| 591 | Create PDF Ebooks fast and FREE! Here's how! Preview: Easily produce PDF Ebooks for FREE! Are you thinking about writing your own ebook? Have you already written your own ebook and have been frustrated with the existing ebook compiling software? Have you wanted to create your own PDF ebooks (PDF is the PREFERED format for ebooks) but found the software far to expensive, complicated, and daunting... (more) Published By: Terah J. Logan Submitted: 18 April,2004 |
| 592 | Lighten up, just a little Preview: Humor has a place in every day life. It is a part of our conversations, our entertainment, even our personalities. Humor is used to lighten the mood, relate to others, to deal with stress and pain. It is in our workplace, our home and it should be in our books. A sign posted at a beauty shop: “All work done while you wait.” A sign posted at a me... (more) Published By: Lisa Hood Submitted: 18 April,2004 |
| 593 | 5 Reasons People Like Technology White Papers Preview: 5 Reasons People Like Technology White Papers by Christine Taylor, President of Keyword Writing A good white paper is a paper that makes you look good. You look good when your white paper makes sense, when it’s readable, when it concentrates on benefits and examples, and when it’s easy to get. Here’s why: Reason #1. Many people would rather di... (more) Published By: Christine Taylor Submitted: 18 April,2004 |
| 594 | Top Ten Ways to Write a Book That Sells Preview: Top Ten Ways to Write a Book That Sells Judy Cullins c. 2004 All Rights Reserved. Is there a book inside of you? Yes? Then why don't you write it? Or, if you've already written a book, wouldn't you like to sell more? So many of you have a great idea for a book, even a dynamite title, but much more is needed to write a book that sells. Here's the ... (more) Published By: Judy Cullins Submitted: 20 April,2004 |
| 595 | How Ghost writing Articles and Booklets Can Earn You Big Money! Preview: Do you want to make $5000, $10,000 or more every month as a freelancer? Does your current published materials earn you that much or are you still struggling looking for new jobs every month? Well, ghost writing articles and books for businesses could earn you a lot of money and end your painful quest for writing jobs. Making money as a freelance... (more) Published By: By: Abdallah Khamis Abdallah Submitted: 26 April,2004 |
| 596 | Teacher Turns Entrepreneur Preview: Kristi Sayles, a second grade teacher from Camden, Tennessee, has been writing professionally since 1985 when she sold her first article to GRIT (a family-oriented magazine) for a whopping $35.00. A public school teacher for almost ten years, as well as a counselor for the West Tennessee Writing Project, Sayles combined her love of writing with he... (more) Published By: Diana Barnum Submitted: 26 April,2004 |
| 597 | Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors Preview: Web Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors 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 fo... (more) Published By: Catherine Franz Submitted: 28 April,2004 |
| 598 | Using Body Language to create Believable Characters Preview: Have you ever had a “Gut” feeling about someone? You meet someone and a little voice says: "I like him” or “I don’t trust her”. Have you ever wondered why you formed that immediate opinion? Body language plays a big role in intuition as it gives us messages about the other person that we can interpret at an intuitive level. We are alwayscommunic... (more) Published By: Lisa Hood Submitted: 04 May,2004 |
| 599 | Understanding Editorial Guidelines Preview: Editorial guidelines, also known as writer's guidelines, are the rules set forth by publishers for contributing authors. In order to have your article taken seriously you must review the guidelines prior to submission. It is also recommended that you review previous editions of the publication to get a better feel for the types of articles favored... (more) Published By: Bonnie Jo Davis Submitted: 08 May,2004 |
| 600 | Get To The Point Preview: As a scientist I attend several international conferences every year to give talks, show posters, and exchange ideas with my colleagues. Many of the talks have time limits of 7 minutes with 3 minutes for questions. Have you ever sat down and timed yourself to see what you can say in 7 minutes? Its not much, let me tell you. Even from a discipline... (more) Published By: Dan J. Fry Submitted: 13 May,2004 |
| 601 | To Write Or Not To Write Preview: To Outline or Not To Outline? by Mallory York Ah, the age-old writer's debate--to outline or not to outline? Outlines have proven quite effective for a lot of writers, and many of the famous stories we know and love--such as Star Wars--were outlined before they were fleshed out into a living, breathing story. (Well, metaphorically l... (more) Published By: Mallory York Submitted: 18 May,2004 |
| 602 | In Praise of Personal Pronouns Preview: Rudolph Flesch, a pioneering advocate of readability, put great stock in the liveliness of the written word. One way of getting that liveliness into our writing, he said, is to use the personal pronouns: you, me, I, we, us, he, she, him, her, and they. When we use personal pronouns, several important things happen. For starters, we personalize o... (more) Published By: Robert F. Abbott Submitted: 19 May,2004 |
| 603 | Interview with Suspense Author Peter Abrahams Preview: Interview with Thriller Writer Peter Abrahams by Jennifer Minar Peter Abrahams is the author of thirteen novels, including "The Tutor," (Ballantine Books) "A Perfect Crime," (Ballantine Books), "The Fan" (Fawcett Books), and most recently, "Their Wildest Dreams" (Ballantine Books). Known for his sharp wit and incredible gift for keeping readers ... (more) Published By: Jennifer Minar Submitted: 20 May,2004 |
| 604 | The Why's, How's and Where's of Research Preview: When I decided to write a murder mystery; with my main characters as the investigators, I had a few problems to overcome: 1) I have never been murdered 2) I have never committed a murder 3) I have never investigated a murder 4) I have never known anyone who has been murdered, committed a murder nor investigated a murder I’m sure, as a write... (more) Published By: Lisa Hood Submitted: 21 May,2004 |
| 605 | Listen Up and Improve your Writing Preview: Are you a good listener? Almost everyone will answer this question affirmatively. However, listening is not the same as hearing; it requires concentration, effort and practice. To be an effective listener, you must be an active participant of communication, not just the passive recipient. If you’re a writer, you need to be a good listener, no mak... (more) Published By: Lisa Hood Submitted: 24 May,2004 |
| 606 | My Free eBook Will Get You Started On Writing for Profit Preview: I make my living as a writer in the niche non-fiction genre, churning out traditional and digitally published titles that consistently feature in the bestseller lists. (Don’t take my word for this statement though: check me out at Amazon.com for examples of my hard copy produce). As a consequence of my endeavors I’ve picked up more than a few wrin... (more) Published By: Jim Green Submitted: 01 June,2004 |
| 607 | Going On A Word Diet Preview: There are three ways to write a first draft. One is to ink whatever surfaces, in whatever order without regard to grammar, spelling or staying on topic. After the free write, the points, and message extracted for notes or an outline. Time is its adversary and clarity chisels its way forward slowly. Or start with a plan that minimally includes a p... (more) Published By: Catherine Franz Submitted: 01 June,2004 |
| 608 | Make Your Writing Sing With Structure Preview: At some point, every serious writer is forced to sit down and conclude that there is something seriously wrong with their work. It wanders. It is pretty in some spots and horribly ugly in others. It doesn't always make sense, and is uneven in places. Even though every sentence is grammatically correct, there is something fundamentally broken abo... (more) Published By: Robert Warren Submitted: 03 June,2004 |
| 609 | Alternative View Points and the Lamp of Creativity Preview: Pictures they say are worth a thousand words, but many writers know that they are worth much more than that! Without decent photographs or other artwork to accompany an article many features published in todays magazines and newspapers would never see the light of day, so it makes sense to try and supply illustrations along with your submissions... (more) Published By: Sue Kendrick Submitted: 03 June,2004 |
| 610 | PERFECT PITCH - Query Letters that Kill Preview: If you are reading this then you are either looking for information on how to write a query letter or your curiosity has been exited by the heading. Either way, the article has grabbed your attention and hopefully what you will read here will live up to your expectations and that in a nutshell is what a good query letter is all about! Grabbing th... (more) Published By: Sue Kendrick Submitted: 03 June,2004 |