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Can You Really Make Six Figures As A Freelance Writer?
by David Drake.Does $100,000 a year sound too ambitious? I hope not. Thousands of freelance writers have broken the 6-figure barrier and with some determination and a clear set of goals, it's very achievable.Possibly you would laugh and burst out if I told you some...
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How To Find Freelance Writing Jobs Using Craigslist
by David Drake.Craiglist is a massive portal for online classifieds and forums varying from job opportunities, housing, goods, services, and local activities plus just about everything else. While the site is active in 450 cities around the globe, it attracts over ...
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Opportunity Spotting : Freelance Writing Is Booming.
by David Drake.The word freelance was first coined by Sir Walter Scott, a renowned Scottish historical novelist and poet when he wrote his novel Ivanhoe to refer to a medieval mercenary warrior. In 1903 the word was officially recognized by etymologists and made it...
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7 Ways To Get Paid To Write Online
by David Drake.More and more people tend to earn at home nowadays. However, the catch is that stay-at-home jobs don’t work with many fields. If you are a good writer, then you are among the lucky lot and we are about to discover how it is so.Usually freelance wri...
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Getting Started In Online Freelance Writing
by David Drake.The online market is as robust as it has ever been. And this time around, unlike the late 90's, companies are actually putting money in their web sites.In 2004 Google had 4.28 billion pages in its database .The real figure of the number of web pages ...
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Top 10 Freelance Writing Resources On The Internet
by David Drake.RentACoder.comIf you are new to home based money making industry as a writer, RentACoder is probably a good place to start from because its procedures are quite straightforward. Signing up for this website is totally free but you will need to pay 15%...
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Steps To Starting A Home Based Writing Business
by David Drake.Before you move on further with the idea of starting a home based writing business, you should assess your skills. I don’t mean to discourage any of you, but I’ve known many people who got themselves in to the wrong business and lost all their sa...
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Part Time Freelance Writing On Elance, Rentacoder, Guru
by David Drake.There are many websites that publish freelance writing jobs on their sites. As a freelance writer, you can bid for the writing jobs that are available. If your bid is selected, you get the opportunity to complete the job. The payments are made throug...
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How to Turn Your Book Signing into a Sell-Out!
by Judy Azar LeBlanc.Everyone loves a successful book signing! When I had my very first book signing it was a total flop! Well, maybe not totally, the book store did order six books and I did sell two of them! But success comes after failure only if you try again. So wha...
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18 PR Tips for Startups
by Brian Solis.PR is one of the most misunderstood disciplines in the marketing department and many startup entrepreneurs and even veteran executives are quick to under estimate and under value it, or on the contrary, expect PR to solve all of their marketing needs...
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The Brave New World of Self Publishing
by Vera Jane Cook.The Brave New World of Self PublishingI’ve been writing novels now since 1997 in between my day jobs, which pretty much translates to Sundays, holidays and stolen moments. I was a purist when I began and under the false assumption that if I’m goo...
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Write And Grow Rich
by Suzanne Harrison.Are there any writers out there who don’t want to make money from writing? Who don’t want to earn a living from their writing? Who don’t want to become rich from their writing?Well, there probably are. And that’s fine. But this article isn’...
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Book Review: A Trial Of One By Mary E. Martin
by Simon Barrett.An author that sets out to write a trilogy, is to say the least ambitious, to maintain key characters over three books requires some very intricate plot manipulations. Mary Martin has succeeded in grand style. A Trial Of One wraps up The Osgoode Tril...
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Fictionalized Tale Of A Harrowing Childhood
by Paul Miller.Almost everyone longs for a place where they fit in, a place where they feel safe and loved. For most people, their families provide this security, but Paul Miller had to find it out in the world and in his own heart. In his new novel, A Place to Bel...
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How I Tackled Such A Huge Task
by Paul Miller.When I set out to write my book, A Place to Belong, I didn't have the slightest notion as to how I was going to approach this task. I had never written anything in my life that extended beyond a normal letter or reports that I had to submit for my jo...

A Meteorological Fiction
by Paul Mark Tag.Until 2001, I spent my career as a research meteorologist, delving into areas as diverse as cloud physics and weather modification, numerical weather prediction, and artificial intelligence. Over a span of more than thirty years, I'd written numerous...
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Internet Authors Dont Need Friends
by Mike Scantlebury.There are plenty of resources out there for people who want to write a book, or people who have written one and want to see it published. Websites like Lulu will provide facilities for you to upload your files and turn them into a format that will al...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 4
by Marilyn Schwader.The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter Four: Nothing turns out as you expect it to.That's the journey. That's the excitement. That's the joy of writing. The trick is to let our unconscious take us where we go while we move out of its way...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 5
by Marilyn Schwader.The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter Five: Hold On To Your VisionThis might seem to be in direct conflict with letting go of expectations in Chapter Four. However, there is a distinct difference between expectation and vision. Let me e...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapters 7-8
by Marilyn Schwader.The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 7: Ninety-five percent of Writing is Just Showing UpIf I were to ask each of you why you haven't written a book, I'm guessing the most common answer would be that there doesn't seem to be enough tim...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 6
by Marilyn Schwader.Push Past Your Insecurities and Keep Moving Your PenWriting takes courage. Talent is part of the equation, but it is a smaller part. Becoming a writer takes a willingness to let people see who you really are. Determination is the key.In January, afte...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapters 9-10
by Marilyn Schwader.Chapter Nine: Give Your Mind, Body and Soul Daily AttentionStaying focused requires you to take care of yourself in mind, body, and spirit. If you are working full-time, parenting full-time, or both (is that double full-time?), you are probably a mas...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 11
by Marilyn Schwader.Chapter Eleven: Inspire With Your StorytellingWhile finding time to write came be like having unplanned sex, the act of writing is more like making love. You cannot fake it. You must feel it. When I was writing the chapter from the book A Guide to G...
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The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn, Chapter 12
by Marilyn Schwader.Chapter 12: Get RealNobody becomes Ernest Hemingway overnight, not even Ernest Hemingway.Style is fundamental to the person doing the writing. Trying to adopt someone else's style is like wearing a toupee. It might look good in passing, but on closer...
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The Writing Journey: Transforming Lives
by Marilyn Schwader.When I was growing up, my parents took an annual two-week camping trip that took us to many places in the U.S. and Canada. They'd pack the car with all the equipment, clothes, and food for them and their brood of five kids. Eventually the family grew...
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