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How to Generate Believable Characters for Your Stories

Readers love getting involved with the characters in your stories. They want fleshed-out real life people that they can sympathise with and feel a connection to. All it needs is a few minutes thought and an action plan. The secret to developing a be...

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Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 3: Values, Vision, Purpose, Mission Objectives

Your Values The first component is the core values on which you will be basing your vision. Values speak to your true essence and represent who you are and what you stand for. Experts have pointed out that if a person were to lose one of their core ...

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THE COLDEST WINTERS OF OUR LIVES: Using The Changing Seasons in Our Writing

I had not seen snow in 21 years, that is, until I recently rode through a snowstorm in Cheyenne, Wyoming mountains. Nor did I clearly remember how the leaves change in autumn on the east coast, and how they resemble flames leaping towards the sky in ...

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What Makes a Good Magazine Query?

Any successful magazine writer will tell you that query letters are the key to breaking in to the business. In a query letter (these are increasingly emails rather than hard-copy letters), you pitch your fantastic story idea to an editor and request...

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How Not To Get Your Book Published

You've got a great idea for a book and you're raring to go. You're sure it will become a best-seller. You start to fantasize about the great jacket blurbs you're going to get, and whom you will thank in your Oscar acceptance speec...

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Why Do We Publish?

Why Do We Publish? by: Michael LaRocca A major "character" in Mark Salzman's first autobiography is his father. Sometimes his father paints. But his father hates painting. He likes it when his painting is done. He likes having painted. But ...

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Writing Short Info Reports

Writing Short Info Reports by: Dan J. FryPeople want information, they want it quick, frequently in short form, and straight to the point. Its no wonder that they go straight for a computer connected to the internet to find anything from how to ...

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7 Tips On How To Locate Junior Editors for Your Children'sBook

Are you writing a children’s book nonfiction or fiction?Here are a few tips on how to test your almost final draft.And test your manuscript on the same audience that is goingto read the book. Make them junior editors.1. Talk with a teacher at your...

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Need a Great Idea Feed Your Brain

A lot of great ideas happen when two or more other ideas collide to form something completely new. Think of this like those old chemistry movies we used to watch in school. You had all of those atoms floating around and when two collided bam! A chem...

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EBooks - How To Triple Your Earnings

It's not the medium that matters, it's the words! Your publications are not doing you money if they're sitting in your drawer due to the fact some initially, second or third year school college student was obtaining a undesirable hair...

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