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Want to make money writing? The ever-growing Web is hungry for words, so almost anyone can do this. However, if you want to make a six-figure income, you need good skills.

Let’s look at five essential skills you need to make a great income from your writing. You won’t develop these skills overnight, but as they grow, so will the money you make.

1. Basic English Language Skills — Grammar, Punctuation, Style

Your writing career is built on basic English language skills: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and an understanding of the various styles and forms of writing.

If you’re shaky in these basic skills, that’s easy to fix. Read a book a week, and get someone to tutor you. Reading — both for pleasure and to build your basic language skills — is essential for a writer.

2. The Ability to Research and to Analyze

The Web has spawned a copy-and-paste writing culture. Copying from others (yes, if you change the words, copying ideas is still copying) is a bad writing habit to get into.

Break yourself of it. Build your research and analytical skills. Basically, writing is thought and creativity, it’s not typing.

You can’t build a six-figure writing income on others’ ideas: realizing this is the first step in building a great income.

3. The Ability to Promote Yourself: You’re Your Own PR Agency

When you start writing for money, you’re trading your time for dollars. Take a course in marketing: as a writer, you’re your own public relations agency.

As your ability to promote your writing services and your products (articles, books, Web content development) grows, so will your income.

4. The Ability to Create a Business Plan and Carry It out

Do you have a business plan? Your writing is a business, and to grow your business you need a plan. Your plan may be short and simple: how much you intend to earn over the next 12 months, and how you intend to earn that income.

As your other writing skills develop, so will your understanding of the possibilities of building a highly profitable income from your writing, so that you can create plans and carry them out.

5. Enjoyment of Writing for Its Own Sake

Finally, you need to enjoy writing. I’ve called this a skill, because I want you to remember how important it is, and because just like any skill, this enjoyment can be developed, if you understand that it’s necessary.

If you enjoy writing, you won’t begrudge the hours you spend improving your writing skills. Your career will grow, because you’ll see fresh challenges as a source of delight, rather than “work”.

Anyone can make money writing: the better your writing skills however, the more your income will increase.

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Want to get promoted? Your business writing skills will not only help you to keep your job, they’ll also ensure that you’re promoted regularly. In this article we’ll cover four tips which will help you to improve your writing and thrill your boss.

These tips will help you in any job-related writing — anything from writing email messages to writing marketing materials.

1. Write As You Speak — Aim for Clarity

Although most business writing is relatively formal, you should nevertheless aim for a conversational, clear style. Why? Because it ensures that your writing is read.

Since much of your writing will be read on the computer screen, ensure that you:

* Use white space — pay attention to paragraphs

* Use headings and bullet points

If you’re shaky on spelling and punctuation rules, brush up on them. Good spelling and punctuation makes life easier for your readers, and ensures that they receive a good impression of your mental and other abilities.

2. Create an Outline Before You Start Writing

Writing is an exercise in logic. Create a simple list outline before you start writing. This ensures that you cover all the points you want to make.

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3. What’s the Point? Write an Executive Summary

For any piece of writing longer than a couple of pages, create an executive summary. Your summary should be succinct. It often helps to write your executive summary from your outline.

Once you’ve finished writing, reread the summary to ensure that it covers everything you meant to cover, and makes the points you intended making.

4. Read It out Loud — Does It Make Sense?

Here’s a tip which will help you in everything you write: read it aloud when you’ve finished.

When you read aloud, you’ll catch awkward phrases, misused tenses, and typos too. I use the text to speech software on my Mac for important documents and find it great to help me to focus on exactly what works and what doesn’t in a document.

You’ll find many text to speech applications on the Web, some free. I urge to you try them out.

So there you have four business writing tips which will ensure that your writing thrills your boss.

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Today’s word is synecdoche, a noun, pronounced /sinekdki/

A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

Australia failed to capitalize on its 243 lead, and were all out by lunch.

“Australia” in this case is used to mean the Australian cricket team.

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