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10 Reasons Why You Should Use Writing Prompts
Perhaps the last time you encountered a writing prompt was while you attended school and now the last thing you want to do is think about is facing another one. While many people consider prompts as a form of torture that school teachers use on their unwilling students, yet prompts are often willingly used, even embraced, by experienced writers. If you do not see how writing prompts can be useful to you then consider these the following benefits.Read more…What is the Cobuild Dictionary?
What is the Cobuild Dictionary? Its full title is the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, and it is a dictionary that defines words in the English language and describes how they are actually used by English speakers. To discover how words are used, the editorial team for the dictionary works with a corpus of English, an electronic database holding more than 300 million words in pieces of text.Read more…How Not To Get Published - How To Win the WWOTYA - 6, The Writing Itself
First of all: to win the WWOTYA, rely neither on spelling mistakes nor on grammar errors. As soon as their number is above the “correction allowance”, your manuscript is rejected without even being nominated to take part in the championship.From the publisher's point of view, spelling mistakes do not have much to do with the book, and this is still more true if you address a publishing house that specializes in dual language books; spelling and grammatical mistakes have a lot to do with the production cost.Read more…Creative Writing: Tips to Make Your Creative Written Work Sell
Creative writing is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. However, you really don't need a special talent for it. What you need is a paper, a pen and a very good imagination that is worthy of telling your story to other people.Read more…Keeping Records: Papertrails and Bibliographies
You don't need to have completed a university degree to write a non-fiction article, book or historical novel. You do, however, need to know the basics of keeping records of your research. Yes, even when writing fiction.Read more…Ghost Writers What Do They Do
It's important to keep in mind, that not all ghost writers are skilled in all kinds of writing. Many times, ghost writers earn a quite a nice salary do something they love, which is writing. Ghost writers are more common than you think.Read more…Tips On Finding A Plot For Your Book
Are you interested in writing a book? A lot of people are these days, but most aren’t sure how to get started. It always seems to be such a doable task, until it gets right down to finding the right plot.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : the Hero's Transformation
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…Writers Block Technique: Remembering When
Pick a date. Not just any date, though. Pick one of those special dates imbued with some kind of meaning, emotional impact or ritual -- Valentine's Day, St.Read more…Writer As Publisher - Write And Sell Ebooks And Reports
The Internet may well be more important to writers than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing with movable type in the fourteenth century. Suddenly, writers aren't dependent on publishers: they can be their own publishers. Instantly.Read more…How to Write About Yourself - Generating Writing Ideas From Your Everyday Life
New writers often complain that their lives aren’t exciting enough to write about. If they haven’t had a traumatic childhood, climbed a mountain or battled a life threatening illness, they believe no one will want to hear what they have to say. This is not true.Read more…How Not To Get Published - How To Win the WWOTYA - 5, The Characters
You are a fine psychologist, you examine yourself without pink glasses so you know all about the human heart and its secrets. Building characters is your strong point. You do not manipulate hand puppets but call to life the inhabitants of your imagination.Read more…The Great American Novel - Chapter One.....What Comes Next?
Chapter One....Now What?Every burgeoning writer sits in front of the typewriter or laptop and proudly types in the phrase, "Chapter One" and then is met with an immediate writer's block.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Ordinary World and Ordinary Self
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : The Sacred Meeting Between Every Hero and His / Her Mentor
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Every successful Hero has Four Core Challenges
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…Co-Authoring
Writing a book seems to be in the heart of almost everyone I talk to. The problem is that they never actually do it. I have authored over one hundred and twenty publications but I still strain to get it done in a timely fashion and I was paid to do the writing.Read more…Would You Like To Write A Book?
I have always enjoyed writing. Even way back in high school, I can remember never dreading having to write a book report of term paper. I had a creative writing class in high school that taught me a really easy way to write any type of report of paper.Read more…Know Your Author Rights—and Hang Onto Them!
When a book or magazine publisher agrees to publish your work, you must sign a contract. In this contract there is a very important area concerning rights.Be very careful about which rights you retain, and which rights you hand over.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Every Hero Must Be a Fish Out of Water at Some Point
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…
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