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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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