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Alternative Words for happy, sad, confused, angry, and surprised

10 Alternatives for the Top 5 Emotions: Happy, Sad, Angry, Confused, Surprised

Check out these alternatives for describing the top five emotions: Happy, sad, angry, confused, and surprised. Angry — displeased, enraged, furious, impassioned, indignant, offended, outraged, resentful, sullen, vexed. Confused — baffled, bewildered, confounded, dazed, dumfounded, flustered, muddled, perplexed, puzzled, rattled. Happy — blissful, cheerful, ecstatic, elated, euphoric, glad, gratified, jubilant, merry, overjoyed. Sad — bereaved, […]

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Jeff Walker on lyrics as subheads

How to Use Subheads That Zing in a Great Way

In the video below Jeff Walker, the Product Launch King, describes how a poorly designed magazine, The Economist, caught his interest. It was their use of subheads — all quoting lyrics from Tom Petty songs — that had him on pins and needles. And convinced him to subscribe to that magazine. The big takeaway: How […]

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309 Active Power Words

309 Powerful Verbs That Will Instantly Supercharge Your Writing

Check out these 309 active verbs that will supercharge your writing. Use them. Absorb – Advance – Advise – Affix – Alter – Amble – Amend – Amplify – Attack – Avoid … Check out these 309 active verbs that will supercharge your writing. Use them. #authors #writers Click To Tweet Balloon Bash Batter Beam […]

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Dream Lofty Dreams

James Allen: Dream Lofty Dreams

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. Dreams are the seedlings of reality. — James Allen, author, As a Man Thinketh As a book author, you have […]

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