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| Writing Advice: How To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob |
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By: David Leonhardt
"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured.
"Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' on it."
"But if I put 'author' on, none of those big companies with overflowing
coffers will want to hire me as a writer," I said, wondering if George Bush
needed a speechwriter or if General Motors wanted someone to write the owner's
manual for next year's Oldsmobile.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, March 23 @ 20:28:20 EDT (401 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Freelance Writing Gigs - How to Find the Best Ones For You |
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By Angela Booth
If you're a new freelance writer, you're worried about finding writing gigs. You probably spend hours searching for them every day, and more hours applying for them. The best gigs however are never advertised. When you understand this you've made a huge step forward in your career.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, March 23 @ 20:14:14 EDT (202 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Capturing Ideas |
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By Karen Elizabeth Rigley
Nonwriters often ask, "Where do you get your ideas?"
The answer is everywhere. A word or phrase can fire a writer's imagination. Overhearing a conversation in a cafe, or the way a person cocks their head, or watching strangers say goodbye at the airport may spark a story. News items, children's antics, cloud formations, an unusual name or the scent of a nightblooming flower, can be the match to burst a twig-size idea into forest fire.
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Posted by User on Wednesday, March 17 @ 14:42:21 EDT (195 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Hook Your Reader With the Very First Sentence |
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By Evan Marshell
Recently, Lev Grossman, the book critic at Time magazine, made some
predictions about publishing. Among his predictions about the novel was the
following: "Novels will compete to hook you in the first paragraph and then hang
on for dear life."
I agree, except on one point: This isn't coming. It's already here.
A novel's first paragraph, or "opening hook," has always been important, but
it has never been as important as it is now.
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Posted by User on Monday, March 08 @ 16:31:26 EST (761 reads)
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| Writing Advice: How Are You Plotting? |
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Creative Writing Tips – By Nick Vernon
Writing is a creative process and how every writer chooses to create, is
individual to them. Likewise, with plotting, every writer plots at a level they
are comfortable with.
Some just plot the bare essentials. They have a firm idea of the story they
want to write and have a good memory to be able to memorize everything.
Others go into more detail. These writers prefer to figure everything out
before they write the story.
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Posted by User on Monday, March 08 @ 16:21:59 EST (232 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Professional Writing Careers - Copywriting |
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By Angela Booth
Are you looking for a professional writing career? Consider copywriting: it's lucrative, creative, and fun. Top copywriters earn over six figures each year, and you can start to make money almost immediately.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, February 16 @ 21:52:03 EST (267 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Forming a Strategy to Market Your Book |
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By John Harricharan
Before you even begin writing your book you need to start forming a
strategy to market your book - a book marketing plan. Writing a book is a
large investment of time, energy, effort and money, and so it's critical that
you don't set out on this path without a good plan.
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Posted by User on Tuesday, February 16 @ 21:47:09 EST (221 reads)
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| Writing Advice: You Can Write |
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By Mark David Gerson
Close your eyes and remember.
Remember the stories you invented...
Remember wonder and imagination...
Remember make-believe...
You can write.
If you can read these words, you can write.
You're saying "I'm not creative" or "I can't make up stories" or "I don't
know how."
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Posted by User on Tuesday, February 16 @ 21:42:04 EST (249 reads)
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| Writing Advice: The Privilege of Writing For the Christian Market |
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By Jaye E. Seay
What a privilege and honor it is to write for the Christian market. I consider it to be an awesome responsibility. Christian writers have the opportunity to proclaim God's Word to millions of people all around the world. More than that, because the written word has the ability to survive generations, works created by Christian writers can even touch those not yet here.
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Posted by User on Sunday, January 24 @ 12:42:45 EST (374 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Book Writing Made Simple |
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By John Harricharan
Before you begin, you may be interested in some simple tips for writing your book. Actually, some of the best tips you can find are those which are the most simple to do as well as those that make the most sense. By finding and following a few simple writing tips you can organize yourself, your time, efforts and your book.
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Posted by User on Sunday, January 24 @ 11:36:56 EST (231 reads)
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