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Write Novel's First Line To Guarantee Sales
Start your writing with conflict if you want to guarantee sales, grab an agent or publisher, get paid a big advance. Your protagonist wants something and your antagonist wants to block it. If you want to be the publisher's star-of-the-month, just hand out
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Trigger Off The Preparation For Your College Writing Right Away
Learn how to prepare for writing at college efficiently!
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Three Article Writing Tips That Can Explode Your Readership And Trrafic.
Thousands of articles are being churned out everyday but how many of these are ever read. If your articles are not going to be read then you are not going to reap the benefits of writing your articles. Webmasters and others visit article directories, art
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The Nightshift
Sleepless in Seattle brings on new meaning when staying up all night has nothing to do with another person but rather the shameless addiction of the written word. I would love to be a day person at some point, maybe when I grow up because I do miss that
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Save The Planet, Hug A Clam
It has become obvious to all but the most unrelentingly stubborn apologists for the oil industry that we now stand at a pivotal moment in the history of our planet. As much fun as it would be to make fun of Al Gore's pretentious drawl and expanding bald s
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How To Be Your Own Editor
There is a stigma associated with writers turning to editors for assistance with their work. Some people see outside editing as an unfair advantage, a form of literary cheating. Writers are expected to be able to objectively evaluate their own work. In
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Giving The Power To The People
Building an online community to create collaborative publications - essentially books written page by page by different people from around the world - may sound like an ambitious project but it's happening today thanks to the power of the Internet, and mo
Eleven Questions For Laura Preble, Author
Ms. Preble is an award-winning teacher, a jazz singer and pianist, and the author of The Queen Geek Social Club and its just-published sequel Queen Geeks In Love (both available from Penguin Books). A self-admitted geek, Laura is a science fiction fan and
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Editorial Advice: To Listen Or Not To Listen?
Whether you're an author publishing through traditional means or delving into self-publishing, you are going to want the feedback of a good editor or perhaps more than one. The difficulty for authors, especially those choosing self-publishing is when do y
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A Geek Groundswell
One day when I had nothing to do (well, actually, I had a lot to do, but I didn't want to do any of it), I decided to play the Google game. This is the one where you input your own name or something else into the field in quotes to see how many search res
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8 Tips To Become An Expert Proofreader
Many people are under the assumption that proofreading is an “innate” ability. The reality is that it is actually an acquired skill. By following these tips, you can transform yourself into the expert proofreader you've always dreamed of becoming! 1. You
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Weakness In Safe List And Using Free Reports
Would you like to send your commercial emails to people you do not know, but are expecting to receive such mail from you? That does not sound right. How can this be? It is simple, if you know what is really going on. Everybody who is on these lists, also
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Shifting Deadlines
What do you do when a client moves up his deadline? Do you panic? Or, are you prepared for life's contingencies. Having a rock solid plan in place will help you manage shifting deadlines which are all to common with this business.
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Best Tips For Writing A Great How-To Article
If you are using articles to help drive traffic to your website you will need to come up with ideas for articles that people will want to read and publish. The quality of articles found on article directories can vary significantly so it is important that
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A Publisher's Rant – Why I Hate Your Article Headlines
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.
Tags: Articles, How To Write An Article, Publishers, Headlines, Captivating, Readers, Traffic, Article-writing