Reel Your Book Readers In With Top Titles: Part 1

Does your title do its job well? I mean does it help explain what's in your book? Does it capture the interest, engage, or shock the senses of your potential reader? Expert studies show the title may be responsible for up to 90% of your book's magnetic pulling power...

Hero's Journey (Monomyth) and Screenwriting: the Learning Process

188+ stages of the hero's Journey you need to know about...

It's Time to Write Your Book

This article shows you how you can write your book when you don't have time to write your book.

Writing 101: Getting an Idea for a Children’s Story

The hard thing about writing for children is to find an idea that would appeal to a child. If you remember that everyday things are what most children’s books are about, you will find it is easy to get started. I took a story idea from this morning’s classifieds and wrote the story in this article. You can do it too!

Proofreading Tips

Collection of proofreading tips.

How I Got My First Novel to Print

When I wrote my first novel, I was elated. It was in 1997, and I wrote it in under four months. I had always dreamed of writing a novel but always seemed to find excuses not to sit down and just write it. After a life-altering event, I re-evaluated my life and what I wanted to accomplish.

Simple Techniques to Unlock the Writer Within You

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Write Great Tie-Breakers and Win Fabulous Competitions Prizes

Are you a competitions enthusiast who enjoys researching and writing tie-breakers? Or do you prefer the laid-back approach, entering prize draws by writing your name and address on a postcard and sending it off? Whatever your choice, some magnificent prizes are available to you.

How Any Professional Speaker Can Explode Their Income Fast - Even If You're Just Starting Out

Not long ago I did a long audio interview with Vic Conant of the of the world famous company Nightingale Conant. Vic works with speakers all the time in developing their information products. And he was telling me how while a lot of speakers do create their own products, they don't all do it. There are many reasons for this, but the important thing to know is just because you don't have a product to sell to your audience, doesn't mean you can't make money selling them someone else's product.

Acronymisitis: 21st Century Plague

An article that needs to be read as soon as ASAP.

10 Step To Publish Your Books

Learn how to publish your novel, poetry, memoir, how-to book, children's books.

Top Author, Speaker & Consultant Says: Real Professionals Get Paid!

There are some wonderful artists that have created lovely and breathtaking paintings. They have produced numerous works; objects of true beauty, and many people with and without a trained eye would say they are gifted. But if they haven’t sold any of their pieces, these artists aren’t professionals. Don’t get me wrong, they’re making themselves happy, and perhaps their friends and family, and all of us would agree that they’re individuals of rare achievement. Still, they aren’t pro’s. The age old distinction applies, whether you’re a writer, a speaker, a bowler, a consultant, or a painter, says best-selling author and popular keynotespeaker, Dr. Gary S. Goodman.

Rhoticity

The term rhoticity originates from the late 1960s and is used by the linguists, to differentiate between two major varieties in modern English: one is that letter r is pronounced as in words like run, rabbit; and another one is that letter r is pronounced as in words crash, or four. Rhoticity was derived from the Greek letter rho (p) which is an equivalent to r. The variety of different dialects of modern American English was caused by the numerous historical reasons. Basically the difference of rhotic and r-less dialects in modern American community depending on its location was influenced by the social and ethnic groups that immigrated there and influenced the entire process of forming of the particular social groups on different territories as well as it influenced on the local dialects of that territories.

Rate Number 1 with a Conference Director

Never attended a writer's conference before? This article will give you tips on conference behavior, what to do if you have special needs or requests, have problems with the registration info, want to volunteer to help, etc.

The Search For A Stammering Cure

Anybody who has to live life with a stammer will know just how much of a hinderence it can make what fluent people see as simple tasks. Making a phone call, ordering a drink, going out with friends and attending a job interview can be very hard for people who stammer or stutter.