It's A Miracle Author: Lynn Colwell I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. -- Anna Quindlen,
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So, You Think You Want to Be a Freelance Proofreader Author: Jan Kovarik How many times have you thought to yourself that you would be a good proofreader? You have a decent working vocabulary, you are able to construct a well-turned phrase, and you know when to hyphenate a compound noun (or maybe you don't, but you could take
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Stafford Loan Consolidation Author: Vanessa McHooley A Stafford Loan, which can help to finance your way through a college or university, comes in two forms: Subsidized Stafford Loans A subsidized Stafford Loan, which you can receive based upon your specific financial aid. When a Stafford loan is
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The Lost Art of Hand Writing Author: Ieuan Dolby For a couple of years now I have used a computer for everything from writing articles, to communicate, to playing games and to printing addresses onto envelopes. My laptop is never far away, it is usually by my side or on my knees, and the furthest it
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Top Ten Tips For New Writers Author: Elaine Currie, BA (Hons). Golden Rules For Writers - Things you need to know before you begin. Rules govern everything we do in life; even if those rules are of the unwritten kind we abide by them and expect other people to do the same. Why should writing be any different? It
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Beginnings Author: Rita Marie Keller Just about everyone is familiar with this beginning: In the beginning God created the heavens and earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep . . . (Genesis 1: 1-2 RSV) In a sense were playing God when we
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3 Quick and Easy Ways to Generate Story Ideas Author: Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ There are many ways you can generate ideas you can use for your stories, articles and other creative pieces. Start with the three ways given below: 1. Put Your 5 Senses to Work A simple but effective way to generate fresh ideas from a single
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How Can a White Paper Support Sales and Marketing? Author: Christine Taylor A white paper supports PR, marketing and sales because it works for all levels of decision makers. Engineers and executives may not be too impressed by brochures, but they are impressed by well-written white papers. (The same thing goes for trade journal
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How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 1) Author: Yuwanda Black In the current job market, many editorial workers have turned to freelancing as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding how to go about freelancing. Here I will address what, in my opinion, is the single most important
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How To Write A Solution-Savvy Sales Letter to To Get Clients Author: Brian Konradt Too many sales letters are shaped into paper airplanes and flown into trash cans because freelancers write sales letters that sell their services. These freelancers have never listened to the quietly- whispered secret that says their sales letters
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Is Now the Time for a Play about the War in Iraq? Author: Ron Brynaert Everone knows that comedy is mostly about timing. If you hit upon the right nerve (is a funny bone a nerve?) at the right time then, usually, you don't even have to be original or even marginally funny to win laughs. The audience laughs just at the
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Kick-Start your Juices Author: Mary Attard Listen, consider this scenario. You have a deadline to honour. Time is pressing, tighter and tighter. You are hoping to come up with some topic for your project..... However, ideas on what to write about keep eluding you. What are you going
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Novel to Screenplay: The Challenges of Adaptation Author: Lynne Pembroke & Jim Kalergis ADAPTATION 101 Brimming with confidence, you've just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe's fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. What was I thinking? How the devil am
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Becoming A Ghostwriter Author: Lorraine Cote Ghostwriting can be rewarding in two ways. a) You get a chance to research and write about all types of topics that you wouldn't normally have a chance to learn about. The old theory in writing write what you know doesn't apply to ghostwriting since
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How You Can Find Freelance Writing Employment Author: Niall Cinneide How can you find writing jobs? Do you have proven skills that can propel you in the right direction? If so, then why are you looking for fresh vacancies? The best tool to those who have employment histories is to look to the companies that you have
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How You Can Find Proofreading Jobs Author: Niall Cinneide Many people are looking for proofreading jobs but have really no idea how to find them! It gets to be very tiresome trying to find answers when all you can find is just another website that is selling the information. The good news is that there is a
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Many Writers, One Clear Voice Author: Susan Raab Imagine creating your first book, one on which hangs the future of your company-and maybe even the industry you love. Imagine you have a publishing contract, five editors, a eighty contributing authors, hundreds of draft pages, a deadline in five weeks
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The Difference Between Critiquing and Criticism Author: Emily Hanlon A work in progress is susceptible to immediate extermination from the most unlikely sources: A spouse, parent, child or close friend can often be the worst people with whom to share your work in progress. Let me give you an example from my own
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Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career Author: Niall Cinneide Proofreading is a career which many people are looking to get into, but often the knowledge of what to do, when to do it, and especially how to do it is hard to come by. For that reason, there are many things that are important to know in order to
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Turning Challenge Into Opportunity Author: Jeff Solochek There is a common saying that whenever you are presented with a problem or a challenge, you should turn it into an opportunity. Some of the people who have mastered this concept are; the United States Government, Large Corporations, Self Made
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Walt Disney's Failures Could Inspire Entrepreneurs Author: Stephen Schochet You are a struggling entrepreneur and sometimes it feels like you are pushing a 3 ton boulder up a steep hill. Costs keep mounting and you are considering giving up. Well before you do, check out these 10 setbacks that Walt Disney had, some were
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10 Inside Secrets to Google Adwords - Part 2 Author: Ron Isaiah Are you frustrated with spending your hard-earned money on Google Adwords and losing more money than you make? Part 2 of this series continues revealing the inside secrets of successful, profitable advertising with Google Adwords. If you missed Part
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