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Make Big Money On Your Book - 10 H*o*t Tips Wouldn't it be nice to write a book, get paid handsomely for it and be considered a top expert a...

Make Documenting Your Software Easier Than Ever Before Here at M6.Net we’ve just released our new control panel software, allowing for easier and better control over our clients’ website accounts. It was my task to write the documentation for this new software. After working through it in a traditional word processor application and subsequently producing a final product that was of little use, we came to realize that there needed to be a better way to write a manual, and to release it in multiple formats. One of the lead developers sent a link my way and after trying the evaluation copy of the software I realized that it was the package that we needed. ‘Help and Manual 4’ turns manual writing and distribution into a very simple affair.The Help and Manual (hereafter known as H&M) homepage (...

Make More Money Self-publishing Special Reports 1. YOU CAN DO IT! WILL YOU?You CAN succeed in your own information empire. Self-publishingvaluable, how-to information is in great demand by peopletoday. In today`s busy society, people are pressed for time. They need concise, simplified, practical information. They willpay dearly for it if it will improve the quality of their lives.Even if you have never written for money before, you can do so if you apply the information in this report. Lack of formal education s...

Make Your Website Talk: How To Install Streaming Audio On Your Site One of the most important tasks in online selling, and indeed in all selling, is to convince the prospective buyer that you are someone who can be trusted. A nice picture of yourself in your “about” section is helpful, but even more convincing would be a heartfelt audio message in which you explain yourself and introduce your product or service. If you are thinking that installing a sound capability on your website would be beyond your technical or financial means then I think you will change your mind after you finish reading this article. There are some online services that provide full audio support but they charg...

Making The Most Of Digital Camera Memory Cards Digital cameras are revolutionizing the world of home and professional photography, but they are married to memory cards just as traditional cameras are married to film. Making the best use of memory cards can have a very big impact on your enjoyment of digital photography. Choosing the right memory card for the job can be as important as choosing the right film for a traditional camera. If you are new to digital cameras, the digital camera memory cards are the most important parts of any digital camera, without which they may not work at all. So if you are handling a digital camera or planning a purchase, you must know more about the memory cards used in these cameras. Something many new digital camera owners find counter-intuitive is that bigger is not alw...

Many Writers, One Clear Voice Imagine creating your first book, one on which hangs the future of your company-and maybe even the industry you love. Imagin...

Maximizing Your Book’s Earning Potential Everything in life is worth writing about if you have the guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia PlathIf you're going to put out tons of effort writing a book, you should also invest the extra time and energy into creating some strategic components that can really help leverage your promotional options. Building marketing into your book is one way to help maximize your book's earning potential. If done correctly, you could shave hundreds, if not thousands of dollars off of your marketing and publicity budget.So, how do you get started? Well, it’s easier than you might think. First you'll want to do a little brainstorming and really begin to focus on your reader. A good analysis of who...

Mechanical Poetry Techniques - Part Three Have you ever read the lyrics of a Simon and Garfunkle song? Pure poetry. Want to write poems like that? Start copying them. Let me explain.The Myth Of CreativityCre...

Mechanical Poetry Techniques: Part Two What do you do when you want to write poetry? I hope your answer is "I start writing." Even writing a bad poem is better than waiting for the "right words." You can always throw it away, and the process has begun. You'll start to find the words sooner than if you just waited. Here are some more ways to get started.Sing A PoemTry a little experiment - alone in the basement if you must. Describe something, then describe it again, singing instead of talking. You'll notice the words you use change. Your sentences will generally be more rythmic. It is also easier to rhyme when you are singing.Singing comes from the right side of the brain. This is the side that handles pattern-recognition. When you sing, you access this part of your brain, and you'll get ideas o...

Mechanical Poetry Techniques you can stop waiting and start using systematic techniques for creating poetry. If it seems too mechanical or artificial at first, don't worry. The point is just to get you writing, because creativity is stimulated by work.When You Have A Poem In MindIf you have your topic, ask yourself why it's important, and write down your answer. How do you feel about it? Write down those feelings. Write a line or a scene that exemplifies what you are trying to point out. Then, start rearranging the words into a poem. The main thing is to do anything other than waiting to stimulate your creativity.Sometimes poems can come from a simple description. Write...

Need A Great Idea? Feed Your Brain A lot of great ideas happen when two or more other ideas collide to form something completely new. Think of this like those old chemistry movies we used to watch in school. You had all of those atoms floating around and when two collided -- bam! A chemical reaction. Maybe something new was created. Maybe something exploded. Or maybe it all fizzled out and nothing happened.Well, a similar reaction is going on inside your brain or muse. Except instead of atoms floating around they're pieces of information or other ideas. As they drift about, they occasionally bump into each other. When that happens, you may get a new, third idea. Or a big explosion. Or absolutely nothing at all.Now, if you have lots of atoms, or information and ideas, you're going to get lots of reactions. Some will fail. Some will be so-s...

Need To Write An Article? 'three' Is A Magic Number! Writing articles for magazines, the Internet or the local community paper needn't be a headache. Providing they are informative, reasonably short and to the point, readers and publishers will welcome your articles. But, if the secret to writing neat, sweet articles is to keep them succinct, how do you maintain your focus and avoid the pitfalls of waffle? Try the 3 by 3 Plan! Taking a really simple example, suppose you want to write about kites. The first stage is to brainstorm all the possible topics under the heading of 'Kites'. You may come up with several ideas here: for example, kite history, kite safety or making a kite. Any of these subjects could form the basis of a good article. Select just one of these ideas (let's choose 'kite-making') and then you can start to put the '3 by 3 Plan' ...

Networking Gold Whether you’re trying to find an editor for your book, or a producer to pitch your story to, sometimes it’s all about networking. If you still have 999 of the 1,000 business cards you ordered, you’re not getting out there enough. It’s time to step out from behind that compu...

New Recipe For Your Fresh Paper Pie Many writers aspire to create original and incomparable works, so that to stand them out of heaps of previously written stuff. They resort to crafty tricks to grab the attention of readers and eagerly try to find an unoccupied niche, undeveloped idea or some lurid news to make their papers one of a kind. Catchy titles, simple and persuasive language, personal apply to the reader and intricate plot are only some clever dodges authors harness in writing. No matter what the purpose of the written work is writing presents a kind of competition with unstated rules, where the strongest survives. These are writers who find the appropriate appeal to the reader, winning, controversial and topical theme, which proves to be helpful, instructive or explanatory. In a word, a paper which makes readers tick and turns to be u...

No More Jargon! Have you taken time recently to look at your website? When creating your website did you think about what matters? Find out…When your company built its website, did you think about the content (the text) of your site? Did you write it for your customers? The answer to these questions is often ‘No.’The first mistake most companies make when filling their website with content is overlooking who they’re writing for. The most common group they write it for is...

No Time To Write? Try A Ghostwriter Many people feel they have a story to tell or an experience to share. But time is precious and not everyone can make the words sing on the page. But there are people who can make the whole experience hassle-free. A ghostwriter will do all the work while you get all the credit. Some common questions about the ghostwriting process are answered below. What does a ghostwriter do?A ghostwriter edits, writes, collaborates, and researches on behalf of someone else who becomes their client. Many biographies of celebrities and television personalities have been ghostwritten. Why do I...

Novel To Screenplay: The Challenges Of Adaptation Article Summary: Some basic steps when adapting a novel to the screenplay form.ADAPTATION 101Brimming with confidence, you've just signed the check purchasing the rights to ada...

Once Upon A Time…reflections On Storytelling We are the storytellers: our days begin with “once upon a time” and end with “tell me a story”. We are descended from the folks who sat around the fires at night, describing the hunt for those who stayed behind. Today, the storyteller’s role has evolved to tell us which laundry detergent to use or car to buy and how to choose a financial planner. The storyteller makes us laugh during the sitcom. He persuades us by writing political speeches or she entertains us with a story about a woman who runs away from home. The storyteller’s job is to inform, educate, entertain, provoke and inspire. Our tools are words. Whether th...

One Minute Marketing So, you say you're too busy to market your book? Well, welcome to the club. Most of the authors I work with or coach work day jobs and try to cram in...

Online Copywriting Vs. Writing Copy For Print Online copywriting has the same goals as print content, but there at least seven distinct points of departure between writing copy online and for print.Online copywriting and print copywriting are very different. You hear that all the time. But that's an observation as unhelpful as it is obvious. What are the real similarities and differences between writing for the web and writing for print?...

Online Writing Workshop, “writing For The Real World: A Refresher For Busy Professionals,” Begins September 13, 2004 Writing911.com’s popular writing workshop, “Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals,” is being turned into an online writing course (e-course), beginning Sept...

Oracle Financials Implementation In Brazil – Consultant Review, Plus Competition Among the major international ERP brands, localized for Brazilian market we should mention SAP with its recently localized product: SAP Business One, Oracle: Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials/Oracle Applications, Microsoft Business Solutions Navision (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and Axapta (Microsoft Dynamics AX) – Axapta localization is scheduled to be available in 2006. In this small article we will concentrate on Oracle E-Business Suite Brazilian localization highlights and its competition. Oracle Financials:• Standard Functionalities – they automate business processes common in all countries, so these are used Worldwide. Globalization ...

Ovecoming Writer's Block What is writer's block?Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing tosay. Oh well, I'm outta here!Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We've allexperienced this phenomenon when we absolutely have towrite something, particularly on deadline. I'm talkingabout. . . . .uh, I can't think of what the word is .. . oh, yes, it's on the tip of my ...

Overcoming Writer's Block Ovecoming Writer's BlockBy Karen MartinWhat is writer's block?Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing tosay. Oh well, I'm outta here!Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We've allexperienced this phenomeno...

Part 1 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his problems. What his goals are and whether he’ll achieve them.And because our character is the reason readers become hooked on our stories, establishing him at the start is a must in a short story. And it is essential to establish him at the start because we don’t have the capacity in our limited word length to introduce him at our leisure. The ...

Part 2 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be kept on the main character. This shouldn’t be taken to the extreme though. In other words, you don’t just write the story of the main character without telling your readers a bit about your secondary character.Unless the reader understands the reason a secondary character is telling the story, it will seem peculiar that the main character isn’t telling it himself. It is, after all, the main character’s story. So, the following have to be answered…• Who is this secondary character?• Why is he telling the sto...

Part 3 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? Do you Have Too Many Characters?Because of the limited word length we have to work with in short stories, it¡¦s best to keep the amount of characters at a minimum. In order for characters to come alive, we have to fully develop them. And to achieve that takes up many of our precious words. Fully developing a character isn¡¦t merely stating what he looks like, but rather the kind of person he is, based on what he says, his actions, his thoughts - His overall personality. So how many characters should you have? Depends on how many your story needs¡K„« You might have one main character„« You might have one main character and secondary characters„« You might have two main charact...

Part 4 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? If Your Character Isn’t ‘Normal,’ Can We See It? Human nature is a fascinating thing and it’s especially fascinating to the writer. The writer’s mind is sharp; taking in every detail she sees and hears around her and using it to her advantage – to turn it into a story. Human beings are a favourite subject to the writer. She studies them, she analyzes them, she tries to understand them because only when she’s perceptive can she be a true writer. Every human being is unique and our uniqueness comes from the personality we posses. It comes from our backgrounds, our beliefs and from the way life shapes us.Some people aren’t ‘normal.’ ...

Part 5 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? Do You Allow Readers To Feel The Character’s Emotions?What readers will use to feel what your character is going through, whether they have experienced the same or not, are of course their emotions. On what level they will feel the character’s experience will depend on how vividly you describe that experience.For readers to feel the experience on a deep level, you will have to deeply go into it.Let's say in your story your character is on a ship. The ship is sinking. We haven’t all experienced that situation but we can imagine what the character is going through because we have all experienced fear.For the reader to understand that emotion of fear on a deep level…Describe what the character is feeling. What he’s thinking. What he’s doing.Develop t...

Passing Your Ccna And Ccnp: Configuring And Troubleshooting Router-on-a-stick For CCNA and CCNP candidates, it's hard not to laugh the first time you hear the phrase "router on a stick". Let's face it, that's a pretty silly term. But as those who have passed the CCNA and CCNP exams know, this is a vital exam topic that you must know how to configure and troubleshoot. Basic Cisco theory states that for hosts in different VLANs to communicate, a Layer 3 device must be involved to handle the routing between the VLANs. That device is a router, and there are special considerations that must be taken into account for both the physical router itself an...

Payment Methods On Ebay Gone are the days when only cash (or cattle in some cases) was the only accepted mode of payment for trades. As the concept of trading evolved, so did the means of paying for items. Today’s electronic world pushes the envelop further. With the advent of online trading systems such as eBay, many new forms of payment have flourished. First of all, on eBay, the mode of payment depends on the agreement between the buyer and the seller. Most often, the seller will specify his or her desired payment method. In these cases, the seller often has primacy in the decisions regarding payment modes. However, the buyer may still communicate with the seller regarding a viable alternative if it suits both parties. The following is a li...

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 about, b) germinated information via articles, live presentations or other media, or c) had extraordinary, unique or memorably told life experiences relevant to their topic.For an autobiographical work, such as a memoir, an author needn’t have any special expertise—she is the foremost authority on her own life. For a how-to or self-help book, however, the first thing mainstream publishers want to know is, “Does the author have a platform?”A...

Power Of The Written Word (part I )- Need Of Expression As human brain developed so did the feelings and desire to express them. The need led to development of the language. From howls and moans to the meaningful words today humans have made a great achievement. Same applies to writing too. What started as signs is a full fledged script now. (There are many of them but that is not the issue here)For a moment imagine a world without a language. You cannot. It is impossible. Without language we would be missing much of the pleasure that we enjoy. Without language we would be deprived of any information and its development thereof.Language is ver...

Power Writing 101: Tips And Tricks To Get You Taken Seriously! In my ten years as an advertiser, I’ve encountered plenty of folks with a flair for writing. They were born having some idea of where to put the words within the sentence, and the sentences within the paragraph. They usually know what words to use – when to say ‘bloom’ instead of ‘grow,’ or ‘confused’ instead of ‘befuddled.’But having a flair doesn’t make them an expert in the field.I’m an expert ad copywriter. But I can’t write a journalistic piece to save my life. I have no experience in this area, and it’s just not my bag. So I happily leave this task to the reporters. Likewise, a retailer, marketer or salesperson should leave the writing to the writer. Yet they seldom do.A copywriter is forever trying to explain why he inserted a ...

Powerful Article Writing Strategies For Exploding Traffic And Link Popularity. One of the most discussed topics today is Article Writing. Many Webmasters are jumping into the bandwagon and are trying to revive and reinvent their old writing talents to good measure.It is a known fact that there are several benefits in article writing and submitting articles to article directories. The main objective of most webmasters is to obtain one way links, thereby increasing Link Popularity and to generate Targeted Traffic.Success is much easier to achieve when tried and tested strategies are adopted.Given below are such strategies, if adopted will have a tremendous impact in Boosting your link popularity and Exploding Traffic to your website.1. TOPIC.In article writing the most important thing is to choose the ...

Printer Ink Cartridges - Easier And Convenient While working and printing out important documents you discover you are out of ink. Years ago that would have posed a dilemma. Daisy wheels and ribbons were used in printers in the past. Let's delve into the advancements ...

Professional Traffic Building Tips Let’s face it; the Internet is cluttered with all sorts of guides about increasing traffic to your web site. Unfortunately, most of these guides are outdated or incomplete. In fact, many of the techniques being touted in them will get you in serious trouble. Wouldn’t you like to build up quality traffic that will stand the test of time? The key phrase is “test of time”. You don’t want to be a flash in the pan.FIRST THINGS FIRSTBefore you rush out to tell the world that your brand new web site is open for business, set it up properly. Do not even start to think about traffic if your web site still has broken links, empty content, and other unfinished business. While patience can be a hard thing to control, having s...

Professional Writers Learn To Manage Their Emotions Summary: Learning to survive in the marketplace requires some fancy emotional footwork. Read these tips for raising your writer's emotional I.Q.Professional Writers Learn To Manage Their EmotionsBy Bonnie BootsUnpublished writers often feel being paid for publication is the benchmark of a “real” writer So they read all the books on writing and dutifully send off queries, filled with hope and fear that one will be accepted; hope they’ll get the chance to be a real writer, fear they won’t live up to the challenge. Sadly, for some, their fears will turn out to be well founded. The emotional toll of writing for publication will be more painful then they can bear. Shocked, wounded, these natural writers will put their dreams behi...

Profiting From Writing Your Own Ebook As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love and relationships. People crave information and will pay to get the info they want.That's why ebooks are the hottest products on the Internet. It's digital information that's downloadable and therefore brings instant gratification to the user. In just a matter of minutes, you can have expert knowledge saved o...

Publish Or Perish: It’s Not Only For Academia, Part 1 I am the daughter of an obsessed writer. My father, a math teacher by vocation, a writer by avocation, brought me up believing that writing is a fine passion and that the highlight of a writer’s life is being published. He gave me his love of the English language, great literature and great writers. He instructed me on the importance of realistic dialogue, creating characters we remember, and good plot twists. I was drawn to his typewriter before I could spell. In fact, one of our memorable photographs is of me at about age three, kneeling on a chair at the table where he wrote. My little hands are poised above the keys of his sturdy, black Underwood. My expression ...

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