10 Article Writing Quirks
Much has been touted about the effectiveness of article writing in the promotion of their business. While everyone raves about its benefits I’ll look into a few quirks. Too much junk- You can’t even imagine the amount of rehash material...

#BREAK# 10 Common Direct Mail Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Successful direct mail does not need to be elaborate full color printing or creative design. The major factors contributing to a successful direct mail program are in the planning and implementing of the program. Avoid the following common blunders...

#BREAK# 10 Eye Popping Ad Copy Secrets
1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales. 2. Publish a list of famous and respected...

#BREAK# 10 Keys to Writing Copy That Sells!
Whether you're selling a product or service, the 10 tips below are your keys to writing great copy that communicates and persuades ... to get results! These guidelines can apply to most any form of consumer marketing communications: sales...

#BREAK# 10 Most Powerful Article Marketing Tips
Article Marketing really works! Never would have believed how writing some simple little articles would put my website marketing into overdrive until I tried it. These techniques worked for me, can't imagine what they will do for someone...

#BREAK# 10 Reasons Why People Attend Book Signings
This is the survey result of 325 people conducted by myself so I can improve at my own book signings. After completing the survey, I saw the wealth of insight it had given me. I felt it was important to share it with a wider audience. I also...

#BREAK# 10 Simple Rules to Make You Serious Money in the Sharemarket and Keep it!
Don't Fall in Love with You're Stocks(Collect a Free EBOOK - see website) It appears that I have a dislike for admitting that I could ever get it wrong and this explains why I sometimes can't take a loss. On the other side of the equation: if I was...

#BREAK# 10 Successful Strategies For Profitable Sales Letters
1) Start with a headline. Right up front give your products strongest benefit. Make a promise in your headline, and then explain how the promise and benefits work to the customers potential in the body of your sales letter. 2) Tell a story. Give a...

#BREAK# 10 Things that Keep You from Writing Your Book… and What You Can do About It
9 out of 10 professionals and small business owners have at least one book or information product inside their head, but lack the time and organizational skills to get it out into digital or print form. You may cringe when you read this list of...

#BREAK# 10 Things You Should Expect From Your IT Copywriter
Anyone who’s ever tried marketing IT products or services knows that it’s a specialist field. Your customers in the IT industry have very unique and specific requirements, and that means you do too. In order to write compelling...

#BREAK# 10 Things You Should Expect From Your Website Copywriter
As websites and electronic commerce are becoming more and more common, business owners and marketing managers are realising that quality web copy is every bit as important as impressive design. And with the ever increasing importance of search...

#BREAK# 10 Tips for Effective Proofreading
Proofreading may not be terribly fun, but it's one of the most important parts of writing. Have you ever read a web page or a document that had typos, grammatical errors, and punctuation mistakes? This reflects badly on you and your business,...

#BREAK# 10 Tips on How To Write A Sales Letter
The main reason why 95% of online businesses fail is because of poor sales letter. Write your sales letter with an Individual in mind; think as if you are writing personally to them. People love to read good stories, tell them stories that...

#BREAK# 10 Ways To Generate New Articles Ideas And Topics
1. Brainstorm for new ideas. Add your brainstormed ideas to an idea file that you can go back to when you are stuck for a topic. Also add ideas you get from other sources into this file so that you'll always have a fresh source of inspiration. 2....

#BREAK# 10 Ways To Start An Internet Salesletter
The first sentence of an internet salesletter is like a hook. It must grab the reader's attention and lead them into reading the entire letter. According to copywriter Joseph Sugarman, the purpose of the first sentence of a salesletter is to get...

#BREAK# 12 Tips for Writing Articles on the Internet
I have compiled a list of 12 tips I think should be helpful when you are writing articles on the internet. 1. Use lots of white space. People like to read in 'chunks' of information so have lots of space in your background. 2. Use short...

#BREAK# 12 Ways to Research a Historical Novel
Whether you are fictionalizing historical events or making up your own story, attention to detail can determine whether your novel is credible to history buffs or if they’ll give it a pass. Read about the general history of the locale...

#BREAK# 19 secrets to making your ad copy more effective
The sales letter is the key; the sales letter is the key - echoes through the Internet marketing mountains. Ad copy, sales copy, sales letter, copywriting or whatever you want to call it – the goal is the same for every Internet marketing business....

#BREAK# 2 Ebooks That Will Change Your Life
Can you really get rich quick working from home on the internet? Web site after web site promises you the world and riches, but is it for real? My name is Kim Harms and I am a 25 year old stay at home wife. Just like you, I was once...

#BREAK# 2 Ways to Really Connect With Your Customer in Your Copywriting
Copyright © 2005 by Bruce Carlson One of the least talked-about areas in copywriting education is voice. This is probably because it’s tough to set general rules for something that’s so personal to each of us. After all, the same things go into...

#BREAK# 22 Questions to Ask Before You Write a Single Word
To write successful copy, you need to know as much as you can. It goes beyond reading background materials, reviewing old marketing pieces and doing some cursory research on the Web. You need to get inside peoples' heads. Start with your...

#BREAK# 22 Steps to Poetry - Freestyle
First things first. What is Poetry? Poetry, as what I learned in my literature class, is a timeless and creative expression of beauty, humanity and reality. It is a language of the heart to the heart. It is a union of heart and mind. Writing...

#BREAK# 22 Steps To Poetry - Freestyle
First things first. What is Poetry? Poetry, as what I learned in my literature class, is a timeless and creative expression of beauty, humanity and reality. It is a language of the heart to the heart. It is a union of heart and mind. Writing...

#BREAK# 22 Ways to Make Money as a Writer
When most people think of writers, they think of fiction writers struggling to produce great novels. With the exception of those very few writers who make bestseller lists, far more writers make a living in various sorts of business, technical, and...

#BREAK# 25 Points To Create Your Own Winning Sales Letters
The below table of content is my copywriting checklist, that I've been using for the past 2 years to create dynamic and powerful sales letters for my clients. And I hope it will do the same to you when applied in full. #1, The Headline must...

#BREAK# 3 Elements to a Deal-Sealing Classified ad
Have you ever wondered why your perfectly fine classified ad fails to attract the attention you desire? There should be dozens—no, hundreds—of perspective buyers swamping your e-mail inbox with offers. After all, you are offering a mint baseball...

#BREAK# 3 Habits Of A Proficient And Prolific Writer
“Literature is also an art, for it can be learned. It can be demonstrated not only by the gifted few but also by those who have acquired such literary skills. As the saying goes, ‘Geniuses are born; scholars are made.’ Therefore, everyone can avail...

#BREAK# 3 Keys to Better Online Copywriting
© 2005 by Bruce Carlson Doing the copywriting for your own website without the proper knowledge and tools is pretty much like flying blind in a snowstorm without piloting experience or instruments. It doesn't work too well. A...

#BREAK# 3 Lessons From A Marketing Superstar
I was just rereading Jeffrey J. Fox's marvelous book, How To Become A Marketing Superstar this week, and had to start jotting down some notes to pass along. Fox has a wonderful knack for distilling his hard-won wisdom into two or three page...

#BREAK# 3 Low Cost Ways To Meet Agents and Editors
These days it's common knowledge that it's hard to meet an agent or an editor through an unsolicited mailing. They are more likely to pay attention to a submission coming from someone they have met in person. To that end, writers flock to...

#BREAK# 3 Low Cost Ways To Meet Agents & Editors
These days it's common knowledge that it's hard to meet an agent or an editor through an unsolicited mailing. They are more likely to pay attention to a submission coming from someone they have met in person. To that end, writers flock to...

#BREAK# 3 Main Tips For Writing Articles Along With 3 Mini Tips On Your Word Choice
Tips when Writing Articles Do you love to write? Do you want to put those writing skills to good use? Perhaps you want to see your name published whether it be in a newspaper, magazine, e-zine or other forms of publication. Here's 3 tips to...

#BREAK# "3 Quick Tips To Becoming An Instant Copywriting Genius"
Copywriting is the ONE skill that will turn words into cash, and it's really the one thing you must learn if you're thinking of selling anything at all. From traditional direct mail and now to the internet, the power of words has already made...

#BREAK# 3 Tips for Writing Articles
Do you love to write? Do you want to put those writing skills to good use? Perhaps you want to see your name published whether it be in a newspaper, magazine, e-zine or other forms of publication. Here's 3 tips to start off your New Year. ...

#BREAK# 3 Tips For Writing Better Headlines
Copyright © 2005 by Bruce Carlson The single most important element of your website's copy is the headline. Take away practically everything else and you can still manage a sale (if the headline's good enough and you have a strong enough call to...

#BREAK# 3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals
1. Make your goals achievable. By achievable, we mean realistic and attainable. You might unconsciously have set a goal even others will have a hard time achieving, even if they had the means and the time to do so. Here's what you can do:...

#BREAK# 3 Tips To Profit From Writing Articles
Imagine yourself jetting home from a popular conference, with colleagues and potential clients all around you. Now, feel yourself swell with pride as you see them open the Wall Street Journal or the In Flight magazine and read a business article you...

#BREAK# 4 Major Mistakes to Avoid when Writing an Article
By avoiding these common mistakes, you will greatly improve your article. The Internet has an overabundance of disregarded content that was written in the same rambling way that the author normally speaks in. Many of these articles would never have...

#BREAK# 5 Dynamite Ways to Find Ideas for Parenting Articles
The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those lucrative topics. Most topics in regional parenting publications are...

#BREAK# 5 Dynamite Ways to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles
The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those lucrative topics. Most topics in regional parenting publications are...

#BREAK# 5 Easy Steps To Writing Your Appealing Letter
You must write a hypnotic persuasion letter to help you achieve all your goals! Get the boss to give your a raise, induce that beautiful blue-eyed girl to be your lover and persuade your mother to buy a BMW Z3 for you this summer. Give me...

#BREAK# 5 Easy Ways To Get Your Creative Juices Going
Writing an article doesn’t just mean putting down thoughts into words then typing and writing it. You have to capture the interest of your readers and get them to keep on reading. To send your message across you have to get the attention of the...

#BREAK# 5 Insider Secrets to Million Dollar Sales Letters
One of the most important skills you could ever learn is how to write million dollar sales letters. The difference between a killer sales letter and a mediocre one is often the difference between a successful site that earns thousands of dollars...

#BREAK# 5 Key Reasons Why Great Copywriting Will Always Be Your Most Important Business Skill
Ask any successful business owner what is the most important business skill that an aspiring entrepreneur or Internet marketer can possess and I'll bet you'll hear one resounding answer over and over again. Copywriting. Copywriting. Copywriting....

#BREAK# 5 Questions to Ask About Every Article Idea
I know a good idea when I see one. So should you. Dump those time-tested ideas you’re sending off to editors every other day, and find ideas that will get you the assignment each time, every time. How do you know whether your brilliant idea will...

#BREAK# 5 Reasons To Avoid PublishAmerica
Ever since I first wrote about my publishing pitfalls with PublishAmerica, I’ve received a lot of correspondence from writers asking me if they too should avoid publishing with this notorious online POD company. So, in response to yet another letter...

#BREAK# 5 Tips For Catching Errors in your Manuscript
You may reprint or publish this article free of charge as long as the bylines are included. Original URL (The Web version of the article) -------------------------------- http://www.outskirtspress.com/articles/5tipsforerrors.php4 What is your...

#BREAK# 5 Ways a Book Review can Increase Your Sales
If you write and/or publish books of any kind, you need to get your books reviewed. Why? Because it can dramatically increase your sales. Here is a quick list of 5 ways a review can help to increase your sales. 1. Massive Exposure -- Book...

#BREAK# 5 Ways to Generate Article Topic Ideas
If you write articles frequently, you have probably found that sometimes you just don't know what to write about. This is a very common issue for even the best of us, however there are some quick tricks that can help. Here are what the top five: ...

#BREAK# 6 Easy Steps to Publish Your Articles
It's not that hard to get your articles being published online instantly. I've made the the process into 6 steps for you to follow: 1. Do your content research from faq.com and answers.google.com, and note down important points while you're...

#BREAK# 6 Helpful Pointers for Choosing Ebooks to Give Away
I've always thought that one of the most exciting aspects of the internet comes in the form of tiny digital packages we so fondly call ebooks. Knowledge and experience is transformed into digital form and packaged for distribution, all in a...

#BREAK# 6 Red Hot Tips To Get Your Articles Read
There are many people who dread having to write papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads the. To some people, reading articles seems like work to, especially if the article...

#BREAK# 6 Sources For Hot Article Ideas
It's an established fact of internet marketing that one of the most effective forms of free advertisement is to write and distribut articles to newsletters. As Stone Evans of Plug-in-Profits said, "once you get one of YOUR ARTICLES published on...

#BREAK# 6 Super Tips To Become Successful With Your Own Info-Product
There are many ways you can become successful with your own info-products. So, I've included some ideas and tips to help you. 1. Create e-books for other web sites or businesses. You could create them for no charge in exchange for an ad or a...

#BREAK# 6 TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING
When writing most anything, the objective is produce copy that is easy to read. This is particularly true on the Web, because chances are the majority of your visitors and newsletter readers are in hurry-up mode. They'll pass on anything that seems...

#BREAK# 6 Tips to a Healthy Memory
October 2005 There a number of basic things that you probably do each day to help extend the life of the valuable tool called your memory. The following are a few practical suggestions for you if you have not already done them. These are...

#BREAK# 7 Devistating Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Writing engaging articles and energizing ad copy takes more than just typing out what you want to say. By correcting these major mistakes, your copy will soar to newfound heights. While there are many common mistakes made by copywriters, seven in...

#BREAK# 7 Easy tips on How to Improve Your Website Sales Letter Instantly
Would you like to get more sales from your online sales letter? Here are 7 easy tips that you can improve on your ad copy instantly and generate more revenue: 1. Have a Strong Call to Action. Decide what is it that you want your prospect to do when...

#BREAK# 7 Keys to Writing a Children's Book that Sells Like Hotcakes
There are seven fundamental reasons that some books succeed and others collect dust on the author's bookshelf. These seven keys to success as an author are simple, obvious even, and yet in the midst of our writing many of us forget them. We get so...

#BREAK# 7 Secrets for Success with Pay per Click Book Promotion
“Pay-for-Performance” or “Pay-per-Click” Internet advertising is making big waves lately, and the two biggest players are Google and Overture, which was recently purchased by Yahoo. Microsoft has since joined the fray with MSN Search and there are...

#BREAK# "7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales!" Part 1
Secret #1: How to write an incredible eBook! Aho! I shouldn't be telling you this: One of the biggest problems that most eBook writers and sellers face is generating eBook sales. It seems like the Internet is full of "ideas" - however, these...

#BREAK# "7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales!" Part 4
Secret #4: Creating passionate articles will explode your eBook sales! Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved. Aho, All the experts finally agreed on something. Writing articles about your eBook can be one of the most successful...

#BREAK# 7 Tips For Killer Headlines!
As with good ad copy, all successful headlines are written by following and using specific formulas. Where do you get these formulas you ask? I'll get to that in a moment. First you must have the information you need to apply to these formulas. This...

#BREAK# 7 Tips for Submitting Articles to Article Resource Sites
Submitting articles to article resource sites should be easy. But it is surprising how many people do not follow some simple rules. By not following these rules it can mean the difference between someone reading your article or not. Even worse,...

#BREAK# 7 Tips to Write Successful Web Articles!
Online readers love free information. They scour the internet daily looking for specific information to solve their problems, help them be successful, live longer or get healthy. You should join the information revolution too! Publish your free...

#BREAK# 7 Ways In Which You Can Overcome Excuses for Not Marketing Your Website by Writing Articles
Wannabe writers, are full of excuses as to why they aren’t writing yet. Many of these excuses can be changed to proactive statements with a mere switch in attitude and perspective. How many times have you read an article, and said to yourself,...

#BREAK# 7 Ways Television Influences Your Prospects Behavior, And How To Leverage This Into Money In Your Pockets!
Did you know, that television -- the persistent purveyor of pop culture here in America -- shapes a LOT of your prospects behavior patterns? Here, listen to this: 1. The average US home has the TV on for 7 hours and 40 munites a day. In...

#BREAK# 8 Sources To Research Awesome Article Topics
Writing articles is by far the most effective online promotion strategy I've come across. If you can write good, readable, original content, you can easily put yourself far ahead of the pack in your field of interest. But article marketers and new...

#BREAK# 8 Tell-Tale Signs That Forecast Writing Success!
‘Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” Stephen King Ever wonder what the hands of fate will deal you in the way of success as a writer? Or why...

#BREAK# 8 Ways to Find Good Reviewers for Your New Book
Getting reviews online is far easier than you may think. But beware; there are a few serious pitfalls that you should be aware of. Review Your Reviewer: You will be sorry if you do not take the time to get a pretty good picture of your reviewer....

#BREAK# 9 Myths That Block You From Writing Your Book
Many speakers, consultants, and small business owners alike feel confident with communicating their message orally. They can spout their message in an elevator speech with the accuracy of a scientist. But when it comes to putting it on paper,...

#BREAK# A Bad Book Review? You Aren't Doomed. Here's Why
You've just been notified a review of your book has been posted. You're all excited and can't wait to see what has been written. You're clicking onto your book's page when...Oh no! They hated your book! This bad review is going to turn away...

#BREAK# A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel
No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem but the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it and if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as...

#BREAK# A Book Can Make You a Bundle!
In the past 6 months, a new form of Books has grown in popularity on the Internet: EBooks. An EBook is simply an Electronic Book distributed via download in Windows, Macintosh, or Palm Pilot file formats. With the widespread acceptance of EBooks,...

#BREAK# A Brief History of the Book - Part I
One of the first acts of the French National Assembly in 1789 was to issue this declaration: "The free communication of thought and opinion is one of the most precious rights of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." UNESCO...

#BREAK# A Brief History of the Book - Part II
E-books, cheaper than even paperbacks, are the quintessential "literature for the millions". Both erstwhile reprint libraries and current e-book publishers specialize in inexpensive books in the public domain (i.e., whose copyright expired). John...

#BREAK# A competitive and cutthroat look at writing
Let me start by saying, humor that is hurtful or at the expense of other writers has no place in the writing industry. Board fights and flame wars do not belong in the writing community. This should be about writing. Online writing communities have...

#BREAK# A Copywriting Lesson from Dr. Seuss
Looking for inspiration for your next marketing communication? Try the children's bookshelf. Dr. Seuss has entertained young (and old) audiences for nearly 50 years with titles such as The Cat in the Hat , Hop on Pop and Green Eggs and...

#BREAK# A Cousin of Hemingway, Rose Now Puts Her Pen To The Page
A few years ago when Chicago born author, Sarah Elizabeth Rose learned that she shared a common ancestor with Ernest Hemingway, and that she also shared common ancestors with Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls, and Jane Austen,...

#BREAK# A Crash Course In Writing And Publishing Information On The Internet
Selling information on the internet is by far the easiest and most lucrative business you can start online right now, and make a fortune within a very short time. Information products are hot, and the sales are skyrocketing. Information is...

#BREAK# A Cure for Writer's Block
A Cure for Writer's Block Writer's block is a favourite topic of writer's, and no wonder….nearly every writer suffers from it at some crucial point in their careers. Writer's block usually comes to visit at the most inopportune times, like during...

#BREAK# A DAILY DOSE OF INSPIRATION
Inspiration - where does it come from and how do you get it when you want it? This age-old question highlights a problem that plagues those whose life work revolved around ideas, and new concepts, themes, or subject matter. Take writing for...

#BREAK# A different language is a different vision of life
Learning a language is akin to acquiring some kind of code with tangled ciphers and intricate symbols, which seems to be beyond perception and comprehension of a learner. Indeed, language is a well-arranged system, which needs a ...

#BREAK# A Dozen Techniques to Improve Your Software Online Help
There are several main reasons why putting your software manual on-line is necessary. It makes your web-site attractive for search engine crawlers and therefore brings you targeted traffic from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engines. A...

#BREAK# A Few Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue
Every writer expends a great deal of creative energy developing a story line and limning well-balanced prose with evocative sentences. That's what writing is all about, after all. But fiction writers have an additional aspect to...

#BREAK# A Free Lesson On How To Easily Write Ads That Are Guaranteed To Make You Money
COPYWRITING After determining what we are going to sell, the next task is to effectively convey our message. Copywriting is the art of writing words and messages that successfully sell a product or service. From the development of the...

#BREAK# A Go for Newsletter Printing Services
People are more likely to read news than ads - that is! They are thinking that ads are just a bunch of self-serving 'puffing' so they divert to a more interesting activity and that is reading news. News keeps them updated with the current...

#BREAK# A Great Flyer for Marketing Online and Off
Flyers are a good standby tool for marketing both online and off. And there’s no need to be a genius to create a great one, either. Here are some basic guidelines to design your own flyers. 1. MICROSOFT WORD – Begin with a basic software...

#BREAK# A LITERARY POSTCARD FROM SOMEWHERE
(c) Theolonius McTavish 2004. All rights reserved. Seeking a spot of serenity somewhere in the universe, I recently booked a deep-discount dodgy berth on the ‘White Elephant Express Space Shuttle’, to a little known place in a galaxy far, far...

#BREAK# A peep into Senze’s Mini-Encyclopedia
From the laptop of Adwin Hi I am Adwin. Nice meeting you. Thank you for taking your time to read this personal review by me on Senze’s latest mini-encyclopedia. Believe me, this is the hottest cake now in internet marketing arena. I have read...

#BREAK# A Poet To His Father
I tried so hard to understand Why did it have to be us? Your gift that year was a broken home Gone in our lives then you were suddenly I remember the tales you used to tell There in my crib I would listen so well An ode of...

#BREAK# A Poet To His Firstborn
Finally I found the lady Who would be your mother and fairy Lucky you for She is all whom I could ever wish for Your mother and I Have been friends way before We began to love each other Or should I say, In our hearts we have been...

#BREAK# A Poet To His Future Wife
{to my fiancée, Charlotte Belialba} If you met me in my youth In the days I was wilder and freer Could you have loved me still? If you met me in my youth When my heart was restless and untrue Could you have persevered and stayed? The...

#BREAK# A Poet To His Mother
I may have not been too vocal in the past Of my respect and love—for they are so vast An old ballad sings: "Some good things never last" But in me, O Mother, may you put your trust My childhood memories with you and Father Are in my heart...

#BREAK# A Profitable Idea for Writers
To say that I read a lot is perhaps one of the greatest understatements of all time. I read chronically, obsessively. Articles, books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters--you name it. Whenever I am alone, if I'm not actually writing something, I...

#BREAK# A Review of Scientific American Magazine
From Quantum Black Holes to Neuromorphic Microchips Scientific American Magazine has the coverage to keep your young or mature science enthusiasts learning and growing. This magazine never fails to deliver thought provoking stories targeted to the...

#BREAK# A Simple Contest with a Strong Message for All Writers: Wake Up Your Writing Spirit
The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected. It’s because along with entries, we’re also getting heartfelt messages...

#BREAK# A Surprising Way to Write a Million Dollar E-Book
Ever since Jim Edwards and I wrote our best-selling e-book, "How to Write and Publish Your Own OUTRAGEOUSLY Profitable e-Book --- in as little as 7 days!," people have written to us for advice on how to pick a good subject for their e-book....

#BREAK# A Writing Exercise That Increases Awareness And Description Skills
Practice attaching words to feelings requires time to do. Without a system that helps you monitor that time, the minutes or hours could feel unproductive. With the right exercise, you can then use that time wisely, as well as save you time and...

#BREAK# ABC’s of Publishing - About Agents
While there’s no Golden Rule to “Being Published”; it appears the only way to get your foot in the door is to have a respected literary agent hold it open. (I can’t count the number of times my toes, and my ego, have been smashed.) Most of the large...

#BREAK# About Writing
In this free email course, I'll tell you everything I know about improving your writing, publishing it electronically and in print, and promoting it after the sale. Two questions you should ask: (1) What will it cost me? (2) What does...

#BREAK# About Your Copyright
With the easy access of the Internet, more people are writing and creating and displaying their art publicly than ever before. As a marketing coach, I receive many questions about copyrights – how to get your own, and how to know about someone...

#BREAK# Absurdity of Absurd: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
What does ‘Absurd’ mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I found the word to be ‘out of harmony’(1).But yet the definitions trying hard to explain the term , just to end in total ‘Absurdity’ (assuming for a...

#BREAK# Ad Copy Secrets Of The Rich And Not So Famous
1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad on a piece of paper, scan it and publish the ad on your web page. Adding a personal touch will always increase your sales. 2. Publish a list of famous and respected...

#BREAK# Ad Copy Tips
What percentage of prospects come your way as a result of your ad copy? What percentage of sales do you close because of your ads? Well, increase both percentages with some of our tips, tailored to your own ad campaigns. 1. ERRORS – It’s tough...

#BREAK# Adding Fresh Content To Your Existing E-book
Ok, so you’re at that stage where you’ve gotten just enough content to publish your first e-book, finally the grunt work is out of the way. Sit back and pat yourself on the shoulder for a job well done. Next task on the list? How to add...

#BREAK# Adding Fresh Content to Your Existing Ebook
You have permission to reprint ©-by Brian Holte Ok, so you're at that stage where you've gotten just enough content to publish your first e-book, finally the grunt work is out of the way. Sit back and pat yourself on the shoulder for a job well...

#BREAK# All You Need To Know About Agents--For Now
The agent issue is such an emotional one for writers. Having one is a huge validation. I was fortunate to sign with an agent while still writing my first novel and it was wonderful being able to work and know that someone was waiting for what I was...

#BREAK# Amazing 1892 Golf Novel Predicted Bullet Trains, TV and More
Did you hear about the strange little book, written in 1892, that predicted such wonders as bullet trains, digital watches, television and women's liberation decades before those things came to pass? The book leapt into the news in early 2005 when...

#BREAK# Ambition versus Dedication
All writers aspire to recognition, but are we dedicated? Ambition is simply the drive or strong desire for something. It is the enthusiastic wanting, that yearning felt in every pore, every cell in our bodies toward a specific aim. Sounds a lot...

#BREAK# An Ambarrassment of Riches
http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories...

#BREAK# An Article about Articles
Everyone that publishes a newsletter or ezine knows that the "list" is the most important thing, if you want to be successful with any online venture. To build that list we are told to submit ads to other ezines, join as many ezines as is...

#BREAK# An blewing mind ebook that make you Rich
Hi, Check this site out, you won't believe what I dug up on it: The Rich Jerk I came across this website two days ago. Now I must tell you, I was totally offended the first time I saw this website. The very first thing you read is "I'm...

#BREAK# An Editor Spins Her Thoughts about Web Content
A glossy magazine placed an advertisement on its Web site, targeting the publication’s upscale subscribers. The expensive ad emphasized how perfect the tiniest detail would be for guests who stayed at a certain, very fancy hotel. There was only...

#BREAK# An Inside Look at Proofreading
This is the ideal topic for us all to think about. We do it everyday, especially those of us that use the Internet the majority of the time. Web pages, business letters, articles, news releases, documentation and most certainly, advertisements. I...

#BREAK# Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," A Discussion
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” was written by America’s first female poet, the Puritan, Anne Bradstreet. In fact, Anne Bradstreet is one of only a handful of female American poets during the first 200 years of America’s history. After Bradstreet,...

#BREAK# Any PR Is Good PR
- your press release should sound like news, not an ad - you should only send your press release to the media related to the topic of your press release - keep your press release one page in length - your header, contact information and...

#BREAK# Are Keywords Destroying the Flow of Your SEO Copy?
by Karon Thackston © 2004, All Rights Reserved http://www.copywritingcourse.com/keyword With all the shuffling that’s been seen in the search engine world within the last year, the issue of obvious optimizing has become a hot button. The current...

#BREAK# Are We Losing the Desire to Write Well?
British polling company ICM Research recently conducted a survey that found that around two-thirds of the two thousand 18-24 year olds surveyed cared "NOT AT ALL" about punctuation, spelling and grammar when composing e-mail. This overly casual...

#BREAK# Are Writing Exercises Effective?
It was reported that the great American author Sinclair Lewis was once asked to give a lecture on writing to a group of college students: "Looking out at this gathering," he said to the assembled students, "makes me want to know how many of you...

#BREAK# Are You a Rehabber?
Here's a test to see if you've got what it takes to be a rehabber. Just be honest and rest assured nobody's going to rap you over the knuckles for your answers! - Are you a problem solver? - Do you relish a project...I mean one that can occupy...

#BREAK# Are You Achieving Your Writing Goals?
At the start of this new year, like at the start of every other new year, I came across dozens of articles about the importance of setting achievable goals, challenging myself to do new things and fixing measurable standards and working towards...

#BREAK# Are You Content With Your Headlines? 5 Ways to Beef Up Your Article Title for Maximum Clickability
You clicked on this article, and now you're diving right in for a hearty read. Why'd you do that? Because I sucked you in with my "direct markety" headline. Now, before you go running away in defiance of being manipulated, know that this is a...

#BREAK# Are You Content With Your Web Articles? 5 Ways to Dominate Your Niche With Copy that Rocks
Web articles - they're immensely popular these days, for the simple reason that you can broadcast your name and URL all over the web with them. Trouble is, everybody's doing it... and that means major competition in ALL categories! So the...

#BREAK# Are You Interested In Reading A Book?
Are you looking for a book to read and you are not completely sure of the contents you’ll enjoy the most? You have several things to think of. For example: do you want to learn about some topic, such as plants or animals? Or a you intersted in...

#BREAK# Are You Sure Your Query Is Ready?
One magazine. Hundreds of writers. Thousands of queries. One editor. One desktop ... and a trashcan that appears to be incredibly, almost unimaginably deep. Where exactly will your submission go? It has all the makings of an editor's nightmare....

#BREAK# Art of Essay Writing
I love essays! I enjoy reading them, checking them, teaching my students how to generate them, but most of all I enjoy writing them! You want to ask why. I hope after reading my article you will understand. And I so much believe that you will...

#BREAK# Article Banks and Google Alerts Harness Your Marketing Power
Content is the currency fueling the Internet. Yet, article banks, repositories for authors to promote their content, are still the Internet¡¦s best-kept secret. I learned about article banks through a casual chat at a networking event. A few...

#BREAK# Article Banks and Google Alerts Harness Your Publishing Power
Content is the currency fueling the Internet. Yet, article banks, repositories for authors to promote their content, are still the Internet's best-kept secret. I learned about article banks through a casual chat at a networking event. A few days...

#BREAK# Article Marketing: What Is It and How Can I Use it to Grow My Business?
Ever read one of those web articles written by an internet marketing expert? They're really helpful, aren't they. You can learn a ton about how to be a successful web marketer just from surfing the net and reading articles. And it's funny... you...

#BREAK# Article Submitting: How To Study A Publisher’s Website
There are many websites that will host your articles on the Internet. Some small, some large, some with guidelines, some without, some support streams of topics, some have a limited focus, some charge a fee and some are free. With so many...

#BREAK# Article Writing Do's and Don'ts
Still following along on the Copywriter's Crash Course in article marketing? Ahh, I'm so pleased! With any luck, you'll be an article-writing machine by tomorrow. But before you being submitting articles on the web as a brand-building strategy,...

#BREAK# Article Writing For Fame And Fortune
How would you like to have your name and web address spread all over the internet? How would you like to have your web site move up to the first few pages on the major search engines? Actually, it's not as difficult as you may think. It requires...

#BREAK# Article Writing Techniques
As you know a well written article can do wonders for your exposure and traffic. The article should contain good useful information. It should be of interest to the reader. A boring article could possibly brand your site as boring also....

#BREAK# Article Writing Tips
3 Tips when Writing Articles Do you love to write? Do you want to put those writing skills to good use? Perhaps you want to see your name published whether it be in a newspaper, magazine, e-zine or other forms of publication. Here's 3 tips to...

#BREAK# Articles Are The Quickest Way To Your Customers Wallet
One way of promoting your website and product can be achieved for free. As an additional bonus, this "free" method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income. Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your...

#BREAK# Attention Deficit Sales Letter Disorder
For any marketer, attention is a precious commodity. With consumers bombarded with thousands of advertising messages each day the question of how to make your message stand out of the crowd becomes even more critical. Any successful sales...

#BREAK# Audio and E-book Opportunties
I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email exchanges of those members is quite exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night I came to one where a writer who has vision trouble and can't read regular print books...

#BREAK# Audio Books - 5 Reasons to Love Them
The typical hardcover or paperback book is not going anywhere. The format shows no signs of ever dying off, even after considering the many technological advances made in recent years. It would, however, be foolish to deny the obvious and...

#BREAK# Avoid the Top Ten Costly Author Mistakes with Professional Coaching
Avoid the Top Ten Costly Author Mistakes with Professional Coaching Judy Cullins ©2005 All Rights Reserved. Maybe you are thinking about it. Maybe you don't know it it's worth it. A book coach can help you save time, frustration, and money down...

#BREAK# Avoid the Truth about the Author
Searching my notes, lesson plans, and textbooks for idea to help make writing stronger, better, and more powerful, I found a collection of different tips, all which are helpful. However, these are just a few possibilities; I am writing an...

#BREAK# Awesome Ending
Awesome Ending Bungee jumping, sky diving, secret mission, Indy 500: how do these events compare to the art of fiction writing? Each one brings to its 'doer' an element of anticipation, exhilaration, unfamiliarity, and adventure. A pure adrenaline...

#BREAK# Awesome Endings
Awesome Ending Bungee jumping, sky diving, secret mission, Indy 500: how do these events compare to the art of fiction writing? Each one brings to its ‘doer’ an element of anticipation, exhilaration, unfamiliarity, and adventure. A pure adrenaline...

#BREAK# Back To Paragraphs
Some point in their careers, the best designers may have found some difficulty in setting the body texts of their works. How do you solve body texts problems? 1. Indents. Paragraphs need to be separated; if not, readers will be faced with an...

#BREAK# Back to the copywriting basics
You've probably read lots on effective copywriting strategies, how to utilise keywords, and various tricks of the trade for making sure your copywriting is as effective as possible. This is good stuff ... anything that results in a better website is...

#BREAK# Bad Book Review Blues
When you get a bad book review You've just been notified a review of your book has been posted. You're all excited and can't wait to see what has been written. You're clicking onto your book's page when...Oh no! They hated your book! This bad...

#BREAK# Basic Writing Tips – Some Controversial, All Correct
As a previous article (“Making Better Word Choices – 4 Examples”) explained, writers can take steps to prevent simple, and common, errors from degrading their writing. Five areas of writing that cause authors problems are discussed in this article....

#BREAK# Battling Internet ADD: Ten Tips for Writing for the Web
1. Write for a reason Get to the point. One of the basic references for Web design is Steve Krug's, Don't Make Me Think. My book for Web writers (not yet available in stores) will be called, Don't Make Me Yawn. The Great Democracy that is the...

#BREAK# Battling Internet ADHD: Ten Tips for Writers
Write for a reason Get to the point. One of the basic references for Web design is Steve Krug's, Don't Make Me Think. My book for Web writers (not yet available in stores) will be called, Don't Make Me Yawn. The Great Democracy that is the Web...

#BREAK# Beat the Block with a Journal
It’s nearing the end of summer, and I have no credentials to my benefit these holidays. As the end of the holidays approach, I keep wondering what I have to show for the summer other than the noticeable tan, and the load of incomplete articles...

#BREAK# Becoming the Total Package
Being a great writer is no longer enough if you plan to score a big publishing deal, especially as a nonfiction author. Particularly if your book idea falls into the how-to or self-help categories, you not only have to sell your terrific...

#BREAK# Before You Begin, Know What To Expect... How You Can Make a Living, Proof Reading From Home
Proof reading from home is an excellent way to make money, right? How hard and challenging can it be to do some editing after all? In fact it can be quite challenging to find a good quality proofreader that works from their house. This is...

#BREAK# "Big" Words
One day I was talking with my cousin about a book that I had read. I told her how wonderful it was and how I couldn't put it down. I thought she might be interested in reading it, but I was wrong. After listening to what I had to say, she replied,...

#BREAK# Blog Your Way to Success - What a "Blog" is?
Blog is a short of "weB LOG" or a method of storing any kind of information online. Such organized informational posting and archiving was named "Blog".By the form Blog represents an updated web-site of current and archived posts. A dead-simple...

#BREAK# "Blue Defends Blue" In Florida Tragedy
Susan Murphy-Milano, Daughter of Chicago Police Detective Philip Murphy who murdered her mother Roberta Murphy, in 1989, before taking his own life speaks out on this tragedy in Flordia on 10/11/05. It does not matter in what city or state this took...

#BREAK# Book Marketing 101
Francine Silverman. Book Marketing from A-Z ( InfinityPublishing.com , 2005). Trade paperback. 400 pages. $18.95 US. For beginning authors, book promotion is the key to success. Whether an author self-publishes or is published by a major...

#BREAK# Book Signing Nightmares
Book signings. Ugh. The mere thought is enough to send shudders down the spine of those of us who have sat behind a table of books, wearing an insipid grin while praying that someone, anyone, will come over and talk to us. Book signings are a lot...

#BREAK# Books Are The Treasures Of The Written Word
In this high tech advanced world that we live in now, it appears many may have forgotten books, or at least lost touch with them for entertainment. We have television with multitudes of channels and devices that allow you to record programs and view...

#BREAK# Bored With Details?
I received an email from an acquaintance a while back inviting me to his web page to read his latest works. I recently visited the site and began reading. The first chapter I read was rather dull and I had a difficult time keeping my mind on the...

#BREAK# Boriska, Indigo Boy from Volzhsky
Boriska, Indigo Boy from Volzhsky, Predicts Catastrophes in 2008 The boy says he was a Samual being three meters in height in his past life. The unusual baby boy was born in the town of Volzhsky, the Volgograd region of Russia. His...

#BREAK# Bound Together: The Art of Bookbinding
Imagine having to read a book that has 1000 pages long. That, in itself, may be a daunting task. Now, imagine having to read it with all its pages falling off! Close to impossible! Bookbinding is the art of assembling a book from...

#BREAK# Bracelet
Katie and Maddie are always together they often go home together but when Katie’s boyfriend Alex asked them to take them home Maddie always steps aside so that the two could be alone. Maddie also have a boyfriend named John. Sometimes John takes...

#BREAK# Breaking Writer's Block
Breaking Writer's Block The most fearsome enemy to any writer, attacking without warning, without predjudice and without compassion, is (gasp, dare I say it?) WRITER’s BLOCK. I feel a bit like Harry Potter speaking Voldermort’s name aloud to the...

#BREAK# Breathe new life into your half-dead website by using words that sell
This article may come as a surprise to you. Especially since it is written by a web designer. Let me explain...... Rescue Your Web Site from Boring Words and Poor Design. The difference between a successful website design and a site that brings...

#BREAK# Bring Out the Natural Writer in You
Bring Out the Natural Writer in You Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved. Think you can't write a book that will sell? You aren't a natural writer? In fact, you don't really like to write? Putting a book together can be daunting. But no, you...

#BREAK# Bukowski Would Have Been Blogger King?
Sometimes, I think about certain artists and writers from the past, and I wonder how they would have functioned had they gotten to live right now... For my part, I'm glad I was born when I was, or, given the choice, I think I would have preferred to...

#BREAK# Business Writing Skills I: What Do You Want To Say?
Many web entrepreneurs are unfamiliar with business writing. In truth, concise writing will build your business because you will better connect with customers and prospects. In this five-part series, the author will teach you how to make your web...

#BREAK# Business Writing Skills II - A Web Writing Primer
Whatever you would write on paper, cut it in half. The web was designed for quick reading. Studies show that people do not read long blocks of text while surfing the web; reading from the screen is often slower than reading on paper. Therefore, be...

#BREAK# Businesses are Asking: To Blog or Not to Blog?
Businesses are Asking: To Blog or Not to Blog? That's the question lots of people are asking - and the answers are as varied as all the blogs out there in cyberspace. Oh, and in case you don't know what blogs are, they're web logs that...

#BREAK# Buying e-Books on eBay
eBay is the world's online marketplace, that enables a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses to trade on a local, national and international basis. Founded in September 1995, eBay provides a platform for the sale of...

#BREAK# Can An Old Indian Engineer Write Fiction?
CAN AN OLD INDIAN ENGINEER WRITE FICTION? Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca An author emailed me three "disadvantages" to her decision to become a writer. Let me answer them one by one. "1. I'm seventy now and retired." You are seventy years old....

#BREAK# Can I Build a Profitable Internet Business?
Undoubtedly, the Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives. Many of us have even started an Internet home based business without experience to accomplish financial freedom. Precisely, just like you, we also asked the same question,...

#BREAK# Can You Really Make A Fortune Off Of Reprint Rights?
Copyright 2004 Willie Crawford Visit Ebay or any of ten thousand other websites and you'll see people offering reprint rights everywhere. They all tell you that with their great reprint rights you'll be in business instantly with "your own...

#BREAK# Capture Clients with Words That 'Hook' and Graphics That 'Kick!'
Do the marketing pieces you send out lack pizzazz and personality?Are they capturing the clients you want to work with? As your company's in-house graphics person--perhaps more by default than by intention--you're pressed to be a...

#BREAK# Cases Of Unused Bibles
A friend of mine telephoned me the other day He said come on up to South Carolina way I have cases of unused Bibles still in the box I will give them to you said my friend Mike Cox I drove I-95 to the other side of Marion Lake I was thinking...

#BREAK# Celebrate God's Love with Christian Books
Reading Christian books, listing to Christian music, and partaking in other contemporary Christian entertainment can be a source of spiritual renewal and great joy. Christian entertainment can also present a wonderful opportunity to fellowship...

#BREAK# Characters In A Romance Novel
Before you even begin writing your novel, you need to know who your characters will be. Minimally, you would want two major characters, the hero and the heroine. They will interact mostly with each other throughout the novel. How they interact...

#BREAK# Checking for Mismatched Quotation Marks
—or— How To Make Sure that Every Opening Quotation Mark Has an Ending Quotation Mark When writing a term paper, research paper, or post-graduate thesis, one of the most common errors is "mismatched" quotation marks. That is, an opening...

#BREAK# CHILLED RUN - review and interview with Joan Bramsch
Word Wrap: A book review by C. Hope Clark Chilled Run by Joan Bramsch Publisher: Joan Bramsch & JB Information Station ISBN 0-934334-04-8 Copyright © Joan Bramsch E-Book Copyright © June 2000 What an imagination! Joan Bramsch takes It's a Small...

#BREAK# CHRISTMAS IN JULY?
For many of us who live in the Northern hemisphere, the month of July means vacation, swimming, boating, picnics and camping. Long hot days entice us to slow down, turn off computers and televisions, and grab a spot in the shade of a leafy tree...

#BREAK# Cleaning Up Your Copy
When you are beginning to write, you gather as much data as you can. You continually add allied thoughts. . You use your right brain, the creative side. So when you have an idea and your mind says, “not relevant to my core subject,” you ignore...

#BREAK# Color correcting by numbers for giclee printing
Color correcting by numbers for giclee and other digital printing methods Color correcting images on screen for digital output is one of the most problematic issues in digital imaging. What was a task left to pre-press professionals in the past...

#BREAK# COLOR MY WORLD
You have permission to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print, as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication, if possible, would be appreciated. Or an e-mail informing the writer of your use. ...

#BREAK# Colorado Real Estate - The Rocky Mountains
Colorado is the land of the Rocky Mountains and all that comes with it. Located in the foothills, Denver is the central location for Colorado real estate. Colorado A state dominated by mountains, Colorado is a popular relocation spot for...

#BREAK# Comma Usage Explained
COMMA USAGE EXPLAINED Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca Don't they drive you nuts? You can visit all the rules of style you want, and you can read all the books and articles you want. You will still be confused. You will see inconsistency. You will...

#BREAK# Comma Usage Made Simple
COMMA USAGE MADE SIMPLE Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca Don't they drive you nuts? You can visit all the rules of style you want, and you can read all the books and articles you want. You'll still be confused. You'll see inconsistency. You'll...

#BREAK# Comments From A Book Reviewer
Comments from a Book Reviewer- Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures.com and sketchandtravel.com For the past several years I have been reviewing books for my own site, Bookpleasures.com, as well as many other sites. I am also a regular contributor...

#BREAK# Common Writing Mistakes
Most books aren't rejected because the stories are "bad." They're rejected because they're not "ready to read." In short, minor stuff like typos, grammar, spelling, etc. I don't mean places where we, as authors, deliberately break the rules....

#BREAK# Copyright, Copyrighting and Online Copyright Abuse. Save Yourself the Headache by Reading This!
Lets start with copyright infringement. It is easily explained as copying someone else's work without gaining permission first. This includes publishing other peoples work to your web site, newspaper, magazine or even just downloading it to your...

#BREAK# Copywriting for the Non-English-Speaking Audience
The power of the Internet lies in its global pervasiveness. It is practically everywhere. People of all languages access the Net from all over the globe. Just think of it as an infinite vastness for your business and marketing possibilities. Your...

#BREAK# Copywriting Makeover: Know Where Your Customers Are In The Buying Process Part 1 of 2
by Karon Thackston © 2004 http://www.copywritingcourse.com When you begin to write copy for any product or service, there are a few things you have to take into consideration. The first is always your target audience: who you’ll be writing to....

#BREAK# Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection - Part 1 of 2
by Karon Thackston © 2004 http://www.copywritingcourse.com One statistic shows that over 80% of all buying decisions are emotional. That means your copywriting should be, too. This is something I firmly believe in and have preached for most of my...

#BREAK# Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection - Part 2 of 2
by Karon Thackston © 2004 http://www.copywritingcourse.com In part one of this article series we began looking at the Cruise Vacation Center site: a travel site whose copy was sorely lacking in emotional appeal and visual imagry. (You can see the...

#BREAK# Copywriting Successes and Failures: A Comparison Of the Good and Bad
by Karon Thackston © 2002 http://www.copywritingcourse.com It’s about 7:00am and time to start my day. While my exact routine varies, one of the first things I always do is check email. As the flood rolls in, I have my finger poised on the delete...

#BREAK# Could a Book About Your Company be Worth $1.7 Billion? Building Value Through Publishing
"Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) to purchase Clayton Homes for $12.50 in cash per share. Deal worth $1.7 Billion." From an article in the Knoxville News Sentinel -- a University of Tennessee professor sent Warren Buffett the self-published...

#BREAK# Could This Someday Be The Saddest Poem I Ever Wrote?
Is this the perfect moment for writing a sad poem? Raining hard, feeling like a bard Holding a pen, lost in thoughts Outpouring, as raindrops softly and quietly Kiss the grass on the backyard lawn As always, I’m alone and lonesome ...

#BREAK# Could Your Book Idea Be the Next Best Seller?
Everyone has a unique story to tell. From explaining business processes to revealing our personal history, we all have a natural desire to share our experiences with the world. As a result, bookstore shelves are packed with numerous titles that...

#BREAK# Could Your Book Idea Be the Next Bestseller?
Everyone has a unique story to tell. From explaining business processes to revealing our personal history, we all have a natural desire to share our experiences with the world. As a result, bookstore shelves are packed with numerous titles that...

#BREAK# Cover Letters
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...

#BREAK# Cover Letters - Are you telling them what they want to know?
Let's face it, recruiters (or employers) are smarter than we think. Big organizations pay a hefty salary to their HR department to filter out and sieve through hundreds and thousands of resumes. The idea is to build an organization with people of...

#BREAK# Creating an Effective Advertising Campaign
Talk to almost any advertising agency, or Fortune 500 company exec about advertising and promotion, and you will almost certainly hear the buzz words "fragmented advertising" and "consumer-centric campaigns" and long discussions about the many...

#BREAK# Creative Writing Tips - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start?
In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his...

#BREAK# Custom Writing Services Market Overview
In this article the author is going to carry out custom writing services market overview providing comprehensive survey of the market divided into the following categories: market identification, market size, market segmentation, market growth...

#BREAK# Dark And Beautiful
HIKARU KAWAMOTO just realized that Yuujin Shimasaki, her old-time schoolmate, was also studying at the same university where she did. As far as she could remember, Yuujin was always an honor student then, just like her; and he was also a...

#BREAK# Dealing with the blues of a bad book review
When you get a bad book review You've just been notified a review of your book has been posted. You're all excited and can't wait to see what has been written. You're clicking onto your book's page when...Oh no! They...

#BREAK# Death by Workers' Compensation "The Bleeding Rose"
Excerpt of Death By Workers' Compensation "The Bleeding Rose" In this Excerpt the time that has lapsed is over an hour after the accident. What you are about to read will sicken you and make you wonder why no charges were ever pressed and why this...

#BREAK# Delivering Your E-book
Much of the attraction of e-books is that they can be purchased and received instantaneously. Within minutes of reading your great sales copy, someone can purchase and download your book… just like that. If you are not set up for e-commerce with...

#BREAK# Developing Screenplay Ideas ... My well runneth --- in many directions!
Recently, I started a screenwriting and movie-making group here in Las Vegas. Our objective was to begin at, well, the beginning of the process and work all the way through to an edited movie. Sounds easy? Yes! Is it really? Not at all. The one...

#BREAK# Dipping Into the Character Well
I believe that the best fiction is character-driven. Plotlines are of secondary importance, because if we don't care about the characters then the drama that unfolds around them fails to stir our interest. This division is really an artificial...

#BREAK# Discover what good writing is all about
Writing is a form of preserved talk, talk that has been pinned down on paper so the words can be heard again. The basic principles of good writing, apart, from grammatical correctness, might be presented as follows: 1) written sentences...

#BREAK# Do You Know How to Buy and Read eBooks!
Now, I know what you’re probably thinking, “Reading and eBook is just like reading an ordinary book.” I disagree. Here’s way, If you’re here reading this article then I’m pretty sure you’ve read your fair share of eBooks, and most likely most of...

#BREAK# DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TITLE YOUR STORY?
Title: DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TITLE YOUR STORY? Author: Arthur Zulu Contact Author: mailto: controversialwriter@yahoo.com Copyright: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002 Word Count: 601 Web Address: http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975 Publishing Guidelines:...

#BREAK# Do you make this big mistake writing your articles?
Do you make this big mistake writing your articles ? By Chen Zarza In the marketing world if you want to be a prosperous individual, you need to get the skill of copy writing, immerse into this skill is mandatory, this proficiency is vital...

#BREAK# Do You Submit Articles to Ezines?
There is something I'd like to talk about... from the angle of an ezine publisher. That's "How to submit articles to an ezine, and get published". Put yourself in a publisher's shoes. How do you feel if, one day, you receive an article submission...

#BREAK# Do you want to write a Best-seller? (Part 1)
“Whatever you can do or believe you can, . . . begin it now.”—Goethe When beggars receive freshly minted coins from the lords with a bow and a smile, it is not that they do not desire to ride horses as the masters do. But wishes don’t ride...

#BREAK# Do you want to write a Best-seller (Part 2)
“If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed.”—Tom Wolfe In the first installment of this essay, we said that if you want to excel as a writer, you would not only have to write on a best-selling topic, but that you would also have to...

#BREAK# Do Youn Want to Write a Best-seller? (Part 1)
“Whatever you can do or believe you can, . . . begin it now.” —Goethe When beggars receive freshly minted coins from the lords with a bow and a smile, it is not that they do not desire to ride horses as the masters do. But wishes don’t...

#BREAK# Does this Headline "Grab" Your Attention?
If you are reading this first sentence then the answer is yes. You see, the objective of the headline is to get the reader to keep reading. Whether it’s an article, a sales letter, an ezine ad or just the subject heading in an email, the...

#BREAK# Does Your Web Site Beat The Clock?
Tick, tick, tick. That's the sound of those all important 10 seconds slipping away - the average amount of time a visitor remains at a web site before clicking on. That is, unless you give them a reason to stay. Take a good hard look at your web...

#BREAK# Don't Forget That Manual!
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...

#BREAK# Don't Get Burned: Evaluating Script Writing Contests
Hundreds of writing contests tempt screenwriters with the lure of prize money, instant film industry contacts and personal feedback from film professionals. But contests can be costly, screenwriters should choose intelligently. ...

#BREAK# Don’t Get Taken: Exposing the fraudulent Poetry publishers
Poets are warned to be leery of where they publish their work, whether it is a vanity publishing house, pod publisher or a magazine. Look at the reputation of the publishing house or magazine and look at some of those who have already published with...

#BREAK# Don’t Judge An Ebook By Its Cover
For a change, my article headline doesn’t have some sarcastic undertone or alternative meaning! I haven’t utilised some delicious pun to demonstrate a point, this time. This article is actually about what you might look for to determine a worthwhile...

#BREAK# Don't Make a Costly Proof Reading Mistake
If you know of anyone writing that likes to hear others experiences from authors, please share this and include the byline. One Isn't Enough When it Comes to Proof Reading Your Work Here's a story of an author who had to learn the hard...

#BREAK# Don't Miss These 10 Must Know Facts About Promoting Your Website with Article Writing
Most all ezine publishers need fresh content. Article writing is something that gets tedious to the publisher who sends out an ezine every week. Fresh, unique ideas are always attractive, and ezine authors don't mind publishing others work, (along...

#BREAK# Don't Rely on your Spellchecker - or - The Importance of Good Proof Reading
Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to demonstrate how professional you are. Not only does a series of spelling and grammatical errors...

#BREAK# Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue
Writing technical articles is a challenge. There you sit, surrounded by reams of research, notes and interviews. Where do you start? Remember 5th grade English? You start with an outline. Outlining has fallen on hard times lately. Mind...

#BREAK# E-Book Writing Formats: How to Make the Words Flow
Nervous about writing your first e-book? Never fear. E-books are written in a conversational, informative style that's easy for the reader to understand, and easy for you to imitate as you write them. Whether it's ten pages about Smart Finances, 50...

#BREAK# E-books in Your Life
E-Books are making a big impact in the way we read, write and use books. There is nothing holding back an expert with years of experience on a particular field to write about all the ins and outs, trade secrets, strengths and weaknesses of the...

#BREAK# E(merging) Books
A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer...

#BREAK# Earn A Fortune Writing "How To" Reports
HOW TO WRITE MONEY-MAKING "HOW-TO" REPORTS This is the "real" Money Maker in the Mail Order business - the basic "How To" Report. It's something anyone can produce, and with all the proper ingredients at the right time, you can become independently...

#BREAK# EAST LONDON AUTHOR BRINGS OUT DEBUT NOVEL
Linda Lenehan was born in Southern Ireland and moved to South Africa some years ago. After living in Johannesburg for a number of years she moved to East London and has made it her home. Last week, I had the chance to chat with her over a cup of...

#BREAK# "Easy content building for the lazy webmaster."
Free content builder. Articles are the best way to add free content to your site. There's hundreds if not thousands of article sites out there on the web that can be searched for free information. The only problem I have with free articles is...

#BREAK# Ebook Farming- A Definitive Guide to Your Ebook Creation (Ebook Review)
Why would you want to buy a book on writing Ebooks? There seem to be a multitude of freebies on this topic as well as tons of free content available on the web. Well I have found an ebook on this topic, that you definitely want to study and keep. It...

#BREAK# Ebook Rebranding - The New Ebook Marketing Power?
Well, it is definitely yes! In the early day of internet marketing, giving away ebook free was a very good list-building strategy. It worked extremely well. But it is no longer the case in TODAY scenario. Giving away your ebook free is just not...

#BREAK# Ebook Review: How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 days
Ebook Review: How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 days By: Andy George Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale who are both well known in the Internet online industry wrote this eBook. The 2004 version of this book is 206 pages long...

#BREAK# eBooks - An Untapped Resource
Most people spend years, and years searching for the answers on how to produce a residual income online, using resources that they next to nothing about. This raises the question, "How is everyone else doing it?". This question can be easily...

#BREAK# EBOOKS are books too!!!
Ebooks are books too!!! Electronic books - that is books you read on the computer- have the same information and entail the same reading experience as books in the traditional form - that is books you actually hold in your hands. An ebook looks...

#BREAK# Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses
Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet grows, causing the exposure of your...

#BREAK# Ebooks are promotional powerhouses
=================================================== Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses =================================================== www.profit.ne1.net Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for...

#BREAK# eBooks With Reseller Rights Are Your Ticket To Online Success.
eBooks With Reseller Rights Are Your Ticket To Online Success. by James Mann http://www.ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com/index.html Starting an Online business today is pretty easy and it doesn't have to cost a fortune, unfortunately being easy to...

#BREAK# Editing Your Work Can Save You Money in the Long Run
If you know of anyone writing that likes to hear others experiences from authors, please share this and include the byline. One Isn't Enough When it Comes to Proof Reading Your Work Here's a story of an author who...

#BREAK# Educate Yourself to Succeed in Internet Marketing
More and more people are considering the World Wide Web as a great opportunity to offer their products and services to a new, bigger market or even as a chance to create entirely new businesses online. Even if the perspective to reach millions of...

#BREAK# Effective Editing: It Spells the Difference!
If you think proofreading equals editing, then you're wrong! Editing is a lot more than just scrutinizing your manuscript for misspelled words or missing punctuation marks. As a whole: Edit only *after* you've written the *whole*...

#BREAK# eLectrify your eBusiness by eReading eBooks!
In the next 5 minutes you will learn: Why eBooks are crucial to your business How to setup your own eLibrary Where to get good eBooks including a rich FREE resource How to eRead (screen read) for maximum efficiency How to make your eReading...

#BREAK# ENERGIZE YOUR SALES COPY TO INCREASE YOUR SALES
Would you like to capture more sales with your web site, sales letters, and other promotional messages? It may not be as difficult as you think. Here are 5 proven tactics you can apply to energize your sales copy -- and increase your sales ...

#BREAK# Energize Your Writing and Increase Your Output
Every writer can benefit from a study of the effectiveness of their individual writing process. You can write more and you can write better by making some adjustments in your writing strategy. Recently one of my writer friends complained about...

#BREAK# Enough With the Upsells Already!
Enough With the Upsells Already! by Karon Thackston © 2005 http://www.learn-copywriting.com It happened twice during the same week. All I wanted to do was make a purchase, and they were making every effort to keep me from it (or so it seemed). Why...

#BREAK# Entering and Winning Writing Contests
Visit any writing message board and you'll read discussion threads on contests and competitions for writers. The messages run the gamut of those who have been scammed to those who rave about contests. So where does the truth lie? For as many...

#BREAK# ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A WRITING COURSE PROPOSAL
At some point in their careers, many writers may teach writing courses, either before a “live” classroom audience or, these days, online. But how does a new teacher develop that first course proposal? What elements should go into it? Sometimes a...

#BREAK# EVERYBODY'S GOT ONE
Whatever kind of writing you do - whether it is non-fiction, fiction, or a combination of everything and a little bit of this or that, all writing has one thing in common. This common thread weaves its way in and out of all our written words. You...

#BREAK# Everything I Needed to Know About Article Writing I Learned from My English Teacher
By now you probably understand how important writing for trade publications is to establishing credibility in the home business world. On to the first hurdle: how do you get past that HUGE writers' block? How do you know what to write about,...

#BREAK# Everything You Need To Know About Touch Typing
Hunt - and - peck typing vs. touch - typing Typing is an immanent part of work for predominant number of people. It is a daily task, the ability we can't go without. It is no wonder that the necessity to master this skill has increased...

#BREAK# EXCUSE ME, BUT YOUR WRITING IS SHOWING!
Think about it. How many people do you write to during a business day? How many of these people know you only through your words? Okay, so maybe you have shared a few handshakes with some of them. But their opinion of who you are and your worth as...

#BREAK# Exlporing Book Notes
Nobody likes to write papers, especially students who are forced to work their magic with the pen seemingly week after week. As hard as you try to stay ahead, another big paper is always due tomorrow. Take advantage of book notes to jump start the...

#BREAK# Exploring Book Notes
Nobody likes to write papers, especially students who are forced to work their magic with the pen seemingly week after week. As hard as you try to stay ahead, another big paper is always due tomorrow. Take advantage of book notes to jump start the...

#BREAK# Extreme Research: 10 Snappy Rules For Success
So you want to learn to research well, and not waste any time. Let's do it. Here are a few NECESSARY preliminary points. First, adopt an aggressive I-am-taking-over-this-place mindset. 2. Develop a system for executing the research process. By...

#BREAK# Ezines
Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen So, eh, what exactly is an Ezine? In short, an Ezine is an electronic newsletter or magazine and a great way to spread your message. Many of you probably already get these from a variety...

#BREAK# Fantasy Of My Heart
As i walks through my dreams, I always se you beside me, Talking to each other and laughing together, Like an ordinary couple in a story. That will never happen in my reality. I wish i will never wakes up, In this very fanciful dream of...

#BREAK# Features vs. Benefits - The Mystery Revealed
This article may be reprinted provided the resource box's, Web address's and copyright information remain. Whenever someone mentions advertising or sales you can be sure the phrase "features vs. benefits" will come up in short order. Everyone...

#BREAK# Feedback, the Beauty and the Bane
I love getting critiques. It makes me feel acknowledged and important. Someone took the time to think about my work and give feedback. What a precious gift. An online writing group is the place to learn how to take and use criticism in a...

#BREAK# Fight The Fluff!
The first and final rule of quality writing is this: what doesn't strengthen your writing, weakens it. There are no neutral words when you're trying to be persuasive - every word must be doing real work and every sentence must be necessary....

#BREAK# Filters-What They Are, How To Avoid Them
FILTERS, WHAT ARE THEY, HOW TO AVOID THEM By Jennifer Turner Filters are the extraneous words we use when attributing a thought or action to a character. Here are a list of a few of the most common used: He/She felt He/She heard He/She saw ...

#BREAK# Finding a Literary Agent
I touched on this briefly in one of my other articles but it’s something that deserves a little more attention. Whether you are a first-time writer or one that has been published previously, the question of getting an agent always comes up. Here...

#BREAK# Finding Freelance Writing Jobs - Join Us On The Job Search
Finding freelance writing jobs require great skill, dedication and lots of patience. There are many qualifications that businesses look for prior to hiring an individual to fill their job vacancies though. When the potential applicant arrives,...

#BREAK# Finding the best domain name, host and graphics for Maximum profit
Using this method you will be able to find the best domain name, host and graphics to generate huge profits with your eBusiness Domain Name A domain name is the word used for the actual website address. When someone keys in the domain...

#BREAK# Finding Your Client's Business Problem Leads to Better Copy
WHAT’S THEIR PROBLEM? How do you begin a dialogue with a prospect, be it in person, on your website or in print? You talk about your client’s business problem. What IS your client’s business problem? Answering this question is the hardest...

#BREAK# Finding Your True Voice
There's a prevailing sense in the world of writing that everything has already been said. Truly, it has. The human race has always experienced birth, the triumphs and tragedies of life in a transitory world, and death; and mankind has written of...

#BREAK# First Step in Publishing Short Stories - Reading
When I took composition classes in college, I often became frustrated with all the reading I had to do, story after story after story, many times thousands of pages per assignment. Yet as we discussed the stories and what made them interesting...

#BREAK# Five Critical Tests Every Press Release Must Pass
You've heard "them" say it, haven't you? By "them" I mean the experts. The teachers. Even some people from advertising & PR agencies. They'll tell you there's only one way to do a press release "right." Single page, double spaced, 12 point...

#BREAK# Five Minute Miracles
FIVE MINUTE MIRACLES FIVE MINUTES ... Is All You Need ........to phone a friend ..... peel potatoes for dinner ..... pick the kids up from school ..... or write a few words that could earn you anything from a plastic pinny or ballpoint...

#BREAK# Five Secrets of Winning Book Proposals
Five Secrets of Winning Book Proposals Working in the publishing industry comes with a high expectation, especially from complete strangers. After the causal ‘hello’ progresses to ‘what do you do,’ and my answer is ‘I am a publisher,’ the words,...

#BREAK# Five Secrets of Writing Great Sales Copy
Why are you reading this sentence? I’ll bet you a steak at Ruth Chris it’s because of the implied promise of the title. That promise – that you’ll soon be privy to five well guarded secrets of writing great sales copy – just grabbed the skeptic in...

#BREAK# Five Sections of Your Copy Guaranteed To Get Read
by Karon Thackston © 2005 http://www.copywritingcourse.com Only about 20% of your copy is going to get read. The rest will simply be scanned. I'm sure you've heard the statistic before. It's nothing new. While it might sound frightening or...

#BREAK# Five Steps to Goal-Setting
What would you like to achieve in your lifetime? Author Basil S. Walth once said, "If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" These are words well spoken, because whether you're working toward freelancing...

#BREAK# Five Steps To Online Copywriting Success
One of the most important priorities of evey online business should be their copywriting. Online copywriting skills are a "must have" for anyone who is thinking about real success with their online business. It doesn't matter if you're marketing a...

#BREAK# Fixing Bad Web Site Copy
Let’s face it – a lot of web pages and web sites out there could use a little improvement in the copywriting department! From boring prose to bad sentence structure, from poor logic to inadequate copy optimization, I’ve seen it all. And this is...

#BREAK# Follow the yellow brick road to : Book Publishing
So you have written something great and you wish to see it published. I suggest joining writing groups first and start seeking feedback that can help your career as a writer. It is most likely mom and dad are telling you that your writing is the...

#BREAK# FOND OF AUTORESPONDERS? WRITE 'EM RIGHT!
Autoresponders are one of the most popular forms of marketing today. The reason for this is a simple one: they work. However, writing a truly effective autoresponder series can frustrating, even for the professional marketer. To come up with an...

#BREAK# For Beginners: 10 Ways To Prepare To Get Published
For Beginners: Ten Ways to Prepare to Get Published (Skip directly to ten for the fastest shortcut!) By Jill Nagle Like any field, excellent writing requires study, practice and mentorship. Very few successful authors ever published their first...

#BREAK# For Beginners: Ten Ways To Prepare To Get Published
For Beginners: Ten Ways to Prepare to Get Published (Skip directly to ten for the fastest shortcut!) By Jill Nagle Like any field, excellent writing requires study, practice and mentorship. Very few successful authors ever published their...

#BREAK# For PublishAmerica read ScamAmerica
I have to admit to being readily impressed by company names. Maybe it's an age thing. You see, I was around when we had nationalised industries here in Britain, you know, British Railways, British Gas, British Steel, British Road Services, etc.,...

#BREAK# Forbidden Feelings
Together, we’ll be the fearless dark angels Together, we will firmly hold ourselves high Fly in the sky of forbidden affair Slip away from discriminating hands Escape from the claws of prejudices Cover our ears from the cursing...

#BREAK# Format Each eBook Chapter Before you Write It
Do you have a problem creating a focus in your chapters? Does your writing slip around, leaving a muddy path to the gold--your unique, useful message? Format each chapter in your book. Your consistency, your organized, focused copy will...

#BREAK# Free Content Articles: How To Optimize Your Free-reprint Article
I have been around the internet for quite sometime — offering outsourced services and software products. I see a lot of internet marketing techniques on how to get more traffic and attract more paying customers, but only one technique seemed to work...

#BREAK# Free E-Book Marketing: Destroying The Myths
Before you read this, understand right now: Free E-Book Marketing WORKS! It has been proven to be one of the *most powerful* forms of online marketing ever offered. But with the knowledge of its existence, and nothing but a notion of the idea,...

#BREAK# Free Internet Marketing
Who says you need to spend tons of money to market your business?? Well those are the old school of thoughts. Welcome to the new Internet marketing strategy. The basic idea started of with the algorithm of the search engine. In order to rank...

#BREAK# Free XSL-FO debugger from Altsoft
XSL-FO Debugger version 0.9 beta December 16, 2004 Altsoft N.V. Altsoft team wishes XSL-FO community Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are proud to announce our new freeware product XSL-FO Debugger as a gift for you. Sometimes it is not so...

#BREAK# Freelance Copywriting: How to Negotiate Rates
Lots of people who seek out my copywriting services are concerned about money. Rightfully so. I’m a small business owner too, and I know what it is to have that do-it-yourself mindset. (It’s exhausting!) But entrepreneurs like you and I often...

#BREAK# From Book Notes to Book Reports
Writing papers and book reports has long been the bane of high school and college students’ existence. It seems that no matter how hard you work to stay caught up, there is always a paper due tomorrow. Using book notes to help get the ideas flowing...

#BREAK# Fun & Money In E-Media
There's lots of stuff on the Internet about making money; and lots of folks Marketing Different products and services. I'm only addressing folks who write books, and many of the questions that come from those folks on making money with their books...

#BREAK# Gaining Exposure Within Writing.Com
Dear Writing Reader, One of the most popular questions from Authors on Writing.Com is: How do I gain exposure on Writing.Com ? In this letter, I will provide numerous tips for increasing the amount of exposure you receive on Writing.Com...

#BREAK# Generating Innovative Ideas for Writing
There is nothing scarier than staring at a blank piece of paper with a deadline quickly approaching. Whether you're writing a column, article, or essay, the following ten techniques will help you find the topic or angle you are looking for. 1.Read ...

#BREAK# Get Clients to Choose You Again and Again
Did you know that 95% of small sized businesses fail because their owners don't pay enough attention to sales copy? Whether you are a professional speaker or coach, every professional wants more clients. Even more, they want to entice clients to...

#BREAK# Get Rich Quick or Get Rich Slow which one sound honest to you ?
if you are like me then the answer will be Get Rich slow , but wait lets get out of the box and look seriously at our past experiances,let talk about mine I have bought and joined many programs from slow fast medium to the speed of light none of...

#BREAK# Get Rich Writing Fiction
GET RICH WRITING FICTION Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca Some of us write simply because we can't not write. Ideas grab us, move us, and demand to be written. We strive to make it as real as we possibly can, to improve at our craft every...

#BREAK# Get Rid of Unwanted White Box with the help of CorelDraw
Background is always there because the bitmaps are pixel-based files. This is also the reason why it is quite tricky to remove them. However, no matter how tricky it is to others you can simplify it with CorelDraw. Start by importing your bitmap...

#BREAK# get the money you always wanted
I've always been fascinated by "anti-marketing", and how powerful its effect can be if done properly, so when I stumbled upon The Rich Jerk salesletter, I was immediately intrigued. I'll admit, I'm one of those people who *never* reads a...

#BREAK# Getting Ideas For Your Articles
When I first started writing articles, I didn't think I would be able to think of things to write about. I would get an idea and get an article out and then think; What do I write about now? After you get each one out it seems like you are running...

#BREAK# Getting Past The "Shoulds" To Write
During the past few months, I have received many questions as to how I have gone from an unknown writer to overcoming society’s adversarial thoughts on what writing should be and even become a well known writer. So today, I was inspired to write on...

#BREAK# Getting Published
Whether you are writing an article for a magazine, trade journal, online publication, or a press release, there are certain conventions you must follow. If you follow them, you have a chance of it being published. If you don't, you are simply...

#BREAK# Getting Read, Reviewed and Rated - Are You Ready?
You've finally decided to join a writing workshop to show your work and hone your skills. Right? You've read in the ad's that, 'members read and give constructive reviews.' You want to be read! Did you quit reading before the end of the...

#BREAK# Getting Your Children's Book Published
The journey to having my first novel for children published has been riddled with road blocks and shonky bridges. The good news? At every rickety stage I've picked up tips (and anti-tips) which I'm happy to share with Newswrite readers... Read For...

#BREAK# Ghostwriting - Making Money by Being Invisible
My bookcase takes up one whole wall in the family room, from floor to ceiling. It shows my eclectic reading tastes... fiction, non-fiction, Harry Potter next to murder mysteries and metaphysical literature. Also there are books I've written for the...

#BREAK# Give Me $1 And I'll Have A Powerful Marketing Weapon
One of my most powerful marketing weapons actually costs me less than $1. I buy it once and it lasts me a lifetime. I use it over and over again and it never leaves my side. What on earth could it be? Well, it's my trusty notebook! It is where I...

#BREAK# GREAT CONTENT AND FISH
Most have become convinced the basic ingredient of a great site is practical and useful content that potential visitors are looking for. (Those not yet convinced, will not succeed until they embrace and implement this fundamental.) But at the...

#BREAK# HAVE YOU LOOKED AT A NEWSPAPER LATELY?
No, I didn't ask if you had read a newspaper lately. I asked if you have looked at one. Closely. Have you examined one with care? If you take a good look at the front page, here is what you will find. It's A Work Of Art The main headline can be...

#BREAK# Headline Failure Equals Profit Failure
Arguably, it is often claimed by professional copywriters that the headline contributes 80% or more of the success of any ad, article, or sales letter. Direct marketing expert Jeff Paul goes so far as to credit the headline with 100% of the success...

#BREAK# Hello From The Ottawa River - Learning How To Whitewater Kayak (And How The River Kicked My Ass...)
Way back when in February I went to the Outdoor Adventure Show and I twisted my friend Leslie's arm to go on a learn-how-to-kayak weekend with me. We booked 2 days including meals, kayaking lessons and camping accommodation with a company called...

#BREAK# Hello From Toronto - A Culinary Tour Of The St. Lawrence Market & An Exploration Of Historic St. Lawrence Hall
October 6, 2005 Life works in really strange and wonderful ways. At the beginning of this week I talked to my brother in Austria on the phone, and he said he'd been reading this German travel magazine and there was a big write-up about a...

#BREAK# Hello From Vancouver (4) - A Walking Tour Through The Downtown East Side
The University of British Columbia has a drop-in centre downtown in Vancouver's East side called the Learning Exchange where it provides educational opportunities to people who live and work in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and other inner-city...

#BREAK# Hello From Vancouver - Reporting On The Canada - US Servas Conference
One of the things I do for the website is I continuously search out individuals and organizations that have accomplished unusual things or made special contributions. Through my research I had come across an organization called SERVAS, an...

#BREAK# Hello From Victoria (1) - Reaching The West Coast
Jetlag is an amazing thing. It's barely after 5 am and I have already been reading for an hour an a half. So I figured I might as well use this bout of sleeplessness and record my first impressions of British Columbia. My WestJet flight out of...

#BREAK# Hello Niche Marketing Enthusiasts
Hello niche marketing enthusiasts, I am fairly new to the niche marketing community but have been studying and following along for about a year now. I've started my own blog but like to take the time to visit others. The blogs I have found are...

#BREAK# Helpful Hints for Writing Short Stories
Covering everything there is to know about writing short stories would require a book; therefore, let's consider the components of a short story and a few helpful tips for writing one. The components of any story (including novels)...

#BREAK# Here an Ebook, There an Ebook
Here an ebook, there an ebook, everywhere an ebook! If Old McDonald had a computer it would be full of ebooks. My inbox is crammed with offers to sell ebooks, publish ebooks, write ebooks, and get filthy rich selling ebooks on the internet. All that...

#BREAK# Here’s A Little-Known Secret To Writing Copy, For Serious Copywriters Only
Have you ever wondered how your copy sounds to your prospects when they're reading it? If you have, here's a little-known trick to making your copy sound as clear as a bell, and feel as comforting as a warm fireplace in the winter. The very...

#BREAK# Here's A Simple Selling Secret For How To Turn 2 Words... Into $44,590 Dollars... Selling Softdrinks!
Here's a proven, and truly easy way to start increasing your sales, immediately. All you need to do is add these 2 words to your selling system, and you're good to go. In fact, this trick's so good, I wish I could take credit for coming up with...

#BREAK# HITLER'S POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY...Unleashing the Patriotic Church
By Douglas William Krieger NEVER IN AMERICA? This article was written by one of German ancestry whose forebears on his mother’s side can be traced to Martin Luther himself; thence, the incessant interest in the rise of Adolf Hitler and,...

#BREAK# Hooked On Books? Write A Book Review For Your Target Audience
If you are burned out with writing how-to articles to promote your business then consider writing a book review. I recommend you write a review about a book you enjoyed that is related to your products or services. Your review, of course, will be...

#BREAK# Hooks, Lines and Sinkers
Hands up if the title to this article made you think that you'd strayed into a fishing feature? Perhaps you didn't quite go that far, but hopefully you were puzzled or curious enough to wonder what on earth those three angling associated...

#BREAK# Hooks, Lines & Sinkers
Hands up if the title to this article made you think that you'd strayed into a fishing feature? Perhaps you didn't quite go that far, but hopefully you were puzzled or curious enough to wonder what on earth those three angling associated...

#BREAK# Hotel Internet Marketing and the Secret of Copywriting
Are you a Hotel Marketer? Do you want to improve your Hotel Internet Marketing Sale? Here are the suggestion: revise your website copywriting! I've seen many websites in our hotel & hospitality industry crowded with copywriting mistakes. These...

#BREAK# How a Book is Born: One Author's Story
How a Book is Born: One Author's Story Judy Cullins © 2003 All Rights Reserved Not all books come out whole, all at once. In fact, most books ease out little by little. They have strange and wondrous beginnings. Some come from speeches, some come...

#BREAK# How Can Qualifications Help Your Proof Reading Career?
For those who are looking for a career as a proofreader, it is important to have the right qualifications. It is important to remember that this is a proper job. It is not just an easy way to make some money from home. For those who are...

#BREAK# How Can You Find Freelance Work As A Writer?
For those looking at the jobs listings for writers, they may find themselves feeling left out. There are simply not enough employment options available. When you are looking at the jobs listings, you may become frustrated and annoyed with...

#BREAK# How Can You Find Out The Salary Of A Freelance Proofreader?
How can you establish the earning potential for a new job? For example if you are looking for the salary of a freelance editor, how will you find this information? There are several ways that you can do this. However there is one determining...

#BREAK# HOW DABBLER WRITERS BECOME PROFESSIONALS
They do it regularly: with self discipline and dedication. I may not be one of the best writers around, but I've got dedication and self discipline (which comes from motivation, because I love what I do - although it's very hard work). I try to...

#BREAK# HOW DO I CHARACTERIZE MY STORY?
Title: HOW DO I CHARACTERIZE MY STORY? Author: Arthur Zulu Contact Author: mailto: controversialwriter@yahoo.com Copyright: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002 Word Count: 716 Web Address: http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975 Publishing Guidelines:...

#BREAK# How I Became a Syndicated Columnist -- And You Can Too!
Real Estate has "Location, location, location," and writing has "Clips, clips, clips." When people ask me how I became a syndicated columnist, I usually say, "it just snowballed." And basically that's what happened: one publication led to...

#BREAK# How I Made $1683.04 From Writing ONE Article
Yeah, $1683.04. One article. Here’s how: You can’t just sit down and write an article that makes money. Most articles don’t ever make it past the directories they’re submitted to. Why? They don’t get reprinted because they are horribly...

#BREAK# How I make over $2000 a day!
Do you remember when that TV show came on a few years back that showed you step by step how all great magic tricks are done? It was called Magicians Secrets Revealed or something like that. I can’t remember the exact name, but the point is this:...

#BREAK# HOW MANY FINGERS ARE POINTED AT YOU?
HOW MANY FINGERS ARE POINTED AT YOU? I once heard someone say, "when you point your finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you." This is so true in our "aim to place the blame" world. There is a reason why The Book says not...

#BREAK# How Much Can You Earn, Working As A Proofreader?
Thinking of a career as a proofreader? Then you will most likely want to know about salaries. Are you hoping to hear that you will make thousands and thousands of dollars a month in this field? It is very possible that you will barely make a...

#BREAK# How Not To Get Published
HOW NOT TO GET PUBLISHED Copyright 2001, Michael LaRocca http://free_reads.tripod.com (This article may be freely published with author's information intact.) One morning, I decided to sleep late for a change. I stumbled out of bed at 10:00, not...

#BREAK# How Not to Review a Book
Dear Mr. Ilesanmi: Dismayed. Disappointed. That was exactly how I felt after reading your review of Mr. Mike Uzor’s book, How to Buy and Sell Shares in Nigeria, published in Financial Standard of December 20, 2004. I should have said that I...

#BREAK# How The First Earth Day Came About
Today, April 22, people across the world will be observing Earth Day registering their concern about deteriorating state of environment and pronouncing resolve to arrest the detrimental trend. On April 22, 1970, Earth Day was first observed...

#BREAK# How the Writer Survives
So it’s your dream to write novels? Be a freelance writer and make a living off of your articles? Or maybe you nurture an ambition to write and sell enough short fiction to put bread on the table, like those writers of the golden age of the...

#BREAK# How to Become A Rich Birddog in The Real Estate Business
Remember the song “Who Let The Dogs Out”, the song didn't get any airtime on the radio until it was played at a few sporting events. Then everybody and their mother started singing the song nationwide. Just like the song "Who Let The Dogs Out",...

#BREAK# How To Become Qualified As A Proofreader
The field of proofreading is not as easy to get into as you might think. In fact, there are many proof reading qualifications that you must possess in order to qualify. While these qualifications change from company to company, the over all concepts...

#BREAK# How to Benefit From E-zine Articles
HOW TO BENEFIT FROM E-ZINE ARTICLES Think of an article you write for an e-zine as an extended piece of literature that helps you capture that reader's attention for a few minutes. If your title and lead are dynamic and your article is informative...

#BREAK# How To Brand Yourself On a Shoestring Budget
Have you spent hours on end trying your best to make money on the internet and ended up empty handed? Trust me you're not alone. I've been there myself. After running into a brick wall for years, I've finally found what works for me. If I were...

#BREAK# How To Break Into Print Publishing
The big question. Do you submit directly to the publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you? Based on anecdotal evidence I've heard, it can work either way. The bottom line is, if a publisher reads what he can sell, he'll buy it....

#BREAK# How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 1)
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...

#BREAK# How To Build A Successful Freelance Editorial Career
In the current job market, many editorial freelancers have turned to freelance work as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding this part of the market. Addressed here are the key building blocks necessary for a...

#BREAK# How to Catch the Writing Bug
If you earn income as a writer, or use writing as a marketing tool, you know how difficult it can be at times to write. I started writing for my website and newsletter a few years ago. Sometimes it would be two or three weeks between articles....

#BREAK# How to Control The "Command Center" In Your Prospect's Mind
Here's a million-dollar secret I've never shared with anyone before. When you use it, you will get inside your prospects' heads and manipulate their thinking to get them to do what you want---including sending you money right now for your product or...

#BREAK# How to Craft a Series of Bestselling Titles from a Single Topic
During the past ten years I have authored seventeen traditionally published niche non-fiction books, all of which (save one) have achieved bestselling status in their respective genres. Here's the thing though; I have used only 2 topics to produce...

#BREAK# How to create a professional ebook design
After a writer writes a book, he ends in a fix, in deciding how to get the manuscript formatted and compiled into an e-book. After trying to do it on your own, you decide to get professional help when the page you get turns out to be a printed...

#BREAK# How To Create and Market Your own E-Book
The Internet presents an amazing opportunity for anyone who knows how to research and write. There's masses of free information on the Web - all you have to do is gather it together and package it, and you have an E-Book that people will pay for. ...

#BREAK# How To Edit Your Articles As You Write
How To Edit Your Articles As You Write Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved Increase your ezine subscribers by submitting articles once or twice a week to the opt-in ezines. Read by thousands, even hundreds of thousands, you get 10-25 new...

#BREAK# "How To Ensure Your Article Is NOT Published"
I bet you've heard that submitting articles for publication in ezines is an excellent, low-cost means of promotion. And it's true. There are hundreds of thousands of ezines and newsletters. Most rely on contributed content, giving you a wonderful...

#BREAK# How To Find A Job As A Copy Editor
Jobs for copy editors may seem like they are hard to find, but really you can find them and you can do so with many of the qualifications you already have. But, if you do not have any qualifications, this may be the first step in finding the...

#BREAK# How To Find A Professional Copy Editing Service
A professional editing service will be one that meets the demands of the company or business, perfectly. To find a qualified editing service for your needs, consider the following services that they should be able to provide for you. While it is...

#BREAK# "How To Find Editing Services Online"
Quality is what you need. What you don’t have is time. You need to find an editing service online that can help you get the work you need done, quickly and effectively. But, where do you look? Where can you find such a service and know that it is...

#BREAK# How to Find Targeted Niche Markets
If you know how there is Money to be made in writing Ebooks and publishing them Online. Browse our articles and decide how you will go about it. Will You have a go at Self Publishing, or look for a Book Publishing Company! If You are looking at...

#BREAK# How to Find Weaknesses in Your Script
The new screenwriter tends to have a love affair with is/her "baby." He's married to every word and nuance he's carefully scripted onto each page. Often, it reads more like a novel than a screenplay and usually it needs a serious rewrite. It's time...

#BREAK# How To Generate FREE Publicity For Your Product, Service, or Cause...
One of the most misunderstood and most underutilized promotional tools available to small businesses is FREE PUBLICITY. Every business, no matter how large or small, can effectively use free publicity to enhance its image, increase sales and...

#BREAK# How To Generate Income From Free-Reprint Articles
I have come to know about some profit-earnings steps from researching on some of the popular article writer's style. What they really do to allure mass of targeted people to their sites? Well, I am not knowing whether they were successful in keeping...

#BREAK# How To Get A Reporter's Attention For Your Book
Reporters are busy people. On any given day they are fielding dozens of phone calls, making calls of their own, reading stacks of newspapers and magazines and rushing to meet deadlines. So how do you break through all the noise to get a reporter...

#BREAK# How To Get Attention, or: 'As You Read This, You Feel an Irresistible Urge to Go On Reading!'
We all want attention. As children we crave the attention of our parents. Later in life, we want to be seen and noticed by friends and lovers. And when running most any type of business, we must attract the attention of our potential customers. But...

#BREAK# How to get books for free (or very very cheap!)
There are so many resources on the web for finding the book you want either cheaply or for free. So few people seemed to know about them and there didnt appear to be a single place to go to to find all the special offers/free offers/book swapping...

#BREAK# How to Get Free Publicity the Easy Way
Seven Tips to Successfully Write Web Articles: Online readers love free information. They scour the internet daily looking for the specific information to solve their problems, help them be successful, live longer or get healthy. You...

#BREAK# How To Get Subscribers Falling Over Themselves To Pay For Your Email Newsletter
Until you are able to understand exactly what it is that makes subscribers eager to pay for an email newsletter, success will remain elusive. Like in any other moneymaking venture, to succeed as an email newsletter publisher, you will need...

#BREAK# HOW TO GIVE YOUR BUSINESS WRITING A TWIST OF THE NOSE
What happens when you twist someone's nose? To begin with, you get their full attention. No distractions. No mind wandering. That's why it's important to put a nose-twist into your own 'important' business communications. HERE'S HOW...

#BREAK# How to grab Public Domain Works off the 'net and Turn it into a PDF for FREE!
Excertped from The Writer's Package Version of "Open Your Daily Newspaper & MAKE MONEY!" Copyright 2005 Found Secrets How To Grab Public Domain & (Other Non-copyrighted Works) Off Of The 'Net and Turn Them (As Well As Other written Works Into...

#BREAK# How to harness the power of ebooks for the benefit of your website!
Ebooks can be a powerful tool when it comes to promoting and profiting from your website. To be able to benefit from ebooks, it is important to know how to use them to their full potential. There are two big ways in which ebooks can be used to...

#BREAK# How to Harness the Real Power of the P.S.
Should your sales letter contain a P.S.? If you aren’t using one, you’re probably leaving money on the table. So the short answer is “yes.” A well written P.S. (for “post script,” literally meaning “after writing”) following your signature is your...

#BREAK# How to Have an Effective Book Club/Reading Group
How to Have an Effective Reading Group (the Book Club) By Stephen Earley Jordan, II Writing leads to reading. Therefore, it’s only fair to supply my readers with sufficient information on creating an effective reading group, since the last...

#BREAK# How to Have an Effective Reading Group
Writing leads to reading. Therefore, it’s only fair to supply my readers with sufficient information on creating an effective reading group, since the last article was based on writing groups. You’ll notice that some of the information is quite...

#BREAK# How to Have an Effective Writing Group
The works you’ve written are numerous, ranging from short stories to even the novel, hidden in a storage bin (under the bed) collecting dust. But there comes a time when you must wipe away that dust, regain your pride, and prepare your babies...

#BREAK# How to Hook Your Readers with Long Copy and Keep Them Reading to the End
If you're like most solo professionals, you can't afford to sell yourself with hype. You want to create a friendly conversation with website visitors so you'll attract clients. But a website that doesn't attract and hold attention tends...

#BREAK# HOW TO : Hypnotise people in to buying ? I learnt from the rich jurk take a peek
Where do you think it all started ? richard dockin in 1976 started a masive mine virus that spread like wild fire to all the books that we see today from think and grow rich to the feel the fear and do it any way. to e book. the rich jurk...

#BREAK# How to Identify Great Book Ideas and Writing Opportunities
The first and maybe the most important step in writing a book is coming up with a great idea for some really useful or interesting book. The great idea makes the writing fun. The great idea makes the book easier to sell to a publisher. In...

#BREAK# How To Identify Great Book Ideas And Writing Opportunities
The first and maybe the most important step in writing a book is coming up with a great idea for some really useful or interesting book. The great idea makes the writing fun. The great idea makes the book easier to sell to a publisher. In the end,...

#BREAK# How To Improve Your Freelance Proofreading Career
Did you know that one of the best ways to get the knowledge you need to be an effective proof reader is to take a training course? It will be the best move you ever make. Courses are not mandatory, but it can be very challenging to find work...

#BREAK# How to Keep Growing as a Writer
"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow."-- Mahatma Gandhi Do you feel that since you have "arrived" as a writer, you are now a master-know all? Then hear the American statesman, George Santayana:...

#BREAK# HOW TO KEEP YOUR BOOK IN FRONT OF THE WORLD 24 HOURS A DAY AND MAKE MILLIONS!
Title: HOW TO KEEP YOUR BOOK IN FRONT OF THE WORLD 24 HOURS A DAY AND MAKE MILLIONS! Author: Arthur Zulu Contact Author: mailto: controversialwriter@yahoo.com Copyright: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002 Word Count: 581 Web Address:...

#BREAK# "How To Make A Career Out Of Copyediting And Proofreading"
Do you possess the qualities of a good proof reader? Are you good with details, spotting errors in spelling, grammar, and the flow of a piece and putting together quality work? If so, you may be able to make a career out of copyediting or...

#BREAK# How to Make Money at Home with Your Computer
Writers, read this article carefully, it holds opportunity for you. In just a second I'm going to reveal to you a really easy way to make money at home. But first I want you to think about something. What is the secret to making money at home?...

#BREAK# How To Make SURE Your Prospects Stay Glued To Your Sales Copy!
If you want to make sure your prospects stay GLUED to your sales copy once they start reading, then this is the most exciting and important message you will ever read! Keeping your prospects glued to your sales copy isn't easy, but remember...

#BREAK# “How To Make Your Headlines Sell”
If you want to maximize your sales, then your ad copy must open up with a GREAT headline that declares: "Here's The **BIG** Benefit You'll Get When You Read What's Below!" It must GRAB your prospect's attention! But it shouldn't sound the same as...

#BREAK# How to make your web copy better.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when creating a web site is to take large chunks of copy from your existing marketing materials (ads, brochures, sales letters etc.) and cut and paste them onto your web pages. What you have to understand is...

#BREAK# How To Make Your Writing Meaningful
Writing a book is a huge endeavor. It means someone has decided to dedicate a certain amount of time to putting words on paper. But so many people don't finish what they start. Maybe they've run out of ideas. Maybe they lost interest. Maybe they got...

#BREAK# How to Market Yourself Successfully as a Writer
To ensure a steady flow of work and income, a writer should promote himself constantly. Not everyone knows you are a writer and the competition for work is very high. Not only do you compete with publications regular staffers and commissioned...

#BREAK# How to Negotiate Rates with a Freelance Copywriting Expert
Lots of people who seek out my copywriting services are concerned about money. Rightfully so. I’m a small business owner too, and I know what it is to have that do-it-yourself mindset. (It’s exhausting!) But entrepreneurs like you and I often...

#BREAK# How To Pluck Fresh New Ideas For Writing Killer Sales Copy...Straight Out Of Thin Air!
If you want to improve your writing, you probably spend a fair amount of time reading a variety of "How To Write Good Sales Copy" kinds of information. True? You probably subscribe to a handful of newsletters like mine... you've read a few of...

#BREAK# How to Profit From Fear and Greed
reed and fear may be just a couple of the more unsightly blemishes on the underbelly of the human psyche. But they're also two of the greatest all time motivators ever invented. If you want your copy to sell, you need to understand how to put these...

#BREAK# How To Promote A Book
Nowadays it’s no longer a matter of whether or not an author should promote his or her book, but how aggressively one should go about it. The sad truth is that publishers often fail to promote books, and if we, the authors, don't promote...

#BREAK# How To Publicize Your E-zine Online
Once you've created a webzine, how do you get the word out? This short guide offers some strategies to let the world of readers know about your work. * ANNOUNCE YOUR E-ZINE * Once you have your e-zine or webzine in place, visit yahoo.com,...

#BREAK# How To Publish The Perfect Ezine
Ezine marketing has come of age. Beyond argument and controversy today, an ezine is accepted to be the most effective online marketing tool, one with the highest return on investment. In simple terms, ezine marketing gives the biggest bang for...

#BREAK# How To Publish Your Way To Success!
How To Publish Your Way To Success! by BB Lee (C)2005 mailto:smallbizbits@yahoo.com Did you know, self-publishing is one of the easiest ways to make money on the web. Of course, it requires talent, but it's easier to learn than you...

#BREAK# How To Read When You're Writing
Many writers say it: "I don't read when I'm writing". They think it will contaminate their voice, that whatever style they're reading will somehow seep into their work and it really won't be theirs. That's only a problem if you're writing a...

#BREAK# How to Schedule a Book Signing
How would you like to sell more copies of your book? Would you like to read excerpts from your book to a captivated audience? Book signings are the cornerstone of an author's post-publication foundation. But how do you set them up? Organizing...

#BREAK# How To Select a Great Topic For Your Book or Ebook Part 1 of 5
It couldn't be easier to select a topic for an ebook. People are hungry for information, and people are looking to the Internet to feed their hunger. After you've read this chapter, you will feel confident enough to choose your own topic, or you...

#BREAK# How To Select a Great Topic For Your Book or Ebook Part 5 of 5
These are fiery hot topics that are sure to be on the rise. You can pull any one of these to use for your first ebook. Then come back and pull another topic for your next ebook. Using the latest electronics. We are a society obsessed...

#BREAK# How To Sprinkle Your Article With Laughs
Everyone likes to laugh. At least everyone sane. Actually, insane people laugh too, they just don't know they're laughing. Even the Pope laughs, just not in public. Laughter unites people. It can diffuse tense situations. And most importantly,...

#BREAK# How to Start and Sustain a Career as a Freelance Writer
Have you wondered how you can make a career writing books or articles for various publications? Or are you seeking a viable second income opportunity but do not know where to start? Well, freelance writing may be the right career for you and it...

#BREAK# How to tell if you are a literary snob
"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured. "Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' on it." "But if I put 'author' on, none of those big companies with overflowing coffers will want to hire me...

#BREAK# How To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob
"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured. "Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' on it." "But if I put 'author' on, none of those big companies with overflowing coffers will want...

#BREAK# How to Use Ebook To Achieve Your Marketing And Promotion Target
There are innumerable ways to use ebooks to promote your business and drive quality traffic to your website. Once posted on your site, you can turn them into a daily course, which brings your customer back to read the next chapter. You can use them...

#BREAK# How To Use Punctuation
The most common mistake people tend to make while writing is in the use of Punctuation. Wrong punctuation can damage the flow of ideas and change meaning, but properly used punctuation not only helps readers understand your meaning but also makes...

#BREAK# How to Utilize Galleys for Best Results
Once your book hits bookstore shelves, you've got approximately eight months to produce sales. If your book doesn’t prove itself after the eight months, it will almost certainly get pulled. So the time to do your marketing is way before your book...

#BREAK# How To Write
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca As a student of Spanish, my goal was to think in Spanish. Skip the word-by-word translation so I'd have the necessary speed to speak and listen. I know words in Spanish that I'd be hard pressed...

#BREAK# How to Write a Book in Five Easy Steps
Because I've written more than a 100 books and even been a book publisher, people regularly ask me how one writes a book. I always shrug and say it's not that hard. But this little article attempts to provide a better answer to the question...

#BREAK# How to Write a Business Memo
How to Write a Business Memo ©2002 By Linda Elizabeth Alexander A business memo helps members of an organization communicate without the need for time-consuming meetings. It is an efficient and effective way to convey information within an...

#BREAK# HOW TO WRITE A FOLLOW UP MESSAGE
Smart marketers know that follow up autoresponders drive sales. But, many don't know how to write the e-mail messages they need in order to use these tools. Don't let that keep you from increased profits! Write masterful messages with these...

#BREAK# How To Write A Research Paper
Introduction Writing skills are essential for succeeding in high school, college, and at a job. Writing is not just an end result, but also a process that helps us develop our ideas and think logically. Begin by brainstorming topics, collecting...

#BREAK# How to Write a Resume That Stands Out From The Crowd
Today’s job market is competitive. Many companies receive hundreds of resumes a year, making it difficult for yours to stand out from the crowd. However, that should not keep you from getting interviews. The following 10 tips will help you learn...

#BREAK# "How To Write A Riveting Sales Letter That Closes Sales"
"How To Write A Riveting Sales Letter That Closes Sales" By Mike Jezek, the Sales Letter Psychologist™ How do you get people's attention and build their interest to take the time to read your sales letter? Let's face it. If you can't get the...

#BREAK# How to Write a Short Story
Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer's interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of...

#BREAK# How to Write Ad Copy that Sells
When I write copy for my advertising clients, I always check to make sure the three key elements are in place. 1. psychology, 2. logic, and 3. creativity. These are three very different aspects of ad writing, which, when combined, produce a highly...

#BREAK# How to write an Article?
Most of us know that writing an article is the best and the cheapest way to get targetted customers to your website. But how do we go about it? You may be thinking, "I'm not a writer. I don't have the required talent. I've not written anything...

#BREAK# How To Write An Ebook
Write an eBook Everyone has a gift, talent, or interest which others would love to learn about and they would pay to learn about it. Writing an ebook is one of the most simple ways to do this! All you need to do is write something, put it into pdf,...

#BREAK# How To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in 7 Days
I was intrigued by the title of this book - writing an eBook in 7 days? But that's exactly what Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale show you how to do. However, your eBook doesn't have to be 100 pages. In fact, Joe Vitale's best selling eBook 'Turbo Charge...

#BREAK# How to Write Bad Poetry
So you’ve decided to crown yourself with a title that a million other people (just like you (yes, just like you!)) give themselves every day. Some people believe giving yourself such a title is equivalent to, and just as beneficial monetarily,...

#BREAK# How To Write Better Solo Ads
Writing responsive ads may seem like an exact science, but there are some simple things you can do to increase your response rate. Here are some tips on how to write better solo ads. Start with the subject line. Your subject must be compelling...

#BREAK# How to Write Content That Matters, a conversation with Sean D'Souza
How to Write Content That Matters, a conversation with Sean D'Souza By Jessica Albon Copyright 2003, The Write Exposure A master of metaphor, Sean D'Souza writes articles that astound readers. He gives readers what they want, and then some. You...

#BREAK# How to Write for Children and win over Parents
The obvious skill of being able to communicate in a language that the age group you are targeting, is an evident one. Choosing a topic that the child relates to is all important. In many cases it is also deemed to be imperative to...

#BREAK# How To Write for the Web
The Scanning Reader Writing for the Web is different than writing for print. The differences are slight but significant. First, people don’t really read online; they scan because of what is called the “flicker rate” of a computer monitor. ...

#BREAK# How to write for the web
The content on your website needs to be even more carefully thought out than the content on your brochures. This article offers some useful advice on where to start when writing for the web. Get Read To start with, web users don't read pages....

#BREAK# How To Write for the Web
Among the Web's many peculiarities is the way people read online text. It took me a lot of time (being a writer who loves to read the greats like Dickens and Kafka) to realize how impatient and hurried the general web reader is. Most of the web...

#BREAK# How To Write Great Movie Reviews For Your Entertainment Website
If you have an entertainment website then you’re always looking for fresh, new, fun and interesting material to keep your readers coming back for more. Movie reviews are a great way to do that. People always want to know what someone else thinks...

#BREAK# How to Write Killer Sales Copy
Sales copy is kind of like high school kids: the nicest, most polite ones often have the least friends. There are so many misconceptions going around as to what makes good copy that I thought it would be interesting to discuss the basics here....

#BREAK# How To Write Killer Sales Letters
How To Write Killer Sales Letters by John Colanzi I'm sure you've seen those ads that grab your attention and have you ready to pull out your wallet or credit card. They are literally making you an offer you can't refuse. Don't you wish your...

#BREAK# How to write lightening fast eBooks
This method shows you how to turn out great profit making ebooks in record time The quickest way the write you own eBooks is by using the expert interview process. What I mean by this is, approaching some experts in the field your writing...

#BREAK# How To Write Persuasive Subject Lines
How To Write Persuasive Subject Lines by Karon Thackston © 2005 http://www.copywritingcourse.com Three seconds and 40 characters. That's all you usually have to work with when trying to get and hold the attention of someone reading email....

#BREAK# How to Write Persuasively
When writing an advertisement, your aim is to persuade your readers to follow a particular course of action - willingly. There are three elements in this process: 1. you must win the trust of your audience 2. you must appeal to their emotions ...

#BREAK# How to Write Profitable Web Content
Niche marketing is the current top online advertising technique. And for a good reason. It works. Niche marketing is essentially marketing to a very specific, and focused, targeted group. A niche can be as broad or as narrow as you want. A...

#BREAK# How To Write Sales-Making Headlines and Text
How long does it take to make a first impression? On the fast-paced internet you’re likely to get less than 15 seconds. That’s all they’ll spend on your opening page unless you grab visitors with something that interests them. And if you’ve...

#BREAK# How to Write Search Relevant Ezine Articles That Gets Published
A good ezine writer can become a star in their field when widely published. Those who provide great content and who make it easy to publish can escalate their writing careers. Organizations who publish quality content in trade for publicity can...

#BREAK# How to Write the Web Site That Sells
Your Web site has a single motive: To 'ignite' your visitors to take action. This prime motive is behind every element of your Web site design and content. Start with the idea that you have one chance to reach your customers. They will never...

#BREAK# How to Write to Mars and Venus!
There's Yin, and there's Yang. There's a man, and there's a woman. You can't live without one or another. And let's face it. We're not the same! So when you're writing your ads or sales letters, you should keep in mind that, "Men are from Mars and...

#BREAK# How To Write To Persuade
I'm sure you've seen those ads that grab your attention and have you ready to pull out your wallet or credit card. They are literally making you an offer you can't refuse. Don't you wish your ads were that persuasive? Are the marketers who wrote...

#BREAK# HOW TO "WRITE TO WIN" - WHAT ARE THE "SECRETS" OF WRITING SUCCESS?
"If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a...

#BREAK# How to Write Your First Ebook
How to Write Your First Ebook Writing your first ebook may seem like a daunting task. But like many projects, it won’t seem so bad when it’s broken down into manageable chunks. Not all projects are successful, so don’t be too disappointed if your...

#BREAK# HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN ARTICLES AND BE PUBLISHED
TWENTY FIVE TIPS IN WRITING ARTICLES FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB Writing articles can provide you with enormous amount of exposure on the Web. You are branding yourself "on a shoestring budget, the smell of an oily rag"... and best of all, it hasn't...

#BREAK# How to write your website in 60 minutes
Don’t be daunted at the prospect of writing your website copy. Here’s a simple outline that shows you how to compile the framework for a successful business website – and it shouldn’t take more than 60 minutes. -------------------- If you’re like...

#BREAK# HOW TOO: hypnotise people in too, buying / THE rich kid plus others, have showed me, now i show YOU...
Where do you think it all started ? richard dockin in 1976 started a massive mine virus that spread like wild fire to all the books that we see today from think and grow rich to the feel the fear and do it any way. to e book. The rich jurk e...

#BREAK# How Tough is It?
Not the Steak or the Roast. I am talking about Writin' Stuff for you Folks. One of my favorite things besides fishin' is passing along good information in our Ezines and Writin' for other ones. Why did I say Fishin' and Writin'? Well, sometimes it...

#BREAK# How Using A Drop Capital Increased My Ebook Sales By 40%
You will often find me with my head in a book, studying the marketing and copywriting experts from the past. It was whilst reading one such book, that I discovered how using a drop capital, can increase readership of advertising. The book was:...

#BREAK# How Webmasters can become Experts and Write Expert Articles!
Write Articles, Be recognized as an Expert, Drive a Surge of Traffic to your Website, Increase your Link Popularity, Create Awareness,- yes that is what all Internet Marketers are talking about. Article writing certainly does bring such great...

#BREAK# How You Can Become a Certified and Profitable Proofreader
A certified proofreader is one that has taken a few courses and learned the proper way to do proof reading work. It is essential that individuals who want to become proof readers, have qualifications that can help them to prepare work that is of...

#BREAK# "How You Can Find Freelance Editing Jobs"
Freelance editing opportunities are out there, you just need to know where and how to look for them. As a matter of fact, there are hundreds of companies that are waiting for you, right now, to fill their job vacancies. Each and every one of them...

#BREAK# How You Can Find Freelance Writing Employment
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...

#BREAK# How You Can Find Opportunities For Foreign Language Proof Reading Work
For those who are fluent in another language, foreign language (ie non-English) proof reading can be a great source of income. It is a difficult area for those who are not fluent to get into though. That is because, in order to be a...

#BREAK# How You Can Find Proofreading Jobs
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...

#BREAK# How You Can Take Advantage of the Increasing Demand for Freelance Online Writers
The freelance writing market is a growing market to be in. There are many jobs available, but sometimes, it can be hard to find the work that you want, and available at the time you want it to be. All opportunities will help you to develop a career...

#BREAK# How You Can Take Advantage Of The Increasing Demand For Freelance Online Writers
The freelance writing market is a growing market to be in. There are many jobs available, but sometimes, it can be hard to find the work that you want, and available at the time you want it to be. All opportunities will help you to develop a career...

#BREAK# I am an AUTHOR - Is this the next big fad?
Write an article, get the traffic. Well sort of! Since the birth of writing articles, our industry has caught on to the phenomena of increasing your website’s traffic by becoming the professional in your field. The only problem with this is...

#BREAK# I Am Biodegradable. My Writing Is Not.
My dad was wrong. I just discovered that I am good for nuthin' after all. In fact I've been good for nuthin' all along. I am 100% biodegradable and that means I can be recycled into nuthin'. It also means that no matter how much I waste, no...

#BREAK# I Hate Writing Articles - Isn't There An Easier Way?
Let's face it, if you own, run or maintain an internet based business these days, your site needs articles. Plain and simple, everyone who has a web site knows this. Even those who don't have sites but are frequent internet users know this as...

#BREAK# "I Have Nothing To Say!" Overcoming The Fear Of Writing
You have worked hard on your business and now the time has come. You keep reading that you should do it and all the benefits of it, but the thought terrifies you! You've been putting it off, but eventually you know you are going to have to do it....

#BREAK# I write like author Joe blogs, is that good?
What is all this talk about style of writing? Hey, it’s your baby, your creation. Are you an individual or a sheep disguised as a human? If we all had the same style of writing, everything classed as literature would be boring. I keep being told...

#BREAK# IF YOU CAN'T WRITE, DON'T
Here's a hard truth. If you can't write, don't try. Do the research. Provide every tiny detail. But hire a professional to write your pages. This costs. But not as much as poorly written copy. Face it. How long do you linger on a badly written...

#BREAK# I'm telling you man, this is a big dang deal.
I'm not exactly a high-profile guy. You know, I pretty much like my job, I pay my bills well enough, and enjoy staying pretty close to the house on the weekends. But I'm not really the guy who everybody gathers around at parties, you know...

#BREAK# Immaterial Gain
Among some of us who deem ourselves spiritual, the use of the word "spiritual" causes blushing and anxiety. What a pale word it is in the face of what earned spirituality actually provides. No single word, however potent, can tap the pure...

#BREAK# Importance of Writing a Great Looking Cover Letter
When applying for a job one of the most important things is that you have a great looking cover letter. In some cases this is more important than the résumé itself as this is the first thing that employers will see when they look at your...

#BREAK# In Spellchecker We Trust... Right?
This article could have easily been titled "We Don't Need a Proofreader...right?" Businesses today are transforming printed text into computer-based documents and, well, all you have to do is run the computer's spellchecker to make sure there...

#BREAK# In Your Own Words
More Tips For New Writers (Part I) Explain in your own words Familiar phrase? Yes, we have all heard it many times in many different situations. This little phrase is used to convey subtly different meanings depending upon the circumstances in...

#BREAK# Increasing Conversions Through Action-Oriented Copywriting
by Karon Thackston © 2005 http://www.copywritingcourse.com I do site reviews. Needless to say, I see a lot of Web copy. One thing that always befuddles me is the lack of focus many site pages have. It's as if the writer assumes the site visitor...

#BREAK# Information at What Price? Exploring fee-based e-content
In pursuit of a paid model for content, many businesses offer newsletters for a fee or ebooks. These models offer pros and cons. Some organizations send out two newsletters: fee and free. The free version has the basic, watered-down contents found...

#BREAK# Inspiring the Poet in You!
Poems. Just the mention of them makes me smile. Why? Simple. I delight in writing and reading poetry. Some tend to think that to be a poet is not easy and that it must be those deep thinkers who can write poems. Actually all of us can be poets...

#BREAK# Intellectual Property will soon be History
It is not too risky to affirm that intellectual property will soon be History. Rules designed for the paper era are not useful, enforceable and cost-economic in the Web era. Here are a few reasons: 1) Intellectual property is not...

#BREAK# Internet marketing and keyword search - why branding should make a difference but isn't
Online marketers are busy mapping that magical space where the overlap between real life and the internet is at its most poignant. Where else would they be looking than where real people are actually s p e l l i n g out what they are planning to buy...

#BREAK# Interviewing Hugh Rosen
Interviewing Hugh Rosen, author of Silent Battlefields: A Novel Tell us about yourself first. I graduated high school in 1948 and enlisted in the army for three years. Next I went to college majoring in English Literature. I later earned a...

#BREAK# Interviews with Well-Known Ezine Writers #2: - John Colanzi
MS: John, you must be one of the most prolific Ezine Writers on the Web - I see your articles nearly everyday in the article lists and in dozens of Newsletters. How long have you been writing Ezine Articles? JC: I first started writing ezine...

#BREAK# Introduce Yourself to Local Markets
A minor political scandal broke in the small Mississippi town where I was living, and the local paper scrambled to cover all the angles. Unfortunately, most of their writers lived in larger cities at least 50 miles away -- which, if you know...

#BREAK# Introductory from the classic book "Aeroplanes" by J. S. Zerbe
In preparing this volume on Flying Machines the aim has been to present the subject in such a manner as will appeal to boys, or beginners, in this field of human activity. The art of aviation is in a most primitive state. So many curious...

#BREAK# Is Censorship a Dirty Word?
On the shelves of the children's section of your local library or bookstore you'll find books with characters who are child molesters, compulsive gamblers, and drug addicts. Teenagers in young adult novels have too much to drink, get pregnant, and...

#BREAK# Is now a good time to sell your home?
If you own a home in a real estate boom market, you are probably richer now than you ever thought you could be-on paper. Even if your house is in a real estate market that's rising more modestly, you may still be feeling pretty flush-on paper. But...

#BREAK# Is Now the Time for a Play about the War in Iraq?
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...

#BREAK# Is Someone Plagiarizing Your Work?
About two weeks ago I received an article submission that immediately attracted my attention. The title was identical to the title of an article I wrote and which was published in 'WebProNews' in May 1999. "Probably just a coincidence", I thought...

#BREAK# Is the Formula of 'Professor of Terror', a Hoax?
The most remarkable thing I found in Orientalism, the reputed revolutionary text by Edward Said -- more famously dubbed as the ‘Professor of Terror’ since 1999 by the rightwing American magazine Commentary – is the point where...

#BREAK# IS THERE A DIFFERENCE WHEN WRITING FOR THE INTERNET?
As a writer for a multitude of projects from web site content to detailed business plans all the way to press releases and promotional material, I've noticed one major difference in writing for the Internet versus writing for other channels of...

#BREAK# It's all BS....
Now I don’t mean to insult any great writers and entrepreneurs out there, but the simple truth most books adsense are all full of nothing but what google says. I realized this after days of searching for the renowned cheats or tricks and all that....

#BREAK# It's Time To Start That "Swipe" File
Just as great fiction is an art, so is great copywriting. Beneath the art, however, there's a foundation of basic knowledge and skills. The craft that goes into your writing. Craft comes first. Art follows. You learn the craft of...

#BREAK# Japanese Kanji Learning: Short-Cuts To Rapid Mastery (Part 1)
What? Kanji can be learned quickly? This seems an impossible dream to many students of Japanese who come from a non-kanji language culture. Even hiragana and katakana seem impossibly hard to the average beginner, so remembering kanji, with all their...

#BREAK# Journaling Experiences and Events
How did you spend your day yesterday? When was the last time you went to see a movie? Can you remember the plot line? What did you do on your last vacation? Did you enjoy a particular meal, or visit a special tourist site that meant something...

#BREAK# Journaling Your Book To Completion
On any given day, how many people, events, problems, projects, family issues, things to remember and appointments are running through your mind? A LOT, right? If you're writing a book, you have to add on top of that a whole other world of...

#BREAK# Just Write an Email
How did you sell your last product? Imagine that I am a newbie writing you an e-mail after reading your ebook. How would you answer the question? I bet you could send me a 300 word reply in no time. Words would flow from your keyboard as fast as...

#BREAK# Keep Thy Journal Private!
If you live with other people, I know you shudder to think about what would happen if your personal journal fell into the wrong hands. Journaling is not about writing something and then leaving it on your bed so your family can see how you...

#BREAK# Keep Thy Personal Journal Private!
Keep Thy Journal Private! If you live with other people, I know you shudder to think about what would happen if your personal journal fell into the wrong hands. Journaling is not about writing something and then leaving it on your bed so your...

#BREAK# Keyword Article Writing: the Key to Your Success!
Ready to jump on the keyword article bandwagon? Billions of companies are using keyword articles to gain free exposure on the internet. Whether you're a netpreneur marketing a product or a writer seeking freelance work, odds are you can benefit...

#BREAK# Killer Copy - What is it and how you can MASTER the Art!
Killer copy is a phrase that you probably see in the Internet Marketing arena quite often. What exactly is Killer Copy? First, the word Killer is misleading. Killer as defined by the Webster's Desk Dictionary goes something like this... "to cause...

#BREAK# KISS - Keep It Short Scholar
We've all heard the normal KISS principle (Keep It Simple Scholar). When we talk about sales copy, it is important to keep it simple. It is also important to keep it short. Let's briefly take a different view of sales copy. Perhaps you take the...

#BREAK# Know Money to Make Money
The experts are always telling us that getting paid for what you know is one of the most effective, least time-intensive ways to make a buck. Well, if you know anything about money (and you don't need to be a financial whiz), writing articles...

#BREAK# Learn About Love From Poet Rumi
Learn about love by reading poetry by a long dead poet named Rumi. No need to look for ancient texts hidden in caves...Search the Net. In this modern age of technology, busy lifestyles, and obsession with consumerism have taken a lot of the...

#BREAK# Learn to Write Like a Pro
Many writers write for the experience. Others dream of having a number one best seller. Both are wonderful reasons for writing. What many fail to realize is that these two do not have to be mutually exclusive. With a little research, you can...

#BREAK# Learning How To Write
LEARNING HOW TO WRITE Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca As a student of Spanish, my goal was to think in Spanish. Skip the word-by-word translation so I'd have the necessary speed to speak and listen. I know words in Spanish that I'd be...

#BREAK# Like Fiction Short Stories- Don't Miss This E-book!
For a limited time you can purchase Mysterious Chills and Thrills by author Laura Hickey for only $2.99 via Cyber Read or Lulu. Get the e-book today rated as a "Twilight for today's generation." Mysterious Chills and Thrills contain 10...

#BREAK# Long Copy Sales Letters on the Web: Hype or Not?
I have written before about long sales copy on the web. But I have more to say on the subject. First, let me be clear about what I’m saying here. I’m not talking about long content pages within dozens of other pages on a site. I’m talking about...

#BREAK# "Looking For Good Copywriter Books?"
If you are looking for copywriter books, you’ll want to devote some time to reading. In fact, if you plan to look online for your copy writer resources, you might as well just devote your life to reading! There are so many books that are available...

#BREAK# Made in Heaven
Consumed by my loss, I didn't notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend - my Mother. She finally had lost her long battle with cancer. The hurt was so intense; I found it hard to breathe at times. ...

#BREAK# Make A Chapbook Of Your Poetry
Poetry is a hard thing to market; it could take years to get your work published by a traditional publisher so why not publish your own chapbook. A chapbook is "a small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts"...

#BREAK# Make Money as a Ghost Food Writer
Like high pay? Have self-confidence? Know food; write well? Ghostwriting may be a career move for motivated writers who are willing to write for high pay but no credit or byline. Simply put, a ghostwriter is someone who writes a book, speech,...

#BREAK# Make More Money as a Ghost Food Writer
MAKE MORE MONEY AS A GHOST FOOD WRITER Like high pay? Have self-confidence? Know food; write well? Ghostwriting may be a career move for motivated writers who are willing to write for high pay but no credit or byline. Simply put, a ghostwriter...

#BREAK# Make More Money in Five Minutes Than Most People Make All Day
Make More Money in Five Minutes Than Most People Make All Day! FIVE MINUTES ... Is All You Need ........to phone a friend ..... peel potatoes for dinner ..... pick the kids up from school ..... or write a few words that could earn you anything from...

#BREAK# Make Time to Write: Overcome Your Excuses
By Cynthia Morris After a full day of work, family and life, you fall into bed exhausted. Mentally ticking off your to-do list, you cycle through shopping lists, phone calls, and appointments, feeling good about what you have gotten done, until...

#BREAK# Make Your Writing Sing With Structure
At some point, every serious writer is forced to sit down and conclude that there is something seriously wrong with their work. It wanders. It is pretty in some spots and horribly ugly in others. It doesn't always make sense, and is uneven in...

#BREAK# Making a BMX Writer out of you
So you would like to write BMX articles. Maybe you want to write a scene report, a contest, a recent roadtrip, a product review or any other BMX related topics. Your ultimate goal is to be published in an e-zine or a BMX magazine. I listed some...

#BREAK# Making Better Word Choices – 4 Examples
Choosing the wrong words can have a poor effect on your writing and on you. Whether you are writing a cover letter for a job, a business proposal, or an application essay for graduate school, using words poorly can result in negative feedback. One...

#BREAK# Making Heros and Heroines Real
All stories and novels, even many poems, need to have a hero or heroine. More and more heroines fill the bookshelves, too. What characteristics do we want in our heroes (or heroines)? For what do we search when we read, use when we write? Let's...

#BREAK# Many Writers, One Clear Voice
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...

#BREAK# Marketing for Writers When Writing Just Isn't Enough
Many writers write for the experience. Others dream of having a number one best seller. Both are wonderful reasons for writing. What many fail to realize is that these two do not have to be mutually exclusive. With a little research, you can...

#BREAK# Marketing to Editors
How are you marketing your articles? As a writer prospecting potential clients, your query letter is your marketing tool. What does it tell the editor about you? Show me... the Market Show the editor that you know his magazine. Jeff Peck, the...

#BREAK# Master Headline Creation In 3 Easy Steps!
You’ve got seconds to grab your reader’s attention. Fail, and you’ll lose them and their money forever. I want you to succeed, and headline creation is one of the things you need to learn to make money online. So, after repeated requests, I’m...

#BREAK# Maximize the efficiency of your articles and eBooks
After reading a number of articles of various contents, I have discovered two points that are now and then forgotten by authors and that decrease the efficiency of all articles. I recommend that you should form the following two habits: - Quote,...

#BREAK# Maximizing Your Book’s Earning Potential
Everything in life is worth writing about if you have the guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath If you're going to put out tons of effort writing a book, you should also...

#BREAK# Memoir Writing Help, Memoir Writing Ideas
You might not need any memoir writing help, per se, as you know your past and you know quite well how to write, thank you. You might instead just need someone to inspire you, motivate you, give you a nudge--with some memoir writing ideas. ...

#BREAK# Mind Mapping Your Journal Entries
Clustering, also called Mind Mapping, is a great way to save space and time when you journal. For those of you that aren't familiar with Mind Mapping, you can search in Google on the words or read one of Tony Buzan's (the creator) books. At the end...

#BREAK# Mind Reading
Reading Minds By Kenneth J. McCormick http://aboutfacts.net/ Have you ever noticed that in science fiction every alien can read minds? I wonder why this is? It makes us as humans seem a little under developed, doesn't it? It isn't...

#BREAK# Mission Possible: Get Published with Goals, Guidance and Persistance
You send me an e-mail. You tell me you’ve written over three hundred poems since you were 16 (in your teenage angst stage). You mention the novel you’ve completed and it’s really good (it really is!!!), and the novel-in-progress. You mention...

#BREAK# Moonlighting Idea: Community Speechwriter
All sorts of people give speeches, not only politicians and executives of international conglomerates. Virtually every major life event involves some sort of speech. For example, toasts are offered at weddings, eulogies at funerals, roasts at...

#BREAK# MUG AN AUTHOR DOT COM
There must be millions of thieves behind bars wondering where it all went wrong. Following the traditional methods of separating the vulnerable from their valuables like beating up old ladies, burgling homes, etc., more often than not they fell foul...

#BREAK# Multiple Income Streams: avoiding Starving Artist Syndrome
*Article Use Guidelines* Use in opt-in publications, or on Web sites, but please include the resource box. If you could send a copy to me at email address: mailto:ab@digital-e.biz , I appreciate it. Many thanks. ** Summary: The key to success as a...

#BREAK# My Publication
So you've listened to the advice, and you're going to start your own publication. Obviously, you must have some writing ability, or collaborate with someone who does, and you must be knowledgeable in the areas you will cover in your ezine. One of...

#BREAK# Need a Great Idea? Feed Your Brain
A lot of great ideas happen when two or more other ideas collide to form something completely new. Think of this like those old chemistry movies we used to watch in school. You had all of those atoms floating around and when two collided -- bam! A...

#BREAK# Need to write an article? 'Three' is a magic number!
Writing articles for magazines, the Internet or the local community paper needn't be a headache. Providing they are informative, reasonably short and to the point, readers and publishers will welcome your articles. But, if the secret to...

#BREAK# Negotiating Right: Get What you Deserve
If magazine publishing worked like any other business, writers would fix their rates, and magazines would run around trying to hire the best writer in the lowest possible cost. Sadly, that’s not the case. In this bizarre business, writers trying to...

#BREAK# Never, Ever Release Any Of Your Rights To Anyone
One of the grandest scams on the Web, which goes largely unnoticed, is for a web-based bookseller or publisher to require some rights to your work in exchange for the service to be provided. Many demand the electronic rights, for example. Don't...

#BREAK# Newspapers and the Weekly Food Section: Research for Food Writers
NEWSPAPERS AND THE WEEKLY FOOD SECTION by Pamela White I love the food sections in our local newspapers. I scan the recipes, note the food trends, look for food-filled events, and visualize my name right along the other syndicated and local...

#BREAK# Niche Site Confessions Revealed – An Unbiased Ebook Review
If you’re like me then chances are when it comes to purchasing ebooks online you want to make sure you get your moneys worth. As someone who is trying to establish a home-based Internet business within 4 years before I retire trust me when I tell...

#BREAK# No Money Down Real Estate Investing Programs
Nothing in the last thirty years has excited the would-be real estate consumer as much as "no money down," " no down payment," real estate investing for which we all have to thank Carleton Sheets. Then along comes Ron Le Grand offering "cash back"...

#BREAK# No Time to Finish your Book?
No Time to Finish your Book? Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved. This number one complaint keeps many a professional from expanding their business through a book. As a book-writing coach, the Number One Question I get is, "How can I find time...

#BREAK# No Time To Write? Try a Ghostwriter
Many people feel they have a story to tell or an experience to share. But time is precious and not everyone can make the words sing on the page. But there are people who can make the whole experience hassle-free. A ghostwriter will do all the work...

#BREAK# Nobody Likes A Rambler
We all know people who ramble. They include every boring and insignificant detail, speak in five-minute-long sentences and take forever to get to the point. When they finally reach the end of their story, most people have either walked away or...

#BREAK# Nobody reading your blog?
So you got a your own weblog. Everything looks great, you have nice layout, some nice pictures and last but not least excellent articles. You also update your blog on a regular basis but nobody seems to read it ! You start to think where did I go...

#BREAK# Numbers, Numbers, and More Numbers
When I taught English and composition and newspaper, yearbook, and literary magazine, I had to be aware of which hat I was wearing in which class. The rules for writing agreed in most instances, but a few were different, such as when to...

#BREAK# Ode To A Tree
Look here, look there, An object which I envy so much For its strenghth to stand there the whole day Looking at its creator Dancing with the wind. A minute an hour, a month, and a year have passed But still it stands proudly A storm have...

#BREAK# Ode To El Niño
I had written this poem way back 1997 when I was in third year high school for our school paper. I was very much inspired by John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, in which, I emulated the style of this poem. I used old Anglo-American words to give a...

#BREAK# Offline advertising made easy
How To Promote Your Online Business Offline. There are a number of great ways to promote your online business offline. Combining offline advertising with your online presence will create momentum and increase your profits. There are a number of...

#BREAK# Offline Promotion And Persistence Pay Off Big For Self-Published Authors
Face it, writing and printing your self-published book are relatively easy tasks, compared with all the other requirements for marketing it successfully. The selling process can be so daunting, you need to be sure first whether you are even cut out...

#BREAK# Oh No! A Bad Book Review! Have No Fear, It's Not The End
When you get a bad book review You've just been notified a review of your book has been posted. You're all excited and can't wait to see what has been written. You're clicking onto your book's page when...Oh no! They hated your book! This bad...

#BREAK# Oh, So That's How You Spell It!
Regardless of what you've been told, spelling does matter. This little guide puts the most commonly misspelled words at your finger tips. It isn't every word, but it contains the ones I've come across during my years teaching. My bear in the...

#BREAK# On Grammer (And Yes, I Know I Spelled Grammar Wrong)
There has been a growing trend, in academic circles and in my own life, to place grammar and its larger rules upon an impeachable pedestal. A growing number of people who seem to cling to the rules of grammar as if its only through the memorization...

#BREAK# One Simple Idea
Right now, no matter what time of the day or night you are reading this, someone's website is making money -a lot of money- using one simple idea. It's an idea you should be using to increase the profitability of not only your...

#BREAK# One-time, Low, Low, Introductory Rate
Feel free to publish in your Free print or online publication. Please keep the entire resource box intact. Thank you! One-time, low, low introductory rate! By Pamela White Each week day brings a pack of mail from banks offering me...

#BREAK# Online Booklet Results
Selling over 500,000 copies of an informational tips booklet, '110 Ideas for Organizing Your Business Life,' and earning a quarter of a million dollars in the process is not at all where I thought I would end up when I started writing a tips booklet...

#BREAK# Online Copywriting vs. Writing Copy for Print
Online copywriting has the same goals as print content, but there at least seven distinct points of departure between writing copy online and for print. Online copywriting and print copywriting are very different. You hear that all the time....

#BREAK# Online Writing and Beyond: Writers Will Lead the Content Revolution
Introduction It is often thrown around loosely on the web that "Content is king." If content is king, then what is a content writer? Unfortunately, we are not yet royalty. We're never paid as well or considered as skilled as a web designer or...

#BREAK# Online Writing Workshop, “Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals,” Begins September 13, 2004
Writing911.com’s popular writing workshop, “Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals,” is being turned into an online writing course (e-course), beginning September 13, 2004. Writing911.com is now offering its popular...

#BREAK# Organizing Your Data to Write Better Copy
Last quarter I talked about interviewing / gathering data. So now you’ve got several thousand words of notes, hopefully digitally recorded. What comes next? GETTING ORGANIZED I suggested organizing your interview questions into 4 groups. I’m...

#BREAK# Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6
PASSED, PAST Passed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone. "Time passed and we all forgot the incident." "In times past it was the custom for women to wear hats in church." PEACE, PIECE Peace means the...

#BREAK# Part 1 of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start?
In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his...

#BREAK# part 3: The Bird Jogging
Took no more notice of time then a flash and I was partly dressed and out my door. Not a noise to be heard, to cold for even the most playful of neighbor hood children to be out, still, I took little to no notice of the temp...my layers of clothes...

#BREAK# Part 5 of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start?
Do You Allow Readers To Feel The Character’s Emotions? What readers will use to feel what your character is going through, whether they have experienced the same or not, are of course their emotions. On what level they will feel the character’s...

#BREAK# PERFECT PITCH - Query Letters that Kill
If you are reading this then you are either looking for information on how to write a query letter or your curiosity has been exited by the heading. Either way, the article has grabbed your attention and hopefully what you will read here will live...

#BREAK# Perfectionism And Writing: The Oil And Water Of Writing Success
For many years, I prided myself on my perfectionist tendencies. "What's wrong with wanting to be perfect?" I'd ask. Isn't "perfect" a wonderful word, a positive one? Don't people remember gymnast Nadia Comaneci for her perfect ten? Why settle for...

#BREAK# Planning an Exceptional Book Signing from Start to Finish
So what do you do when you have a book signing and no one shows up? Sure that may sound like the beginning of a great joke but for many of us, it’s our worst nightmare. One of the scariest moments in my life was my first book signing. Even...

#BREAK# Poetry in a Nutshell
Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to the point where it just "sucks." Poetry is about expression. Poetry...

#BREAK# Poetry In A Nutshell
Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to the point where it just "sucks." Poetry is about expression. Poetry...

#BREAK# Poetry Slams: Performance Plus Art
Performance artists of all types enjoy the awe and the kudos coming their way from the general public. In return, any concert or performance turns livelier with audience participation. During the recent decades, more and more musicians--even...

#BREAK# Poetry Speaks To The Whole Family
From the moment the shiny new book arrived at my doorstep, I was excited to see what this incredible creation had in store for my son and for me. From the moment I cracked open the spine, I realized it delivers more than I had hoped it would. ...

#BREAK# Post Colonial Studies
Postcolonialism has been defined as: A description of institutional conditions in formerly colonial societies. An abstract condition of the global condition after the colonial period. A description of discourses informed by...

#BREAK# Power Words And Phrases
I like to use power phrases when writing sales material. These power phrases add punch to a line or a paragraph and I usually use them to start off a sentence. You can generally find alot of "power phrases" when reading good sales copy. I usually...

#BREAK# Power Writing 101: Tips and Tricks to Get You Taken Seriously!
In my ten years as an advertiser, I’ve encountered plenty of folks with a flair for writing. They were born having some idea of where to put the words within the sentence, and the sentences within the paragraph. They usually know what words to use –...

#BREAK# Powerful Lessons From A $20 Bill
By Catherine Franz Just last week I was speaking to a group of 50 women and men. I opened by holding up a $20 and asking who would like this $20 bill. I also mentioned there were no strings attached. You would have thought that everyone would...

#BREAK# Practice Makes Perfect
Practice Makes Perfect When my daughter began to play the clarinet, most of the notes she played were painfully off key. Soon the notes were more or less correct, but the melody was lacking as she took long pauses to place her fingers. As she...

#BREAK# Premonition
The first time i lay my eyes on you, I feel that this is something new, The feeling deep inside awakes, And turns to something great. Day by day as i see you, Moment by moment i think of you, The emotion that now i feel, Telling me that it...

#BREAK# Preselling. Your Pathway to Success
------- ---1--- ------- MYCPS!... The ONLY Book Of Its Kind "Make Your Content PREsell!" ("MYCPS!") is the ONLY book of its kind. There are, of course, hundreds of books that teach you how to write, the classic being... -----------------------...

#BREAK# Preserve Your Artistic Vision
Our culture has always had a curiously ambiguous attitude towards its artists, who are alternately reviled or else elevated to nearly god-like status. They seem to be perceived as other-than-human, able to dispense with leisure, comfort and...

#BREAK# Print-On-Demand - A Definition and a Comparison
PRINT ON DEMAND - A Definition and a Comparison Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca The purpose of this article is to consider Print-On-Demand publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its strengths and its weaknesses. You may...

#BREAK# Print-On-Demand Publishing - A Definition and a Comparison
Print On Demand A Definition and a Comparison Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca The purpose of this article is to consider Print-On-Demand publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its strengths and its weaknesses. You may wonder...

#BREAK# Progressive Headlines Guide Customers To Buy
by Karon Thackston © 2004 http://www.learn-copywriting.com Headlines are, without a doubt, one of the most important elements in copywriting. As has been said countless times before, if you don't get your readers’ attention with the headline, the...

#BREAK# PROMISE-CRAFTING – The Heart of Copywriting
Different copywriters take different approaches to their creative process. But there’s one step that has to be included no matter what the process. I call it Promise-crafting. Why Promise-Crafting is Such a Key Copywriting Skill ...

#BREAK# Promote your work: Get your book reviewed
So you've written your first novel, short story, comic book or other work and it's good. You have now also got a publisher interested or you are going down one of the many self-publishing roots (such as ebooks/e-books or we-publish.com as examples)....

#BREAK# Promoting Your Online Writing Portfolio
Dear Writing Reader, One of the most popular questions from Authors on my site, Writing.Com, is: "How do I promote my Online Writing Portfolio outside of Writing.Com?" Here are my top five tips for increasing the amount of exposure to anyone's...

#BREAK# Proof Positive: The Importance of Proofreading
Last week I was having a quick browse on eBay when something caught my eye. "Black patient shoes!" screamed the headline. "Must see!" "Wow!" I thought. "Patient shoes! What are they when they're at home?" I clicked on the link. The shoes...

#BREAK# Proof Reading-The in "Audible" Art Form
If you are a writer of an ebook you definitely get others to proof-read your work, right? Is proof-reading one of those tasks that if you had the option you would rather take the garbage out to the bottom of the driveway and tolerate the stench then...

#BREAK# Proof Reading Your Work Can Save You Money in the Long Run
If you know of anyone writing that likes to hear others experiences from authors, please share this and include the byline. One Isn't Enough When it Comes to Proof Reading Your Work Here's a story of an author who had to learn the hard...

#BREAK# Proofreading and Copy Editing
Technology has changed the standards for proofreading and copy editing, and even caused the roles to overlap in some situations. "Traditionally, proofreaders are responsible for finding errors during the typesetting or formatting of a...

#BREAK# Proofreading Your Own Document
You've just written an important paper, business communique, or other document that will be read by others and perhaps will be the basis for a classroom grade, a prospective business arrangement, or provide necessary information for a specific...

#BREAK# Protect Your E-book Files!
Title: Protect Your E-books Files! Perkins Failsafe System for Protecting Your Fame and Fortune Three years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book Publishing Association, when one of the esteemed publisher members...

#BREAK# Protecting and Registering Your Ebook
Once you've created your ebook, you'll want to take the necessary steps to protect your work. Although many ebook compilers will enable you to password protect your ebook, none can offer complete security. Copyrighting Your Ebook The moment...

#BREAK# Publicity Through Philanthropy For Writers
I am twenty three years old, have sold over four thousand copies of my first book in a matter of a month after it's release and recently been contacted for contracts with Random House and Harper Collins for two new titles. I think a good deal of...

#BREAK# Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author
My story is that an author who’d done online writing for such dot gones as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines, someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, recommended PublishAmerica. She claimed it was a...

#BREAK# PublishAmerica - Publishing Parasites
I have to admit to being readily impressed by company names. Maybe it's an age thing. You see, I was around when we had nationalised industries here in Britain, you know, British Railways, British Gas, British Steel, British Road Services,...

#BREAK# publishing
Do you have books sitting in your garage that you haven't sold yet and looking for ways to move them? Then you will want to know about these five outrageous ideas that aren't difficult and can be just plain out fun. Dede Hall, author of The...

#BREAK# Publishing and Promoting of Poetry anthologies and chapbooks
So you have always dreamed of having your poetry published? Why not self-publish it or go with a pod publisher? Poetry is something perfect for self-publishing or pod publishing. Now you are asking yourself how you get started. Start by...

#BREAK# Publishing Your Book
Format Your Manuscript for the Publishing Firm If you want to publish your novel, you must present your manuscript in the accepted format or else it may never see the light of the day. You have to make sure that you fulfill all the...

#BREAK# Publishing Your Own Book of Poetry
Many established poets published themselves initially, some of them do so continually. In the literary arena that currently exists this is very acceptable and respected. But before you consider self-publishing consider the following. Does your...

#BREAK# Pulling Sales with Your Ad Copy
One of the best marketing tools available to your internet business is good sales ad copy. This can pull in sales faster than just about anything. If you’re not a writer or cringe at the thought of writing your own sales copy, you can always...

#BREAK# Put Your Articles On the Speedway to Sales
Your audience is hungry for information. But they want it in the right format. The format must be easy to read, easy to digest and easy to apply. If you deliver your articles the way your audience likes it, they will reward you by reading every...

#BREAK# Q&A for Writers, Editors and Publishers - Thoughts from Your Peers on Life and Work, Part Two
Part Two -- Question # Six - Editors, how do you locate that next position when it's time to move to a new publishing house, newspaper or magazine? How do you keep that great editing job once you have it?” -- Page Nine Jenny Kasza – “To keep a...

#BREAK# Query Letters that Rock
The first thing I did wrong when I started writing was submitting poor query letters. They contained generic article ideas and boring sentences. Everything said, "blah, blah, blah." Twenty query letters and no responses. Even my SASEs weren't...

#BREAK# Questions to Ask Before Publishing Your Book (Part 1)
If you are considering publishing your work, please taste, chew, and digest the first part of this article before doing so. For the complete article, goto: http://controversialwriter.tripod.com Should you need help in editing, re-writing,...

#BREAK# Quick Proof Reading Can Lead to a Costly Mistake
If you know of anyone writing that likes to hear others experiences from authors, please share this and include the byline. One Isn't Enough When it Comes to Proof Reading Your Work Here's a story of an author who had to learn the hard way...

#BREAK# Quick Strategies For Writing Your Essay Under Pressure
Most writing is done under time pressure. Yet, while the majority of students have to write in haste - with limited time, limited space and an instructor to please - few approach to this task systematically. Though, writing under increasing time...

#BREAK# Rapid Knowledge Development for Businesses
When there is little time to go to the local public library or shop around for a good business book, e-books on the Internet may be the best solution. If you are looking for specialized information, e-books may be the "only" solution. E-books are...

#BREAK# Reading and Writing, a Lost Art.
An article about the decline of todays generations enjoying to read and write. I personal note about hoping that I am incorrect, and that reading and writing will some day be popular again. Today’s generation of children, and young adults no...

#BREAK# Reading in a Tree
Today is like many of the summer days I spent at my grandparents' house in Indiana--except I am writing, instead of reading and I am sitting in a chair on my deck, instead of on a branch in a tree growing in front of my grandparents' house. But the...

#BREAK# Reading the Lines
Early cave woman wasn't content with her cave man's rendition of "home" -- dark, blank walls that provided no ambience whatsoever. So, one day, when he grunted, she grunted back and soon there were linear drawings adorning their cave....

#BREAK# Ready, Set, Go Sell Your Book In The Real World!
We hear a lot these days about more books actually being sold 'outside' the traditional bookstore. Think about it. When was the last time you actually took time to linger and explore the bookshelves? When did you last impulsively grab a book,...

#BREAK# Real Estate: Mark Twain's Case for Investing in the Bay Area & Other "Bubble" Markets
Mark Twain took a long-term and somewhat philosophical look not only at life but real estate. Looking through Mark Twain's eyes, there's a strong case for continuing to invest in tight real estate markets such as Bay Area real estate. Real estate...

#BREAK# Recycle Your Work
Recycling your work is a lot like doing your part to recycle cans and old milk cartons: a simple concept that not enough people do. Many folks don’t realize how easy it is to turn an existing piece of material into new moneymaking products. I made...

#BREAK# Red Tide
“Am I forgiven?” “You still have to bring me to the zoo,” demanded the seven-year-old Charlie as he felt the texture of his new ball. “That will be on Saturday.” “Dad, my birthday is today.” “Charlie tomorrow is a working day. Just...

#BREAK# Rejuvenation
Rejuvenation Have you ever awoken from a restless sleep feeling as though you needed to write but were too depleted to even pick up a pen, let alone sit down and write something worthwhile? If you haven't felt this way at least one time or another,...

#BREAK# Resource Box Rules: Winning Tactics
Lets face it people use articles to send traffic to their websites. But if their resource box is lousy and not worded right they will get minimal, if any traffic. Thats a fact. “So,” you ask, “what kind of resource box do I need?” You need...

#BREAK# Review: 'eBook Secrets Exposed'
If you want to make a lot of money with your own eBook and you only read one book on the subject in the next 12 months, I strongly recommend that it's 'eBook Secrets Exposed' by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel. The authors are both well qualified...

#BREAK# Review: Profit From The Author Inside You
Profit From The Author Inside You by Roger C. Parker pdf format, 120 pages $37.00 I've reviewed a number of eBooks recently, and none of them excited me, but this one definitely did. If you've ever had the slightest desire to write a 'How To' book,...

#BREAK# Review: The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course
by Jill Whalen © 2005 http://www.highrankings.com/copywritingcourse I've spent the past couple of weeks reading Karon Thackston's copywriting course, and boy-oh-boy is it a winner! Karon spent five long months putting down on virtual paper...

#BREAK# Reviewers' Help Writers Write Better
Learning Through Others A good critique helps two writers. Most of us, when we write, know what's right about our work. We feel it; in that moment when everything just clicks and the words flow like oil from our fingers, we know....

#BREAK# Reviewing New Writers
New writers are very vulnerable and need to be handled gently, but not with kid-gloves. Keeping a friendly tone is very important for the reviewer. Because we are working online, we can't see each others faces or body language. You may slip...

#BREAK# Revise, Revise, Revise
For the past two or three years I've read and heard, "Don't do any revising or editing until you have finished writing the whole story or book." What? That goes against common sense and everything I've learned in all the years I've studied,...

#BREAK# Rich Jerk's Book NOT worth the $ - Learn How to Make A Living Online for FREE
Welcome! If you've discovered website - it is not by chance - maybe you are an Entrepreneur or you have a desire to become one. If you are looking into purchasing the Rich Jerk's ebook, my advice is to think again. It is not worth the price. ...

#BREAK# Road Rider's Dreams
Mythology info... Road Rider’s Dreams: Deep in the frothy maze, of swirling mist and country haze. Low down in ditches that pinch the desolate swarthy roads, where the night air flows with the humming tongues of hidden crickets and low spying...

#BREAK# Robert Burns Love Poem: "A Red, Red Rose"
Robert Burns, a poor man, an educated man, and a ladies’ man, is representative of Scotland, much like whisky, haggis, bagpipes, and kilts. He lived a life shortened by rheumatic heart disease, 1759-1796, but his life journey through poverty,...

#BREAK# Romance Readers' Pet Peeves
I thought it might be a good idea to talk about over-used phrases in romance novels and short stories. This isn't just for me to have a moan and groan, but for you writers to consider avoiding over-use. We've all done it at some time or another --...

#BREAK# Sales Letter Writing - Using AIDA
Writing a sales letter that really moves the product it's promoting isn't something everybody can do, but there are those who could well be great marketing copy writers, but who still have to learn the basics of direct mail copywriting, be it...

#BREAK# Sample: Referral Letter To Use With Your Clients
The fastest, simplest way for you to accelerate your marketing efforts, earn more money for yourself, and enjoy the freedom you want in your life and your businessis this: INCREASE YOUR EXISTING CLIENT REFERRALS But unfortunately, most...

#BREAK# San Francisco Real Estate: Buyer's Market? Seller's Market? Both?
San Francisco real estate, one of the USA's supposedly "frothiest" real estate markets, is no longer an instant jackpot for sellers-now it's just a jackpot. Buyers, though still facing high prices, now have enough time to actually think an offer...

#BREAK# Satirical Poetry About Tony Blair
All Hail. Is your hospital full of aliens, despite the cleaning firms, Antenna waving buggies, And creepy crawly germs, Then dont waste another second, now were into election spin, Just complain over and again, and up pops smily smily grin. You...

#BREAK# Savage Nature: The Life of Ted Hughes
One of the most important poets of the post-war period, Edward James Hughes (1930-1998), was drawn towards the primitive. He was enchanted by the beauty of the natural world, frequently portraying its cruel and savage temperament in his work as...

#BREAK# School Yourself in the Writing Field
Writing in your journal every day may seem arduous. Perhaps you may think you have nothing to write there. But to write every day and fish for those ideas is one way to tap your untapped brain resources and apply them to a writer's page - every...

#BREAK# Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge
After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script continue to emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent issues. Do you realize what...

#BREAK# Screenwriting With Impact
The screenplay you've pounded out on your trusty word processor is finished at last! Before the reader even looks at the title of your script, it must pass the "rifle test." The rifle test tells a professional in seconds whether the script...

#BREAK# Search Engine Optimisation Copywriting - the Top Ten Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
In the last few years, search engine optimisation copywriting in the UK and around the world has changed beyond recognition, as has the way sites are optimised by their design, coding and links. However, the biggest changes have been with SEO...

#BREAK# Secret Web Advertising Technique That Has Landed Me Numerous, Valuable Clients
Intensive web advertising of my writing services is how I have managed to land the vast majority of my clients. In this article I discuss a web advertising technique that has helped me bag my most valuable clients. While it is true that there is...

#BREAK# 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...

#BREAK# Seecrets On Writing: Free Requotable Quotes For Internet Writers
Original quotes, when used at the beginning or at the end of an article provide a touch of class. At the least, it will make your article different from the thousands of articles filed daily. It can be witty, satirical, funny or just a different...

#BREAK# SEEKING THE 100th MONKEY
Have you ever noticed ... how something "new" is usually viewed with suspicion and dis-trust until people become familiar with it? This is human (or animal) nature and cannot be discounted. Successful marketers know this and devise strategies to...

#BREAK# Seven Mistakes Newbie Ezine Publishers Make ... And How You Can Avoid Them
Today the incredible effectiveness of ezine marketing in promoting online business is an open secret. It has also become extremely easy to publish an ezine. And so any self- respecting e-businessperson has one. With literally thousands of...

#BREAK# Seven Secrets of Writing a Book that Sells
It's one thing to write a book, it's an entirely different thing to write one that's a saleable, viable, marketable product. Ensuring the success of a book is something even the biggest publishers have never been able to guarantee. Mitigating...

#BREAK# Seven Secrets to Writing a Book that Sells
It's one thing to write a book, it's an entirely different thing to write one that's a saleable, viable, marketable product. Ensuring the success of a book is something even the biggest publishers have never been able to guarantee. Mitigating...

#BREAK# Seven Ways to Make Your Fiction Compulsive Reading
Do You Have What It Takes to Grab and Hold Reader Attention? Does your fiction writing do the sales work for you? Do you have that magic ingredient to hold readers until story's end? What are readers looking for in a good read anyway? This...

#BREAK# Seven Ways to Select a Book Topic That Sells
Since a book title is the number one "Essential Hot-Selling Point" for your book, it's a good idea to choose one that sells well. 1.Write what you are passionate about. Write about a topic that will still interest you in two years. Your book is...

#BREAK# Sharing Your Writing is Scary!
So, you want to be a writer. How healthy is your ego? How about your self-confidence? Can you handle criticism? You've joined an on-line writing group and posted your first write to be critiqued. Was it as hard as you thought it would be?...

#BREAK# Should You Write a Long-Copy Ad or Keep it Short?
Should You Write a Long-Copy Ad or Keep it Short? by Alex A. Kecskes Okay, you're ready to write the ad of a lifetime. The one that will pull like crazy and leave them begging for your product like Somalians for food. So, do you...

#BREAK# Show Me Your Ware - All About Portfolios
California copywriter, Michael White wrote to Freebird with an article idea. He commented, "As writers, we have a different sort of challenge, when it comes to showing our portfolios to prospective employers or clients during the interview or...

#BREAK# Signs of Infidelity - 21 Categories of Cheating Signs
With infidelity reaching epidemic proportions, every woman should learn how to recognize the telltale signs of infidelity. The future of her relationship could depend on her ability to spot the telltale signs in time. In view of the rapidly...

#BREAK# Simple Ideas for Quality Content
What is good quality content for a web site? We can usually recognize quality content when we see it. It is a total package deal; the words used, the grammar, the presentation, the supporting artwork. Daily I receive articles from people giving...

#BREAK# Simple Steps Lead To Successful Books
Like most first time authors, I figured that once the word was out that I'd written a book, the world would beat a path to my door wanting to buy it. I'll admit I gave little thought to marketing until the day my first printing of Handbook To A...

#BREAK# Simple Writing For Super Sales
Is your sales letter not converting readers into buyers? It just might be your choice of words. Listen. People don’t stop by your site to be wowed by your stunning prose. They want to be sold. And the fact is your sales letter needs to be...

#BREAK# Six Tips for Submitting Fiction
You can learn a lot about what it takes to place a story in an ezine by starting up one of your own. Last month we started work on a new ezine for writers, which we intended to use to publish high-quality, contemporary fiction, from writers...

#BREAK# Six Top Tips - You Could be Proofreading From Home Real Soon
Perhaps you are working for a proof reading company and you are looking for to get into freelance work. Or, maybe you are looking to start a career proofreading from home. In any case, you want to learn how to find proofreading jobs, right? ...

#BREAK# Six Whys of Writing
You pick a pen, grab a piece of paper and scribble…or, nowadays, turn on your PC, go to MSWord, exhaust your fingers on the keyboard…and you're done…instant article! That easy, and you're an instant celebrity. It has been made clear that everybody...

#BREAK# Six Whys Of Writing
You pick a pen, grab a piece of paper and scribble…or, nowadays, turn on your PC, go to MSWord, exhaust your fingers on the keyboard…and you’re done…instant article! That easy, and you’re an instant celebrity. It has been made clear that...

#BREAK# Slow Pokes: Short Story On The Changing World Of Writing
“No one will ever know who I am, I’m a nobody-writer from nowhere… I’ve had a thousand rejections from all the major publishers. It seems my destiny is never to be read, another nameless soul lost to the sands of eternity.” Johnny’s face twisted...

#BREAK# Slow Pokes: Short story on the changing world of writing.
“No one will ever know who I am, I’m a nobody-writer from nowhere… I’ve had a thousand rejections from all the major publishers. It seems my destiny is never to be read, another nameless soul lost to the sands of eternity.” Johnny’s face twisted...

#BREAK# Snob-Bloggers: You Just Might Be A Snob If You Publish A Blog
You Might Be A Snob-Blogger If… According to Jupiter Research, about 2 percent of the online community has created a blog. That works out to millions and millions of blogs, and in turn, millions and millions of snobs who publish them. That’s...

#BREAK# So, You Think You Want to Be a Freelance Proofreader
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...

#BREAK# So you Wrote an E-book...Now What?
E-books are one hot marketing tool. For those of you who don't get out much, an e-book is basically a collection of HTML documents that have been compiled into an executable (.exe) file. The concept is that of an electronic book that can be...

#BREAK# Solutions for the Struggling Article Writer
By: Brandie King, Copyright 2004 Are you struggling to come up with new ideas for articles? Whether you are a new or veteran writer, this problem can effectively halt your ability to use this method of promotion. So, to help you overcome this, I...

#BREAK# SOME HELPFUL HINTS IN WRITING ARTICLES FOR THE WEB - TWENTY FIVE TIPS
Writing articles can provide you with enormous amount of exposure on the Web. You are branding yourself on a shoestring budget - it hasn't cost you a cent, but a little time and effort Writing a free content article is simple and follows a...

#BREAK# Some Sticky Grammar Situations or How to Avoid Some Ugly Mistakes!
With the advent of electronic word-processing and spellchecker programs, many people just presume that simply by running spellchecker all of their grammar errors will be caught and corrected. This is simply not so. Spellchecker programs often...

#BREAK# Someday Dead Writers Need To Worry!
Do ya’ll ever notice that the older you get, the more attention you pay to the obituaries section in the newspaper? I hate to admit it, but it’s true. When I was a young man, I never even bothered looking at the obituaries. The concept of death...

#BREAK# Sonnets For Rain
{to Rain Paggao, a bandmate, a best friend, and the brother I never had} *Rain* Your brilliant words were magical; They always lit my mind. Your simplest thoughts, sublime, divine; They’d borne my spirits high. In mirth or pain, in loss...

#BREAK# Soul Shock - The real Soul Mate phenomenon
SOUL SHOCK - by Steve Gunn internationally-acclaimed psychic and healer An excerpt from his new eBook about Soul Mates 'When Two Souls Connect' 'The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.'...

#BREAK# Spiritual Journaling
By Catherine Franz Whether you keep a separate spiritual journal or just want to add your spiritual postings in your regular journal, you will want to read this. Personal journaling supports our development and growth. But spiritual journaling...

#BREAK# Stay Poor. No, really. A Review of The Rich Jerk book.
The Rich Jerk Become a millionaire just by clicking here! Do nothing but watch the profits roll in! Okay, okay, we've all seen these before. I can't think of a better job than to monitor my bank accounts always rising balance, but let's get...

#BREAK# Steps to a Writing an Effective Press Releases
Want to get the most media attention and spotlight for your business? Then the first place to start is with a GREAT press release. Now I can almost see half of you leaving now, dreading the thought of having to write one of these. But wait!! ...

#BREAK# Steps to Publishing Success
Even if your best friend owns a top publishing company, giving you an immediate "in," this does not guarantee publishing success. First, you have to write a quality book that has a clear target audience. And your book must answer a common...

#BREAK# Sticks, Stones and Lawyers
“But how can you say, 'It was only talk, so no harm was done?' Were this true, then your prayers, and your words of kindness, would be a waste of breath.” - Nachman of Bratslav Defamation ... slander ... libel. It doesn’t take a rabbinic...

#BREAK# Stop Struggling and Write Your Article
Don’t let overwhelm hold you back— follow this expert advice and start writing your promotional article today. As a writing coach, I frequently work with independent professionals who have great ideas for promotional articles, but no idea how...

#BREAK# Stop Your Readers In Their Tracks!
Stop Your Readers In Their Tracks! Copyright 2003 Livvie Matthews Studies have shown that while 75% of the people read headlines, only 25 % keep reading "the rest of the story". Breaking it down even further, you have about 4 seconds to convince...

#BREAK# Strategies for Getting Published
Aspiring writers can't be blamed for balking at the apparently insuperable hurdles to becoming a published author. Modern technology has made the actual process of writing much easier than ever before. Perhaps this is why so many believe they can...

#BREAK# Styles of Manuscript Editing
When you are correcting or making changes in a book manuscript, what you are doing is editing that manuscript. I've been in the business of editing would-be books for over the past twenty-five years, and I've helped many a first-time author put...

#BREAK# Submitting Your Manuscript: Getting Started
I am often asked "Do you know of a publisher who would be interested in my book?" There's no easy way to answer this question. You see, according to the PMA Newsletter, there are over 86,000 publishers in existence ( http://parapub.com/statistics...

#BREAK# Subtle Writing Techniques of the Mystery Writer
Here is the first of five articles taken from my lecture series, "Subtle Writing Techniques Used in Creating a Successful Mystery Novel." This series is designed to explain the working methods of the mystery/suspense writer, offering insight and...

#BREAK# Success Redefined
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...

#BREAK# Successful Audio Book Narration
It sounds easy, just open the book and read. You ever listen to a book on tape? Often a recognizable actor is the voice. Sounds like a winner, lets have Dustin Hoffman read us a story. A good idea with mixed results. Why? Because the actor is not...

#BREAK# Surefire Ways to Get Your Magazine Article Queries Accepted
One of my writing discussion groups recently had a topic thread going about the success rate of pitching magazine article ideas. It seems that the standard acceptance rate is about 30% - 40%. In my own experience though, I've had about a 90%...

#BREAK# Swimming with Sharks
Swimming with Sharks I just finished my first novel, “Shades of Betrayal”, and felt a rush of giddy excitement at the prospect of being a REAL writer. I had a vague idea that I would need an agent, so I went to a search engine and typed: “Literary...

#BREAK# Symbolism
I Symbolism can have an extremely wide meaning. It can be used to describe any mode of expression to refer to something indirectly through the medium of another. But this doesn’t mean that a mere substitution of one object for another can...

#BREAK# Take My Publisher, Please!
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...

#BREAK# Taking in the Good Criticism and Leaving the Rest Behind
We have all been criticized upon sometime or another, as a writer it is something to be expected. Every paragraph, every sentence, every word is criticized. We just need to know how to benefit from the criticism and learn the difference between...

#BREAK# Talk The Language Of A Real Estate Pro
How to Talk the Language of Real Estate Like a Pro Spacious, sprawling ranch, exuding unaffected charm, 3 BR, den, 1 ½ bath, tucked away in a secluded, park-like setting. Great starter home. Hurry! This one won't last! Ah, yes! I see you're...

#BREAK# Taming The Book Proposal
Taming the Book Proposal: The Basics 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...

#BREAK# Tap the Creative Inside You
Imagination is the source of creativity. It's a place where unlimited possibilities reside. It's where pure energy lives. People are innately imaginative and creative. However, most people are simply not conscious of their imaginative and...

#BREAK# Tell Visitors Why
Tell Visitors Why People need reasons to act. We work because we have to make a living. We eat because we are hungry. We have hobbies because we want to have some fun. Furthermore, people need reasons to buy from you. If you tell people why they...

#BREAK# Ten Essential Tips For Submitting Articles
Submitting well planned articles on-line will increase traffic and can even launch your career when handled right. They'll drive traffic from all over the net and show an excellent return on your time invested. Write Your Article Like...

#BREAK# Ten Steps to a Power-Packed, Persuasive Proposal
Writing proposals is a skill no businessperson should be without. Often clients will put out a request for proposal from three or more companies at the same time. In order to get their business, yours has to be the most convincing one -- the one...

#BREAK# Ten Tips for Writing Effective Web Copy
On the Internet programmers and designers rule, not the writer. Yet words drive targeted traffic to your site, carry content, make the sale, convey marketing messages, persuade people to buy and make the difference between your site’s success or...

#BREAK# Ten Tips to Simplify Your Business Correspondence
You write to express, not to use every word in the dictionary. Here are ten tips for using those words to make your writing clearer. 1. Simplify language Avoid using big or vague words. Use fewer words, but make them count. 2. Shorten sentences...

#BREAK# Ten Ways to Get Cheap (and Free) Magazine Samples
Terms of use – This article may be used freely in online and print, newsletters and websites that do not charge a fee to readers. The resource box at the end must be included. The article may not be substantially edited but grammatical or typos can...

#BREAK# The 10 Laws for Writing Letters that Get Results
The following is a letter in response to a question about how to write sales letters. This is something you could model in layout, tone, and ideas, to write your own letters. By the way, this is where your letterhead should go. Dear Fellow...

#BREAK# The 7 Step 'Formula' For Writing Powerful Articles In Less Than An Hour
What I'm about to Reveal to you in this article is a easy to follow, "Step-By-Step" formula for writing Powerful articles in less than a hour. It might take you a few times to get the hang of it the first time around, But, once you've gotten...

#BREAK# The Advantage of Becoming a Recognized Name
If you are reading this article today, you are likely among those who are working an online business. Unfortunately, you have already learned that finding customers is not as easy as you once thought it would be. Many people have broken the bank ...

#BREAK# The Affair of the Vanishing Content
http://www.archive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have become too amnesiac already to...

#BREAK# The Art of Reading Your Buyer's Mind
Wouldn't it be fantastic if you had a crystal ball and you could read your prospects' minds you knew what they were thinking when you were making your sales presentation. You knew why there were considering the product in the first place. You knew...

#BREAK# The Author Winthin You!
I always had an active imagination when I was young. I hated school, and would pass the time away day- dreaming about things I should not even have known about at such a young age. I used to make up stories in my head, that would always have me as...

#BREAK# The Author Within
Just about every marketer on the Internet claims to be the best around and would have you believe that no one else knows as much or can teach you as quickly and thoroughly as they can. It would seem that they erroneously assume that by...

#BREAK# The Author Within You!
I always had an active imagination when I was young. I hated school, and would pass the time away day- dreaming about things I should not even have known about at such a young age. I used to make up stories in my head, that would always have me as...

#BREAK# The Beginner's Guide to Freelance Writing
The Big Idea Okay. So youve figured out that you would like to write for magazines, newspapers, and e-zines. Unfortunately, so have about eight gazillion other people on this planet. Therefore, you have to stand out from the crowd. You have...

#BREAK# The Benefits of Writing Ariticles
You have a business; you are new and want to build a client list. However, the public doesn't know much about you. One of the best ways to build the relations, credibility and to help get people to know more about you and your area of...

#BREAK# The Best Freelance Job Boards for Writers
How many times have you checked out a job board to that either it no longer exists or that there is one or two jobs listed. Out of the hundreds of job boards on the Web today, how do you find those containing projects that you are interested in...

#BREAK# The Best Internet Marketing eBooks I've Bought This Year.
Before I start waxing lyrical about these three books, I must state for the record that this is my opinion only. I have bought maybe 15 or 20 ebooks this year (yes, I truly believe in investing in my own education), and these three stand out in my...

#BREAK# The Big Crunch
The universe is collapsing. The love child of infinity and time has become the basterd of yet another failed marriage, unbalanced and withered, troublesome and empty. At eighteen years old, I decided to try to ease the burden of this kind of...

#BREAK# The Biggest Challenge Facing A Poet , Getting Published
The best advice that I can give any child or adult who wants to be a poet is to read lots of poetry. Get a feel for poetry. Look at different styles of poetry. I have grown so much in my own writing by reading the work of other poets. Don’t be...

#BREAK# The Bottomless Notebook
Reading through a writer's notebook or journal is like discovering pearls, rubies and diamonds amidst a pile of rubble. That little notebook is a powerhouse of ideas for every writer: The more you write down bits and pieces of your thoughts and...

#BREAK# The Coming Ebook Boom
Ebooks are now in the doldrums. Few people are buying ebooks. Not long ago, I, as well as many others, predicted an ebook boom. It didn't happen. The outlook now seems to be terrible. There are several reasons for this: 1 - Proliferation of...

#BREAK# The Da Vinci Code, The Best Selling Novel
One of the best selling novels since hundreds of years is Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code which has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. One of the best selling novels since hundreds of years is Dan Brown's The Da Vinci...

#BREAK# The Dream
Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I shall not care; Foolish am I to think about it, But it is good to feel you there. Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking, White and awful the moonlight reached Over the floor, and...

#BREAK# The Easiest, Money Making Business in the World!
The business idea that I am about to share with you, almost seems too easy to actually work. Don't think that for a minute. This one idea is actually powerful enough to change your life forever. It sure has mine. Basically, what you are going to...

#BREAK# The Easiest Way to Write Anything
You've got something to say. You know it. Your associates know it. But you don't regard yourself as "a writer." How are you going to express your wisdom? How will you communicate your thoughts? Yes, you can follow the path of J.Paul Getty,...

#BREAK# The EASY Anyone-Can-Do-It Way To Write Free Reprint Articles
As you may already know, writing free reprint articles and then distributing them to publishers and web sites is one of the best ways to promote your web site - a single article can result in hundreds of new links to your web site and a rapid...

#BREAK# The Editor Rejected Me
I've always felt 'rejection' is a cruel way to describe the return of writing masterpieces. Just how awful I discovered when I looked up the word in my Collins Australian 'School' Dictionary. Rejection (noun): From Latin reicere meaning 'to throw...

#BREAK# THE ELEPHANT ROARED AND BROUGHT FORTH A TURD...Against Democratizing the MidEast
(An Eschatological Perspective) By Doug Krieger The original vulgarity was bylined: …The Constipation of America’s Mid-East Peace Policy! It is with some trepidation that I embark upon this discourse; for one, out of respect for...

#BREAK# The Fall and Fall of the P-Zine
http://home.wuliweb.com/index.shtml http://www.pshares.org/ The circulation of print magazines has declined precipitously in the last 24 months. This dissolution of subscriber bases has accelerated dramatically as economic recession set in....

#BREAK# The Free-Reprint Articles Powerhouse and Copyright Law
Writing articles is definitely a very solid method of building a client base for your online business. There is no doubt about that. The writers I speak with who use free-reprint articles for the promotion of their businesses all proudly talk...

#BREAK# THE FUTURE OF ELECTRONIC BOOKS
I believe ebook publishing is the way of the future (as shown by Steven King's "Riding the Bullet"), though I believe there will always be a place for traditional publishing with paper books. People will always love holding a real book out in the...

#BREAK# THE GODDESS RETURNS - The SAGA OF AMBERLIN Continues.
THE GODDESS RETURNS - The SAGA OF AMBERLIN Continues. In this next year it is my intention to complete my next 'visionary novel,' the story of Amberlin, the first 'fully enlightened being' who comes to Earth in a female's body. I invite your...

#BREAK# The Habits of Highly Successful Writers
Have you ever envied those hugely productive writers? You know the ones I mean. The article writers whose names crop up with boring regularity in all the trade magazines, and who still find time to keep their web sites up to date with masses of...

#BREAK# The Hard Facts About Editing
Whether you're interviewing for a new job, trying to woo a love interest on a first date, selling your work on the Internet, or submitting a query to an editor, you can never make a second first impression. It's true. It's just one of life's...

#BREAK# The Headline Is Your Lifeline
Reel them in! Think for a moment about newspapers. Have you ever heard the phrase, "the headline screamed…?" This will probably give you an image of a headline that says, "Town demolished by flood", or, "Strange virus discovered in water supply"....

#BREAK# The Importance of A Website Copywriter
A website copywriter has several jobs. They will need to provide the information, the words, and the persuasive text that is used within any site that is visited. For many individuals, this means that they will need to know the products,...

#BREAK# The Importance of Editing
As a writer, I love to help other writers. I spend a lot of my free time reading and writing online. When searching for a story online, I eagerly open those with tantalizing descriptions and titles. At times, I'm disappointed to see the author...

#BREAK# The Importance of Emotive Writing
The Importance of Emotive Writing By Phil and Kate Wiley Are you getting plenty of hits on your sites but your conversion rates leave something to be desired? Have you tried changing the page layout, increasing the content or adding more...

#BREAK# ** The Incredible, Edible Subhead **
Of course you're familiar with using *headlines* to call attention to Web copy, brochures, articles, or documents. But *subheads* can be just as effective in bringing out key points for your readers. And they also help make any document easier to...

#BREAK# The Internet and the Library
"In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free." (ZDNet quoted by "Publisher's Lunch on July...

#BREAK# The Internet and Tom Robbins are both windows into new realities
These days I go on to the Internet not having any clue as to what is going to grab my interest on that particular day. What is slowly seeping into my subconscious like sludge into the sewer is the idea that I’m probably going to learn something new...

#BREAK# The Internet Marketing Ebook Craze: How to Make Savvy Ebook Choices
Jeez! Internet marketing Ebooks are everywhere. "Secrets Revealed" and "Something-or-another Magic". "10,000,000 Killer Ideas" and "Instant Money Without Working For It". And, of course, the latest-and-greatest of all... "How to Crank Out a New...

#BREAK# The Key Points of Good Page Layout
The Key Points of Good Page Layout Unless you are an experienced graphic artist, the key words to remember in page layout design are keep it simple! It is easy to go overboard with multiple fonts, italics, shading, borders, and other...

#BREAK# The Lecture Experience: Part I
During the past year or so, I have done nearly a hundred talks about my book, “LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities.” It’s about the First Ladies – the OLD First Ladies, Martha through Mamie. Since they talk to each other and cross through...

#BREAK# The Makings of a Personal Essay, Really
Sometimes I can be dense when it comes to realizing the potential of my own life experiences as essays for magazines. I, of course, fully believe that everything in my life is newsworthy, but sometimes have trouble figuring out which...

#BREAK# The Many Faces Of Santa
Santa Claus actually started out as a version of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, known as Neptune by the Romans. Early Greek sailors feared him. He could bring terrible storms in the sea, or grant them safe journeys. Because he could save them from...

#BREAK# The Medium and the Message
A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of viral marketing (Seth Godin's "ideavirus")?...

#BREAK# The Monsters Out Of The Cage - Part 2
In part one of this article we covered why electronic publishing is such a powerful breakthrough, allowing even the new online marketer to cash in. If you missed part one you can get a copy via autoresponder....

#BREAK# The Myth of the Writing Fairy
Here’s a fun question to ponder. What do The Stand, The Hobbit and A Christmas Carol all have in common? The answer is simple. Too simple. Horrifyingly simple. A few years ago I decided to write a novel. I had characters all outlined and plot...

#BREAK# The Naked Truth About Writing
I know ya’ll are gonna think I’m pulling your legs, but I swear on a stack of BTO CDs that I received the following email just a couple of days ago.... Ed, I just wanted to drop you a quick note and tell you how much I enjoy reading your...

#BREAK# The "Not-So-Secret" Formula For Good Sales Letters.
Do you know the formula for writing a good sales letter? There are three steps to creating a powerful and effective sales letter for your business. For the Marketer, the content of the sales letter is the "Good News" associated with the product...

#BREAK# The one Internet Marketing secret I wish I'd been told at the start!
'Internet marketing' - the first time you hear the phrase you really don't know what it means. So you do a few Google searches and browse a few websites and BANG! Your life is never the same again. It's like discovering a hidden waterfall in the...

#BREAK# The Opportunities As A Freelance Proofreader in the UK
A UK based freelance proofreader should be able to provide quality products for the United Kingdom audience. There are many differences in the type of work that is produced for the United States and that which is produced for the United Kingdom....

#BREAK# The Opportunities As A Freelance Proofreader In The UK
A UK based freelance proofreader should be able to provide quality products for the United Kingdom audience. There are many differences in the type of work that is produced for the United States and that which is produced for the United Kingdom. The...

#BREAK# The Poetry Contest That Hunts For Desperate Writers
Many of you have likely seen the following contest “Free Amateur Poetry Contest $10,000 grand prize, Enter Now!”, and you have most likely sent off your poem and received a letter back stating that your poem will be published. You are just one of...

#BREAK# The Power of 'because...'
"Do it!", "Do it now!", or "Do it because..." Which of these commands is most likely to get the response you want? If you picked the third, the one that includes 'because', you'd be right. Of course, if you're a parent, aunt, or uncle you may know...

#BREAK# The Power of Saying 'You Can'
If you have children, you will doubtless remember saying to them, "You can do it." It's what we say when our toddlers first struggle to their feet. It's what we say when they face their first day at school, when they first ride a bicycle, or first...

#BREAK# The Power of the Press Release - Generating Effective Media Coverage Results
Producing an effective press or media release is one of those tasks that initially seems quite straight-forward – that is, until you actually sit down at your computer to draft one yourself. ·First there’s the writing - a process that can instantly...

#BREAK# The Power of the Newsletter - Solidifying Customer Relationships with Captivating, Relevant, Durable Content
You’ve worked hard to gain your customers’ business and want to explore ways to strengthen your relationship with them while informing them of important news and information. One proven method of maintaining regular contact with existing and...

#BREAK# The Power of the Testimonial - Making the Most of Your Customers' Satisfaction
You have just completed a major sale for one of your best customers, and they’re not just satisfied with you, your company, your products and your services – they’re ecstatic. So pleased they are with your firm that they’re singing your praises to...

#BREAK# The power of words: Market yourself by adopting a whole new language
The power of words: Market yourself by adopting a whole new language I think we all agree that gone are the days when we would mass e- or snail-mail tens or even hundreds of resumes just for the sake of telling ourselves that we've done...

#BREAK# The Proof Is In The Proofing: 7 Tips To Develop Great Proofreading Skills
In many professions, especially writing and internet marketing, the primary form of contact with customers is via the written word: website content, display ads, Spam-compliant emails, not to mention forum posts and even responses to queries,...

#BREAK# The Psychology Of Effortless Writing
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James Michener Writing has always been a highly pleasurable form of art for me. I find it surprising that many people view it as something to avoid as much...

#BREAK# "The Psychology Of Scarcity - Less Is More If You Want Faster Sales From Your Web Copywriting"
Countdown to Armageddon - at least you'd think so judging from some of the garish copy and blaring headlines screaming at you from so many websites. At the opposite extreme though, you've some sites which don't even have a single decent headline...

#BREAK# The Questions People Ask About Writing Niche Non-Fiction
Here is a list of questions that people frequently ask me on the topic of writing for profit in the realms of niche non-fiction. Hopefully you will find the answers helpful but if you have any questions of your own please feel free to contact me. ...

#BREAK# 'The Readers'
What is it about books such as 'Lord of the Rings' and others that makes readers keep wanting to read more books? Is it the need to escape into a different world that spurs readers on? This is one of the reasons. But, there are other reasons such as...

#BREAK# THE REAL THING
Writing - everyone does it, but not everyone is a writer. There are those who write letters, lists, journals, and are very good at it. Then there are those that scribble notes of all kinds to themselves, but never make use of them. They lose...

#BREAK# The Rich Jerk
The Rich Jerk is the TRUE Money-Making Secrets E-Book! In my eternal search for every legit money-making opportunities on the Web, i recently heard about The Rich Jerk and how everyone was raving about it. I decided to take a look and bought his...

#BREAK# THE RICH JERK
I just finished reading the e-book "The Rich JERK" and let me tell you it got me started on my way to making a lot of cash fast! Check out his site, don't be scared, and read the e-book it won't hurt you, and plus you could be richer in as little...

#BREAK# The Rich Jerk
Review Of The Rich Jerk (Reviewed - December 2005) Quick Summary Internet Marketing Course Overall rating - highly recommended - Editor's Choice The Rich Jerk Review Not too long ago there was a big buzz on...

#BREAK# The Rich Jerk - A Lesson in Copy Writing that Works.
Can any experienced copy writer imagine insulting their potential customers from start to finish and expect them to buy their product? . Can you imagine actually making sales by deliberately coming across as a jerk? Traditional sales...

#BREAK# The Rich Jerk: A Marketing Odyssey, Part 2
A couple of days ago, I wrote lengthily enough about new marketing sensation, The Rich Jerk. If you'll recall, at the time, I had not read the book in question and was about to go out and buy it for the sum of $97. As promised, I put up the dough...

#BREAK# "The Rich Jerk" Review. The Truth. Right here. Right now.
www.mccolldave.co.uk Hold On. Become a millionare? From doing nothing? In months?! Like me, i am sure you see this and think it is a load of rubbish. Trust me, it is. I have come across countless sites and e-books claiming this, but it just...

#BREAK# THE SAGA OF AMBERLIN: Chapter 1
Several years ago, one of my favorite speculative fiction writers, Orson Scott Card, started creating an online community of readers at http://www.hatrack.com/, a community that continues to thrive to this day. As I recall, during my...

#BREAK# The Search for the Story: One Writer's Approach to Fiction
The process of writing a book starts, for me, with a place in time that I find intriguing. I begin to do a little research -- if possible, with novels written at the time -- and then, if all goes well, I experience a kind of flash of complete...

#BREAK# The Secret Ingredient to Your Writing
Okay, so what do you need to succeed in your writing career? To keep it simple, I would say just five things – the first four are obvious enough but the last one may shock (and comfort) you. Let's go through them in order: Technical ability This...

#BREAK# The Secret To Writing Success
I have a friend who has enjoyed a long successful career as a published novelist. More than once we took part in the same panel at a writer's conference. Whenever it came time to field questions from the audience I came to expect --...

#BREAK# The secrets to writing your very own profit pulling ebook!
I can guarantee that anyone can write an ebook. Everyone has their own interests which they can talk confidently about in depth and detail. With the amount of people on the internet nowadays, you can guarantee that there will be thousands of others...

#BREAK# The Story of the Hypnotic Writing Monkey
The world's first Hypnotic Writer Author of "Hypnotic Writing" and "Advanced Hypnotic Writing" A monkey could use "The Hypnotic Writer's Swipe File," a brand new e-book by Larry Dotson and myself, to write a riveting sales letter, ad, or e-mail...

#BREAK# The Story: The Most Powerful Marketing Tool on the Planet
The Story: The Most Powerful Marketing Tool On the Planet =========================================================== What's the most memorable novel you're read in the past year? Saturday, by Ian McEwan? Mary, Mary, by James...

#BREAK# The Strange Avalanche Iceman Headline Techniqu
Curiosity. Intrigue. Mystery. All strong components that grab readers of your headlines by the ear a quite literally drag them into the rest of your copy. Of course, if you’ve spent anytime studying headline creation, you know that the headline can...

#BREAK# The Stuff E-mail Queries are Made of
Your mother always told you how first impressions were extremely important. That’s why whenever you go to meet an editor, you dress impeccably, walk confidently and talk as if you just got out of training with Oprah Winfrey. But as you sit down to...

#BREAK# The Stuff E-mail Query Letters are Made of
Your mother always told you how first impressions were extremely important. That’s why whenever you go to meet an editor, you dress impeccably, walk confidently and talk as if you just got out of training with Oprah Winfrey. But as you sit down...

#BREAK# The Subject And Object Theory
I am Tushar Jain, a student of literature. This subject, literature, is one which is susceptible to every clause scripted, every letter sculpted, and is liable to get one enamored by vacuous words like ‘subjective’. To the wholesome degree of...

#BREAK# The Synopsis Made Easy
You have completed your mss, you have even written a cover letter to enclose with your mss, but still, that is not enough! You need a synopsis of your work to add to them as well. What is a synopsis? A synopsis is a summary of your work. You...

#BREAK# The Tale of One Life
Writers have been challenged for generations to seek out the truth, the oddities, the falsehoods, and the tiniest of details when they decide to write a biography of any person, present or past. It is not the well-known facts that will sell...

#BREAK# The Temptation of George Rusky
Greetings, I’m writing to you to share some of my concerns and at the same time, ask you for help. It’s about the Internet. The biggest problem caused by the Internet, as I can see it, is the openness and accessibility to an unlimited amount...

#BREAK# The Top 7 Rules of Power Copywriting!
Here are the top techniques and tricks that today's best copywriters use. Learn them well, remember them always and use them often! 1) Research, Research, Research. The biggest difference between good copywriters and great copywriters is...

#BREAK# The Top Five Mistakes That Companies Make with Regard to Technical Documentation
I’ve seen it time and again. One of the most common weaknesses that I’ve seen in engineering companies—indeed, an almost universal fault—is the lack of proper technical documentation. Some would laugh this off as a minor detail; however, the...

#BREAK# The Top Five Writing Mistakes Professionals Make
Yes, you know your subject. You also need to think about entertaining your audience, and making your book or other writing easy to read. If your writing lacks organization and compelling, vital sentences that convince your readers to keep...

#BREAK# The Truth About Article Marketing
It seems as though article marketing is the biggest thing in Internet marketing right now. How do you get your name out there? Articles. How do you become an expert in your niche? Articles. How do you [insert money making phrase here]? ...

#BREAK# The Truth About Bunker
Addressed by friends and family as just "Eddie," Edward Bunker lead a life of crime and did not even realize it - so he says - until his mid-twenties and then continued on only to gain more material for his novels. What many may not know is...

#BREAK# The Truth about Online Content: It's Time for Writers to Take Back the Web
Google.com, one of the web's hottest search engines, has indexed over 1,346,966,000 web pages to date. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something...

#BREAK# The Truth Behind Musician Press Kits
The Truth Behind Press Kits, Bios, and Controlling Your Image A lot of what you have been told about creating your image is false. This article is meant to be a simple list of things that might surprise you as a musician. Some of you have had...

#BREAK# The Unwritten World Of The "Reality" Of Letterwriting
The unwritten “reality” of letter writing You may wonder why I have chosen this title of this post. Well from my experience is that it is really hard to put the feeling into words about what letter writing means to me. Letter writing is...

#BREAK# The way you should increase your sites Pagerank
We all know full well that developing links that point to your website can be more vital than just about any other technique known to the world of search engine optimization. Think about it for a moment. We need something that can: a)Make...

#BREAK# The Why's, How's and Where's of Research
When I decided to write a murder mystery; with my main characters as the investigators, I had a few problems to overcome: 1) I have never been murdered 2) I have never committed a murder 3) I have never investigated a murder 4) I have never...

#BREAK# THE WORLD OF A WRITER
Writing is compared to almost every other activity. Some say its like trekking through a jungle of wild publishers and editors. Others claim its very similar to climbing up a mountain of rejection and hoping you don’t fall into despair. Then there’s...

#BREAK# The World's Most Powerful Marketing Tool
What marketing skill would you need "to sell sand in the desert?" It's the same marketing skill top-dog eBiz marketers have in common. Rudyard Kipling said it best when he wrote: *Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.* The common...

#BREAK# THE WRITER'S NOTEBOOK: A POWERHOUSE OF IDEAS
Reading the contents in a writer's notebook or journal is like opening and discovering a chest full of pearls, rubies and diamonds amidst a pile of rubble and discarded things. That little notebook is a powerhouse of ideas for every writer: The...

#BREAK# The Writing is in the Rewriting. Seven Steps to Getting it Right
Writers who are so fluent, facile and sure-footed that they can write their stuff down and that's the way it runs are rare. Ernest Hemingway rewrote the last paragraph of THE SUN ALSO RISES 28 times before he got it right. David Ogilvy confessed...

#BREAK# The Written Word - How to use it to Create Powerful Sales Letters
The *written word* is the most powerful source of influence in the universe. Just think about how the daily newspaper forces the opinions of the people who live in your hometown. The *written word* is AWESOME! So, how are you using it to...

#BREAK# THESE EMBARRASSING, COSTLY, TERRIBLE TYPOS
Typo n. pl. -os. Informal. A typographical error. Typographical error. A mistake in printing, typing or writing. That's what it says in the New College Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. But it does not begin to...

#BREAK# Things You Might Like to Know about Copyrights
You may be under the false impression that before you can get your text published, you must "get the copyright" to your own written material. You might also think that in order to get the copyright, you must "apply" for it. This is just not so. In...

#BREAK# Think It and Ink It
Think It and Ink It! "The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use." -- George A. Dorsey Is your mind your best friend or your worst enemy? It can be our worst enemy when we don’t know how it works. Because then, our thoughts...

#BREAK# This Simple Publishing Mistake Could Be Losing You Half Your Back End Sales!
Many of the Internets biggest ebook sellers are making this simple mistake, and it’s almost certainly costing them a ton of money in lost back end sales. You must not make the same mistake! I was having a bit of a tidy up on my PC the other day. It...

#BREAK# Those Telltale Typos
"To be or to be." That's how one of the most famous sentences in the English language began several years ago in a new edition of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Six professional proofreaders failed to catch the mistake, which received national...

#BREAK# Three Cheers For The Patriot Act!
I'm as patriotic as the next person, maybe even more so if the next person is the cashier at my local convenience store which still doesn't seem to employ REAL Americans; but I digress. Anyway, the rules for being a patriotic American were...

#BREAK# Tibetan Sweet – Chapter #1
Snow-capped mountains fringed the plain as Jack engaged himself with the panorama via the carriage window. Tibet had constantly held enchantment with Jack ever since childhood, growing up in England. Images on television seized his imagination at a...

#BREAK# Tight Lines, Writers!
"Tight lines" is a good luck wish among fishermen. When you've hooked a fish, your line tightens up. I was musing on this expression as my husband critiqued my lousy casting skills on our latest fishing expedition. Anthony's as accurate a caster as...

#BREAK# Timer Magic for Writers
If your writing muscle isn't in shape, writing a novel may seem like a sheer, unscalable cliff. ("Gee, I don't think I can write today. I left my climbing shoes in my other backpack...") Keep in mind that you don't need to write the whole book...

#BREAK# Tips For First-Time Home Buyers
Congratulations! You've decided to take the very important step of leaving the world of renting to achieve the status of homeowner. You are no doubt aware of the benefits of homeownership, including tax savings and other financial incentives. Here,...

#BREAK# Tips for Writing a Successful Personal Online Dating Profile
Tips for Creating a Successful Personal Online Dating Profile Your profile is the key to meeting your perfect match at online dating and personals services so it’s surprising that many profiles are mediocre at best. With a little extra time,...

#BREAK# Tips for Writing an Informative Article
How to write an informative article? The following tips can help you in writing an informative article - 1. Write about what you really know. Before writing, do a search and find out some more details to polish your knowledge on the selected...

#BREAK# Tips on Finding and Hiring a Good Copywriter
Tips on Finding and Hiring a Good Copywriter by Phyllis Schwartz, The Copy Coach (c) 2004 BetterCopywriting.com Finding the right words to promote your product or service is no easy, task, especially when writing is just "not your thing." You...

#BREAK# Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career
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...

#BREAK# Tips On Writing A Killer Sales Letter
Writing a sales letter doesn’t have to be that difficult all you need is the right writing style and some tips to knock out a killer sales letter Benefits The first thing you need to do is focus on the benefits the reader...

#BREAK# To Blog Or Not To Blog
Web logs, commonly referred to as "blogs," represent all the rage right now in online publishing. Not really a newsletter or traditional html page publishing, blogs resemble more of a web-based diary where the creator records their thoughts, posts...

#BREAK# "To Transcribe" or "Not To Transcribe" Interviews?
11 Secrets from an Experienced Interviewer One of the unwritten rules of writing a book, an article, or any sort of material that requires the writer to interview experts or people "in the know" is to tape record the conversation. Whether the...

#BREAK# To Write Your Own Copy or Not to Write Your Own Copy - That is the Question
If you haven't yet learned to discern good copy from bad copy, you will have a difficult time writing your own. Tim, a graphic designer friend of mine, recently learned the difference when he tried to write his own web copy. Tim had a phenomenal...

#BREAK# Top 10 Ways to Know your Book Concept will Sell--Before you Invest Time and Money
Make your book stand out from the crowd! Test your book's significance, find your market before you write, and treat your book as part of your business. 1. Test your book's significance fun, humor easy to read teach something...

#BREAK# Top 3 Reasons Why Your Headlines Fail
Many professional copywriters estimate that the headline contributes to 80% or more of the success of any ad, article, or sales letter. One direct marketing expert goes so far as to credit the headline with 100% of the success or failure of any ad...

#BREAK# Top 3 Rules for Writing Effective Copy
One thing all successful Internet marketers have in common is that they're good copywriters. If you want to have a profitable online business, you need to know how to write a copy that motivates people to buy your product... a copy that sells! In...

#BREAK# Top 5 Rules of English Grammar
Communication is effective when we follow certain rules. These rules make the written words understood. A writer should make the reader's job easier by communicating what he or she wants to communicate. If you also want to write, pay respect to...

#BREAK# Top Ten Checklist to Edit Your Articles
Top Ten Checklist to Edit Your Articles Judy Cullins ©2005 All Rights Reserved. Submitting articles once or twice a week can yield 15 or more subscribers to your own ezine each time. Read by thousands, even hundreds of thousands, your articles...

#BREAK# Top Ten Tips For New Writers
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...

#BREAK# Top Ten Tips (Part 2)
Golden Rules For New 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...

#BREAK# Top Ten Tools for Writing Humor
Ever want to write a funny book or a humor column? Or add spice to your newsletter editor or web page so that people read beyond the typical drivel that sends otherwise eager-to-spend customers into a boredom-induced coma? Here are my top...

#BREAK# Top Ten Ways to Know your Book Concept will Sell--Before you Invest Time and Money
Make your book stand out from the crowd! Test your book's significance, find your market before you write, and treat your book as part of your business. 1. Test your book's significance. Does it? -Offer fun, humor. -Offer an easy to...

#BREAK# Turn Writer's Blocks Into Stepping Stones!
Years ago at a presentation at the UCLA Extension Writer's Program, I promised an audience to teach them to conquer this beast once and for all. Later, another instructor approached me and said "why did you say that to those people? It's...

#BREAK# TWENTY FIVE TIPS IN WRITING ARTICLES FOR THE WEB
Writing articles can provide you with enormous amount of exposure on the Web. You are branding yourself on a shoestring budget - it hasn't cost you a cent, but a little time and effort Writing a free content article is simple and follows a...

#BREAK# Understanding E-books
Understanding E-books Pros and Cons of E-Books. An e-book is a digital or electronic copy of a book. Just like e-mail is digital mail. With the advancement of technology an entire library can be referenced and indexed just at the...

#BREAK# Understanding That Online Writing is Business Writing Will Make You a Fortune
Never before in the history of the business of writing have opportunities opened up and presented themselves in such a large quantity and scale for writers to easily win so much regular business and revenue. If you know anything about writers of...

#BREAK# Understanding The First Rule Of Writing—Before You Start The Great American Book
Chaos and confusion comes when established rules and procedures are not followed. Even mixing and matching systems to favor one’s own position can cause a great deal of consternation. In writing a book, the first rule is to know and understand why...

#BREAK# Understanding The First Rule Of Writing—Before You Start The Great Bestseller
Chaos and confusion come when established rules and procedures are not followed. Even mixing and matching systems to favor one’s own position can cause a great deal of consternation. In writing a book, the first rule is to know and understand why...

#BREAK# Understanding The First Rule Of Writing—Before You Start The Great Bestselling Book
Chaos and confusion come when established rules and procedures are not followed. Even mixing and matching systems to favor one’s own position can cause a great deal of consternation. In writing a book, the first rule is to know and understand why...

#BREAK# Unusual Points of View
Most writers are familiar with first and third points of view and their variations. But have you ever experimented with alternative points of view? Below are some less used points of view, what I call “unusual points of view.” Try using these...

#BREAK# Use Grammar as a Marketing Weapon
If you're like me, you're not writing that ad, Web page, or radio script to make your English teacher proud. You're writing to sell. If you get an "A" while you're at it, great. But don't count on it. To get prospects to click, call, or buy,...

#BREAK# Using Emotion for Persuasion
Using Emotion for Persuasion By: Robert F. Abbott The other day, I received the last issue of a business magazine before my subscription runs out. Now, I like this magazine, but I'm swamped with reading matter so I won't renew. Of course, I've...

#BREAK# Using Resell Rights to Get Traffic and Subscribers
You see the ads all over the place, "Get 147 ebooks and 56 software titles for only x amount of dollars". Or how about, "Buy the master resell rights to this product for only xx amount of dollars". Lots of people buy these everyday with the hope of...

#BREAK# Visual Formatting : Making it Look Good
Have you ever been reading a story that has your attention, but the visual formatting is a little distracting? In other words, the content is great and you're into it, but you wish it wasn't so hard to look at? Try this when you're...

#BREAK# Voice in Narrative and Dialogue - A Contrast of Writing Styles
One of the nice things about being an author is that we can break any rule we want. (I just did.) It's part of our job description. Language changes through usage -- definitions, spelling, grammar -- and authors can help it do this. But on the...

#BREAK# Voices in Your Head
Are you struggling with your story’s dialogue? If so, you’re not alone. Dialogue is tough for many writers. Fortunately, by learning to listen, you can make your fictional dialogue much stronger. So let’s begin by looking at a quick dialogue...

#BREAK# Wake Up Your Writing Spirit
The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected. It’s because along with entries, we’re also getting heartfelt...

#BREAK# Walt Whitman, Romance With a Stranger
The concept of brief encounters, even romantic encounters, with a stranger recurs often in the verses of Walt Whitman. Take, for example, these lines from one of the inscriptions that Whitman wrote to his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. ...

#BREAK# Warning! Don't purchase any more "get rich quick" schemes before you read this!
Are you sick of the scams and the crap on the internet??? Me Too! I've spent a long time pooring over information trying to find something legit and actually worthwhile investing my time and money into to learn about creating my own business...

#BREAK# Ways to Improve Your Creative Writing Skills
For some people creative writing is very hard. They have a hard time trying to put their thoughts and ideas on paper. For some no matter what they do, the writing is always of poor quality and the ideas seem jumbled and non-seneschal. People make...

#BREAK# Weaving words for the web
WHILE Luddites toll the death knell for books, we who have made the transition to “new media” look to the future with confidence. The Internet does not spell the end of the written word but the beginning of fresh opportunities and renewed status...

#BREAK# Weaving Your Personal Statement Together
1. SECRETS TO SUCCESS 2. MAKING A POWERFUL FIRST IMPRESSION 3. AVOID AMBIGUITY 4. MAKING A PROFESSIONAL IMPRESSION 4. BONUS SAMPLE PERSONAL STATEMENT The failure of the vast majority of students to get admission to their chosen...

#BREAK# WEAVING YOUR POSTGRADUATE PERSONAL STATEMENT
WEAVING YOUR POSTGRADUATE PERSONAL STATEMENT 1. SECRETS TO SUCCESS 2. MAKING A POWERFUL FIRST IMPRESSION 3. AVOID AMBIGUITY 4. MAKING A PROFESSIONAL IMPRESSION 5. BONUS SAMPLE PERSONAL STATEMENT The failure of the vast majority of postgraduate...

#BREAK# Web Copy – How Much is Enough?
Web Copy – How Much is Enough? By Glenn Murray * These days, there’s widespread acceptance that a website is an integral part of the marketing plan of any business. Likewise, it’s commonly accepted that web copy is a...

#BREAK# Web Legalities: Copyright
Important: This article contains opinions and information about copyright law. Keep in mind that I am not a lawyer and have not been a lawyer in any past life that I am aware of. If you have specific questions about copyright law you should contact...

#BREAK# Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors
Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors Connectors -- conjunctions, punctuation, and transitional phrases -- allow readers to process information promptly by creating balance and relationships between sentence parts. The...

#BREAK# Web Writing's Evolution: The Web Content Market for Writers
When It All Began: The First Web Writings While there weren't many online writers in the formative years of the web, if you were around then, you know what it was like. What I remember most about the web back then (the Al Gore days?) was the ...

#BREAK# WEEDING OUT YOUR WRITING
Weeding Out Your Writing An accepted fact with any garden is that there will be weeds. Some have a lot and some have a few. However many there are, one thing is for certain. People pull them out, and throw them away. Weeds drain needed moisture...

#BREAK# Well-Written Articles Can Help You!
You've heard it time and time again: if you want to get your name out there, write articles and allow them to be freely reproduced (with a resource box pointing back to you, of course). Largely, that is true. Well-written articles can: - help...

#BREAK# What A Great Night
The Time Machine brings me back to Chancellor Avenue, Newark,New Jersey, circa 1964. Vintage cars like the ’62 Oldsmobile Spitfire, 1957 and 1958 Chevy’s roamed up and down the street passing The Bunny Hop, The Burgerama and Dave’s Hot Dog Haven....

#BREAK# What Comes First - The Cover or The eBook?
One of biggest trend these days is related to ebooks. Because of their viral nature, ebooks are a great way to increase traffic to a site and that's why everyone have to write at least one. There are millions of ebooks online and everyday there...

#BREAK# What Do Directors Look For In A Script?
I'm currently directing an independent feature called Captain Felder's Cannon. During preproduction, one of the writers asked me whether I wanted all the setups numbered. She wanted to break each scene down into shots, camera angles, to...

#BREAK# What Employers Look For In A Freelance Writer
Freelance writing is as much about selling yourself as it is about writing. With this in mind, we asked some of the employers who use our site, and others like it, just what it is that they look for in a freelance writer. Here's what they told...

#BREAK# What employers look for in freelance writers
Freelance writing is as much about selling yourself as it is about writing. With this in mind, we asked some of the employers who use our site, and others like it, just what it is that they look for in a freelance writer. Here's what they told...

#BREAK# What employers look for when they hire freelance writers
Freelance writing is as much about selling yourself as it is about writing. With this in mind, we asked some of the employers who use our site, and others like it, just what it is that they look for in a freelance writer. Here's what they told us:...

#BREAK# What Hurricane Katrina Can Teach Authors
By now, you are heartsick and tired of looking at the images of the horror and devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. However, if you are an author and self-publisher, it pays to look at this disaster as a wake-up call. Just for a...

#BREAK# What is holding you back from being the writer you want to be?
As a writing instructor and coach I work with writers every day who are not reaching their full potential. What holds them back? When you talk with struggling writers they generally mention one of three problems: ~ Lack of writing...

#BREAK# What is Inspirational?
Over the course of the past ten years, the inspirational book market has exploded. Thanks to blockbusters like the Left Behind series as well as the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the inspirational market has become a major contender for book...

#BREAK# What is it? How does it work?
What is it? How does it work? I don’ t get it. The Internet is full of tools and ever-changing developments that can leave the mild surfer in a cyber rip current, left in a wash on how to get grounded. One new development, ebooks, benefits all...

#BREAK# WHAT IS WRITING STYLE AND HOW DO YOU DEVELOP IT?
What is style and how do you acquire it? We all have a natural style. Style is simply the way in which you put words together when you are writing. It is a reflection of your speaking and thinking habits. Clear, muddled? Some people write in...

#BREAK# What Makes One Book Outsell Another?
What Makes One Book Outsell Another? Judy Cullins ©2003 Wouldn't you rather write a book that sells well than be stuck with unsold inventory? When you plan ahead with the 10 tips below, you will sell thousands rather than hundreds of your unique...

#BREAK# What Service Do You Need to Make your Book Sell?
What Service Do You Need to Make your Book Sell? Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved. Whether you are just starting or almost finished with your print or eBook, you wonder, "What step to take next?" Who can help me find the right publisher? Who...

#BREAK# What Writers Can Learn From Internet Marketers
OK, I admit it. I've developed a great fascination with and respect for Internet marketers. The good ones, at least. If you subscribe to any marketing ezines, you become familiar with their names soon enough. Terry Dean, Yanik Silver, John...

#BREAK# What you absolutely must know about writing headlines
It is very important that your headline causes the buyer to make an immediate judgment decision on whether or not to buy your product. If, after reading your headline, it is not possible for a person to say “I want this” or “I don’t want this”, then...

#BREAK# Whats the deal with Ebooks?
What’s the deal with ebooks? What is an ebook? For those who don’t know, its basically an electronic book. It can contain text, graphics/pictures and web links. Therefore it is quite a dynamic book. Browsing the internet you can will find many...

#BREAK# What’s Wrong With Proofreading?
More Tips For New Writers (Part III) Writing for your home based business just as important as any other kind of business writing. When you have an online business, you will be judged by the quality of your emails, advertisements, articles etc...

#BREAK# What's your prospecting personality?
"I hate prospecting," a FCO subscriber complained to me last week. "I know I have to make cold calls to get clients, but every time I sit down at the phone I break out into a cold sweat." "Then stop cold calling," I said. My answer...

#BREAK# When Is A Niche Market Over-crowded?
When investigating starting a business on the Internet, the advice you'll very frequently get is to build a business in a very targeted niche. You'll even be advised to find a niche within a niche in some cases. By focusing on a very tight...

#BREAK# When Not To Contact A Reporter
News is about disseminating information that is to everyone. So follow the golden rule: Only contact a reporter if there is something concrete and news worthy to convey. Most reporters, work on tight deadlines and wasting their time is unjust....

#BREAK# When The Writer Is Dead
Imagine – the sun pouring in, the fingers feeding in on the typewriter, a turgid film of sweat on the gristly brow, a tackling writer milling in the temerity to finish a single draft, 700 words or maybe 7000 words. A kind of unremitting...

#BREAK# Where Can You Find The Best Resources For Technical Writing
As a freelance writer, it is important that you have a solid foundation for your skill. In many cases, though, there may be a need to use technical writing resoures to excel. Because there are many fields in which an individual can work in,...

#BREAK# Where To Buy Your e-Book Covers
Visual appeal is the first step toward making a sale online. People have a great ability to scan a web page quickly before reading anything about a site. Its important to capitalize on this aspect by providing a great visual stimulus. e-Book cover...

#BREAK# Who Makes Your Content Choices Clear?
The Secret Path to the Universal Heart "I'm writing for everyone." I'm chagrined whenever I hear a young writer say that. I remember what it was like when I was starting out and felt my writing had to work for the broadest possible audience....

#BREAK# Who Wants to Be An Internet Guru? I Do? Do YOU?
The Internet Gurus. What do they do? How do they get so rich? What do they have in common? Are these the questions going through your mind when you ask yourself, "Heh, if they can do it, maybe I can too?" These are the...

#BREAK# Why 95% of eBay Sellers Fail
eBay is now the 8th most visited site on the internet and it has just one purpose - sales. With 40 million visitors per month most eBay sellers are missing a golden opportunity. They are missing the opportunity to cultivate long term clients. It is...

#BREAK# Why Art?
The following is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. If I can get through this, all the way through this, than my little corner of the universe will make sense again and I’ll be able to get a good night’s sleep. If I don’t get through...

#BREAK# Why didn't I think of that? Jaw Dropping Ad Copy Secrets
Congratulations, you've finally finished your ad copy. You've gotten feedback and it all looks good. Now do something to make your copy even better. For instance? Well... 1. Use a hand written letter on your ad copy instead of text. Write the ad...

#BREAK# Why Do I Write – A Masochists Dream
My website administrator has given me an assignment. I am to write an article and explain why it is that I write. That sounded so simple until I sat staring at this blank expanse of white. Do you want the dramatic version, or the logical...

#BREAK# Why Do We Publish?
A major "character" in Mark Salzman's first autobiography is his father. Sometimes his father paints. But his father hates painting. He likes it when his painting is done. He likes having painted. But the act of painting itself is, in his...

#BREAK# Why Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses
Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet grows, causing the exposure of...

#BREAK# Why I Write Horror
These are some of the snapshots I carry with me: My father coming up to visit me after first being diagnosed with leukemia. The visit was a surprise, and he brought a new computer with him. As he carried it into the house, he said, "This...

#BREAK# Why Jerks Win At Direct Marketing
Have you ever noticed that some very successful direct marketers go out of their way to be cantankerous? Have you ever wondered why? Today we're going to discover their secret? It makes many of them millions! Studies have shown that people buy...

#BREAK# "Why Katrina's Winds Must PUSH You"
First of all, allow me to lessen any concerns you have that this will be anything like the typical commentary you've been reading about the Katrina disaster. It won't . In fact, one of the reasons I decided to wait a few weeks to address this...

#BREAK# Why Self-Publish Your Book?
When I meet an author with a great book concept, one who’s definitely the right person to write that book, right away I’ll often encourage him or her to self-publish. This is because I know that, if an author is thoroughly invested in what they...

#BREAK# Why Self-publish Your Book?
When I meet an author with a great book concept, one who’s definitely the right person to write that book, right away I’ll often encourage him or her to self-publish. This is because I know that, if an author is thoroughly invested in what they have...

#BREAK# Why Should I Bother With Optimised Copywriting?
It's no good having a creative, individual website with brilliant, informative copy if customers can't find you on the internet. On the other hand, it's also detrimental if you have a website that can be easily found (has a high ranking) but people...

#BREAK# Why Should I Bother With Optimised Online Copywriting?
It's no good having a creative, individual website with brilliant, informative copy if customers can't find you on the internet. On the other hand, it's also detrimental if you have a website that can be easily found (has a high ranking) but people...

#BREAK# Why? Should You Give, Before You Receive
Part Three Give, Before You Receive The Un-written Law Of Web A common headache among the majority of successful Cybermarketers is the use of the concept of giving something away for free - yes, without cost - before receiving anything in return. ...

#BREAK# Why Should You Use Worksheets For Proofreading?
Proofreading worksheets are a great tool to help individuals open their eyes to the mistakes that are commonly made. These are used to help teach a person how to spot mistakes in copy. They are similar to those you got as a child when you were...

#BREAK# Why Story Editing Improves The Quality Of Fiction
Have you ever read a story, be it a novel or short short, that you loved so much that you have read it over and over? After each new reading, you even noticed something different and took away another message. Do you know what many of these stories...

#BREAK# Why Write an eBook?
Why Write an eBook? By Karen Martin It's not true that everything that has been said has already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom came into use, the whole universe has changed. Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and...

#BREAK# Why You Should Be Syndicating Your Articles
Most webmasters know that providing entertaining and informative content on their website is a good way to generate traffic and keep that traffic coming back for more. One of the easiest ways to do this is by including articles that educate...

#BREAK# Why You Should Write Articles or At Least Get a Ghostwriter to Write for You
Overture reports over 1 million queries for article keyword related searches for the month of July 2005 itself. What this could actually mean is that a whole new level of exposure for your name and your services are awaiting you out there to grab....

#BREAK# Wild Bill's Top 30 Copy Writing Principles!
1. The Right Product for the Right Target Group: Make sure that you are promoting a product that is useful and/or desirable to the audience you are targeting. 2. Use Attention Getting Headlines: You web site will have or should have much...

#BREAK# Work at Home and Make Money Writing for Profit
When you work at home to make money writing for profit you do it in your own time, your spare time. What spare time do I hear you yell at me? Time is what you make of it and if you try (really, really try) you can always allocate a little for...

#BREAK# Working With a Freelance Editor
If you are interested in creating information products, you will very likely deal with editors throughout your career. You may need someone to edit a book, review a special report, or tighten up a magazine article. Even if you are a brilliant...

#BREAK# Write A Better Newsletter!
You've decided to write your very own Newsletter to promote your business, communicate with your customers, or just for FUN. You've read hundreds of newsletters. You've also noticed many of these newsletters lack original material. They are...

#BREAK# Write a Short Article to Promote Your Book Online
Dissatisfied with your book sales? With book signings, press releases, book store sales? So many authors spend a lot of time and money on promotion that doesn't work. It's time to do what authors do best--write a short article. Follow these ten...

#BREAK# Write an article a day
Write an article a day Copyright (c) 2002 by Angela Booth ** This article is adapted from my new email workshop, Writing To Sell In The Internet Age. If you want to get a taste of the workshop, you can sign up for the free mini-course based on...

#BREAK# Write Articles And Captivate Your Readers
To get your name out there, write articles and allow them to be freely reproduced (with a resource box pointing back to you.) A well-written article can: - help build your profile - draw traffic to your site, and - help build a...

#BREAK# Write Benefits in Your Headlines to Deliver the Dream!
When you create headlines, do you put benefits into your headlines to deliver the dream? Do you create headlines that draw your reader deeper into the rest of copy? Let me ask you a simple question. "Why do people read any printed material beyond...

#BREAK# Write Better Web Content
Copyright 2004 Nancy Jackson If you’re reading this article, chances are that you, like most professionals these days, understand the value of the Internet. It may be where you go to buy movie or concert tickets, browse restaurant menus, or plan...

#BREAK# Write Right for the Right Reasons
It seems that I must get dozens of newsletters and ezines in my email box every day. That does not include, of course, all the Internet Marketing groups that I belong to that send me a listing of all articles posted each day. It seems like ...

#BREAK# Write Science Right
Write Science Right " www.writescienceright.com " is a group of native English-speaking professional scientists with experience conducting scientific research as well as reading, writing and publishing scientific articles. It is our mission to...

#BREAK# Write Strategy: Think, Believe, Attack
Think of writing like karate...it's about DISCIPLINE. Writing, like other forms of art, work or talent, requires discipline. It won't ever be enough that you say to yourself that you are a writer. Only when you write and write with discipline...

#BREAK# Write Website Copy That Sells - Try a Little Flesh with Your Flash
Your website looks great: solid words, easy navigation, graphics just so, and maybe even a bit of flash with some multimedia. But customers are not buying. You wonder if it's the writing. How can that be? You remembered the two key...

#BREAK# Write With Passion: 4 Steps To Emotionally Charge A Nonfiction Article
You have just completed a draft of an article. It seems flat, even to you. It needs some spunk. Needs to be more alive. Possibly you're at a loss on how to spruce it up so that it creates an emotional connection with the readers. A flat fiction...

#BREAK# Write Your Book
It's said that we've all got a book inside us just waiting to come out. Well, that may be so, but I think that many of us are put off because of the sheer size of the thing and the commitment that we need to put into the project. I'd like to...

#BREAK# Write your eBook Fast--First Steps to Finishing Line
Why write an eBook? You want ongoing, lifelong multiple streams of income. You want to raise your credibility and trust ratings with clients or customers. You want to get your message out so the world can be a better place. You want to...

#BREAK# Write your Publishable Article Fast--With an Angle!
Write your Publishable Article Fast--With an Angle! Judy Cullins © 2003. All Rights Reserved You want your business to be noticed by thousands daily. Online ezine publishers and webmasters are constantly looking for new, original content. They want...

#BREAK# WRITE YOUR WAY TO CREDIBILITY
If you're trying to do business anywhere, especially online, you can never overestimate the impact and importance of good old- fashioned credibility. Any brick-and-mortar, street corner business has at least some level of credibility. The fact that...

#BREAK# Writer School?
WRITER SCHOOL? Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca Here's something from my mailbag. "Dear Michael, do you need to do good in school if you want to be a writer? I stink at school and all my friends laugh at me when I tell them I want to write, but I'm...

#BREAK# Writer's Block Experience
Here I am again, thinking of a certain topic to write about for some piece d'accord. Unfortunately, these past few days were a bit of reality check. I think that I lost my ability to write.You see, everyday, I thought of pressures i'm into, of...

#BREAK# Writers block, what’s that?
I don’t know the meaning of writer’s block and why, because I’m not writing for the world, but for me and my passion for storytelling. What I write, I want to loan to the world to read, but when it comes down to it, why do we write? For fame and...

#BREAK# Writing a book - tips from an author #5
Secrets of the Manuscript Format. You'd be surprised how many wannabe novel writers fall at the second-to-last hurdle - presenting their work to prospective agents and publishers. Believe it or not, there IS a preferred manuscript format...

#BREAK# Writing A Short Article Can Be As Easy As 1-2-3
One of the greatest obstacles many writers face when attempting to start a new project is how to format the article. I know I used to spend a great deal of my preparation and brainstorming time trying to sort out the answer to that very...

#BREAK# Writing A Successful Ebook
With today's advanced technology, it has never been any easier for anyone to self-publish their own ebook. What's more, you can create and market your own ebook (electronic book) for an unbelievably low price. Once you purchase an ebook compiler ...

#BREAK# Writing about 'writing'.
Writing about ‘Writing’! By Liana Metal What am I going to write about? Which topic is the best? Who is going to be interested in my article? You can ask yourself endless questions on ‘what’ is going to be the subject of your article. Don’t...

#BREAK# Writing an e-Book Needs Software - Free is Best!
If you've been keeping track of Internet trends then you'll be aware of the huge potential of promoting and selling e-Books. E-Books are becoming a common medium used on the Internet. An e-Book is simply a book, that can be read on a computer. Many...

#BREAK# Writing Article (Important tips)
1. Select your audience. 2. Try to be brief and clear (300-500 words). DON'T write a topic which you don't know by yourself. 3. Start your article with a sentence that grabs your reader's attention. People are bombarded with information on the...

#BREAK# Writing Articles
You say, I can’t write an article, I have no knowledge of writing. Let me tell you yes you can! Why write an article? It can help you build your business! Yes, writing articles can help build your business. You say how can this help?...

#BREAK# Writing Articles - Advice For The Do-It-Yourself Webmaster
As an SME it is virtually impossible for us to hire the services of a good SEO company that is going to spend time optimising the site, adding new content and gaining good links for the site, simply because of the cost involved. Other SME's are I am...

#BREAK# Writing Business Letters That Get The Job Done
Despite the widespread use of e-mail in commerce today, traditional business letters are still the main way that the majority of businesses officially communicate with their customers and other businesses. This is especially true when businesses...

#BREAK# Writing eBooks
Are You Willing To Follow 3 Easy Steps To Learn All You Ever Wanted To Know About writing ebooks - And Save Time, Save Effort & Save Money? Introducing... The Quick And Easy Way To Discover Anything About writing ebooks - In Just Five...

#BREAK# Writing Effectively: A Two-Part Guide, Part 2
In Part 1, I gave you some ideas on how to write your text. When your text is finished, you will need to review it in order to spot the flaws, correct the errors, and put a final coat of polish on your good work. In the publications industry this...

#BREAK# Writing for Publicity and Profit on the WWW
I sincerely believe that there has never been a better time in history for we (or is it us?) writers to making a comfortable living on the internet. The World Wide Web offers you an opportunity, unique in history, to speak directly to...

#BREAK# WRITING FOR THE WEB
Writing is writing, right? Well, yes and no. Certainly there are requirements common to all writing. Correct spelling, for example. But the requirements vary according to the task. In writing a story, such things as sustaining suspense and pace...

#BREAK# Writing for the Web
“Today's readers and Web browsers demand frankness and verisimilitude, so your written communications require exacting professional integrity with accurate and adequate research. "For concrete, colorful and dynamic written material that willfully ...

#BREAK# Writing For The Web: Where To Get Article Ideas
A friend and I were talking the other day about writing. He liked to write, but even so his biggest problem was finding things to write about. My friend was astounded at the volume of writing that I do - at least one article and something as many as...

#BREAK# Writing From An Amateur Perspective
So, you want to be a writer? You probably have some background in writing, perhaps did well in school with the subject, or have simply always liked the idea of writing for fun and even for profit. While you have the will to write, you are unsure...

#BREAK# Writing Great Articles? I'm No Expert, But.....
Just like most of you reading this article, I'm far from calling myself an expert author. However, I have been out here a while, submitted quite a few articles, and have definitely learned a few hard lessons about getting my articles noticed. ...

#BREAK# Writing Help
Whether you are working for a small business, large corporation, or are a student, there are numerous sources that you can turn to for help with writing. Businesses need to be able to effectively communicate with their customers, their employees and...

#BREAK# Writing Helpful Help – A Minimalism Checklist
User documentation is all too often written by programmers for programmers. It tends to focus on the product’s features, rather than the user’s tasks. Generally, programmers aren’t in the ideal position to be writing user documentation. They’re too...

#BREAK# Writing In A Warzone
You know, most of the books out there are garbage: that's to say, they're just not needed. See, this is the crucial aspect a man must ask himself before sitting down with a pen: "Does the world really need this book?" Unfortunately, the answer...

#BREAK# Writing in exchange for bread on the table
Some people say that I have it all - I disagree. I constantly have to struggle with this love-hate relationship I have with writing. I love reading, that's for sure. And I love to write....about myself as and when I want to. But when I...

#BREAK# Writing it Right!
The most important sentence in any article is the first. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second then your article just died. Still with me? Good, let's look at powerful writing concepts: Simplicity Lack of clutter Brevity ...

#BREAK# Writing Mood
Does anyone remember Mood rings? Okay, so maybe I'm showing a little of my age but when I think about writing and setting the mood I can't help remembering mood rings. When I was a little girl, my aunt gave me a mood ring. It was huge! I...

#BREAK# Writing Narrative vs Writing Dialogue
Writing Narrative vs Writing Dialogue Copyright 2001, Michael LaRocca http://free_reads.tripod.com One of the nice things about being an author is that we can break any rule we want. (I just did.) It’s part of our job description. Language changes...

#BREAK# Writing Newsletters – Tricks of the Trade
Follow 10 simple rules of thumb, and you’ll soon be writing great newsletters and reaping the rewards. Company newsletters can be an amazingly successful marketing technique. Whether you want to up-sell or cross-sell, establish your brand or...

#BREAK# Writing Personal Statements - Top Tips
WRITING THE PERSONAL STATEMENT TO GET INTO UK UNIVERSITY HOW DO YOU DO IT? And the only way to do that has been largely ignored or is unknown by most students. The failure of the vast majority of students to get admission to their...

#BREAK# WRITING POWERFUL EFFECTIVE SOLO ADS
Everybody wants to make more money... In fact, most people would like to hit upon something that makes them fabulously rich! And seemingly, one of the easiest roads to the fulfillment of these dreams of wealth is writing effective solo ads and...

#BREAK# Writing, Reading, Speaking, Talking
Finding the Sweet Spot in Dialogue Writing Over the years I have heard complaints from various quarters—friends, students, and family—that even if they could write the story they’ve always wanted to tell, they could never get the dialogue to “sound...

#BREAK# Writing Press Releases That Get Noticed
Among the various foolproof methods used to boost traffic to your site (ezine advertising, and search engine submitting, to name a couple) one method seems to be forgotten about by many new Internet marketers. That method is writing press releases. ...

#BREAK# Writing the Dramatic Truth
A hallmark of powerful fiction is writing that rings true in a potent, vivid way. Writing rings true in a novel because the storyteller has provided a context for the truth of a novel, generally through setting out a story's promise. Without...

#BREAK# Writing The Knockout Query Letter: How To Catch A Book Editor's Attention
You've done it. You've achieved a lifelong dream and penned a book certain to be lauded through the ages as a literary masterpiece. Yet one last obstacle stands between you and publishing success - attracting the attention of someone who can get...

#BREAK# Writing The Perfect Sales Letter
Before you actually write the e-book we are going to write the sales letter first. Now I suggest you write it in Microsoft Word and save it. Then we can transfer it to the main “Sales site Page” when we are designing our basic site in step 5 ...

#BREAK# Writing the Recipe
This article may be published freely, in print and online, as long as the byline and resource box at the end are included as written. Thank you. Writing the Recipe (c)2003 Pam White It sounds simple. Sell your family recipes for money. Gather up...

#BREAK# Writing Tips for Article Writing
3 Tips when Writing Articles Do you love to write? Do you want to put those writing skills to good use? Perhaps you want to see your name published whether it be in a newspaper, magazine, e-zine or other forms of publication....

#BREAK# Writing Tips For Novice Authors
If you are reading this article then you probably have asked yourself at some point in your life, "Do I have what it takes to become an author?" I believe that successful authors, those who actually write and finish that novel, or book of...

#BREAK# WRITING TO EXCEL
Title: WRITING TO EXCEL Author: Arthur Zulu Contact Author: mailto: controversialwriter@yahoo.com Copyright: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002 Word Count: 600 Web Address: http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975 Publishing Guidelines: Permission is...

#BREAK# Writing Twenty Novels (in 10 easy steps!)
During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, "Great Sky Woman." There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question "How in the world do you do...

#BREAK# Writing Twenty Novels (In Ten Easy Steps!)
During a recent telephone conversation, I mentioned having sent off the last revisions for my twentieth novel, "Great Sky Woman." There was a silence on the other side of the phone, followed by the question "How in the world do you do...

#BREAK# Writing Well-- 6 Steps to Being Your Own Best Editor
One of the first important lessons a writer learns is that writing is a process, a series of steps that take an idea from concept to completed work. This is true whether the work is an article, a poem, a report, a short story or a book....

#BREAK# Writing Without Style
Conditions of use: Editor: The following article is offered for free use in your ezine, print publication, or on your web site, as long as the content is not altered, and the copyright and author credit box at the end are also included....

#BREAK# Writing Your Book Was Only the First Step - Marketing Your Book by Making it Known Is the Survival Step Says Book Publicist Scott Lorenz
Writing your book was only the first step. Making your book known so it can be sold is the survival step, says book publicist Scott Lorenz, President of Westwind Communications, a book marketing firm. Plymouth, MI (PRWEB) April 10, 2004 --...

#BREAK# Yes, You CAN Write Articles!!
Writing articles is by far one of the most effective ways of promoting your business or website. Ezine publishers are always looking for good content for their ezines. You, as a writer provide that content and at the same time you build a ...

#BREAK# You Can Be An Author
“You should write a book.” For years, I had been hearing this comment. Writing an entire book seemed completely overwhelming, and so, for a long time, I contented myself with writing short articles. One day, inspiration for an article hit me...

#BREAK# You can have your own ebook
Some people say that the best way to earn a full living from Internet is to have your own product to sell online, every highly successful web site has a product that is their own. They have created it and they profit from it. When you decide...

#BREAK# YOU CAN LEARN TO WRITE
While on the phone with a fellow a while back, he mentioned he wanted to start a business on the Web. When I asked what he planned to do, he had a couple of good answers. But he qualified all by saying his writing skills were not sufficient. I...

#BREAK# You Can Write A Good Paper!
Research Paper… What are your associations of this word? Some will answer: college, higher, education, perspective job. When I come to recollect writing my first Literature Research Paper, my imagination draws a depressing picture of piles of books,...

#BREAK# YOU can Write and Get Published!
A recent survey showed that more than eighty percent of Americans want to write a book. This extraordinary statistic is somewhat puzzling considering that the National Endowment for the Arts estimates that only fifty-seven percent of Americans have...

#BREAK# You Could Be An Author!
I started writing when I was 16 years old. To this day I love writing; I love the fact that we can translate words into images. It is incredible when I think about it. Everyone should write, writing is a way to express your feelings, what you...

#BREAK# You Need To Write-Write Now!
I've been shouting it for years, and I will probably keep shouting for many years to come. If you want to get some quality, free visitors to your website-You Need To Write An Ezine Article! You can go ahead and admit that secretly you been...

#BREAK# Your article headlines will make or break your business
Most people with an online presence will have to regularly deal with the issue of coming up with an appropriate headline. The problem is that most people do not take it seriously enough. Many do not realize that the headline is so important that no...

#BREAK# Your Book is a Business
Think like a businessperson, not an author. Once the final draft is written, you're no longer an author. You're an entrepreneur with a product to sell, and it's critical that you start thinking that way. Instead of spending your time on editing...

#BREAK# Your Cover Letter - Does It Tell The Story?
Let's face it, employers are much smarter than we might think they are. In fact large corporations pay large salaries to their HR department staff. That's because they are being paid to sift through thousands of resumes each year and filter out...

#BREAK# Your Direct Mail Donors Should Be Arrested (By Your Letter Opening)
The first time I was shelled by enemy artillery, I learned a vital lesson that applies to the success of your fundraising letters. I was lying in a slit trench on Mount Wall, about 35 kilometres west of the town of Stanley, in the Falkland...

#BREAK# Your eBook, Your Viral Salesman
Ebooks are the wave of the future, and the wave is here now. It used to be that paper books were king. They were real. You could hold them in your hands, take them anywhere with you, and put them on bookshelves. They have nice covers that...

#BREAK# Your First Steps To Becoming A Writer
What's the first step to becoming a writer? You'd think it would be "write", but it's not. In speaking to other writers and from what I know of my own journey to becoming a writer, I've come to realize that the biggest obstacle for new writers is...

#BREAK# Your reputation depends on it.
When it comes to creating information products you will want to research your project before developing it to make sure there is a demand for it. But you’ll want to prepare before you dive in, use free tools like goodkeywords and Alexa to see what...

#BREAK# You're Published! Now How Do You Tell The Readers?
The first thing you must do is quit thinking like a writer and start thinking like a reader. That shouldn't be a problem, because you are one. If you don't enjoy reading, you can't write something that someone else enjoys reading. So, when you...

#BREAK# Zany Ideas That Increase Writing Productivity And Quality
Welcome to the zany ideas of a productive writer. My students keep reminding me of my unusual tools and how helpful they have been for them. I also thank my students for their concept testing and refinement. Now, I feel much more confidant about...

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