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201. | How New Authors Can Keep Their Manuscripts Coherent by Marvin D. Cloud
In large publishing houses, many manuscripts penned by first-time authors, never make it past the "first reader" who for all practical purposes is a gatekeeper of sorts. This person's job is to weed out manuscripts that do not fit certain established submission criteria. However, ...
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202. | Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com interviews author Carol Laferle by Norm Goldman
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel and bookpleasures is honored to have as a guest, the nationally published newspaper columnist and author, Cindy LaFerle. Cindy recently published a book entitled, Writing Home, a collection of essays focusing on home, ...
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203. | What You Need To Know Before You Write A Book by Marvin D. Cloud
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 ...
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204. | A First Time Author's Publicity Kit Material Tips by Laura Hickey
If you're a new author that has been requested to send publicist materials, you may feel left in the dark on what to send. Here's a list of the usual items.
1. Author Bio
This is no place for modesty. You're competing with many other authors out there and ...
[Added: 29 Mar 2005 Hits: 51 Words: 251]
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205. | Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors by Catherine Franz
Connectors -- conjunctions, punctuation, and transitional
phrases -- allow readers to process information promptly by
creating balance and relationships between sentence parts.
The connectors are performing the same work as verbs,
objects, modifiers and multiple subjects.
Here are four uncommon connections that will ...
[Added: 05 Mar 2005 Hits: 60 Words: 503]
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206. | Aldous Huxley - was he influenced by Hindu Mythology? by Aneeta Sundararaj
Aldous Huxley was a great story teller and author of the highly acclaimed novel, Brave New World. Widely read, it came as no surprise to analyse his novel and conclude that perhaps, he was influenced by some ideas and theories depicted in Hindu Mythology. In particular, there ...
[Added: 06 Jan 2005 Hits: 62 Words: 743]
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207. | 5 tips on how to be relate the most mundane things in the most interesting manner by Aneeta Sundararaj
“How are you?” asks a friend at a party.
“I am well. But you know, last week, my mother gave me this lecture about how I should find a man and settle down. Then at work my boss was terrible; I tell you he really gave ...
[Added: 06 Jan 2005 Hits: 56 Words: 572]
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208. | Writing Help by Jack Thompson
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 their potential customers. ...
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209. | 10 laws of great storytelling by Aneeta Sundararaj
Law #1: Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
This is crucial in the first few moments of storytelling. Before you begin your story, take a moment. Look at your audience and smile at them. Only after you have ...
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210. | Do authors need a website? by Aneeta Sundararaj
“I am a writer, not a business-person. I don't want to have anything at all to do with business,” you might think. But how mistaken you can be. As a writer of two books, I discovered the amazing opportunities available to someone who has a website.
What ...
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211. | Comments From A Book Reviewer by Norm Goldman
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 to the Canadian Book Review Annual.
As editor of Bookpleasures.com, I would like to make a few comments about ...
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212. | What's in a Name? Giving Birth to your Characters by Celise Downs
So you've got your plot outlined, a title lined up and the research is done. You're ready to start writing your novel. But wait. Now comes the fun part: creating names for your characters. One of the best things about being a writer—besides the innate ability to create ...
[Added: 02 Jan 2005 Hits: 57 Words: 1311]
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213. | Get Listed In Google For Free by Nikki Pilkington
Google does not accept payment for inclusion in their main index - so anyone that's at the top is there through hard work and perseverance, or through paying a company such as NikkiPilkington.com to do the hard work for you. ...
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214. | Is Google The Best Search Engine In The UK? by Nikki Pilkington
With more and more people frustrated by the difficulties in getting good listings in Google, Nikki Pilkington tells us more about the 3 other major search engines and the advantages they have:
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215. | 12 Ways To Promote Your Website Offline by Nikki Pilkington
So you have your website and you've done everything right on the web - search engines, classified sites, newsgroups, bulletin boards, link sites, mailing lists, etc etc etc.
And now you think you've exhausted the possibilities of marketing your website and ...
[Added: 01 Dec 2004 Hits: 60 Words: 564]
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216. | Effective Email Marketing by Nikki Pilkington
When you send an email to an opt-in list, the chances are you want results. And the message that you send to the list can have a significant effect on the results your achieve.
I've ...
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217. | Why Is No-one Buying From My Website? by Nikki Pilkington
Are you, like many other website owners, frustrated at the amount of time, effort and money you've put into your website, only to see few or no sales?
Like most business owners, ...
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218. | Become An Expert by Nikki Pilkington
Nikki Pilkington, of Milton Keynes based Internet marketing company NikkiPilkington.com tells us more about how article writing can help us sell more from our website.
Everyone focuses their web marketing efforts on ...
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219. | ABC's of Publishing - Big Business of Books by Lisa Hood
As a writer I spend countless hours laboring to find the right word, writing, rewriting, and researching to bring my imaginary characters and story lines to life on the page. Steeped in creative juices, it's easy to forget that publishing is a business: a big business. According ...
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220. | Knock-Out Writer's Block: Listening To Your Inner Voice by Celise Downs
When I was young, I used to talk to myself. Long, drawn out, one-sided conversations. I didn't have an imaginary friend, I just talked to myself. My mother says that's why I became a writer: because ...
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221. | My Path to Self-publishing by Matt McGovern
Last year, I completed my first novel--a 180-page fictional account of one man's personal journey of discovery in which he contemplates the meaning of life and death. Writing this book was both a therapeutic exercise for me--allowing me to explore my own questions and thoughts on ...
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222. | Don't Forget That Manual! by V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D.
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 incoherent, ...
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223. | The Value of Adding Images to Technical Documentation by V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D.
It's cliché, but true—a picture does paint a thousand words. This is an important message to remember when writing any sort of user documentation, such as an installation guide or an instruction manual. A document that makes judicious use of ...
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224. | Ten Quick Tips for Inexperienced Writers by V. Berba Velasco Jr., Ph.D.
One of the biggest problems that inexperienced writers have is simply knowing how to get started. If you've unsure of your writing skills, then here are some quick tips to help you get started.
1. Get yourself a thesaurus—or better yet, two of them. These can be ...
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225. | The Top Five Mistakes That Companies Make with Regard to Technical Documentation by V. Berba Velasco
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 repercussions are often severe. ...
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226. | ABC's of Publishing - About Agents by Lisa Hood
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.) ...
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