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| Writing Made Them Rich #4 |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Michael Southon |
| Paulo Coelho was born on August 24th 1947 in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
At age 17 he announced his intention to be a writer. It was a
decision bitterly opposed by his parents, partly because Brazil
at that time was under a military junta that persecuted writers
and intellectuals.
Coelho's rebellious behaviour led his parent ... |
| Writing and Walking - Beating Writer's Block |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Rick Chapo |
| Writing and walking are a seemingly odd mix of topics for an
article, but they go well together. Particularly if you write
during breaks in your walk.
Writing Journals
Whether you are writing articles or the great American novel,
you will inevitably suffer from writer's block. A good way to
defeat t ... |
| Novel to Screenplay: The Challenges of Adaptation |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Lynne Pembroke |
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Article Summary: Some basic steps when adapting a novel to the screenplay form.
ADAPTATION 101
Brimming with confidence, you"ve just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe"s fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. "What was I thinking? How the devi ... |
| How To Use Quotations Effectively? |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Brenda Wilson |
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Quotations are the repetition of words used by somebody in the past. When you repeat the speech or spoken words of a character from a play or novel, you are said to be quoting that character. Use of quotes requires quotation marks, speech marks or inverted commas to denote repetition.
Take the example of a lawyer wh ... |
| Don't Leave Me Now |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Emmanuel Emesakoru |
| Don’t leave me now lest my sweet breath would cease Don’t leave
me now else my whole body would freeze Don’t leave me now that
I’m crying on my hurting knees Else I may never give my heart
away again on lease
If you leave me right here and walk away from my life I’d not
even think about slitting my throat with ... |
| Articles Directories & Portals - Writing & Sharing Made Easy!! |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Jay |
| "Writing"!! Who doesn't own this hobby? Hardly! We write in different ways with multiple reasons & objectives. Business writing, resume writing, essay writing, technical writing, letter writing, creative writing, freelance writing, paid writing, travel writing, writing a research paper, articles writing, story w ... |
| Who may apply for a Patent? |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Subhash Kumar |
| According to patent law, only the inventor may apply for a patent, with certain exceptions. If a person who is not the inventor should apply for a patent, thepatent, if it were obtained, would be invalid. The person applying in such a case who falsely states that he/she is the inventor would also be subject to criminal penalti ... |
| Tradional Copywriting For Direct Response Vs. The Internet |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Neeraj Varma |
| If your strategy for copywriting for direct response doesn't integrate a website you are losing big time!
Gone are the days when copywriting for direct response packages was limited to the package you send in the mail. The Internet has changed the whole paradigm.
If you are just focusing on the mailing package, you ... |
| ** The Incredible, Edible Subhead ** |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Alexandria K. Brown |
| 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
read, because they break up long blocks of text into
easy-to-digest bits. (Hence my ... |
| A Publisher's Rant - Why I Hate Your Article Headlines |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Halstatt Pires |
| I'm a publisher for numerous sites. I HATE many of your
articles. Here's why I hate your headline and what you can do
about it.
The Headline
There is a school of thought out there that your headline should
be designed to captivate readers. In the real world, this is
probably true. When I am looking for articles, it is not.
I ... |
| Novel, Horizons Past, Promoting www.horizonspast.com |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Bill Stephens |
| When I decided to launch the Blog and Forum, www.horizonspast.com ,to offer my first novel in free serialized form, I also created a promotional package to help jump start it. The package included a paid ad on the front page of Publishers Lunch, videos on www.youtube.com/Olwriter, press releases through ... |
| The Sphinx |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Kenneth J. McCormick |
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The Sphinx
By
Kenneth J. McCormick
http://aboutfacts.net
It"s dead eyes look out over the ageless sands. Sands that saw a great civilization rise out of the nothingness of the desert and become one of the greatest that this world has ever seen. It is the inscrutable Sphinx, an ancient statue with the head of a man and the bo ... |
| What’s Wrong With Proofreading? |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Elaine Currie |
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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 as well as by the textual content of your website.
I recently read an article in which the author enco ... |
| Write Articles For Publicity and Profit - Writing Articles Is Easier Than You Think |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Lynne Lee |
| If you think writing articles is difficult, think again.
I used to think I couldn't write articles and I discovered that it's not true. Writing articles is much easier than you think. Like everything else, it's easy when you know how.
The hardest thing you'll do is actually start and keep on going.
For years I've let the perfectionist monst ... |
| 7 Ways to Write Attention Grabbing Headlines |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Shane Wilson |
| Reach out and grab your readers with attractive, click persuasive and winning headlines. Watch as your promotional ROI (return on investment) increases fast! Follow the steps below and turn those browsers into buyers by sucking them into your advertisement or sales page with irresistible Headlines.
Below a ... |
| Words to Watch |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Charlie Wilson |
| The English language has a plethora of words which look and sound very similar and are easy to confuse and misuse. Here, a professional proofreader, editor and writer demystifies some commonly confused words.
The English language has a plethora of words which look and sound very similar and are easy to confuse and misuse. In my work as a proofrea ... |
| Mind Mapping Your Journal Entries |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Catherine Franz |
| 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 I've included the ten basic rules of Mind Mapping.
A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique ... |
| Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Christine Taylor |
| Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue By
Christine Taylor
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 late ... |
| THINGS YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT AND PUBLISH! |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Shery Ma Belle Arrieta |
| The stories and articles you can write about are only limited by
your imagination, ingenuity and persistence. And your ability to
dig deep into and write well about a potentially good story or
article can make you a published writer.
You can write about many things and here are a few of them:
YOUR LIFE! No two peop ... |
| Secrets of Writing Fantasy Novels |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Barry Sheppard |
| Secrets of Writing Fantasy Novels
The secret to writing a great fantasy novel is the laying of a firm foundation.
Writers of fantasy novels understand what fantasy is, fantasy is not something incredible. In fact, for a fantasy novel to work it must be believable. If your novel is not believable, you would sooner be writ ... |
| "Easy content building for the lazy webmaster." |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | JP Lafferty |
| 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 that you have to
add the writers resource box to your si ... |
| What Do You Mean You Can't? |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Marilyn Mackenzie |
| What Do You Mean You Can't?
by Marilyn Mackenzie
"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." Lloyd Jones
I think the one thing that bothers me about people of all shapes and sizes, of all races and creeds, of all types of occupations or lack thereof, is when they just give up or d ... |
| Cover Yourself |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Penny C. Sansevieri |
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One of your biggest sales tools is your books cover. Did you know that if someone sees your book on the shelf, you have less than thirty seconds to sell it? Remember too that your book cover will not only be on your book, but it will more than likely grace most or all of your marketing materials as well and a h ... |
| Writing Sites |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:21:23 | Joy Cagil |
| Journalists are familiar with the panic of deadlines and
novelists can identify with the horror of blank pages. Then,
what about the desperation of those who feel the urge to write
and do not dare or do not know where to go? This is where the
online writing sites come in with enormous possibilities for
people wh ... |
| Hot Flashes of a Freelancer |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Cheryl Paquin |
| Am desperately sick of spending freezing weekends in dingy
newsroom earning $12.36 per hour as news editor. Too much time
spent away from spouse and children, and it’s minus 20 F. when I
finish work. Want to resign from job and freelance, and earn
lots of money while ensconced in the warmth of my home, with two
daughters play ... |
| THE WIND BLEW TODAY |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Carl A. Patton |
| THE WIND BLEW TODAY
March 3, 2007, Stewart's Creek, by Carl A Patton
The seasons held a
mixture of winter and
spring time as the
rains came.
The sun came as warm
clear shadows upon the
earth and its people.
However cool breezes
still penetrated the bright
sun filled days.
The wind also came as a
loin u ... |
| Writer School? |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Michael LaRocca |
| 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 serious." Followed by a sentence or two of "I need your
words to encourage me" o ... |
| Self-Editing Your Writing |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Mary Anne Hahn |
| Much of what I do at my "day job" involves editing what others
have written. Eliminating typos, repairing damaged grammar,
replacing missing or misused punctuation--I relish editing, in a
roll-up-my- shirtsleeves and rub-my-hands-together sort of way.
Often I get to transform a garbled attempt to communicate into
som ... |
| Everyone Has At Least One Good Book in Them |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Jim Green |
| There is an age-old adage that is as true today as when it was
first mooted.
"Everyone has at least one good book in them"
The problem is that most people never get around to writing it
because they hamper progress by cluttering their minds with
blocks. Could you produce a niche-carving bestseller in your
spare time? With professional guida ... |
| How to be a published (non-fiction) author |
| 14 Mar 2008 02:11:36 | Suzan St Maur |
| TURNING YOUR IDEA INTO A BOOK
With general non-fiction there is usually room for a good new
book on the market, provided it's likely to attract a
substantial group of readers because:
·It's about something entirely new and very interesting that
no-one has written about before, or...
·It's about something that's not new, but to which you ... |
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