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Don't Pester Your Editor Writers who want to work must build relationships. Who wants a relationship with a pest!?
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You can set new goals anytime. Why not now? Read Gayle Trent on
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10 Ways to Increase Your Writing Productivity by Lee Masterson Have you ever wondered how some writers manage to churn out so much material in such a short amount of time? It seems these amazingly prolific authors do nothing else with their lives but write. They would have to in order to produce the sheer volume of work that leaves their desks, wouldn't they? |
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Truth or Lie: Fiction vs. Memoir--How Memoir Writers Can Approach Truth and Healingby Linda Joy MyersThe recent flap about James Frey's A Million Little Pieces has hit the media with a big bang, bringing the age-old debate about what is acceptable when writing memoir--a "real" story. |
Great Literature: A Great Buyby Hallidae ThomasonMost people forget to spend money on one thing of great and lasting value: good: literature.
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The Makings of a
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Things You Can Write About And Publish! 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. |
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Writing for Magazines Read two articles about writing for magazines By Jenna Glatzer
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The Playful Way to Serious Writing "a way to
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How do you decide where to begin a novel? Articles suggest a novel should begin by showing the main character in her 'normal life' before introducing the incident that starts the story. Is that essential? Your short story isn't
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Arouse Your Short Story And See It Published,
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A Quick Guide to Narrative Writing by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta If descriptive writing aims to appeal to your reader's five senses, narrative writing aims to tell an event that occurred by providing details. |
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The Synopsis -- An Editors Viewby Laurie Sanders
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How to Write an
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Generate Ideas That
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As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you
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Short Stuff: Writing Fillers for Children's
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 Shorts: A Gateway into New Markets. editors are more receptive to unfamiliar writers queries on short articles than they are to feature length article ideas. This book gives good, practical advice, especially on rewriting, reading your article out loud, and having another set of eyes look at it.
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| Insult Your Editor Pulling a new "good one" on an editor is difficult. But authors are creative, and some put their hearts into insulting editors. |
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Understanding Theme and
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Is The
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In The Beginnings, Capture your Editors Attention For the author of commercial fiction, writing an effective opening is critical. Studies show that an editor--the author's first reader--will develop an opinion of the work in the first three novel pages. Discover the three ways to win your first and most important reader.
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by Amanda Randles Stossel We pour our energies into creating art with words; we focus our effort on the perfectly turned phrase; we seek not only to educate and illuminate, but to do it beautifully. Why, then, can it be so difficult to write a simple query letter to gain a publisher's interest in our works? by Jill Nagle
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BOOSTING YOUR CREATIVITY Having fun with clustering and nonlinear outlining By D'Arcy Mayo Ask yourself if you have quick, effect ways of breaking through the mental blocks that stop you coming up with fresh ideas? |
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Self-publishing guru Dan Poynter shows aspiring authors how to break down topics into easy-to-attack projects, do research, develop material, find an editor, evaluate publishing options, and even handle fame once the book becomes a bestseller. |
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Generating Innovative Ideas for
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If you've tried to publish it, you've received rejections. We've
all heard stories of the author who was rejected hundreds of
times before finally getting published and becoming a
millionaire. That's my story too, except for the millionaire
part.
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Touching One's Soul -- The Ultimate Inspiration for a Writer by Edward B. Toupin ...it was the automatic typing of my fingers to create content so rich that I had to pinch myself to see if it was still me. |
The Playful Way to Serious Writing
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The Writer's Mind by Jeff Heisler The difference between a writer and a non-writer is that a writer doesn't have enough sense to know this should be difficult. Here's a creative method to get any manuscript into shape.
Character Creation |
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Write Your Way To New Possibilities by Claudette Rowley Learn intuitive Writing: Try it with the writing exercises explained in this article. |
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Writing a Great Short Story by Lee Masterson Short stories can be an excellent way to break into the competitive field of fiction publishing. Novel publishers are more willing to look at work written by an author whose work has already appeared in print. Magazines and periodicals love the short form, so selling the work can often be simpler than pushing an entire novel manuscript. Readers are more willing to pay money for work from an author they are already familiar with. Most importantly, though, short stories provide a fertile ground for bigger ideas to spring from.
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Writing
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A COMMON PITFALL: EXPOSITORY DIALOGUE by by Laura Backes Let your characters speak for themselves. |
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E-books Increasing in Popularity
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23% of adults
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e-book at sometime. However, there is considerable price resistance with regard
to the prices consumers are prepared to pay for both hand held book readers and
ebooks themselves.
The State of the Art of Publishing by Sam Vaknin Are e-books the trend of the future? Does the internet have a huge role to play in publishing?
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How To Be A Better Writer by Craig Lock |
The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less |
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Editing
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 Edit Yourself : A Manual for Everyone...the key to clarity, accuracy and economy in any writing task |
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What Agents Really Want by Natalie R. Collins "I wish I knew what agents are looking for," a writing friend of mine said the other day. "If I could only read their minds, I'd be in!" |
Insider's
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Written by one of the most successful agents and packagers in the book publishing industry, The Insider's Guide to Getting Published is a look at everything an aspiring writer needs to know to jump-start a career as a successful author. |
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Five Ways to Immediately
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1,818 Ways to Write
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"Spend a few minutes brushing up on your dialogue, "the webmaster offered. The reader clicked on the headline saying," How could I refuse this opportunity." |
Fiction Writer's Workshop
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Poetry Primer If poetry is not your chosen genre of expression, but you would like to explore this precise form to exercise your creative use of words, explore these two articles. Write Free Verse and Understand Poetic Devices by Vivian Gilbert Zabel |
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E-books Increasing in Popularity
by
Bookbrowse.com
23% of adults are
likely to read an e-book in the next year. 16% said that they had read an e-book
at sometime.
Journaling: A Tool for the Spiritby Susie
Michelle Copyright
The fountain of
personal wisdom may be as close as your nearest pen
THE NEW PUBLISHING
by Deborah
Greenspan
What
if the publisher doesn't call you with exclamations of your ability to touch the
soul of another with your pen? If you're sure your writing is worth reading,
there's a new way.
Freelance Article Writing on the
Net
by Jill Black
Copyright © 2001
As a
freelancer there are many opportunities available for working from home or
providing an extra stream of income for your information publishing business
through filling the needs of a widely diverse market as a paid freelance article
writer both on the internet and in offline publications.