San Diego World Organization of Webmasters will be co-sponsoring a Web Site Developers' Conference at the end of July. People come to your sites for content, and much of it will be written text. Here we'll look at writers' tools for generating material, the importance of story, and simple guidelines for effective text presentation on screen. First, let's look at how writers generate content. Rule number one is to sit down at the page.
Writing is the simple, creative act of putting thoughts and feelings down on the page.
For some, looking at a blank screen wipes out creativity in a single glance. A prompt is a word or a phrase to use as a starting point. Writer Judy Reeves has published a whole book of prompts called A Writer's Book of Days . In it, she gives guidelines about how to get started writing, how to keep writing, and how to honor the creative act. For each day of the year she gives a single prompt, which she suggests you use for a twenty minute free-form writing period.