How to Break the Cycle of Postponing Your Dreams

Do you have a dream, but keep postponing it because you feel trapped by the responsibilities of life? Want to be a writer, work from home, own your own business? First, we will examine how your dre. . .

How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 2)

Part 1 of this article discussed the experience you need to successfully build a freelance career. Here, I will outline other necessities.EQUIPMENT: Working from home means you must to have all th. . .

How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 1)

In the current job market, many editorial workers have turned to freelancing as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding how to go about freelancing.Here I will addres. . .

Have You Settled On First Choice When Choosing A Title?

Short Story Writing Tips - We’ve established what a title should be and we’ve also established your title is your selling tool. So if it can make or break the sale of your story, then we’ll have . . .

Platform Development Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!

Platform-Building Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!Around eighty percent of nonfiction books today are written by “experts,” that is people who have a) earned credentials in the field they’re writing ab. . .

Harnessing The Wisdom of Procrastination

The Heart of The Delay: Harnessing the Wisdom of Procrastination, AKA Writer’s BlockI am sure that at in some era, at some desk, with some kind of paper (and perhaps some very special ink), some wr. . .

For Beginners: 10 Ways To Prepare To Get Published

(Skip directly to ten for the fastest shortcut!)Like any field, excellent writing requires study, practice and mentorship. Very few successful authors ever published their first draft of their firs. . .

The Arrogant Writer: Five Ways to Nurture and Defend your...

Arrogance has a bad rap. We think of arrogant people as unpleasant to be around, full of themselves, and incapable of taking an interest in anyone else. However, when applied to one’s own writing, . . .

Keep Thy Journal Private!

If you live with other people, I know you shudder to think about what would happen if your personal journal fell into the wrong hands. Journaling is not about writing something and then leaving i. . .

Writing From The Edge: Trembling Your Way to Publication

A few nights ago in the final class of the third incarnation of the Book Proposal Boot Camp, we reviewed parts of one author’s proposal and all concurred: Though her author bio and marketing analys. . .

Taming The Book Proposal

Oh, that most maddening of documents! For so many of us eager to move forward with our nonfiction projects, it looms large like a guard at the queen’s castle, blocking the path to publication. Its . . .

e-Matchmaking: Can a Computer Program Find Love For You?

I logged on to a dating site the other day and was greeted by a large, flashing message. It promised that if I took the time to answer a series of questions that they would find a "perfect match" . . .

The Phantoms of Six Mile Road

I was going through a box of personal belongings a couple of weeks ago, when I stumbled across some pictures of my 1978 high school graduation. My daughter Vonnie laughed at those pictures and ask. . .

Wake Up Your Writing Spirit

The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming. And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected. It’s because along w. . .

Reproaches for a Request Earnest

I've posted an article appealing to the bloggers, not to use blogs for erotic and pervert purposes in 'lulu.com'. Immense fury I've to face for such a humble request, which manifested in the form o. . .

I Wonder Why Dictionaries Went Out Of Fashion

More Tips For New Writers (Part IV)When you begin writing for your home based business, never lose sight of the following facts: People notice things (sometimes even the most minute detail) People . . .

Private versus Federal Consolidation Loans – What’s the D...

A consolidation loan lets you combine your federal student loans into a single loan with one monthly payment. There are two programs available for consolidating student loans: The Federal Family Ed. . .

Break in with Fillers: The Best Market for New Writers

Interested in breaking into writing or breaking into a new area? You can't go past writing fillers. Fillers are one of the most overlooked opportunities in the freelance writing world and offer one. . .

Success Redefined

When our youngest child was in second grade, we moved to a small Colorado town. The first day, even before we’d gotten the house unpacked, I headed for the library. Over the next three months, I sp. . .

How To Re-Set Spellchecker to Recheck Document

After you have written a text and run spellcheck, you might find it necessary to go back and revise the document. You might also have found that you have been running spellcheck, your brain has got. . .

Your Spellchecker Can Catch Punctuation Mistakes

Even though you should never only rely on your spellchecker to find mistakes in your document, you can make the most of your spellchecker by changing the settings. It isn't as scary as it sounds an. . .

So, You Think You Want to Be a Freelance Proofreader

How many times have you thought to yourself that you would be a good proofreader? You have a decent working vocabulary, you are able to construct a well-turned phrase, and you know when to hyphenat. . .

In Spellchecker We Trust... Right?

This article could have easily been titled "We Don't Need a Proofreader...right?" Businesses today are transforming printed text into computer-based documents and, well, all you have to do is run t. . .

Notion of Correctness in Speech

There is an old story about a girl, who asked her grand pa whether he keeps his long beard over or under the blanket while sleeping. Until then the grand pa never thought of this , but from that mo. . .

The Naked Truth About Writing

I know ya’ll are gonna think I’m pulling your legs, but I swear on a stack of BTO CDs that I received the following email just a couple of days ago....Ed,I just wanted to drop you a quick note and . . .

Use Textpad Program for Easy Ezine and Web Site Submissio...

When you create your articles in TextPad format, something like Notepad, but much more versatile, you will have them in 65 characters across wrapped, just the right format. Then, when you are ready. . .

How To Check the Spelling of Names Used as References in ...

Whether you are doing a term paper for high school or you are working on your doctoral thesis, you will be creating a list of references (or bibliography) of the resource materials and other publis. . .

From Book Notes to Book Reports

Writing papers and book reports has long been the bane of high school and college students’ existence. It seems that no matter how hard you work to stay caught up, there is always a paper due tomor. . .

The Lecture Experience: Part I

During the past year or so, I have done nearly a hundred talks about my book, “LADIES: A Conjecture of Personalities.” It’s about the First Ladies – the OLD First Ladies, Martha through Mamie. Si. . .

Do You Really Want to Get Published? Write for Trade Maga...

Have you been repeatedly snubbed by consumer magazines? Do you have little to show for your research and querying efforts other than a folder of form rejection letters? If your writing dream includ. . .