Imagine it is the Elizabethan era, and a young man with a broad forehead and contemplative eyes, sits poised, quill pen in his firm hand, a vellum parchment before him, thinking.
Ink pot, pen, and paper are all laid out neatly on the crude wooden table with it's knots and wormholes.
Within him is the excitement of advertising his visions, and he hears claps of appreciation, and he sees, dancing in the sunlight, falling from the heavens, golden coins.
As he connects with this inner thrill, it translates into words, and as ink spots fly on his crisp white shirt, he is transported into a world of eloquent testimonial.
As in this ancient scene, the answer is the same for you.
Use short words and use old words; these are the best.
Speak from your heart.
Let your enthusiasm speak through you.
And write as if to a dear and sympathetic friend, one who shares the same rhapsody over this marvelous new invention that you wish to gift the world.
Revel in the story of it's creation?the ardor and grandeur of it, and how from nothing, from a mere whimsical idea, not even worthy of a second thought, it flourished into this bold, new invention that all will desire.
The craft is the same, only the tools have changed. You now have a table made of some prefabricated material that you call your desk. You now have replaced your piece of vellum with a computer and a monitor. And your pen is your keyboard.
Perhaps you have a software program where you simply fill in the blanks after it prompts you with questions.
Perhaps, too, you have a new set of books, freshly downloaded from the internet, a swipe file from other people's successful promotions, then another pile of papers on the most arresting clich's, and finally just beneath the pile, that dog-eared course you paid too much for on how to write arresting copy
Yet behind all the clutter, your real tools are the same: your brain and your heart. How sincere are your statements, how honest your claims, how beneficial your offering, and how can it truly be the blessing that you claim?
Be an optimist'it will not do you any good to be anything less.
Tell the truth?otherwise your lie may be exposed halfway across the world before you can say ?Yahoo.?
Detail your history of invention, and it will be a kind history, for you intend to write it.
Do not jabber like a parrot.
Show how your invention will end all animosity on the planet and will be better for the human heart than a rare book crammed with the loftiest quotations from the most sublime minds throughout history.
Perhaps you understand now. The best way to write splendid copy is write as if you mean it. An honest and detailed description will awaken your inner Shakespeare.
Whoever believes in the business side of writing will agree that the dream of almost any unpublished writer is one day getting their 'jobs' published. Getting their material read by the masses of people who love to read the subject. Then, getting paid for their work is second to that desire.
True writer has passions to write that seem to rise up from deep within. He or she will not put much consideration on whether money will be involved or not in the process of his of her creative. Words become a living entity that breathes life into the reader who read them.
This is fine as long as writer understand the important of putting pen off the paper once the project is completed and start being a businessperson. This mean that time spent creating the work should be charged to according hourly rate or the value of the work.
Publishing contracts and processes take on many forms and all are negotiable. Having your book tied up at a publisher who will take upwards of a year to evaluate your work, and possibly reject it, is like trying to buy a car while you wait for the salesman to decide if he wants your business or not. Besides, you wouldn't give someone a year to try out your couch before they decided if they wanted to buy it or not, so why would you do it with your livelihood?
A partnership with a publisher is indeed an essential joint venture between two companies. Yours and theirs. Your aim as a businessperson is not just hoping that they will like your writing and decide to publish. Your job is to decide if your product and their company is a good match and to allow them to do the same. Whether you actually got paid or not, if you have billed your research and writing time to your company, then you are coming to the table with a major financial investment in your hands. If you couple that together with your talent and your ability to view the world in a way that others want to explore it then you have a valuable commodity to do business with. Never feel inferior.
Are you very creative? Can see things that others might not? Do you think that you can list and expand on all the benefits of a soup bowl? If so, then copywriting may be a style of writing you wish to consider as a business venture.
Copywriters construct compelling advertisement copy for companies.
When was the last time you bought a meal at a quality restaurant? Did you make a purchase solely on the succulent explanation you read in their menu? Or did you do it because of what you just read in a magazine ad? Or from the letters you read in your mail that advertising everything from credit cards to antique? Those are all the works of a copywriter.
This field is indeed very lucrative and attractive. Copywriters can make thousands of dollars writing a just one product description. Why are they so expensive? Because every seller knows that a good ad copy can generate product sales than what the seller paid for it.
There are several places in the internet where you can find people who are looking for writers. You can go to elance.com online for instance or buy writers market directories in your local bookstores.
Change your view of your writing. Soon you can be both creative and financially rewarded.
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