I started editing novels in 2001. Looking back at my experiences, I feel like sharing the most common mistakes I’ve seen. If you’ll go through your manuscript and fix these before you submit it to a publisher, your odds of publication will increase dramatically.

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Once upon a time, there was a young man who very much wanted to be in show business, or more specifically, making movies. He attended one of the best film schools in the world, while there discovered the joys of writing and producing and everyone around …

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Writing articles is nothing more than common sense coupled with a spell-checker program and a little imagination. Plus, the 3 Rules I am about to share with you. First, though, let me tell you about how a high school dropout learned how to write by copyin…

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Don’t they drive you nuts?You can visit all the rules of style you want, and you can read all the books and articles you want. You’ll still be confused. You’ll see inconsistency. You’ll see experts who don’t agree with each other. And you’ll pull out …

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Once upon a time, there was a young man who very much wanted to be in show business, or more specifically, making movies. He attended one of the best film schools in the world, while there discovered the joys of writing and producing and everyone around …

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The best way to start honing good writing skills is by learning to write good essays.

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Once upon a time, there was a young man who very much wanted to be in show business, or more specifically, making movies. He attended one of the best film schools in the world, while there discovered the joys of writing and producing and everyone around …

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Most books aren’t rejected because the stories are “bad.” They’re rejected because they’re not “ready to read.” In short, minor stuff like typos, grammar, spelling, etc.I don’t mean places where we, as authors, deliberately break the rules. Those are …

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A short article about creative headline or email subject writing.

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A short article about overcoming fear and being more productive.

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The Internet will not replace traditional promotional efforts, but it can enhance them. Before I go into the Internet, I want to talk about the old-fashioned marketing methods, because they’re still your best source of readers.=====BOOKSTORESM…

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A short article about creative headline or email subject writing.

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Once upon a time, there was a young man who very much wanted to be in show business, or more specifically, making movies. He attended one of the best film schools in the world, while there discovered the joys of writing and producing and everyone around him had high expectations about his career. Yet for more years than he cares to admit, that career was stalled…

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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 the act of painting itself is, in his opinion, a big p…

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The big question. Do you submit directly to publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you? Based on anecdotal evidence I’ve heard, it can work either way. Many publishers refuse to read unagented submissions, but on the other hand Tom Clanc…

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Almost everyone thinks they know how to write a screenplay. Weve all heard someone watching TV saying I could write better script than that!Perhaps everyone DOES have a story to tell? The question remains, why dont they become screenwriters?Most p…

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I’m often asked, “How important is humor in a Safe Money Seminar? Can’t I just deliver the content without trying to get laughs?” Yes you can. But in the words of Dr. Charles Ja…

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I love article sites! Why? Because you can write articles about your chosen subject, publish them for free and you reap all the rewards. You get to voice you opinion on your chosen subject area. Becoming a web author is fun. There is a great feeling …

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AICIM has launched an exciting new free site for writers and publishers. The new site is Article-Publicity.com featuring a robust user interface and professional look. There will be hundreds of articles and book reviews to search through. There are easy e-zine additions for the newsletter publisher too!

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What is a Freelance Copywriter?By George Chilton, Freelance CopywriterCopywriting some answers: - Advertising copy, Other Print Media and Web-copy I’m often asked what it is that I do. I generally spout something about being a slave to the syste…

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You may be wondering what a Lifestyle Training Company has to do with Public Speaking.For many years at our Lifestyle Centre we trained therapists to treat the whole person and not just symptoms, thus giving relief from many problems of the mind and t…

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Have you ever wondered as what is the importance of writing articles to your websites? You must have come across many article sites specially designed to post the articles you have written. Why are such websites designed and what is their importance? Ju…

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Once upon a time, there was a young man who very much wanted to be in show business, or more specifically, making movies. He attended one of the best film schools in the world, while there discovered the joys of writing and producing and everyone around him had high expectations about his career. Yet for more years than he cares to admit, that career was stalled.

I learned through painful experience that if you want to succeed as a professional artist in show business, whether it’s as a writer, actor, director or any other craft that’s employed by the networks and studios, you have to treat your career as a small business with yourself as the CEO. As countless people have said to me over the years: is it called Show? Or Business? for a reason…

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Writing website content is an entirely unique concept and is one that few Webmasters ever get to grips with. The reason it is difficult is because most of us are tuned to writing for paper publications, in the same way that our brains find it much easier …

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Creative writing is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. However, you really don’t need a special talent for it. What you need is a paper, a pen and a very good imagination that is worthy of telling your story to other people.With good imagination, you can really capture your audience’s minds and keep them reading your work. However, you have to know that a good imagination is simply not enough when you are writing. You also need to consider quite a few things fir…

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There are more articles than you can count on the internet that all you need to know these days is a mode to search for the right kind of information. That being said, there is a scramble among the different website owners to check for the data being searched by the users so that they can direct these gullible users into visiting their websites and thereby generating revenue for them. The scholarly articles are the ones published by academic publishers or professional organiz…

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Are you a student in high school or college? Have you been one in the past? If so, you know how difficult it can be to write a great essay or term paper. The fact of the matter is that there are times when you will have difficulties getting started. M…

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This article is based on an exclusive two hour interview with the late Robert Ludlum about his career in writing and a discussion of his writing techniques in creating a successful thriller novel.

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Good writing skills are essential for thinking and sharing ideas development. Although conversation takes the major role in sharing human experience, knowledge and new ideas it refers to present times only. Speaking, whatever good it is, does not work whe…

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