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 | Battling Internet ADD: Ten Tips for Writing for the Web | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 39 | | 1. Write for a reason Get to the point. One of the basic references for Web design is Steve Krug's, Don't Make Me Think. My book for Web writers (not yet available in stores) will be called, Don't Ma... | |
| New Year's Resolutions for Writers | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 53 | | Whether you're an experienced writer looking to boost your career or a complete novice desperate to break into the world of freelance writing, there's a good chance that you'll be using the New Year ... | |
| Misspelled Scriptures | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 45 | | One way to confirm that cyberspace is the great equalizer is to observe the quality of editing that exists ... I am truly amazed at the mangling endured by the English language on a significant numbe... | |
| I've Got All These Goals, Now What? | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 51 | | Setting goals is the first step in achieving success. The goals themselves are useless if we don't achieve them and sadly the majority of goals and resolutions created fail to materialize. So, once... | |
| What Do Directors Look For In A Script? | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 55 | | I'm currently directing an independent feature called Captain Felder's Cannon. During preproduction, one of the writers asked me whether I wanted all the setups numbered. She wanted to break each sc... | |
| Superchery | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 56 | | The best way to cheapen anything is to overuse it ... I recall a sports clip from many years ago, where a veteran basketball player near the end of his career was reminiscing about his prime and comp... | |
| How to be a Good Spokesman | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 83 | | A battle is won when a leader is successful. We can find a large number of examples in World history. Today we can also see that the statement is quite true. There will never be a result if the lead ... | |
| What is the Three Act Structure? | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 49 | | As the craft of writing has evolved, it has naturally formed the plot structure most pleasant to the human mind. This is the Three Act Structure, and it applies to short stories, novels and screenpla... | |
| Nice Twist | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 57 | | The legendary George Carlin made a career out of calling attention to the difference between how words and phrases are perceived as opposed to what they're 'actually' saying ... He would ask wonderfu... | |
| Get Your Book Done … Now! | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 48 | | I don't believe in writer's block. (I can hear the gasps of disbelief already.) Listen: If you hire a plumber to come to your house and fix a problem, do you expect him to say, "Sorry, I can't figure... | |
| Why Do We Play Dirty? | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 53 | | There are a lot of things nowadays that we don't really want to talk about. These are everyday things that we do and don't even think about what we are doing exactly. We get so focused on our everyd... | |
| Creative Writing Technique: Visualization | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 55 | | Visualization is one of the best techniques to use when plotting a story. It's like watching a movie in your mind, only the movie is your story. You can see all the scenes and events playing out, fro... | |
| Seven Secrets of Writing a Book that Sells | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 50 | | It's one thing to write a book, it's an entirely different thing to write one that's a saleable, viable, marketable product. Ensuring the success of a book is something even the biggest publishers ha... | |
| Getting Syndicated | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 65 | | Over the years I've spoken to a number of authors who say they aspire to write a syndicated column. Getting syndicated is a great idea, albeit a challenging one. If you've thought of this no doubt mo... | |
| Beauty That We Don't Have The Power Over | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 58 | | It is amazing how blind we can sometimes be. We never have time to stop and look around, all wrapped up in our everyday routine. It is absolutely necessary to pay attention to all that surrounds you ... | |
| Publicity from Thirty-Thousand Feet | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 51 | | We all know that marketing a book is a process. But sometimes the process takes longer than we'd anticipated. That's why it's nice every now and again to hop aboard the publicity jet and get a look-s... | |
| How to Succeed as a Writer | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 52 | | As a professional copywriter, I'm often asked by aspiring copywriters what they need to do to succeed. Most of their questions center around writing ability. They want to know how to find out if they... | |
| Don't Let Your Book Promotion Specialist Disappoint You | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 64 | | When authors place sole responsibility for their book promotion campaigns into a book publicist's lap and leave it there, the results are often disappointing. Despite their best intentions, book publ... | |
| Writing From An Amateur Perspective | | | November 22, 2008, 12:00 am | visits: 39 | | So, you want to be a writer? You probably have some background in writing, perhaps did well in school with the subject, or have simply always liked the idea of writing for fun and even for profit. Wh... | |
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