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9 Tips To Successful Article Submission |
| Many internet marketers have heard about the traffic that article marketing can bring to a website. Yet, when they try it themselves, they find the results less than rewarding. With article marketing becoming more and more well-known as a FREE (or v... |
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The Business of Publishing |
| Congratulations, you're published! But what exactly does it mean to be "published"? Besides the fact that your work is finally in print and your college alumni has asked to interview you for their newsletter it also means fame and fortune, right? We... |
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A Publisher Wants My Book! Now What? |
| SHALLA CHATS with author Michele Scott A Publisher wants my Book! Now what? First off, whos Michele? Michele Scott writes two new mystery series coming soon to your local book stores, the Wine Lovers and the Quarter Horse Mystery Series. She started... |
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How To Snag That Freelance Writing Job |
| So, you want to be a freelance writer. You've scoured the Internet for the best paying writing jobs, and now you're ready to apply for some of them. There's just one problem: so are a few hundred other freelance writers, many of whom have a lot more... |
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Word Frequency Analysis as a means to improve writing quality |
| In the old times of Windows 1.0 back in the 1980s there was a tool called Word Frequency that came with the MS Word distribution package. As someone who uses English as a second language I used it heavily, because it helped me to improve my vocabula... |
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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 designed for the We... |
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The Bible - The Source Of All Copywriting Secrets |
| I've been a student of the Bible for practically all my life. There is a lot of reason why this book remains the number one best-seller year after year. I think that it is the source of ALL wisdom, yes, including successful copywriting! What do I me... |
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Can You Afford To Publish Your Book? |
| Money blinds. It's as simple as that. Aspiring authors ask about the money issue all the time, in varying forms, (How much does it cost to publish? How much will I get paid in royalties?, etc.) but they can't see beyond that issue to think about the... |
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Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #4 |
| Style is one of the most important considerations when writing a bestseller, and as we mentioned in previous articles, they key is consistency. It's almost a hallmark of a top 10 best seller to have a strong, consistent style. Therefore, hit on a st... |
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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 Web ha... |
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New Years Resolutions for Writers |
| Whether you're an experienced writer looking to boost your career or a complete novice desperate to break into the world of freelance writing, there's a good chance that you'll be using the New Year as the excuse you need to start a whole new writin... |
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Misspelled Scriptures |
| One way to confirm that cyberspace is the great equalizer is to observe the quality of editing that exists ... I am truly amazed at the mangling endured by the English language on a significant number of sites. It's fair to assume that this malady h... |
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Ive Got All These Goals, Now What? |
| Setting goals is the first step in achieving success. The goals themselves are useless if we don't achieve them and sadly the majority of goals and resolutions created fail to materialize. So, once you've got your list of goals what do you do with t... |
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What Do Directors Look For In A Script? |
| Im currently directing an independent feature called Captain Felders 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 take the movie... |
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Superchery |
| The best way to cheapen anything is to overuse it ... I recall a sports clip from many years ago, where a veteran basketball player near the end of his career was reminiscing about his prime and comparing it to the supporting-cast status he was abou... |
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How to be a Good Spokesman |
| A battle is won when a leader is successful. We can find a large number of examples in World history. Today we can also see that the statement is quite true. There will never be a result if the lead is taken by a weak personality who doesnt know the... |
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What is the Three Act Structure? |
| As the craft of writing has evolved, it has naturally formed the plot structure most pleasant to the human mind. This is the Three Act Structure, and it applies to short stories, novels and screenplays alike. What follows is the general flow of the... |
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Nice Twist |
| The legendary George Carlin made a career out of calling attention to the difference between how words and phrases are perceived as opposed to what they're 'actually' saying ... He would ask wonderfully rhetorical questions, my favorite of which was... |
