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Write Strategy Think, Believe, Attack

Think of writing like karate...it's about DISCIPLINE.Writing, like other forms of art, work or talent, requires discipline. It won't ever be enough that you say to yourself that you are a writer. Only when you write and write with disciplin...

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Critique The Poem Not The Poet

Critique The Poem Not The Poet by: Rose DesRochers The act of writing poetry is something that is very personal to us poets and sharing it for the first time can be a very frightening experience. The first experience of having your work criticiz...

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Public Speaking As a Tool For Controlling the Masses

Those among us who learn and perfect the art of public speaking attain the means and the power to control and even suppress the rest of us. This world is run by those who can express themselves better and convince his or her fellows that he or she ha...

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How to Choose the Right White Paper Flavor

Want to write a white paper for your business, but don't know what direction to take the project in? A white paper is a piece of marketing literature sponsored by an organization to describe a new or better way to solve a serious problem. Style-...

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Great Black Speakers: Use Of Metaphors In Powerful Speech

Powerful speakers recognize the metaphor as one of the most powerful linguistic tools in their speaking arsenal, and they use them when appropriate. Like their cousin the simile, a metaphor is a figure of speech, meaning that it is a phrase with a me...

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The Writing is in the Rewriting. Seven Steps to Getting it Right

Writers who are so fluent, facile and sure-footed that they can write their stuff down and that's the way it runs are rare.Ernest Hemingway rewrote the last paragraph of THE SUN ALSO RISES 28times before he got it right. David Ogilvy confessed t...

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The Stuff E-mail Query Letters are Made of

The Stuff E-mail Query Letters are Made of by: Mridu Khullar Your mother always told you how first impressions were extremely important. That’s why whenever you go to meet an editor, you dress impeccably, walk confidently and talk as if you ju...

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The Magic of Quotations

All people no matter how good they are in writing or in giving speeches have various problems at the start, within the course and at the end of the activity. Some people simply run out of words or encounter difficulty in expressing and finding the e...

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Introduce Yourself to Local Markets

A minor political scandal broke in the small Mississippi town where I was living, and the local paper scrambled to cover all the angles. Unfortunately, most of their writers lived in larger cities at least 50 miles away which, if you know Mississipp...

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The Hostel

The Hostel by: Liana Metal Read an excerpt from the book: “My name’s Henry,” he told her. “What’s yours?” “Nina,” she replied. He smiled at her. “Nina, a lovely name…,” Henry said. “What did you say?” Nina said. “I c...

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