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Emotional Investment 101 Readers, like investors, can be total suckers. It doesn't take much-a housing boom, a bump in the price of gold, or a spunky protagonist with a past-to get their hearts pumping. Like investors, readers are hungry. They have liquid emotional assets...
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The Working Life of Picture Book Writer Writing a story based on Pippi Longstocking at the wee age of nine is one thing. Getting your father to type it up in book form, having his artist friend silkscreen the cover and making 50 copies for friends and family distribution, is fortuitous of ...
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Blake Nelson on Writing Young Adult Novels and Film Options Check under your belt. Are there eight published books there--three books for adults and five for young adults--seven other various manuscripts lurking about suspiciously in your nether’s? Dig deeper, have two of those books been sold for the si...
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The Line Between Erotica and Pornography In the rules for our current writing contest, we state that we will not accept pornographic works. This statement has caused some consternation amongst a few of our entrants who have written pieces with explicitly sexual scenes. What is the line b...
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Which Witch Is Which? As the fall holidays approach I thought it might be fun to uncover some of the skeletons in the closet of English writing. English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Why? Partly because our language contains words that sound alike bu...
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Using Long Tail Marketing to Sell Your Book ll the time, if you follow Publisher's Weekly or the biggie book reviews, you get the message that you have to be a giant name with a best-seller's record to get a book published and out before the reading public. Not so with what is now called &q...
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Writing Biographies, Part One: Why the Truth Should Hurt When a too-cautious writer of nonfiction sits down to begin writing a memoir, pitfalls are looming on the horizon.   The largest and most engulfing pitfall occurs when a memoirist, or even a biographer, fails to address the embarrassing ...
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Writing a Biography, Part Two: Do You Know Your Subject? Intellectual stamina is the most valuable brain-skill that you, as a writer of nonfiction, as a memoirist, biographer, or essayist, will ever develop.  What does it mean, exactly? In this "newbie writer" article, our author provides ...
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Active Verbs Enliven Lackluster Writing Here's the Scoop:  Active verbs add spark and immediacy to your writing.  When the subject performs the action in a sentence, it is clearer and more directly absorbed by the reader. Write powerful and provocative sentences, not wimpy sent...
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How to Be Funny It's not easy being funny. Few writers attempt to write comedic pieces simply because we suck at it. Eric Spitznagel is funny, but we have to warn you - he's apt to use crude language. For that reason, we're rating this article "R", and att...
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Picture Book Manuscripts and Illustrations Picture books meld text and illustration in a successful picture book, it's hard to imagine one without the other. Perhaps for this reason, many people are confused about how to submit a picture book manuscript.  In this article, noted children'...
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Breaking the Rules for Picture Book Manuscripts Harold Underdown, a successful writer and children's book editor gets asked a lot of questions. This time he addresses the value of breaking the rules for Picture Book Manuscripts. Should you follow the rules, or can you do something unusual or uniqu...
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Interview with Edward Baskett A wild ride that includes taking on the corporate giant GE, courageously defending the accusation of a public “homosexual act”, going bankrupt, and being an author, all this purchased on a ticket with a High School education and an “affinity...
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How to Write a Great Testimonial Whether you're writing testimonials for a book, or writing testimonials for a sales letter, you need to know what you're doing. Most testimonials read like high school cheers. They're boring and pointless. Great testimonials make people sit up and li...
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Contagious Influence: Having a Successful Freelance or Copywriting Business Are you trying to build a Freelance or Copywriting business for yourself? If so, then you'll need a good dose of Contageous Influence, or so says Ginger Marks. Be sure to catch the bug if you want to be successful... 
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