8 Habits that Crush Your Creativity

According to CopyBlogger.com, here are eight of the very worst bad habits that could be holding you back every day:

1. Creating and evaluating at the same time-Don’t JUDGE your work too harshly.

2. The Expert Syndrome-Every path to success is different. Be your own expert

3. Fear of failure

4. Fear of ambiguity-Don’t be afraid of chaos.

5. Lack of confidence

6. Discouragement from other people

7. Being overwhelmed by information

8. Being trapped by false limits

Funbrain – Featured Poem

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow–
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand–
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep–while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

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Precede vs. Proceed (Merriam-Webster)

Don’t confuse the reader?

Question:

Do the appetizers precede or proceed the main course?

Answer:

precede

How to remember it:

Consider the prefix, pre–. It means “earlier than,” or “before” – as we can see in a phrase like preexisting condition, or in the word prefix itself.

To precede is to go or come before, or to be earlier than.

The root of proceed means “to go forward,” a meaning we can see in a sentence like “Let’s now proceed with the meal.”

Can you use both words correctly in a sentence? Feel free to respond!

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5 Tips for Writing Persuasive Copy

1/ Focus on the READER

2/ Stay focused

3/ Be Specific

4/Demonstrate Credibility

5/ Sum it up

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Word of the Day

This is Merriam-Webster’s word of the day!

HABERDASHER

(noun)

1

: a dealer in notions

2

: a dealer in men’s clothing and accessories

Can you use this in a sentence or are you just a typical haberdasher????

Webster’s Word of the Day!

ZIGGURAT

\ZIG-uh-rat\

noun

: an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top; also : a structure or object of similar form.

Test your writing skills! Any takers on submitting a sample sentence using this word?

Want to know the word of the day EVERY day? Visit Webster’s site.

7 Grammatical Errors…or NOT

1. Never split an infinitive.

2. Never end a sentence with a preposition.

3. Never begin a sentence with a conjunction.

4. Distinguish between while and though.

5. Distinguish between since and because.

6. Use data only in the plural sense.

7. Use none only in the singular sense.

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