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Your Writing Life - Are You Too Dependent on Input From Other People?

Dec 15th, 2008 | By Lucia Zimmitti | Category: Featured Articles

If you’ve made it past your teens, you’ve learned that denial doesn’t work in relationships. Pretending to be someone you’re not will only catch up with you in a complicated, unpleasant way at some point. The same holds true for your relationship with your writing self. Telling yourself you have a different writing personality than [...]



Weight: The Key To Weight Loss

Dec 12th, 2008 | By Margaret Paul, Ph.D. | Category: Featured Articles

How often have you eaten something that you know is going to put weight on you and you tell yourself that it doesn’t count? Do you have any idea how many calories you actually consume in a day, and how many you need to lose weight or to maintain weight? Is it possible that you [...]



Small Things - Dumpster Diva

Dec 10th, 2008 | By Jan C. Steven | Category: Featured Articles

I’m a Dumpster Diva. There, I’ve said it. I’m not ready for a 12 Step Program yet, but by the time I reach 90, am widowed, have 45 cats and cannot weave my way to the bathroom for all the junk - maybe I will be.



How to write a bad detective series

Dec 6th, 2008 | By Jackie Speel | Category: Featured Articles

Some of these points will occur in most series. It is the manner and context which determines whether the point is well handled, neutral or indicative of a bad series.



Marketing Questions to Improve Your Writing

Dec 5th, 2008 | By David Bowman | Category: Featured Articles

One of the central tenets of marketing is that you should understand your target market segment–your intended customers. Who will buy your product or engage your service? What do those people want? What expectations do they have? How will they use your product? Most importantly, what needs do they have that your product/service satisfy?
How does [...]



7 Profitable Things You Get To Do When You Write Your Book

Dec 4th, 2008 | By Earma Brown | Category: Featured Articles

Are you tired of waiting for your bottom line to change? Don’t wait any longer; take your profit line into your own hands. Join the list of authors who finally wrote their book and profited from doing so.
Would you like to receive a growing monthly income from a book you wrote? Where would you go [...]



The Worriers Guidelines

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D | Category: Featured Articles

What we usually call worry is a continuous thought that keeps interrupting your mode of thought and that you find it hard to get away from. If it’s continuous and not focused on any one thing, we tend to call it anxiety. Worry drains and wastes your energy and makes you less likely to make [...]



5 Things You Should Know About Writing Humour

Nov 24th, 2008 | By Mervyn Love | Category: Featured Articles

More than ever before readers are crying out for something to lift them out of the tide of dire news and the pressures of modern life. To be able to bring a smile to peoples faces, or even make them laugh out loud, can prove to be a highly paid talent.



The Right Way to Do a Media Interview

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Rick Frishman | Category: Featured Articles, Life As We Know It

Doing interviews with the media can make or break your career! You need practice. This is in the news more than ever.



Get Published - Three Secrets of the New York Publishing World

Nov 19th, 2008 | By Melinda Copp | Category: Featured Articles

Every writer dreams of attracting a lucrative contract from a major New York publishing company. And although not everyone achieves that dream, many writers do. But they have to rise above everyone else and prove they have what it takes to write and sell a profitable book.
If you want to improve your chances of winning [...]