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September 30, 2006

A Writer's Forum: Time Waster or Valuable

The use of an online forum for writers is viewed as a 'waste of time' by some and a 'valuable tool of encouragement' by others. Should you participate in an online forum? If so, when is too much of a good thing just 'too

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Posted by Murray at 05:35 PM

Writing Help: An Overlooked Writing Strategy to a Better Writing

This quick tip zeroes in on how adding a unique, eloquent structure-a noun absolute-to writing can vary style and improve prose. The focus of this article lies on often ignored structural advice. Writing's overall organization and flow carries much weight in determining how well written something is, but the way ideas are communicated through individual sentences houses a great deal of, often untapped, power as well. This article focuses on tapping into some of that

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Posted by Perry at 04:07 PM

Screenwriting - Story Plot Asks a Question and Characters Answer

For over ten years I've thought about the fascinating question of the relationship between a story plot and characters in a screenplay. At long last I believe I solved the puzzle to my own satisfaction. I'm sharing my answer here with the hopes that it will help all my fellow screenwriters struggling with the pseudo problem of whether the "story" or the "characters" is more important in writing a

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Posted by Peter at 03:27 PM

Memoirs: Reality TV in

Has the rise in the popularity of reality television given a boost to a very specific writing genre? Memoirs are growing in popularity and writers may have to thank television for their newfound

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Posted by Ryan at 02:54 PM

How I Finally Completed My First Digital

Making easy money on the internet was a dream for me for several years. It sounded so pleasant to develop a product or a website, do some marketing and then leave it and collect money on a regular basis from an almost forgotten project. My biggest dream was to write an eBook that would just bring in that easy money for the rest of my life. I found that it was not that easy at

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Posted by Jason at 01:06 PM

Fluff Elimination: Compaction

Have you worked through the elimination of fluff in your writing? Have you removed nonessentials? Have you eliminated excess adjective use? This article addresses these issues and helps you learn to define the core purpose of a

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Posted by Greg at 11:24 AM

iUniverse - The New Face of

Print on demand service offering publishers several different publishing plans.

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Posted by John at 10:53 AM

Why Do Writers Write About

Have you ever considered how much; How To; information there is about writing? There is a ton. As I explored becoming a writer I was amazed at the amount of advice out there as I got going and now having taught myself to write I am somewhat happy I never read any of it. Why you ask; do I like doing things the hard

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Posted by Jason at 09:48 AM