Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire? Author: Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips Complete a character questionnaire for each of your main characters or even secondary characters that play a vital role in your story. This way you will know your character(s) well before you start writing about them. Fill in
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Home Business Writing Made Simple Author: Dan J. Fry Have you ever written a letter to a friend? Ever written an outline for any project you were about to start? What about a shopping list? If you have, and I imagine most have, you can then write focused, brief, content articles for your online home
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How Ghost Writing Articles And Booklets Can Earn You Big Money! Author: Abdallah Khamis Abdallah Do you want to make $5000, $10,000 or more every month as a freelancer? Does your current published materials earn you that much or are you still struggling looking for new jobs every month? Well, ghost writing articles and books for businesses could
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How to Write Funny -- It's All About Timing Author: Sarah Smiley My Dad has this old joke that goes, What's the most important thing about humor? After a short pause, he interjects, TIMING! I've rolled my eyes many a time over this joke. But here's a new version for writers: What's the most important thing
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Is The Theme Reinforced In The Ending? Author: Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our theme has to do more than reach its conclusion it has to be reinforced in the end and by doing this, it will
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How To Outgrow 'Write What You Know' Author: Jenna Glatzer Every writer has heard it time and again, and it's not without merit: Write what you know. When I began freelancing, I was just out of college, so what did I write about? College. I wrote profiles of collegiate entrepreneurs, I wrote editorials
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Don't Forget That Manual! Author: V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D. No user manual? Surely you jest! It may seem comical, but it's a surprisingly common situation. I've encountered many companies that don't provide any user manuals with their products. If they do, their manuals are often horribly incoherent, or
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Everyone's a Critic or At Least They Could Be Author: Heather Wallace Imagine a job that is tons of fun and, if you follow the advice outlined below, is probably one of the easier routes to becoming a household name. It is the job of Movie Reviewer. Just think about how wonderful it would be to get paid to munch on popcorn
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Give Your Readers A Sample Author: Jean Fritz Manufacturers of food products are masters at marketing. When they launch a new product, they hire crews of merchandisers to pass out samples and coupons during peak grocery shopping times. The result - a large percentage of shoppers become first-time
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Making Freelance Writing Niche Types Fit Author: Roxanne McDonald Our Freelance Writing Needs Defined We must make freelance niche types fit our needs, wants, values and lifestyles, and we also must make ourselves fit freelance niche types. Of our waking hours, we work more than we do anything else. I keep this in
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Success Redefined Author: Lynn Colwell When our youngest child was in second grade, we moved to a small Colorado town. The first day, even before we'd gotten the house unpacked, I headed for the library. Over the next three months, I spent four to eight hours a day in that threadbare space,
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Take My Publisher, Please! Author: Ed Williams An actual phone conversation I had earlier today.... Hello, is this Ed? Uh, yes it is. Ed Williams, the writer guy? Uh, yeah, Ed Williams the writer guy. How are you? My name is Sam Filbert, and I'm a big fan. Hey Sam, it's
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Taming The Book Proposal Author: Jill Nagle Oh, that most maddening of documents! For so many of us eager to move forward with our nonfiction projects, it looms large like a guard at the queen's castle, blocking the path to publication. Its perfection eludes us yet it stands there teasing,
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Discover 3 Easy Ways to Promote Your Articles Author: Brandie King Are you using these methods to promote your articles? If not, you are missing out on some easy ways to get more traffic. Ways that require no additional work on your part once they are set up. 1. Fr*e Ebook Compile all of your articles
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Cover Letters Author: Amit Pujar Cover Letters :: Are you telling them what they want to know? Let's face it. Recruiters (or employers) are smarter than we think. Bigger organizations pay a hefty salary to their HR department to filter out and sieve through hundreds and thousands of
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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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Be Concise Author: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Concision. (Sounds like I made up another word.) It's the idea of being concise in our ongoing communication with others, both written and oral. Many take forever to say so little. These are the same people who spend a lot of time in meetings. Some
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A Quick Guide to ISBNs for Self-Publishers Author: Jennifer Tribe A Quick Guide to ISBNs for Self-Publishers ISBN stands for International Standard Book Number. It is a code assigned to every published book that uniquely identifies it in the marketplace. ISBNs make it easier and more efficient for libraries,
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What is Pay-Per-Click? Author: F. Terrence Markle Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is when an advertiser pays for each qualified click that sends a search engine user (i.e., visitor) to the advertisers web page. PPC requires the advertiser to bid on key words or key word phrases chosen by the
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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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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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Software Patents Author: Michael Feigin Recent court cases may change the availability of obtaining software and business method patents. Where is the line between what is considered an abstract and unpatentable invention verses a tangible and patentable invention?
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