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How To Write Poetry

How To Write Poetry  by: Steve Gillman If you want to know how to write poetry, the first thing you have to do is write some. It doesn't matter how it turns out. Your own mistakes will become your teachers. Your own writing will motivate yo...

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“Super Verbs” Really Move Your Copy

By Karon Thackston © 2004http://www.learn-copywriting.comRun or hustle? Eat or devour? Move or scurry? You can boost the power of your copy by boosting the quality of verbs you use. Verbs show action, and the way you describe that action can hav...

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Getting Started in Column Writing

Getting Started in Column Writing by: Mridu Khullar You’ve written many articles for Websites, newsletters and now you’ve even conquered the territory of getting published in a magazine. What’s the next step, you ask? How to I make the edi...

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Making Freelance Writing Niche Types Fit

Making Freelance Writing Niche Types Fit by: Roxanne McDonald Our Freelance Writing Needs Defined We must make freelance niche types fit our needs, wants, values and lifestyles, and we also must make ourselves fit freelance niche types. Of our w...

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What Can The Mystery Writers Of America Learn About Discrimination From The Sneetches?

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA), an organization that defines itself as " the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre," has develop...

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Mind Mapping Your Journal Entries

Clustering, also called Mind Mapping, is a great way to savespace and time when you journal. For those of you thataren't familiar with Mind Mapping, you can search in Googleon the words or read one of Tony Buzan's (the creator)books. At the...

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The Heart of The Delay Harnessing The Wisdom of Procrastination AKA Writer's Block

The Heart of The Delay: Harnessing the Wisdom of Procrastination, AKA Writer’s BlockI am sure that at in some era, at some desk, with some kind of paper (and perhaps some very special ink), some writer has breezed through a lengthy and challenging ...

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To Write Or Not To Write

To Outline or Not To Outline? by Mallory York Ah, the age-old writer's debateto outline or not to outline? Outlines have proven quite effective for a lot of writers, and many of the famous stories we know and lovesuch as Star Warswere outlined b...

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I'm Just The Writer

Writers are often are greatly surprised or disappointed by how their work is changed when it is adapted for the big screen. When Irwin Shaw's World War II novel The Young Lions was shot in Paris in 1958, the Nazi character was played by Marlon B...

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The Secret "Why" For Writing

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are...

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