It’s amazing being a writer. You have the power to express yourself, to shape the way others see the world and to make things happen. Long after your footprints vanish from the sands of time, the words you write will be read, shared and remembered. But ar…

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It’s amazing being a writer. You have the power to express yourself, to shape the way others see the world and to make things happen. Long after your footprints vanish from the sands of time, the words you write will be read, shared and remembered. But are you more than a writer? Because you see, the industry certainly expects you to be. This article shares the success secrets most writing schools will never tell you!

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OVERVIEWTo create an effective User Document, the writer must know who he/she is writing for. This article presents four dimensions (Skills, Attitude, Knowledge and Experience) for describing the User of your product (your Documentation Reader), and …

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If you want to paid to publish your book (through a traditional publisher, as opposed to self-publishing and paying all the costs yourself), it helps a lot to get a literary agent. The Big Six New York publishers won’t even consider a manuscript unless it…

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In Alain de Bottons engaging book, The Art of Travel, he distinguishes between the anticipation and recollection of travel versus the reality of actually traveling.When we anticipate, we study travel brochures and create in our imagination all sorts of exotic adventures, lying ahead of us. Once really there, we photograph the Eiffel Tower with our friends or family, their arms slung over one anothers shoulders and grinning into the camera. That forms the recollection, t…

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OVERVIEWA good User Document includes sections on how to set up, use, and care for the product. However, to create a great User Document , the technical writer should use the Persona, generated in the analysis of the User/Reader, to create the topics…

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Writers block is one of those mysterious ailments that is blamed for late assignments, missed deadlines, and failed dreams. Some people claim it is merely a myth while others find it plagues their writing.As someone with more than two decades of professional writing, editing and teaching experience I feel quite strongly that in 99.9 percent of reported cases of writers block are nothing more than a chimera. In my opinion, far too many would-be writers spend far too much t…

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I’m a great fan of article marketing — and of reading articles. But I’m always amazed how much money most authors leave on the table, because they fail to properly execute the two most vital parts of the operation.

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The fiction novel, This Earth of Mankind, by Pramoedya Ananta Toer was written in third person. Minke, the main protagonist acted as a narrator of a series of followed events that had maintained the stirring air in the novel. Since history is a set of sub…

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Have you ever wondered how publishers go about deciding whether to publish a manuscript?I recently talked to Andrea Mullins, the publisher of New Hope Publishers (who just happen to be the publisher of my book, Abundant Gifts). Andrea outlined the pro…

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One of the best things you can do with your articles is to submit your articles to publishing companies. This is a key way to get back links to your site for your articles. It is by now a well known fact that by writing and publishing your articles you ca…

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Write for the readerKeep your readers in mind. They might not be aware of your product/service, so you need to educate them and give clear and high-impact information that is laid out well and is easy to read. If you write pages and pages of text, you…

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The murder mystery genre is alive and well and living at an on-line bookstore just a mouse click away. How is it that this over-utilized method of story-telling has remained so fresh and compelling after well over a hundred years? The answer lies in the basics of writing.Grab Them Where it Hurts and Their Minds Will FollowAn author must first and foremost always tell a compelling story, involving, to one extent or another, recognizable three-dimensional characters. T…

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OVERVIEWSearches in User Documents (manuals, etc.) often fail because the Reader uses different words for a concept than the author uses. Since the Reader’s words do not appear in the document, the document search mechanism cannot find them, resulting…

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Step 1: Brainstorm a few subjects or ideas your poem could to rotate around.Step 2: Once you’ve come up with your idea, choose a writing style you would like to use. Possible styles include limerick, quatrain, and acrostic poems. Step 3: When yo…

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The most critical lesson in writing a love scene is that it is similar to making love in the real world: when done well, it is messy, chaotic and somewhat animalistic. The civilized approach does not work; it leads to the greatest drawback of all: predictability.Does this sound familiar? The leading man and woman dislike one another intensely; something happens and they see another side of the other; in spite of their best efforts to deny it, they find themselves attracte…

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The main objective of any presentation is to communicate effectively and efficiently the information, the ideas or plans with the audience. Speaking before an audience and making an effective presentation is an art, which has to be learnt with serious eff…

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Getting published in today’s competitive fiction market is as easy, or difficult, as learning the 3Rs—Reading, wRiting, and Research. But it also involves three words that are key to the process—persistence, persistence, persistence. Just as a buddi…

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Let’s face a couple of facts: 1. Writing a book will take a chunk of time and energy. 2. Your life is already full, and you have no extra time.Given these two facts, how can you make the time to write the book you have inside your head, the book tha…

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I’m a great fan of article marketing — and of reading articles. But I’m always amazed how much money most authors leave on the table, because they fail to properly execute the two most vital parts of the operation.These are:*The title and summary…

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Do you know how to dominate your nice?, if not then as any successful internet marketer would tell you, you will need unique content. However, this can be easier said than done, it can take a lot of your hard earned money to employ a writer for your unique content.

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Traditionally, fiction authors have found it very difficult to get publicity outside of media that reviews books. That’s because they’ve been focusing on their book, rather than the topic.The way novelists can get publicity is to highlight their exper…

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In the first article of this two part series, we looked at the vital art of getting your article actually read. Now we’ll look at how to get the reader to visit your web site.

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Before starting the exciting journey of writing a novel, check the true level of your enthusiasm. In an informal survey of writers, the “why are you considering writing a novel” factor strongly affects the success of completing the “how to write” …

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You may have never considered self-publishing as an option for your book or even considered publishing at all for your work. Publishing a book is extremely effective in broadcasting your message, ministry, or organization. A book gives you the ability to thoroughly inform, educate, and inspire your audience on what you are teaching. A book also adds another very lucrative stream of income to your organization that will enhance your existing ones.

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We all know that growing a ministry is financially difficult. The constant problem in non-profit organizations is the lack of money. The most successful organizations are the ones that develop a line of products and services that can be bought by the general public without the public feeling like theyre just giving money away. Everybody teaches these days on being a giver but the truth is people still dont just give as much money as they spend on buying the things that they want. When they get something of value in return for giving their hard earned dollars, a fair exchange is created. You then become a resource instead of just being a charity.

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You are sick of duplicate content? Welcome to the club. What should you do different than 95% of article writers on the net?Article directories and the web in general have been flooded by a tsunami of junk content on just about any topic you can imagine.However, a great deal of this content does not contain anything useful and is pure advertisement or keyword stuffing. This type of content will hardly get read by anyone.The people that produce this type of content…

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We as a generation are responsible to build on what was established before us as we are responsible to educate and train the next generation. We are supposed to be committed as pastors, community leaders, as parents, older brothers, aunts, and teachers to help those who come after us grow and carry the torch of development and change on into the future. One of the most effective ways I have witnessed this being successfully accomplished is through books. It is the Holy Bible that continues to regulate the minds of millions of people all around the world and the best and most lasting format that has ever been created to sustain history and the account of the ages is the book. Not the television, the radio, the satellite, the internet, the cd, the cassette, or the seminar but the book.

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I talk with pastors, organization leaders, and speakers about how they can expand their ministry or organization by developing a line of books and they are simply amazed. When we think of growing or developing our organization many times we think of TV, radio, more programs, etc. but many people just dont think of expanding or developing their organization by publishing a book. This is one of the most powerful ways of growing as an organization for several reasons:

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Publishing your doctoral dissertation can be very effective for the aspiring educator. When go through the blood, sweat, and tears of organizing your thoughts, research, and argument for your dissertation you are at your prime. This is a work that has been well thought out, sources double checked, and all Ts crossed. This is the kind of work that gives way to advancements in the world across the board.

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