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Shimmerfall writes "By
Karen Elizabeth Rigley
Storms of life can leave you battered and shipwrecked from your writing. Whatever the crisis, the resulting chaos can dam up your ability to create. It’s difficult, sometimes nearly impossible, to be creative and inspired when you’re in turmoil – emotionally or physically. You feel drained. As if the ability to write’s been sucked out, leaving you empty. Words that once bubbled forth, vanish.
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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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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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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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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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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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By: Alyice Edrich
Three years ago I was approached by the director of a new company who needed a few ghostwritten articles and wanted to know my fees. The first part of the letter addressed “Dear writer”, not me personally, which tells me this director was mass submitting this request to several writers he found online. Not that much of a big deal, I thought to myself, I could easily reply with a quote. But here’s where the query for a writer got me clicking the delete button instead…
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By Marige O'Brien
Writers have long been considered eccentric on one level or another. Even in today's more isolated society, the concept of someone choosing to spend time alone is suspect. But to a writer is to be alone. As for the eccentricities, those are more a matter of the create mind finding creative solutions. Since writing is their biggest challenge, it follows that a writer's solutions may be the most eccentric. Even mad.
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You hold in your mind an entire tale. Millions of facts and details sit there, waiting to be
written down. You want to share all this with your readers, who know absolutely nothing about
your tale before they begin to read. What do you tell them first? How can you introduce them to
all you have to say in a way that will grab their interest?
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By Alyice Edrich
Last year an email arrived asking if I would ever consider writing articles for a dating website and what would the cost be per article. My reply was as follows:
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