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Loading...If you have a good appetite and a way with words, food writing may be a career option to consider. Not only is doing research for food writing one of the more enjoyable tasks in freelance writing, but you’ll never be short of restaurant recommendations and potential free meals — though you may run short […]
(4 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Loading...‘Tis the season for evaluating the year gone by! Over the next few weeks you’ll see plenty of articles summing up the successes and failures in industries all across the board: television, movies, automobiles, retail. It’s no different for the publishing industry. Already the New York Times has run an article examining publishing’s good, bad […]
(25 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)Loading...I love essays! I enjoy reading them, checking them, teaching my students how to generate them, but most of all I enjoy writing them! You want to ask why. I hope after reading my article you will understand. And I so much believe that you will also fall in love with the incredible world of […]
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)Loading...The point of view in any story is important because it provides a guide to manage the execution of your story. Most works of fiction use one point of view although a second perspective can be brought into the story for a short period of time. Third Person Perspective is the most common method of […]
(5 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...OVERVIEW People are visual creatures. They look at your product, and see, for example, a button or display. They want to find out about that control or indicator. A Visual Index is a simple but powerful document access tool that enables your Readers to find the information that they want. This article describes the Visual […]
(5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)Loading...OVERVIEW Many organizations produce in-house tools or modify commercially-available tools for their own use. These tools should get documented so they are of use to others in the organization. If this documentation is not created or is poorly written, it costs you twice: * The first cost (attributed to any poor user document) is the […]
(6 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...Are you planning on writing a cover letter yourself but you don’t know where to start? Do you feel a little overwhelmed by all that you might have already researched about cover letters? Try not to stress too much; writing a cover letter is really a piece of cake as long as you keep a […]
(5 votes, average: 2.60 out of 5)Loading...Since every literate person can write, most people think they can be writers. Interestingly enough, we all can speak quite well, but few of us would deem ourselves ‘speakers.’ However, this prevalent belief encourages beginners to say the oddest things that make professional writers want to cringe (or preferably strangle them with a thin wire). […]
(16 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)Loading...SEO Copywriting or in other words Search Engine Optimization copywriting is the name given to the art or technique of writing search engine friendly content. The technique adopted by SEO Copywriters involves writing certain text made viewable on any web page that is not only interesting to go through but also incorporates specific search terms […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In today’s world of mass communications and widespread online shopping, it is relatively easy and simple to purchase everything you would like to buy online – from hundred years old antique books up to the last week’s bestsellers, from magazines of your local community up to the periodicals of other countries, clothes and apparels, sport […]
(2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)Loading...One of the most powerful tools in my creative arsenal is what I call unconscious creativity. No, I do not ask someone to brain me with a hammer and I don’t even need to be actually unconscious. This is when I simply allow my unconscious to do all the heavy lifting for me creatively. It […]
(8 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...Promoting yourself is as important as writing your novel. It’s important to get your name out there, and allow people a sample of your work. People can’t buy what they don’t know about. Not only is promoting an important step of the publishing process, it’s a vital element to any writers career. In the age […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I go through an interesting writing exercise regularly: I take magazine articles and write abstracts of them for a newsletter client. The challenge involves taking an article, one that normally ranges from 1,000 to 3,000 words, and condensing it into a few hundred words. That means I need to get the essence of the article […]
(2 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)Loading...Writers block is one of those mysterious ailments that is blamed for late assignments, missed deadlines, and failed dreams. Some people claim it is merely a myth while others find it plagues their writing. As someone with more than two decades of professional writing, editing and teaching experience I feel quite strongly that in 99.9 […]
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Loading...It is no secret that a good way to gain publicity and visitors for your website is to submit articles on quality sites. At the same time I strongly believe that submitting your articles on sites which share the same niche (or category) as yours is a better way to indicate search engines about the […]
(2 votes, average: 1.50 out of 5)Loading...Let’s face it: some kids just don’t like to read. Increasingly, parents, teachers, librarians, and editors are looking for books that will appeal to reluctant readers. When I was writing The Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House), I read hundreds of children’s books, old and new, that I thought […]
(9 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)Loading...What’s the first step to becoming a writer? You’d think it would be “write”, but it’s not. In speaking to other writers and from what I know of my own journey to becoming a writer, I’ve come to realize that the biggest obstacle for new writers is that they don’t think of themselves as writers. […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have lived in New York City my entire life. I often feel privileged to be a part of the energy and magic of this Mecca of celebrity. Under the semi privileged dome of my existence, I encounter the rich and famous at every turn. When I was a teenager, I crossed paths with Jerry […]
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)Loading...Learn to type – its’ easy and only takes a half hour to understand and about 6 to 10 hours to master. Today’s breakthrough typing software will help you learn to type and pass any typing test needed for a new position. When you realize how easy it is learn to type, you will wonder […]
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...As a successful author interested in building a business off your book, you must understand the difference between features and benefits. Features are tangible and benefits are intangible. Features describe what a product is or has based on physical/tangible characteristics. On the other hand, benefits are feeling oriented. Remember that the reason that people come […]