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how You Can Find Freelance Children's Writing Positions That Will Last
Freelance children’s writing positions are always advertised. Rather, the schooling to learn how to write for these jobs is advertised. But, there is often a large lack of employment vacancies actually available. Many of these companies offering to train individuals in these positions claim that there are quite a few companies offering employment or that will publish their work. In fact, it is up to the individual to find these positions themselves, and as it turns out, it is very difficult ...
Personification Of A Dream: Part 1
The bus caught it’s breath with a riveting bubbling humming as it made it’s second stop along the cold gray streets, sleek with the cold sweep of winter’s waning cold as spring struggled to break free. Days of thin air, dry hair, and drab memories, a time of changing, a most uncomfortable paradox of redundance no matter what excitement you may try to stir into ones day. Like any lazy body that day on the bus, I sat in a mediocre seat, dingy blue, and hid my lean hands in side my sweat shirt as ...
Raven Breath
Raven breath By moon light, were did the raven weep, were did it’s blood stained feathers fall. trail to dark haven, were no man has time to smile. It will indeed take a while for any breath to not frost, for any heart to beat warmly. Slowly the reality weaves, like the spider’s dewy doilies that drift and flow with the heavy night air. Kindled in low winter lighting, so that no color is seen, the reaching long curling figures of the dark watery faces that live through the pale care of the ...
Ode To A Thinker
Ode to a Thinker: * Thinker I’ve seen it before so don’t say I haven't...........I will not, I will not.....do you see, smell, hear, feel, and taste that Thinker?...I smell it, I hear it, I taste it, I feel it, but I do not see it.... Oh Thinker the playfulness, the smell, the grass, the running...... It plays in grass, it smells of grass, it feels like grass and I see it....... Thinker what do you see that I can not?........ two blue pools, a field of wheat, a brown egg, an autumn ...
5 Reasons To Avoid Publishamerica
Ever since I first wrote about my publishing pitfalls with PublishAmerica, I’ve received a lot of correspondence from writers asking me if they too should avoid publishing with this notorious online POD company. So, in response to yet another letter from an unpublished author, I’ve been motivated to write about the top five reasons why one shouldn’t hand over their manuscript to this Frederick, Maryland based online publisher.
Lots Of Extra Money Waiting To Be Made From Writing $5 Articles
There is probably no easier way of earning extra money online. Yet many people ignore online writing and lose all that extra money, mainly because they get put off by those single digit dollar rates. $5 is a common one.
Screenwriting and Screenwriters – beyond Syd Field
Without denigrating the work and contribution of Syd Field to the art of screenwriting, it is about time many screenwriters moved on.
Personal Journaling Strategies To Make It Easy
Recently I was watching the Oprah show and it was about doing something really great in someones life. Was it buying them a special gift? Or taking them out? Not really.
Writing Secrets You Must Know
Writing better is critical for students. But it’s even more important for business communicators.
Screenwriting – The Lone Wolf Story Structure Template
Story Structure Templates are the fastest way to write screenplays. One of the most well known and often used templates, which goes beyond three and four act structure, is the Hero’s Journey. Arguably, all stories are a variation of this template and the Lone Wolf is one of the most successful of those variations.
Screenwriting – The Value of Structure
Structure in the form of frameworks, work processes and goals enhances creative output: a) Short term goals (incremental productivity) produce more output than a "do your best" approach. Writing four pages a day completes a words-on-paper first draft screenplay in one month. A "do your best" or "waiting for inspiration" approach can take months or years. Witness the untold number of people with unfinished manuscripts under their beds. b) Work processes such as separating ...
How to Speak So Your Audience Will Listen
Did you hear about the executive who was asked to give a speech? He talked about his company, himself, and his plans for the future.
10 Things that Keep You from Writing Your Book… and What You Can do About It
9 out of 10 professionals and small business owners have at least one book or information product inside their head, but lack the time and organizational skills to get it out into digital or print form.
How to Write a Short Story
Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer's interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of language to signify human experience. But how do we write a great short story? What are the things to keep in mind in order to come up with a short story that works? Here's a quick guide to get you started:
What is Screenwriting?
Simply put, it is the art of writing scripts for a visual medium. Unlike a play where the action is "talked out," the action within a screenplay is "acted out" visually. The old saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was never more appropriate in relation to screenwriting. Having had the benefit of reading many screenplays as a reader, one of the most annoying, teeth grinding, nails against a chalkboard, signal of bad screenwriting is when the reader is told something instead of shown ...
Successful Documentation Projects – Part 1 of 3 – 'Understanding'
The creation of user documentation is a big component of any software project. Unfortunately, it’s often undervalued and left to the last minute. But that doesn’t mean it should be without a good management plan.
How to Position Yourself as an Expert
Whatever kind of freelance or consulting work you do, one of the best ways to attract top clients is to position yourself clearly as an expert in your field.
Graphology Reveal the Inner Personality & Talent of a Child
Graphology is the science of understanding the human mind through person’s handwriting. When a person writes, the signal in the form of letters get decoded / printed on the paper by the fingers. Graphology aims at understanding & interpreting these signals through the writing. Using this we can know a persons mind so the thoughts, character and behavior.
Chinese Writing Characteristics
Over the years, Chinese were evolved and developed in the following different ways: Pictographs The original written format were found on the markings scratched onto tortoise shells and animal bones, the so-called "oracle bones". These ancient writings were pictures or Pictographs. Many people tend to think that Chinese characters are all pictographs. Actually, pictographic characters are only one kind of Chinese character, there are only about 600 pictograph ...
Writers Block Melting the Ice
What does one do as a writer who loves writing and feels empty of creativity? When the writing process stops, there is the experience of fear. There is a sense that something precious has been lost. Out of this fear comes a sense of clinging. There is a clinging to all my beautiful words. It feels as if all my beautiful creativity is melting. I guess all writers live with this fear. That is until they remember that this flow of creation does not belong to ‘me’ or ‘mine.’ ...
Learn How To Write Poetry!
A poet isn’t born; you must work at crafting your art. If you have the desire to write, you can learn how to write poetry or simply improve your writing. I had no formal training as a poet, and have been published in many print and online publications without ever having to take a workshop or a writing course. You too can learn to write poetry by following these basic rules.
Benjamin Franklin: His Ageless Writing Tips
If Ben Franklin were alive today, he would be...uh, very old. But his writing style would be as current as e-mail, yet as timeless as the man himself.
8 Reasons Why A Freelance Writer Should Use the Internet
What a wonderful resource the Internet is! Students find information to help them with their studies; business people keep in touch with important clients and stay up to date with important business developments; stay-at-home-parents can find ideas for children's activities and feel less isolated by forging friendships with other online parents; and even small children have the opportunity to learn how to use the technology that will take them into the future. It seems ...
How to Write Articles, Reports, and Books Quickly
Do you have trouble getting your thoughts and ideas down into an article? Do you find it difficult to put 'pen to paper' to get your book started? Do you sit facing a blank screen struggling to find the words to write? If so, here are some tips and strategies you can use to get your material written quickly.
Top Ten Presentation Tips
When your career is on the line, your presentation skills must be at the same high level as your business skills. Following are some tips that will help you be perceived as a confident and effective presenter when it matters:
Cheap Therapy
I call it cheap therapy. That gushing, near-religious, poured-from-the-body stress release that comes after writing my heart out for hours each day, delivers more balm to my soul than years of psychoanalysis.
Retail Margin, Trade Discount, and What it Means for the Author
DEFINITIONS Retail margin is basically the difference between your book’s wholesale price and your book’s retail price. For example, a book with a cover price of $10 and a wholesale price of $5 has a 50% retail margin. Wholesale price is the cost of your book to a retailer. To use the same rudimentary example, a book with a cover price of $10 and a retail margin of 50% will be sold to a retailer for $5. Retail price is the same as cover price or selling price. This is ...
Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Communication Skills
1) Listen without judgment. The key to good communication is listening well. Save your judging for later after you have heard and understood what was said.
Writing for the Internet How To Give the Readers What They Want
In this article you will find tips on: How to intrigue your readers from the very start—the most important part of your piece isn’t the content, Once they’re hooked—reel them in, How to keep them reading through the entire piece instead of scanning for information, Break it up!—How to keep their attention span from reaching its limits, and How to keep your readers from becoming distracted while reading your well crafted articles.
Romance Readers' Pet Peeves
I thought it might be a good idea to talk about over-used phrases in romance novels and short stories. This isn't just for me to have a moan and groan, but for you writers to consider avoiding over-use.