Web Writer's Toolkit, The (ePub)

A recording of wind chimes. An item you cherish. Your childhood haunts. The pounding of a drum. Getting lost.

As author Lynda Felder reveals in A Web Writer's Toolkit, almost anything can serve as a point of inspiration for successful Web writing. Follow along with her 365 exercises-in order or jump around to sections on travel, games, sounds, and much more-to learn how to transform your experiences and observations into ingenious Web content. Pretend you have a time machine and write about the time and place you would visit. Produce an audio story with sound effects. Tell a story about the time you spent living abroad. Make a recording from a common household object and incorporate it into your blog. Write the script of a voicemail message. Choose a poem and compose a melody to go with it.

By taking on these challenges, you will develop the confidence and skill you need to create successful content-while producing a significant body of work to present on the Web. Use this book on its own or with Lynda's book Writing for the Web: Creating Compelling Web Content Using Words, Pictures, and Sound, and you'll learn how to motivate yourself to generate great web content-and have fun doing it.

• Includes 365 challenges that encourage you to observe, to think, and to try effective storytelling tasks

• Focuses on words, pictures, and sound as story elements for your Web content, rather than the mechanics of using specific software apps and tools

• Features a simple, straightforward format of numbered exercises, with suggested time to take for each one

For more tips, exercises, and suggestions for teachers, check out www.write4web.com.