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Your Cherished Dream of Writing - Fulfill it When You Retire
Retirees are particularly qualified to fulfill their dreams of
writing. They can call on years of life and work experience.
Don't succumb to the myth that only a chosen few can see their
words in print. You can do it too, but it is essential to think
your project through and complete the research necessary to
create quality content, whether your choice is fiction or
nonfiction...
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Tackle A Trilogy And Triple Your Profits
Are
you a writer with big ideas? Are you always imagining epics, sweeping
stories, great tales of human struggle and sacrifice, interlaced
with personal stories of love, sadness and triumph? If so, you ought
to consider turning your book or story idea into a trilogy...
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The Long And The Short Of The Short Story
Congratulations!
You’ve spotted a great short story competition and decided to enter.
You’ve had a go at a few short stories in the past and you’ve been
wanting to tackle a novel for ages, but the idea was way too daunting
so you’ve just shoved that to the bottom of your life’s “To Do”
list...
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How To Get Published: Eight Surefire Steps For Writing Success
How
to get published? That’s the big money question for writers. Writing
is fulfilling in and of itself, but every writer ultimately wants
to learn how to get published. A lot of writers think getting published
is a matter of luck. Or it’s a matter of knowing the right person.
Or it’s a matter of simply being born a brilliant writer...
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The Second Gutenberg (Interview with Michael Hart)
Michael
Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg is a visionary who was quite
ahead of his time. In fact, it may still be several years before
his dream of universally-available literature comes true. Nevertheless,
Michael's efforts have inspired thousands of people around the world
who now share his vision...
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The Mathematics of Persuasive Communication
At first
glance mathematics and persuasive communication - writing, and particularly
public speaking - public speaking would seem to have little in common.
After all, mathematics is an objective science, whilst public speaking
involves voice quality, inflection, eye contact, personality, body
language, and other subjective components...
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12 High
Readership Content Ideas
1. How
To Articles: they include detailed step by step instructions. Examples:
how to publish your e-zine, how to promote your business, how to
attract visitors to your web site...
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Open Source
Self-Publishing Tools: Designing a Book with LyX
Language
professionals should be interested in self-publishing tools, for
a variety of reasons. Not least of all, the mainstream publishing
houses in the United States aren't very receptive to publishing
translations; according to the wholesale book distributor Bowker,
of the roughly 195,000 new titles printed in English in 2004, only
891, or an unimpressive 4 tenths of a percent, were works of adult
literature in translation...
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25 Ways
to Add Quality Content to Your Web Site
We've
known for a long time that quality matters to Google. In a post
Senior Google Engineer Matt Cutts made to his blog, "quality"
was mentioned several times as being important to Google. Quality
matters when it comes to content, and it matters when it comes to
links. However, building content and links doesn't have to be painful.
Web site owners tend to think of content in a very limited way...
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Using Feeds
to Increase Your Site's Content
There
are many ways to increase content on your site, from manually creating
it to purchasing software which will auto generate it for you...
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Write Nonfiction
With Passion:
Four Steps To Emotionally Charge Your Article
You
have completed the draft of an article, but it seems flat and lifeless,
even to you. It needs to have the spark that ignites that all important
emotional connection to your readers but you are at a loss as to
how to spruce it up...
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How to Become
a Better Writer
I believe
everyone has some tale to tell. We can all reach out and help others
by sharing a little of our little (don't repeat 'little' in such
close proximity- "yes sir, boss"!) world. Somebody else
said: "No one but a blockhead would write not to be published."...
but I don't agree with that one...
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What Is
Creative Writing?
I believe
ALL writing is creative (a nice short sentence to get the ball rolling).
Journalism is a different form of writing in that it merely reports
the facts of a particular event...
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Private
Label Rights: How to Use and Profit from PLR Articles
Information
is what surfers are looking for and successful Internet marketers
know that providing relevant content on their sites is the first
key to building a highly profitable online business...
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Article
Writing - Beware of 10 Don'ts
Let
me ask you a question that's critical to your success as an article
writer. Do you know what NOT to do? There are some mistakes that
will wreck your writing career in a hurry...
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Techniques,
Tips and Advice for New Writers (from Online Writing Course)
"The
foundations of successful writing are within anyone's grasp. The
only way to do it is to do it." -
- Tom Clancy...
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Business
proposals: writing an executive summary
When
writing a business proposal, the executive summary is arguably the
most important component. You should write it as if the success
of the entire proposal rests upon it...
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What is
technical writing?
Before
setting up shop as a proofreader, I worked as a technical writer.
When I told people what I did, I was often met with blank stares
bordering on total incomprehension...
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Ten tips
for better business writing
As a
proofreader of business writing, I see many of the same errors made
again and again. Errors in your writing (be they in advertising
copy, correspondence, or a web site) are more serious, I believe,
than most people realize...
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The perils
of using jargon
Recently
I spoke with loans officers at several of my local banks in order
to find out the costs associated with a housing loan. One of the
things that struck me in all of these conversations was the astonishing
(to me) level of jargon used by the bank staff when explaining their
products to customers...
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Report writing:
reasons to do it well
You
probably don't have a burning desire to write reports. Nonetheless,
you've ended up having to write them. There's a natural tendency
to want to get the darn things written and off your desk as soon
as possible...
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How to Succeed
as a Writer
As a
professional copywriter, I'm often asked by aspiring copywriters
what they need to do to succeed. Most of their questions center
around writing ability. They want to know how to find out if they
have the talent to succeed, or if there's a "test" they
can take that will tell them if they're a good enough writer to
actually get paid to write...
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Rejecting
Rejection: Twenty Years of Chasing the Writer’s Dream
When
I finished college, I fully expected that within five years I would
become a widely published writer. In high school, I wrote a popular
satirical column--“Orchids and Onions”-- for the school newspaper,
every week for two years. In college, I edited the yearbook...
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How To Think
Through Writer's Block
In his
book, On Writing, Stephen King says, "We are talking about
tools and carpentry, about words and style...but as we move along,
you’d do well to remember that we are also talking about magic...
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Secrets
to Creating Great Headlines
Great! You finished your piece
and now need a headline. Usually headlines are less than ten words
and need to be expressed in short, expressive, active words. This
provides quick focus and pull in. By waiting until you know what
you are ending up with, it will save you time. You can give a temporary
headline while drafting...
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How formal
should your business writing be?
Do you write business letters or other business correspondence?
If so, think about how these questions apply to your situation:
1.
When is it appropriate to use first-person pronouns like: "I,
we, me, us, my and our"?
2. When is it appropriate to use contractions like: "it's,
isn't, we'll and let's"?...
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Writing
e-mail that gains the trust and confidence of your readers
How do you ensure that customers will react well to an e-mail sales
letter? Similarly, what if you're soliciting a job via e-mail, pitching
a book idea or any of a hundred other situations that are increasingly
handled by e-mail? ...
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Effective
titles improve proposals
It may seem trivial to tell you to choose a good title for your
next written work, but the importance of this task should not be
underestimated.
A good title can help to make a good first impression.
Here then are some guidelines for choosing a good title...
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Avoid buzzwords
in favour of plain English
I'm a big believer in keeping writing simple. Long winded or pompous
writing is harder for readers to understand. Also, it usually leaves
them with a poor impression of the writer. So who benefits from
it? No one...
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Fonts: choosing
wisely
Choosing a font is something that most of us give little thought
to. After all, most fonts are more or less the same, right? Let's
face it, most writing is presented in a stock-standard font like
Times New Roman or Arial...
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Ten tips
for better e-mail
E-mail is frequently written quickly and often poorly. The tips
that follow should help you to write e-mail that will be well received
every time...
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Are double
negatives okay? Yes!
I'm going to go out on a limb here and contradict most of the books
ever written on the subject of grammar. (Who said I wasn't brave?)
Traditional advice has always been not to use double negatives.
Detractors will argue that such sentences involve a contradiction
of the intended meaning...
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Calling All Writers
- It's Party Time!
The dedicated writing student must continually search for tools
to explore the core balance of plot, character, and poetics, multiple
ways of climbing the great, misty mountain called story. But the
major difference between Lifewriting™ and other systems is that
we concentrate on the tools from writing that also help us understand
our lives...or the tools from psychology or spiritual disciplines
that help us understand our craft...
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Discover Freelance
Writing
Freelance writing is a fabulous opportunity and if you’ve got the
drive, the energy, the time, and the creativity, it’s definitely
the way to go. Whether it’s to supplement your income, or just to
satisfy an urge for publication, a little bit of planning and a
lot of hard work are all it takes to build a successful (and profitable)
freelance writing career...
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Four Useful Lies
About Writing
Most writing “experts” favor a particular way of looking at plot,
and will adhere to it for years or an entire career. That’s all
well and good, but its important to realize that any way of modeling
story is just that—a model, not the depths and living essence of
story itself...
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How To Write
A Great Sales Letter--When You Hate To Write
I can sit here all day giving you tips and hints on headlines and
phrases that sell. But none of it will do you any good if you just
plain hate sitting down at the keyboard...
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Business report
writing tips
Let's assume that you have to write a document for work or study.
Your instructions consist of the title that you are to use and nothing
else. Could you -- with only the title as a guide - write a suitable
document?
This article discusses these key questions and will help you to
learn more about your readers and their needs...
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Abbreviations
made easy
Which is better usage: USA or U.S.A.?
The punctuation of abbreviations is an area that is subject to considerable
differences of opinion. For example, as demonstrated by the question
above, not everyone agrees on when (or if) to use full stops...
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Why
You Should Write Ezine Articles
If you don't have much money to spend advertising your online business,
writing ezine articles is the most effective and least costly way
to attract visitors to your site...
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Don't Forget to Write
I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me a couple of years to realize
the one thing that super affiliates do that sets them apart from
all the rest. It's something they do repeatedly and often, even
if they don't always do it well.
Do you know what they do?…
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Hidden Content
Sources for Your Website
As I
travel through the Google search engine, there is one element that
defines almost all of the top-ranking websites. It's great content.
People come online for information and those that offer the best
content reap the greatest rewards. Unfortunately, this type of content
is hard to come by. In most cases, you either have to spend hours
in front of the keyboard or outsource the job to others. Both of
these options are very costly…
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