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Linda Rader Overman - If It's Written In First Person, It Must Be True By : Linda Rader Overman I hear this comment often. And now that my novel Letters Between Us has been published by Plain View Press and is going out into the world, some of my preliminary readers, friends, and colleagues are certain that it is an autobiographical novel. Interestingly enough when readers take up works written in first person point of view an incorrect assumption is sometimes made that it’s the voice of the author speaking through the narrator. Because my novel is written in first person, other readers have suggested that I am using the narrator in the novel, Laura Wells, as my persona. Tamara Pray Frazier - When My Inspiration Died By : Tamara Pray Frazier At the time of her death, I was in the midst of a life changing experience. I was writing my first book. One year prior to my mother’s death, she had convinced me that I did indeed have enough talent to undertake the awesome task of bringing my friend, Faye Baker’s story to light. For six months, I wrote, enlarged the font and my mother would proofread. She would put on her reading glasses and read paragraph after paragraph. When she died, so did my desire to finish the story that was begging to be told… Brian Garvin - A Review of the Go Articles Article Submission Service By : Brian Garvin When you are looking at your options and you are looking to make sure that you really get somewhere by advertising your services and giving out the right information, you'll find that free article directories will start by showing you where to go and what to do, and that when you take a look at the Go Articles Article Submission Service, you'll soon discover that there are plenty of different options available to you when it comes to looking around. Ellis M. Goodman - Inspiration – What Inspires Somebody to Write a Novel? By : Ellis M. Goodman A cousin of mine in London had completed a Genealogical research into our family history, which he had published privately under the title – A TARNOW CONNECTION. He had retired and decided he would spend a few months creating a Family Tree. The few months eventually turned into five years, by which time he had traced 1500 members of our family through 42 branches, back to 1760, and had communicated with many of them around the world. His research produced a comprehensive encyclopedia of information about the history of Tarnow, located 45 miles west of Krakow, when it was part of an independent Poland, part of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, and during occupations by the Russians and more recently in the mid-20th Century – the brutal Nazis. Charles Jacobs - Flip-Flopping From Reader to Writer Makes Your Retirement Far More Fulfilling By : Charles Jacobs If you look at the state of the periodical field today, you will see that widely circulated consumer magazines with a potpourri of content, the ones you saw on every newsstand have been losing ground for several years. Many were forced to close their doors before the Internet began stealing away readers. The boom has fallen even harder during the current economic crunch. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Expert Articles Article Submission Service By : Brian Garvin There is a good chance that there are a number of unrelated ways that people are finding your site. Some people might be finding it by accident, while other people have discovered it through links from other places. The truth of the matter is that you need to make sure that people can find you quickly and easily and one of the best ways to do that is by taking a look at the Expert Articles Article Submission Service, which more and more people are discovering. Dean Williams - How to Write a Hardship Letter That Works With Any Lender By : Dean Williams Before you begin to write your hardship letter, first consider what type of solution you are seeking from your lender. There are several ways to avoid foreclosure, some that will allow you to keep your home and some that won’t. Kanaga Siva - Top Ten Article Writing Tips to Succeed in Writing for the Internet By : Kanaga Siva Always write on some topic that you know best or are familiar with. If you have a website it is important to write on topics relevant to your website. The reason is obvious. No visitor will want to visit a website he is not interested in. Ruth Barringham - Should You Self Publish Your Own Books or Not? By : Ruth Barringham There are many people who say that self published books won't sell or that no one trusts self published books, but the people saying this are not publishers or published authors. They are simply people who want to be published authors, but their not, so they spend their time trying to discredit the work of self published authors. Ruth Barringham - You Need to Be a Writer, Instead of Just Someone Who Writes By : Ruth Barringham Anyone who is successful in their career is driven by their work. When you look at Stephen King, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, or any other successful person, you'll soon realize that they didn't get to where they are by working on their careers in their spare time. Jane Sumerset - English Grammar Software - Instantly Write Better English! By : Jane Sumerset For people who must write a great deal, whether for school or work, English grammar software can help to teach you to naturally improve your writing. It's like having a virtual writing teacher built into your computer. English is actually not one of the easiest languages in the world, even for native speakers. Here are five ways it may be able to help you. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Buzzle Article Submission Service By : Brian Garvin When you put articles online, you may not be getting paid for them, but you'll find that you'll have of different benefits to take advantage of. When you want to make sure that you can get your articles self-published in a way that will allow you to put them up and get lots of traffic for it, take some time and really think about your options. Don't hesitate to take a look around and find the service that will take the best care of you. Brian Garvin - A Review Of Be A Five Minute Writer Article Marketing Course By : Brian Garvin There is a huge call for people who can turn out content in five minutes these days, and with this need for speed and with it the power of moving forward and getting the job done, you'll find that taking a look at the Be a Five Minute Writer Article Marketing Course might be one of the most profitable decisions that you ever make. You'll find that simply being able to get the job done quickly and efficiently will put you way ahead of the herd. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Extractor & RSS Solution Package By : Brian Garvin When you hit there site, the first product for sale you will find is the RSS Solution Package. There are fourteen different bullets in all and each one stress the benefits that comes along with this package. The total cost is a lot less then what we were expecting and you'll see when we give you a short list to everything that comes along with this deal. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Equalizer By : Brian Garvin When you think about all the traffic that you can get from your articles in this fashion, not to mention all the sales that you can get from it as well, you'll know why you need to think about making sure that you take advantage of the Article Equalizer and learn about what it can do for you. You know that without good written content, you'll be in a very negative place. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Directory Pro By : Brian Garvin The truth of the matter is that there are many people who are interested in what you can do to go ahead and make sure that there are places to publish the articles, and with that in mind, you need to think about what you can do yourself when it comes to putting up your own article directory! With the Article Directory Pro, you'll find that it has never been simpler to stop and think about what you can do in order to move forward and get the information that you need to set up a directory, and this can change the way that your campaigns go. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Writing Software System By : Brian Garvin Well this is where the Article Writing Software System comes in and according to the sales page, "churns out thousands of high quality and unique content." Plus they even talk about making close to four grand in only nine days. Is this possible? Sure it is, but let's be realistic here. Jonathan Teng could already have a lot of points in place to make this kind of money upfront. We'll have to research the page a little more and see what he's offering. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Uniqualizer By : Brian Garvin With this in mind, you should remember, though that writing quality articles takes time. You can do it yourself or pay someone else to do it, but you'll find that unless you can speed things up, you are taking a loss across the board, and this is something that you want to avoid at all costs. When you are looking towards making sure that you can move forward and can get the traffic that you need, make sure that you take a look at the Article Uniqualizer and think about how it can help you. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Submitter Software By : Brian Garvin Naturally, there is always someone just around the “virtual” corner that looks to automate a product, service, and/or concept in order to optimize their level of success online – because, as we know, it is a harsh market in the virtual world. Brad Callen has done just this! Here, I will share my review of the Article Submitter Software. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Stars Article Submitter Pro By : Brian Garvin When you want to think about what you can do in order to move forward and to get the traffic that you need, you'll find that one of the keys towards figuring out what you want will include thinking about how people will get to see your work, and that is where the Article Stars Article Submitter Pro comes in. With this program, you'll be able to stop and really think about what you can do to make sure that all of your work gets to where it needs to go. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Stars SuperNova Secrets By : Brian Garvin When you are looking towards making some money on your online advertising, you'll find that articles can help you go a long way, but were you aware that they could do a lot more than just that? When you are looking at your articles, you need to think about how the pros are doing it, and how they are doing it differently. You'll find that by stopping and considering the Article Stars SuperNova Secrets program that you just might get the news that you need. Brian Garvin - Article Speed Writing and Your Web Site By : Brian Garvin Article Speed Writing is all about the quick kill – getting the words down onto the page as quickly as possible, while being aware of the search engine optimization parameters needed to keep you high in the search rankings. They talk about article hooks – something you need to throw out in the first sentence so that a human being, rather than a web spider, will find your article interesting to read. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Articles Factory Article Submission Service By : Brian Garvin The first is where you are going to get good content and the second is whether you can afford it. The answer to the latter question is a bit tricky as finding articles written specifically for you can get pricey, but you'll find that with just a little bit of work, you'll be able to find services that will provide you with articles free of charge, like the Articles Factory Article Submission Service. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Rewriters Software By : Brian Garvin When you look into publishing work like this, whether it is your own or someone else's, you'll find that you can take a look at the work of many different programs and find out what you can do to benefit from what they give you. For instance, with the Article Rewriters Software, you'll find that you can repackage everything that you are looking at and learn about how to make sure that it is getting where it needs to go. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Ranking Formula By : Brian Garvin When you are looking to move forward with your enterprise, you'll find that you need to think about what you need to do get the hits that you need; after all, the more people coming to your website, the more traffic you have the more sales that you can expect. With this in mind, you'll find that Google is an important tool for you to use, and that with a little bit of work, you'll be able to have ti doing just that. Take a moment and check out the Article Ranking Formula, a program that will help you out when it comes to getting the traffic that you want. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Profits Software By : Brian Garvin We want to cover each one of these so you get a feel for what you're about to possibly embark on. The first deals with investing a few bucks and creating massive amounts of content sites. You'll find that placing adsense on these sites will only enhance your overall monthly totals. The idea however through this software is to make rich content that is easy to find through the search engines. Brian Garvin - A Review of John Taylor's Article Profit Formula By : Brian Garvin All of these are good things, but have you ever thought that you could be building more? When you think about articles, you already know how powerful they are, but what can you do to make them more powerful still? When you are looking at what you can do with your articles, you'll find that youa re not getting very far without some help, and this is exactly what John Taylor's Article Profit Formula can help you with. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Pool Article Submission Service By : Brian Garvin When you look at the articles online, you'll find that they are written with one primary goal and two very important secondary goals in mind. The primary goal is that they are written to enlighten or entertain. The secondary goals are that they are written to show off the expertise of the writer and that they are meant to improve the author's standing on such places as the Google and Yahoo search engines. Brian Garvin - A Review of Article Marketing Master By : Brian Garvin You need to think about what you can do to make sure that your articles get the right amount of work done and that you will be able to see them at the top of the Google results list. You may think that you know about making sure that your article is keyword rich, but you'll find that the more you know about the way that your article should be structured, the better off you will be. Take a look at the Article Marketing Master and you'll soon see how much more powerful and attractive your article can be. Brian Garvin - A Review of the Article Marketing Handbook By : Brian Garvin First off, if you are interested in Article marketing, you should know that doing this type of thing is not the same as it used to be. You cant just submit an article to hundreds or thousands of directories and expect people to be jumping onto your website. Linda Rader Overman - Publish or Perish and Live to Tell About It By : Linda Rader Overman Then after years of writing in the closet, then submitting work, and being rejected . . . it happened. I got an acceptance call on a Sunday afternoon during a Super Bowl game. I wasn’t watching it of course, I was writing. The editor called to interview me about my short story and to say he liked it very much AND that it would make their next issue. It was a small college journal, but I felt like I had won the lottery. Well, not exactly, it provided a byline for me at least and not much more, but it was a start. Penny Sansevieri - Getting Into Bookstores By : Penny Sansevieri First, it's important to understand the pressure stores are under right now. With the increased focus on publishers to get their authors out there, bookstores are being given most of their marching orders by their corporate office. Bookstore shelf space is bought and paid for by the New York publishers, making getting on the shelves or display racks a bit tricky, if not impossible. So here's a game plan for those of you trying to survive outside of the traditional market. Bill Brennan - Creating Your Own Writing Space By : Bill Brennan Every writer, whether freelance or published novel author, will come to a point in their life when the prospect of working in the noisy family room makes them cringe. Maybe once they were able to drown out the family sounds of the television or ignore their favorite team’s touchdown in the big game, but as time goes on, and their writing increases, noise becomes a distraction. It’s time for your own quiet writing space. Brian Scott - All About Freelance Grant Writing Jobs By : Brian Scott How big is big? Well, if you charge a flat fee, you can earn anywhere from $100 to $1000, depending on the project's complexity. Alternatively, many freelance grant writers choose to take a percentage of any funds their proposals generate. If you charge 5% and the grant is worth $50,000, then that's $2,500 in your pocket! Brian Scott - All About Freelance Magazine Writing Jobs By : Brian Scott The magazine market has a large window of opportunity for freelance writers, but you must follow strict guidelines about language, word count, deadlines, etc. If an editor says he wants 800 words and you submit an 850-word article, then expect a rejection letter in the mail. Deborah Owen - Writing For Free Will Move You Toward Publication By : Deborah Owen While it is true that a few people can skip protocol and begin writing for large markets without writing credits, the ordinary person cannot. Be prepared, because every publication will want to know where you have been published before, and you should have a list as long as your arm. Brian Scott - All About Freelance Food Writing Jobs By : Brian Scott Technically, freelance food writing means tasting food and then describing it. Practically, it's a much more involved process. Food critics often absorb the entire dining experience of the restaurant they're in. How does the atmosphere contribute to the quality of the food? What was the service like? What did the food taste like? Brian Scott - All About Freelance Ghostwriting Jobs By : Brian Scott Why would a freelance ghostwriter agree to forfeit credit for his or her work? Simple: money. Clients usually pay ghostwriters far more than a "normal" writer's fee of $20-$50 an hour. Small books (150 pages or less) usually cost a client at least $25,000. Fees go up from there depending on the length and type of book, as well as the amount of research required by the ghostwriter. Deborah Owen - Generating Writing Ideas By : Deborah Owen Ideas are all around you in real life. Read the newspapers. Listen to the news. Search old newspapers, rename the people, and lift out some of the information to make your own story. You could sit in a restaurant and eavesdrop on other people. Imagine all sorts of things according to what you hear. Or stand in a crowd and do nothing but listen. Life is full of weird things. Deborah Owen - Writing Twists By : Deborah Owen I'm supposing that most writers go through the same learning process that I did. In the early days, my first attention went to the opening line, the plot, climax, and logical end. (Which is the wrong order, but that’s another article.) Twisting the ending didn't occur to me for many years, and when I finally did it, it was by accident. Now I like to twist almost every ending. If you learn to do it once, you can do it every time thereafter. Deborah Owen - Write in a Writer's Group By : Deborah Owen · Being part of a writing community gives you awesome opportunities to search out latent talents and bring them to life. You can create contests (or help others who create them). If you like graphics, you will have a wonderful opportunity to sell them and gain exposure. Brian Garvin - A Review of Advanced Article Marketing By : Brian Garvin Regardless, Judy Cullins will explain everything about her system on the web page you're about to read. It will discuss the very aspects of article marketing, but importantly the advanced areas that are far from the basics you find within most other informational sites. Below we'll show you what we found and then it will be up to you to decide if this is what you need to take the next step with your online business. Linda Rader Overman - Writing My Way Back Into My Childhood By : Linda Rader Overman Just before my son left to go back to his town house about 20 miles away, he commented: “Mom, I was thinking how when we were little, all we needed in the pool was ourselves and our imaginations to keep us happy. We didn’t have to worry about work, errands, jobs, or anything. All that mattered was playing.” Then he threw his hands up in the air as if accepting one of those light bulb moments, and we all have them, with great reluctance. “Yes,” I said, “we spend most of our adult lives longing to recapture those days of innocence.” Jessica Whittaker - Mats Theselius By : Jessica Whittaker A renowned Swedish interior designer, Mats Theselius was born in the capital city of Stockholm in 1956 and studied small scale architecture at the Industriel Design School, Konstfackskolan in Stockholm. In 1984, he finished training at the Higher Art and Design School in Stockholm and taught at the School of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University during 1995-96. Currently staying in the idyllic Tomelilla, he is, for various reasons, the pioneer of modern Swedish designing scene. Chris Kennelly - Publishing Articles – Express Your Interests By : Chris Kennelly The topics are many and varied, really anything that you may be interested in or perhaps something that you morally agree or disagree with. If you have a look at all the blogs and article publishing forums, you are guaranteed to find anything from shopping for replica Rolex watches, to picnicking ideas in the woods. Althea Marie Tan - Make it or Break it With Headlines By : Althea Marie Tan While writing headlines for journalistic articles and for web copies are different in terms of their target audience, the principles under which they work are basically the same: to capture the essence of a piece and, hopefully, catch attention. Althea Marie Tan - Why I Like Things Short Online By : Althea Marie Tan While this principle applies to practically all types of writing, I’ve realized that its importance is amplified when I write copies for the web. As a typical web user who relies on search engines, I can attest to the effectivity of short copies versus longer ones. Sure, an attractive, catchy title may lure me into a site, but a huge block of text, not to mention unsightly design and obtrusive advertisements, usually discourages me. Normally, I just read the first few lines and click close. In doing so, I realize that that particularly copy has just failed. Althea Marie Tan - Why Writing for the Web is Different By : Althea Marie Tan There is something different, though, about writing copies meant to be published online. When I write copies for the web, I try putting myself on the shoes of a prospective customer. This is not hard, considering that I shop online. I am one of those who rely almost automatically on the Internet to get quick solutions. Empathizing or pretending that I’m at the other end of the copywriting process makes writing copy easier and ultimately more effective for me. Althea Marie Tan - 2 Steps in Writing an Effective Web Copy By : Althea Marie Tan These pointers, of course, are grounded on the assumption that people who go online to perform searches on engines hardly have any time to spare to click where the links go. They think that people are so pressed for time that they just look at the list of results and pick the links that appear to suit their inquiry best. Simon Barrett - Book Review: Their Way Home - My Adventures As a Ghost Guide by Melissa Van Rossum By : Simon Barrett Do I believe in them? I honestly don’t know. Ghosts are like many things in our mythic based culture. Some might argue that man created them to satisfy a need to understand, accept, and pigeon hole a problem that was not readily explainable, ‘What happens in death’. Indeed there is something darkly romantic in the concept of someone's spirit remaining on earth following an untimely demise. Not usually to seek revenge, just understanding, and very occasionally justice. Ellis M. Goodman - The Traumas of War By : Ellis M. Goodman In BEAR ANY BURDEN, my Cold War Espionage Thriller set in Poland at the height of the Cold War in the 1980’s, I have tried to show how the traumas of World War II affected the personality and behavior of the three main characters. Linda Rader Overman - The Fog of Alzheimer's as Character By : Linda Rader Overman At first, Mother had enjoyed these little excursions because we’d stop to window shop among the assortment of boutiques along the way. Mother would walk with my help and that of her walker while smiling at various families with small children in hand. She never tired of admiring the little ones and often reached out to caress a chubby baby cheek or sweet little downy head, exclaiming, “Hay, que preciosa.” But as the weeks and the months progressed her degenerating memory removed her ability to know me any longer and I, in turn, felt as if my past, my childhood, and part of my life had been erased. Mark Grisham And David Donaldson - Birth of a Civil War Era Novel By : Mark Grisham And David Donaldson When I settled down, after thoroughly enjoying my college years, I began reading more and more about the war. Not just about the armies though, but about the civilians that endured the hardships back home coupled with the loss of so many loved ones. The horrors of a battle and its aftermath really hit home when I began to read the soldiers’ diaries and letters sent back home to their families. I tried to imagine what it would be like to live in that era. To have to leave a wife and children alone on a farm, while I marched off, not sure if I would ever see them again. Mark Grisham And David Donaldson - Getting Published By : Mark Grisham And David Donaldson The process of hiring an agent and submitting manuscripts is a slow and painful procedure. Unfortunately, because of the sheer number of submissions made to publishers each year, some good books do fall through the cracks. Even my brother John, was rejected almost thirty times before he found a publisher for A Time To Kill, and things worked out pretty well for him. Linda Rader Overman - Never Underestimate the Power of Your Own Words By : Linda Rader Overman Make no mistake, people are generally happy for me, and I truly appreciate it, but often the facial expressions I see staring at me are the same ones I used to give other published authors I would travel to a book store to hear read, or while attending a writing workshop they were teaching, and usually those looks encompassed staring at them like they were aliens, or super beings. I knew I was certainly not a member of either group. But I wanted to be. My favorite question was: How did you do it? And the response given would range from a vague description of some daily writing work ethic to the often repeated “by sweating blood onto the page.” Afterwards, while I drove back home I’d think: Why can’t I do that? I mean sweat blood on the page, come on, it can’t be that hard. Linda Rader Overman - The Disappearing Act of Writing a Letter By : Linda Rader Overman Truth is the sheer act of writing a letter in just this way to a person, placing it in an envelope, licking a stamp to it and mailing it, sadly, appears to be a dying art. And partly why I chose to write Letters Between Us as an epistolary novel, to recapture that art, just a little. Dean Whitney - Retirees and the "Write" Stuff By : Dean Whitney The music business began to dry up for me when I was in my mid-fifties and over ten years away from full retirement age. Fortunately, my business included a couple of music publishing companies from which I continue to earn a good living to this day without having to put in long hours. Razvan Rovinaru - The 5 Most Brutally Effective Sales Letter Writing Tips By : Razvan Rovinaru When a visitor reaches your site, regardless of the topic, you have only between five and 10 seconds to capture his interest before he leaves your site never to return again. That’s why when writing a sales letter you simply have to produce a powerful headline that gets the visitor’s mind racing. A good headline should consist of power words – words that touch the reader on an emotional level – used to convey a powerful promise that provides great benefit to the potential customer and makes him want to continue reading. Deborah Owen - How to Type Your Characters By : Deborah Owen You can type characters in a number of ways: by their education, their conversation, family background, associations with other people, by showing their passions, their needs, gifts, the plot of the story, by their conversation—or by giving them warts. Paul Profitt - Writing Tips - Why You Must Use Words On Your Website By : Paul Profitt Just imagine for a moment that you have a offline business. It could be a Hair Saloon or a butchers shop. What is the first thing that you say to all customers who enter your shop? Saying hello would be a good idea to start with before moving on with a little small talk. Simon Barrett - Book Review: Conspirator's Odyssey - The Evolution of the Patron Saint by A. K. Kuykendall By : Simon Barrett Author Kuykendall joins together Sci-Fi and New World Order ideas in Conspirator’s Odyssey. From UFO’s to Roswell and area 51, the Kennedy assassinations, Watergate, Ronald Reagan’s slide into dementia, Vietnam, even the Bay of Pigs fiasco gets a mention in this novel. These seemingly unrelated events were all connected to one common theme, a shadow government, all along manipulating events to their own ends. This multi decade black government operation is known as the Aneman Project. Simply put, the quest is produce a super army, men, who through genetic manipulation are invincible. Penny Sansevieri - How to Get an Agent or Publisher For Your (Self-Published) Book By : Penny Sansevieri First off, publishers like what other people like. Well, generally they do. If you're building success for your book, getting great reviews, building your audience and online presence this is a good thing and will often be viewed favorably by publishers. While there are agents and publishers that won't even consider a self-published book, there are a number of them who will. The key is to find those agents and publishers and get to know what they specialize in. Since there are a million articles and books on how to craft a query letter and submission packet I'll skip that. Ellis M. Goodman - The End of the Story By : Ellis M. Goodman Romantic novels – where boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back again, love blooms, and they live happily ever after – still have a large audience. Love and desire have always been at the heart of human reactions. These stories are of course variations of the theme. In Shakespeare, we see many a boy meeting a girl, who may or may not be disguised as another boy, and through much intrigue, parental disapproval, and devious friendships, we could see the girl at the end of the story appearing to die from an overdose, and the boy committing suicide, desperate and distraught. Jane Sumerset - English Writing Software© - 3 Benefits You Can Use Now! By : Jane Sumerset For people who must write a great deal, whether for school or work, English writing software has the potential to be an invaluable tool. Writing skills, often not taught well in modern schools, are nonetheless essential in many areas of life. There are three main areas where this kind of software can help people. Deborah Owen - 3 Ways to Control Your Reader's Mind By : Deborah Owen Another way he controls the reader is through the speed of reading. Have you noticed that you read faster in some places and slower in others? Have you noticed that one story makes you tired to read it, while another seems restful? That’s because the writer is using clever wordsmithing. Deborah Owen - Pester Them to Death By : Deborah Owen I had learned that the American Legion’s upcoming 75th Anniversary Edition was in preparation, and their national office was only a few miles from me. However, when I went to apply for the job, the editor told me he had no positions available. Deborah Owen - Becoming a Reporter is Easy By : Deborah Owen When some people hear the word “reporter”, they picture someone trotting in and out of a major news conglomerate and spilling the beans on an adulterous President, unveiling “Watergate”, or changing into Superman in a phone booth. Reporting is not a glorious job. In fact, it’s hard work. A reporter is defined as “a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories.” That title brings it down to the common person doing a mundane job – that will someday get them somewhere. Cliff Posey Jr - Web Writing Tips - A Writing Tip For Every Occasion By : Cliff Posey Jr Although every webmaster has already heard this writing tip, it is worth mentioning. Writing what you know is always the best policy when writing for the web. There's a lot of bad info online already--no sense in adding more. Ellis M. Goodman - Bear Any Burden - Chapter 12 Excerpt By : Ellis M. Goodman He looked at the passports again. Professor Gustav Bauer from Vienna. A dog-eared passport with lots of entries, including a stamp three days ago crossing this very border. He didn’t remember seeing them, but maybe he was off duty at that time. Mrs. Vera Bauer. Hmm, she’s a good-looking lady He admiringly looked at Anna’s face and blue eyes peering out from under the scarf swathed around her head and over her shoulders. Doesn’t look much like her passport photo, he said to himself. The woman in the photo looks older. Gordon Gumpertz - Big Winds Can Be Big Killers By : Gordon Gumpertz In doing research for my adventure novel TSUNAMI, I started out studying undersea earthquakes, volcanoes, and submarine landslides, the main initiators of tsunamis. In the process, I became interested in all natural disasters, including hurricanes, and did additional research in that wider area. Simon Barrett - Book Review: Death in Small Doses by Bernard Steele By : Simon Barrett Bernard Steele's Jihadists in Death In Small Doses have radiation as their central weapon, but it is not for a bomb, their plot is much more insidious, to put it into a vapor and expose rush hour subway commuters. The effects would not start to be seen for days. The number of deaths might only be in the hundreds, but the destabilizing effect on the government would be incalculable. Ellis M. Goodman - Looking Death in the Face By : Ellis M. Goodman Would you freeze and be transfixed to the spot? Would the whole scene flash before your eyes? Or would you see this horror as if in slow motion? What does it feel like to lift up a lifeless body? What does it feel like to see a human being’s life ebbing away, with blood oozing from a wound? Ellis M. Goodman - Bear Any Burden - Chapter 13 Excerpt By : Ellis M. Goodman "Now, Karol," Anna said calmly, "There's nothing for you to worry about. Just follow the plan, and you won't get hurt, and you will be 80,000 Szlotys richer." Karol did not look nearly as confident as he'd been a few minutes earlier. When their turn came, they took up their position in a diagonal parking space. Karol lowered the window as a border guard came towards them. Gordon Gumpertz - Can a Tsunami Strike the Atlantic Coast? By : Gordon Gumpertz The answer is yes, a tsunami hitting the Atlantic Coast is possible, but much less likely than one striking Alaska, Hawaii, or the Pacific Northwest. When it comes to the kinds of natural events that start tsunamis -- undersea earthquakes, submarine landslides, and volcano eruptions -- the Atlantic is a much tamer ocean than the Pacific. The Pacific basin is encircled by the notorious Ring of Fire with its hundreds of active volcanoes and dozens of dangerous, earthquake-prone subduction zones. Lee Emory - Writing With True Grit By : Lee Emory In THE PLIGHT OF MATTIE GORDON by Jeanne Marie Leach, the female character must face learning her son is a wanted outlaw. To save her son's soul, she is faced with throwing in her lot with the bounty hunter bent on catching her son to make sure he gets punished. This lady has true grit in big way. Simon Barrett - Book Review: 3 Aces by Richard Ide By : Simon Barrett Which brings me to Richard Ide and his new book 3 Aces. I read the synopsis, and I have to admit that I was not sure that as a plot line it would work. Ex Vietnam vet with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) turned long distance truck driver meets a depressed alcoholic poker playing young lady and they attempt to rehabilitate each other with the help of a three legged dog! Ruth Barringham - Write For The Money By : Ruth Barringham But I say that's rubbish. If you want to be a successful and wealthy writer, then you need to write for money. You can pursue a dream of becoming a starving writer living in a garret if you want to, but it's much better to earn a large salary for your work and live comfortably. Deborah Owen - Developing Your Style By : Deborah Owen Style is defined in several ways: it is a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; it is how something is done or how it happens; it is the popular taste at a given time. Deborah Owen - Why You Should Write For Free By : Deborah Owen Write for ezines that pay in subscriptions, (some will pay $5). Write for your church bulletin and bulletins at work. Go to your local newspaper and ask if they need someone to cover sports and/or political meetings. (These are hard jobs to fill, and almost every paper needs someone in these positions.) Deborah Owen - Why You Should Enter Contests By : Deborah Owen Months later, I received a letter congratulating me for taking Honorable Mention. And there before me was the most beautiful, memorable, framable, coveted certificate, confirming that I had beaten out 16,000 other entries to capture that spot. I couldn’t believe it. MY story was better than thousands and thousands of other stories! I sat dumbfounded, staring at the Certificate of Honorable Mention, which had suddenly taken on new dimensions of highlighted achievements. Daniel Millions - How to Score Big With Term Papers By : Daniel Millions The deadline for your term paper is so essential to receive the highest grade possible for your work. Pay attention to the deadline and create a schedule for working on your term paper regularly. You have to make the schedule livable and constant otherwise you will run into a time crunch with any other assignments Daniel Millions - How to Use the Five Paragraph Essay Writing Format By : Daniel Millions The five paragraph essay explores a subject by providing three persuasive points that support the main opinion of the essay. The order of the outline is as follows: introduction, persuasive point one, persuasive point two, persuasive point three and closing. This outline follows a logical order for presenting an opinion, backing it up with supporting ideas and forming the final overall opinion. Daniel Millions - Tips to Improve Your Dissertation Writing Skills By : Daniel Millions Be determined and develop a regular schedule that you can live with and which will allow you to develop your dissertation on time. You can in short bursts every day, if that method works better than scheduling regular longer sessions. The best schedule includes both lengths of sessions. Daniel Millions - How to Develop Strong Thesis Writing Skills By : Daniel Millions Ultimately, thesis writing revolves around writing a formal opinion piece. The stronger thesis statement expresses an opinion rather than just providing a statement about the subject. A good thesis statement makes the entire work much better. Daniel Millions - Different Styles of Term Paper Writing By : Daniel Millions The different style formats concern the proper citation of digital sources of information. A citation for electronic sources is meant to give as much information as possible about the source. This is important because web pages can be impermanent and the Internet source that was once there, can disappear overnight. The more information that can be detailed about an Internet source, the easier it will be later to verify the previous existence if that becomes necessary. Daniel Millions - The Key to Writing Outstanding College Essays By : Daniel Millions The busy, often poorly-planned college lifestyle can sometimes making writing an essay difficult. Some students get desperate, copying and pasting another students online. Other students pay a friend to write an essay for them. A variety of websites offer to sell custom-written essays to students. Daniel Millions - Six Step Term Paper Writing Guide By : Daniel Millions These six steps provide a good template for research paper writing and should be strictly followed. Depending on the level of schooling the research paper is for, this guide can be used from the high school to the college level in most cases. Daniel Millions - Step by Step How to Write Research Papers By : Daniel Millions There are different collections of information that can be used as resource portals. You can find research material at archives, private collections, government offices, libraries and many churches. Your school library is just one portal to the resources that will prove your thesis statement. Reliable resources come in a variety of forms including book, magazine, CD, website page, audio files, micro film, micro fiche, VHS tapes, DVDs and other Daniel Millions - How to Write Successful College Term Papers By : Daniel Millions With the importance of the college term paper in mind, you can see why it is a good habit to start working on a term paper as soon as it has been assigned. Waiting until the last minute to start and finish the term paper can result in a lower mark than that which could have been achieved if the paper had been started earlier. Daniel Millions - How to Write an Essay Paper By : Daniel Millions The very first thing that you need to do before anything else is to decide upon the topic or question that you want to write the essay on. This sounds straight forward but just because something sounds interesting does not necessarily make it a straight forward question to tackle. You should look into what resources there are available in order to fully investigate the topic. As you engage with the research you should begin to formulate the relevant issues and arguments that relate to the question and ultimately the conclusions that you will finish the essay on. Deborah Owen - Choosing Your Market By : Deborah Owen If, for example, you like to write mysteries, don’t waste your time submitting to Better Homes and Gardens, or Woman’s World. Submit mysteries to a magazine that buys mysteries. You may think that would go without saying, but you’d be surprised how many writers try to sell to the wrong markets, or to magazines they haven’t even read. (NEVER try to sell to a magazine you haven’t read.) Jay Gaulard - Write and Read Articles Online: Why You Should Do it Too By : Jay Gaulard If you are a writer wanting to be heard, write online articles. If you are a reader looking for information about certain subjects, read online articles. It's that simple. Millions of people have discovered the benefits of writing and reading articles online. So, what is the big attraction and what's in it for you? Lee Emory - Time: Waiting in Vain By : Lee Emory Most authors today have to manage time to write around their day jobs, raising children, caring for a husband or other family members. So where does the time come from? When do you sleep? More importantly, when do you have time for just you? Lee Emory - Writing Away Diminishing Hopes: The Dark, Stark Realities By : Lee Emory If you're an author who has been writing for a long time, then you have already experienced the many roadblocks thrown up in our paths. Most especially the last few years. Large publishing houses and large organizations such as Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime (the list goes on) have now passed clearly discriminatory bylaws prohibiting the acknowledgement of writers and their books unless their publishing houses print a thousand to however many thousand books of each title. Lee Emory - Must I Outline? By : Lee Emory Ever hear anyone say that to you? I have, all too frequently. If I had a buck for every time I signed books and someone standing in line waiting for me to sign one said, "I've always wanted to be a writer, but…" Then there are those who tell you, "I've got this great story idea…" and they proceed to try to tell you the entire storyline while others are patiently waiting, or not so patiently waiting, book in hand, to speak to you. Simon Barrett - Book Review: My Seven Years in Captivity by Bill Seaton By : Simon Barrett Author Bill Seaton worked as the PR guy for the zoo in the 1960's, and My Seven Years In Captivity is a very personal look at the San Diego zoo. This is by no means a serious book, it is very much humor, yet there is an undertone that reveals the love that Bill has for this wonderful establishment and the love that those working at the zoo have for the animals. Simon Barrett - Book Review: Considering SomeplacElse by B. L. Lindstrom By : Simon Barrett The action takes place in Chandler, Arizona, and a less likely setting for utopia I cannot think of! A once homeless man wins a $200 million jackpot lottery and sets about creating a Utopian paradise, free housing, free medical, free transportation, in fact free everything. Better still the society is green and sustainable. Utopia indeed. Deborah Owen - Why Can't I Sell Stories And Articles? By : Deborah Owen I have old stories, good stories, sitting around and waiting for the right magazine to be invented. I have untold hours tied up in those abundant efforts, yet there they sit. If only one of my teachers had told me to target my market first and then write for it, it would have saved me hundreds of work hours and much discouragement. The same thing will happen to you if you don’t target your market. Brian Scott - How to Write Better Headlines By : Brian Scott While we are looking mainly at the main headline, these tips can also help with subheadings. Because most people will just scan your page before making their decision, subheadings will help capture their attention, build curiosity, or point out benefits. Mark McCullagh - 8 Tips to Create a Blog Post That Gets Your Reader's Attention By : Mark McCullagh The biggest challenges facing most bloggers is not only creating content on a regular basis, but also writing posts that will actually get read by your target audience Have you ever landed on a blog and found yourself looking at a huge amount of text that looked like one big sentence
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