Is Your Title Compelling?

(Sat May 6th, 2006, by Nick Vernon)

Your title is your selling tool. It’s the first thing readers will scan and contemplate whether to read your story. What your title’s job is, it has to lure the readers into your story – it has to be so compelling that they won’t even have a chance t...

Article Marketing Part 1 - Content Is Still King

(Fri May 5th, 2006, by Zamri Nanyan)

Article Marketing Part 1 - Content Is Still King by Zamri Nanyan Since the beginning, you've been told that "Content Is King" but there are so many website owners - who have been trying to win the search engine battles - ignore the rules and try to...

A Year in the Life of a Writer

(Fri May 5th, 2006, by Andy Walsh)

For those of you who don't know what I'm about, here's a short summary. I'm a writer living in England. I have written a novel, 'St Brodag's Isle', which is supported by a website (http://www.stbrodag.com) and a newsletter. 2002 is going to be my cam...

Query Letters that Rock

(Fri May 5th, 2006, by Terri Pilcher)

The first thing I did wrong when I started writing was submitting poor query letters. They contained generic article ideas and boring sentences. Everything said, "blah, blah, blah." Twenty query letters and no responses. Even my SASEs weren't retur...

3 Article Outline Essentials

(Fri May 5th, 2006, by Matthew C. Keegan)

Most writers I talk with who experience "writer's block" do not get bogged down by the content of the article, rather they are stopped by the outline proper. Without an outline, there can be no article. You can write effectively by remembering three ...

How An Online Writer Can Easily Self-publish Their Way To A

(Fri May 5th, 2006, by Christopher Kyalo)

Online writing is really self-publishing made easier and potentially much more lucrative with much less cost and investment to be made. But what is self-publishing and what does it have to do with online writing? Self-publishing is older than America...

How to Identify Great Book Ideas and Writing Opportunities

(Thu May 4th, 2006, by Stephen L. Nelson, CPA)

The first and maybe the most important step in writing a book is coming up with a great idea for some really useful or interesting book. The great idea makes the writing fun. The great idea makes the book easier to sell to a publisher. In the end, th...

What Makes a Translator?

(Wed May 3rd, 2006, by Brett Jocelyn Epstein)

The “prison of language is only temporary…someday a merciful guard – the perfect translator – will come along with his keys and let us out,” Wendy Lesser wrote in an article, “The Mysteries of Translation,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 200...

Novel to Screenplay

(Wed May 3rd, 2006, by Lynne Pembroke and Jim Kalergis)

ADAPTATION 101 Brimming with confidence, you’ve just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe’s fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. “What was I thinking? How the devil a...

Getting Read, Reviewed and Rated - Are You Ready?

(Tue May 2nd, 2006, by Harriet Silkwood)

You've finally decided to join a writing workshop to show your work and hone your skills. Right? You've read in the ad's that, 'members read and give constructive reviews.' You want to be read! Did you quit reading before the end of the sentence? W...