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Posted by Marg McAlister
Over the past eight years or so, I have tutored thousands of writing students. They come in all flavours: retirees who at last have time to satisfy a dream; young mothers who want a job they can do at home; bored workers who feel their creativity is being stifled by their existing careers.
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Posted by Sai Ias
Once over a muggy meadow
There walked a white wan shadow
Tears trickled down toward the ground
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Posted by Mary Arnold
Although in these articles, I focused on just a few elements of
the Harlem Renaissance that I learned...
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Posted by Kal Bishop
Every hero has a seminal insight - the apotheosis. Once you know what that insight will be, you can start building your story up to and beyond that point:
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Posted by Melody Spier
Newsletters and Ezines are very useful to you and to your customers. What to put in your newsletter depends on your particular business and goals. Some use newsletters strictly for communicating information about their products and services, while others use them as a forum for discussions where the subscribers can actually contribute to the list and/or subject matter.
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Posted by Marg McAlister
Punctuation, when used creatively, is powerful. Note, however, that when I say 'when used creatively', I don't mean that you can make up the rules.
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Posted by Steven Gillman
Just listening to or reading jokes and riddles may "wake up" your brain, but it is creating them that really exercises your brainpower. The process requires you to use both logical and lateral thinking skills. How do you do it, then?
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Posted by Marvin D. Cloud
In large publishing houses, many manuscripts penned by first-time authors, never make it past the "first reader" who for all practical purposes is a gatekeeper of sorts. This person's job is to weed out manuscripts that do not fit certain established submission criteria. However, many never make it to the editor's desk, simply because they are badly disorganized and downright incoherent.
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