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3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals

3 Tips to Achieve Your Writing Goals by: Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ 1. Make your goals achievable. By achievable, we mean realistic and attainable. You might unconsciously have set a goal even others will have a hard time achieving, even if the...

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What Can Go Into A Plot?

What Can Go Into A Plot? by: Nick Vernon Creative Writing Tips – We all tackle plotting differently. How you plot will be individual to you, as it is with every writer. Below is an outline of what can go into a plot. How much you choose to dev...

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Technical Writing in India

Technical Writing in India by: Nithya KTechnical Writing in India: Is it as good as anywhere else?Technical Writing generally translates to a piece of writing that conjures up an image in the mind of a layman about any device or software applica...

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Novel to Screenplay The Challenges of Adaptation. Some basic steps when adapting a novel to the screenplay form.

ADAPTATION 101Brimming with confidence, you’ve just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe’s fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. “What was I thinking? How the de...

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10 Tips for Effective Proofreading

10 Tips for Effective Proofreading by: Jean Hanson Proofreading may not be terribly fun, but it's one of the most important parts of writing. Have you ever read a web page or a document that had typos, grammatical errors, and punctuation m...

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It's More Than Just the Writing

I carry the torch of good writing: make no mistake about that. But there is another critical piece to conveying messages successfully in today's hurry-up, fast-paced, techno-world. That piece is the design of your documents. No, you don't...

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If You Respect Them, They Will BuyClosing the Sale

We've all had the unfortunate experience of being convinced by apushy salesperson to buy something we weren't sure we wanted. Youmay have really wanted the product, but after being pushed intobuying it, you don't want it anymore. You e...

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Being the Butt of an Article

A writer friend of mine just forwarded me an email that someone has just sent her. She’s a brand new writer, has a column going in her local paper, and really enjoys writing. The email she was sent is as follows, only the name of the person sending...

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Writing as a Gift

Writing as a Gift by: Jenna GlatzerWhat am I supposed to give Anthony as a wedding gift? I asked Kristin, my bridesmaid and person-who-was-married. I mean, what kinds of things do brides give their grooms? I was thinking of hiring someone to cle...

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8 Tips to Get Publishers to Notice You

8 Tips to Get Publishers to Notice You by: Brandie KingIf your articles aren't getting published very often, or you just want to increase the chances of them being published, then you will benefit from the tips in this article. 1. Article L...

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