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Tips to Learning from Your Writing Mistakes

You receive your contest entry back. You are so excited! You look at your total score: 20/100. How is that possible? You want to throttle a couple of the judges. Here is a few of their comments: Have you ever read a book in your life!! Your charact...

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Such a thing as bait overload

As ebook publishers we constantly strive to develop new information products that wehope people will find value in, open up their wallets and graciously hand over their hardearned dollars to us in their hope of learning something new or finding an im...

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An Ambarrassment of Riches

http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories cr...

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Book Review: Don't Hate Your Enemies Just Step On Them: The Art Of Loving People

How many times have you been tempted to complain about other people? How many times have you ridiculed, complained at or been hurt by another person's actions? Surely we all have dealt with these types of situations. What is the best way to han...

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The Writing is in the Rewriting. Seven Steps to Getting it Right

Writers who are so fluent, facile and sure-footed that they can write their stuff down and that's the way it runs are rare.Ernest Hemingway rewrote the last paragraph of THE SUN ALSO RISES 28times before he got it right. David Ogilvy confessed t...

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If You Respect Them, They Will BuyClosing the Sale

We've all had the unfortunate experience of being convinced by apushy salesperson to buy something we weren't sure we wanted. Youmay have really wanted the product, but after being pushed intobuying it, you don't want it anymore. You e...

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Writers Turn to the Internet for Support, Friendship and Advice

Writers Turn to the Internet for Support, Friendship and Advice by: Patricia Gatto Riding on the fumes of potential, you take pen to paper or keyboard to monitor. Endless hours of creativity intermingle with apprehension, but your need to write ...

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Thawing Your Writer's Block

When I go through bouts of writer's block, my fingers stiffen,and my brain goes as blank as the snowy screen of a television on the fritz.I don't know about you, but I picture writer's block as somethingcoldlike the frozen engine of a ...

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Learn to Write - Do I Need to be Creative to Write for Children?

One can learn to write children's books but it involves a different level of a writer's creativity to keep children's attention within what you are writing. Children's topics can be most compelling to draw out curiosity from them ...

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SEEKING THE 100th MONKEY

Have you ever noticed... how something "new" is usually viewed withsuspicion and dis-trust until people become familiar with it? This is human(or animal) nature and cannot be discounted. Successful marketers know thisand devise strategies to shorten ...

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