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| Writing Advice: 7 Guidelines for Writing a Nonfiction Book |
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BobbiLinkemer writes "By Bobbi Linkemer
You have done all the getting ready anyone could possibly do. Now, it's time to write. This is the one area for which there is no list of instructions. I've been writing more than half my life, and, as I look back, I don't remember anyone actually telling me what to do or how to do it."
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Posted by Rose on Saturday, September 06 @ 20:43:20 EDT (17 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Some Sticky Grammar Situations or How to Avoid Some Ugly Mistakes! |
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Author:Jan K
With the advent of electronic word-processing and spellchecker programs, many people just presume that simply by running spellchecker all of their grammar errors will be caught and corrected. This is simply not so. Spellchecker programs often include some grammar checking, but no man-made program can catch all the innuendoes of the English language.
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, September 02 @ 11:53:06 EDT (46 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Jumpstart your Writing Career: Get your Poetry Published |
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By Rose DesRochers
Do you want to publish your poetry, but don't know where to start? Getting poetry published is not as hard as you might think. My first suggestion is that you purchase a copy of Poet's
Market, which is published annually by Writer's Digest. Poet's Market is full of
useful information as well as publishing opportunities for poets who are looking
to publish their work in magazines, books, contests, and small press publishing
houses. This book is available through
Today's Woman Online
Book Store.
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, September 02 @ 11:44:45 EDT (48 reads)
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| Writing Advice: # When You Write a Book - Should You Self-Publish? |
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By Angela Booth
You're writing a book - should you self-publish? While in the past going the ebook or Print on Demand (POD) route was seen as vanity publishing, that's no longer the case. The big benefit of the DIY approach is that you get to keep all the profits.
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, September 02 @ 11:33:37 EDT (40 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Capturing Ideas |
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Shimmerfall writes "
by Karen Elizabeth Rigley
Nonwriters often ask, "Where do you get your ideas?"
The answer is everywhere. A word or phrase can fire a writer's imagination. Overhearing a conversation in a cafe, or the way a person cocks their head, or watching strangers say goodbye at the airport may spark a story. News items, children's antics, cloud formations, an unusual name or the scent of a nightblooming flower, can be the match to burst a twig-size idea into forest fire.
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, September 02 @ 11:14:54 EDT (70 reads)
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| Writing Advice: 7 Ways to Work Well With a Book Writing Coach |
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BobbiLinkemer writes "By Bobbi Linkemer
Let’s start with a little scenario. You have what you consider to be a great idea for a nonfiction book. Your head is spinning with ideas, and you can hardly wait to get started. Perhaps you have made a list of the main points you want to cover or even begun to write. "
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Posted by Rose on Thursday, August 14 @ 21:27:37 EDT (182 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author |
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By Lisa Maliga
My story is that of an author who’d done online writing for such dot coms as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines. Someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, recommended PublishAmerica. She claimed it was a traditional book publisher. I was struck with their slogan, "We treat writers the old fashioned way – we pay them." Wasn’t that what publishers were supposed to do?
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Posted by Rose on Saturday, August 02 @ 11:39:42 EDT (344 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Writing Jobs - 5 Easy Ways to Avoid Disaster |
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By Angela Booth
Looking for writing jobs? They're everywhere online; writers are in high demand. But do remember that you need to protect yourself - let's look at five easy ways you can avoid disaster.
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Posted by Rose on Sunday, July 27 @ 21:49:11 EDT (378 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Listen To The Critics |
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By Alyice Edrich
Back in 1999, I wrote my very first self-published book. I wrote it in Microsoft Word®, then took it down to Kinko’s to be copied and bound. I sold several of those books without one ounce of feedback—good or bad.
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Posted by Rose on Sunday, June 29 @ 22:39:21 EDT (407 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Subsidy Publishing vs. Self-Publishing |
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By Moira Allen
You've written a book. It's a great book. You know it's needed, that people would buy it. But you can't persuade a commercial publisher to agree. So now you're considering investing your own money to have the book published. When you look at advertisements for "publishing," however, matters become confusing. Many "Publish Your Book" ads look alike -- yet some are for subsidy publishers and others are for printing companies that help authors "self-publish" their work. How can you tell them apart?
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Posted by Rose on Tuesday, June 17 @ 13:32:05 EDT (442 reads)
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