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Win More Clients, Projects and Freelance Jobs By Making Three Small Changes by: Shelley Wake I’ve spoken to hundreds of editors, employers, and project managers about how they choose a freelancer for a job. Whether they were reviewing job applications or considering project bids, they all had one thing in common. As every one of [...]
You Can Get On The Oprah Show Before 2011! by: Dr. Letitia S. Wright, D.C. Oprah has extended her contract until 2011, that means you can still get on her show. You have to know how to get on the show. You also need to know how to make the most of it while you [...]
Federal Student Loans versus Private Student Loans – which is best for me? by: Vanessa McHooley Federal Student Loans versus Private Student Loans – which is best for me? You have gotten all the grants and scholarships you can, but you still need money for your education. It’s time to look at loans. But which [...]
5 Dynamite Ways to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles by: Terri Pilcher The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I’m focusing only on finding those lucrative topics. Most topics in regional parenting publications are straightforward: finance, parenting tips, health, sports, and education. [...]
Basic Writing Tips – Some Controversial, All Correct by: David Clapham As a previous article (“Making Better Word Choices – 4 Examplesâ€) explained, writers can take steps to prevent simple, and common, errors from degrading their writing. Five areas of writing that cause authors problems are discussed in this article. Split Infinitives First let us [...]
A “Plan 9″ Book? by: Ed Williams Sometimes, when you do a little writing like I do, you get tipped off as to what upcoming books and authors are really gonna be hot. And folks, I’ve got a book title and an author’s name for y’all that I think may be the hottest of this [...]
Quick Proof Reading Can Lead to a Costly Mistake by: Laura Hickey If you know of anyone writing that likes to hear others experiences from authors, please share this and include the byline. One Isn’t Enough When it Comes to Proof Reading Your Work Here’s a story of an author who had to learn the [...]
Symbolism by: Samir K. Dash I Symbolism can have an extremely wide meaning. It can be used to describe any mode of expression to refer to something indirectly through the medium of another. But this doesn’t mean that a mere substitution of one object for another can be considered as this process. In fact symbolism [...]
Wordsworth’s “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” by: Samir K. Dash In a letter written in 1814, Wordsworth referring to ” Intimation to Immortality’ ode wrote the following to clear his stand on the poem: The poem rests entirely upon two recollections of childhood, one that of a splendure in the objects of sense which is [...]
Chaucer’s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by: Samir K. Dash Criticism of the portraits in Chaucer’s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales has taken various directions : some critics have praised the portraits especially for their realism, sharp individuality, adroit psychology and vividness of felt life; others, working in the genetic direction have pointed [...]