than innovation

13. Consider the different places and ways that the logo will be presented

14. Get out of everything that is not absolutely necessary

15. The logo should be recognizable when inverted or resized

16. Make sure that the logo is recognizable when mirrored

17. The logo should look good in black and white

18. The logo must not break any of the above rules

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How to Find New Ideas

It can happen to everyone. One day you are full of creativity and ideas, and the next day you are empty. You can’t invent anything. What can you do? How to find your muse? How to blow up this wall that disturbs you to create?

1. Assure yourself that you’re not really out of ideas

Firstly get calm. Don’t panic. Your brain possesses endless storage of ideas. You just need to fit a key to a lock of this storage. Your brain not only stores the ideas, it invents them. As long as you feed it with new information it creates. You can’t stop this process. So don’t worry. Know that this break is temporary.

2. Reduce the stress

The main enemy of your creativity is stress and anxiety. Do not block yourself with the thoughts that you can’t create anything; it makes your stress stronger. Relax. Reduce your stress.

3.  Go for a walk

Let your brain rest. Don’t think about your task permanently. Switch to something else. Do nothing. Go for a walk. Phone your friends. Look at the clouds. Listen to the birds. Go for a walk and look around. And your brain will be refreshed with new information. Who knows, may be your return with some new ideas.

4. Feed Your Brain

Your brain needs “food”. Watch good movies, listen to great music, read the awesome books. Do something extraordinary and unexpected. It gives to your brain new bricks to build up new ideas.

5. Gather information about your topic

Know everything about the idea you try to invent. Looking for all facts you can find. Read the articles. Talk with specialists. Think like potential client of your idea. Plunge into your topic.

6. Enlarge the field of your searching

When you think that all has already invented in your topic, look outside. Look in the other domain. You can borrow some good ideas and bring it to your domain.

7. Be ready for the inspiration

The great idea can born in any time and any place. So be ready. Always keep some notebook and pen to write your thoughts.
Don’t panic. Be calm. Blow up the brain blocks. Be ready for the inspiration.

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