Monday, March 31, 2008

Sound Scientist: 9 Essential Studies on Music, Audio & Sound

9 journeys into the world of sound that shook the world: from sound-art and sonic design, to John Cage's lectures and writings on Silence, to Hermann von Helmholtz' 'On the Sensations of Tone' from the 19th century.

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Freelance Writing Jobs to Consider - March 31st

Website offering daily list of freelance and virtual assistant jobs. Great resource for making money at home

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6 Lies About Creative Writing You Should Never Believe

Creative writing is not an easy task. Figuring out just what makes fiction good, let alone great, is a puzzle that takes decades to figure out.

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Stephen Covey's "emotional" work habits

Stephen Smith, author of the blog @ Stephen, has been writing a series on how to implement Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This week, he takes a look at habit four - “emotional bank accounts” that other people hold for you and you hold for others.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Funny Resignation Letter

There are many tips on how to write resumes. But how about this for a resignation letter…(An actual letter sent by a fed up US employee in Port Huncliff, New England)

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10 resumes a day, no takers

Mortgage underwriter Joshua Hager saw the writing on the wall and started looking for a new job in November. Now out of work, he's trying to get his foot back in the door of a financial firm.

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Make Money Writing Articles

Do you want to start making money from the comfort of your home using the power of the internet. Find out how to make money writing articles. If you are able to write - you dont have to be a master then you will earn money writing articles.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

To Buy Review or to Write it?

Writing book reviews, literature reviews, movie reviews requires a lot of free time and patience from students. A lot of them spend plenty of time trying to write a good review but very often they fail and delegate their review paper to highly qualified writers who can write it for them.

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Saving Money Group Writing Project

A contest to write about saving money.

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The Quickest Way to Start a Freelance Writing Career

This post is first-hand advice on how to start a profitable freelance writing career.

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If you write it, the job will come.

Cover letters-- why you should write them and why they're important.

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How To Make Money Writing an eCourse

An ecourse is a series of messages you deliver by email using an autoresponder to people who subscribe to receive it. You can use it to build a list of your own and make money following up with them. In this article we will look at how to make money

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

BookLamp.org is Pandora.com for Books

CanGoogleHearMe.com recently introduced BookLamp.org. It's a system that matches users to books based on a full-text analysis of the novel, like how Pandora matches music. It measures elements like action, dialog, and description, graphs them for you scene-by-scene, and uses that to find other books that have similar writing style.

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Systasis -journal of Classical Philologists in Macedonia

I am writing this blog-post specially to promote the Systasis, a web site of the on-line, electronic, periodical journal, initiated and edited by the members of the Association of Classical Philologists Antika in Skopje, Macedonia.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

10 Things Investors Look For in a Business Plan

When writing a business plan or proposal to send to investors or lenders, there are some important points you will want to cover in detail. It could mean the difference between rejection and acceptance!

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Turning A Long Post Into Multiple Shorter Posts

If you're a habitual blogger, especially in the IM/Business areas creating new posts everyday can be a lot of work. Some bloggers write volumes in one post -- news flash! You've probably lost a lot of readers. Here is a technique to s-t-r-e-t-c-h your writing and keep readers interested longer and have them coming back for more.

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Write a Screenplay. Really.

"The script must... keep you off balance, keep you surprised, entertained, involved, and yet, when the denouement is reached, still give you the sense that the story had to turn out that way." Sidney Lumet

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Get help writing a great eulogy by Tom Antion

If you need help with your funeral speech, you have come to the rightplace. We have tons of samples and an extremely unique format for your eulogy.By Tom Antion

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Instant Thank You Letters

Instant Thank You Letters Order Now Earn Money In Only Minutes You Can Quickly and Easily Create Thank You Notes or Letters for Any Situation Guaranteed To Make the Perfect Impression Without Writing What a neat idea and fantastic product I love the fact

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

11 step guide to write a business plan to attract investment

6 - Vision / Mission - Where is the company going? What is the company ultimately trying to achieve? This vision will be related to the business that the company undertakes. Eg, a web design firm’s mission may be the consistently create the best websites and to expand into the international marketplace.

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Writing your Business Plan

Even when a business plan is successfully drawn up remember that it will evolve as a work in progress. A business that is growing should update the business plan in order to keep it current.

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A Guide to Creative Writing That Sells

Some call them “tag lines”; others refer to them as”catch lines” or “tie-in-slogans.” Whatever the words used to refer to them, they are perhaps the most important part of your promotional writing.Do you recognize any of these?

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7 Step Guide To Financial Prison Break

This is not technically about writing but has great relevance to us all who want financial freedom.So you want to break out from your financial Prison? Ok, well here is my 7 step guide on how to start doing that: 1. Write down your financial plan. Understand your actual situation and choose realistic goals for future; 2. Take control of your financial situation. Learn how to read and write a financial declaration.

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Steps to a Writing an Effective Press Releases

Want to get the most media attention and spotlight for your business? Then the first place to start is with a GREAT press release. Now I can almost see half of you leaving now, dreading the thought of having to write one of these. But wait!!

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Youre Only as Good as Your Next Idea

Whenever I think of some of the serial entepeneurs Ive metand Ive met quite a fewI always decide that some people are simply better than others at generating new ideas. Ive especially seen this in writing circles Ive walked in, where some people can simply do it better than others

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17 Ways of Finding Movitation to Blog

Once and awhile most bloggers find themselves wondering what to blog about next. It happens to all of us once in a while. Sometimes you may lay awake in bed debating on ideas to write about in the following days. Blogger amnesia anyone?

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Foster Parent Letters to the Judge - How to Write an Effecti

How to write a relevant and respectful letter to the judge residing over a child welfare case.

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Using Blogs as Teaching Tools in Writing and Reading

Some discussion of blogs as teaching tools

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Writing can lower your cholesterol

Who doesn't need to lower their cholesterol these days? Forget the pills. Here's an easy way that's been identified by Arizona State University as something we can all do to have a healthier heart. How - by writing 3 times a week - have a look - it's so simple you''ll never believe it. And it means I don't have to go to the gym quite so much!

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Friday, March 14, 2008

How Print Editorial Standards Differ from Online Standards

Writing for the internet can be a profitable endeavor. But imagine if you can the difference in your online article marketing if you were to write articles that are good enough to be published in print media. And then consider that perhaps you can migrate your content from the web to print media. This article tells you how.

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10 Killer Internet Companies That Want To Pay You to Write

Writers and Authors listen up, if you have ever had dreams of turning your passion for writing into cold, hard cash, then this article shows you where, how and who will pay you to write what you already enjoy writing about. This is an excellent article for any writer, novice to expert doesn't matter.

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THE TIP-How to write a recipe

Give your recipe a name.It does not need to be anything fancy-just something to describe the dish and distinguish it from similar recipes.Specify the number of servings the dish will provide.This lets you know when to double the recipe or cut it in half to suite the number of guests.

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Top 10 Great Movie Speeches

Here is a great list from The List Universe of the top 10 greatest speeches in movies. “Filmmakers are often accused of writing movies that give quick snippets and no real substance, but from time to time a truly great scene comes out that includes brilliant speech writing. This is a list of the ten greatest movie speeches..."

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Idiot Author's Writing Tips

Noted author Curt Dreckman teaches you a lesson about avoiding repetition in your writing.

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Practical Advice for Aspiring Authors

Scribophile, a new online writing workshop, features several articles on the publishing world as seen from a writer's perspective. Scribophile.com is an up-and-coming website posed to by the "MySpace" for aspiring authors.

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Show Us Your Glass Shards - Creative Writing

A creative writing story I did, check it out and give some feedback and criticism.

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Cut/Scenes: Writing for movie based games

In previous columns, we’ve deliberated the nature of storytelling within games and movies and complained about the quality of writing in many movies based on games. This week, we’re looking into the other side of the equation – writing a movie-based game, with a little inspiration from a very insightful Gamasutra interview posted last week.

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Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System

I have been intending writing a bit about using Wordpress as a CMS for a while now. This post is made up of several parts

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How to Write Terrible Documentation

Very funny and insightful article from a writer about how companies expect their product documentation to be written.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Start to Finish: The Process of Making a Song

I write music somewhat differently than most. I have a pretty good routine though after 8 years. This article first covers the composing; coming up with melodies, practicing them, recording them, and implementing them with chords. It then deals with the post-production of tweaking, mixing and adding effects. Then finalizing it and mastering.

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Creating the Right Reality on the Web

Every word you feature on your website has the ability to build — or damage — how prospects perceive you. What you say and how you write it directly impacts whether an online visitor...

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How to Write an Essay: Ideas for Persuasive Essay Topics

Persuasive essay writing is different from writing a letter to your girlfriend. Surprisingly, but your essay should aim on being concise, precise, clear and true. It is perhaps one of the most challenging types of essays you may encounter. Check this useful guide to generating ideas that stick :)

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Looking for people that is interested in part time writing

Currently will be giving away a gift to one of the people that sign up to be a writer.

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Optinaccelerator website crashed after 4 hours of release

Optinaccelerator a new viral Opti in list software its known by the common factor of Myspace and Facebook why ? read this lense , the software released on 13 March 2008 just 4 hours before writing this lense

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Is The Pen Mightier Than The Keyboard

Unbelievably there are still people around who have never even turned on a computer. These people have chosen live their life in the dark ages, responding not to emails but writing letters as normal and popping them in the post box.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Helium Marketplace: A New Writer's Job Platform

Helium.com officially launches The Helium Marketplace. This could really be the next revolution in publishing. Now writers get a real chance to be valued on their writing - not how much time they spend (waste!) on finding publishers and selling themselves. And publishers don't waste time on reading through endless piles of resumes.

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Author Struggles with Temptation to Buy a Slave

With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. He discusses the challenges of writing about this disturbing institution.

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Monday, March 10, 2008

CanGoogleHearMe releases their idea: BookLamp

BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long? The technology behind BookLamp allows you to find books that are written with a similar tone, tense, perspective etc.

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Words From The Wise…

As passionate as we are about our writing, we know others in world simply say things better. Having said that, we have picked five financial related quotes that we hope will open your eyes to the power of money and perhaps, give you a different and positive financial outlook.

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MM: Overused Vocabulary

Deb's writing reminds us that we can be more expressive in our language and more accurate about our feelings. She is excellent to read

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EasyBib: Free Automatic Bibliography Composer - MLA and APA

For all those papers you'll be writing this Spring semester, might as well easy the pain of formulating a Works Cited page.

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Tips For Writing Good WordPress Tips

Good tips for Wordpress bloggers

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How to Write a Play

The most famous and possibly oldest structure for playwriting is three-act. Three act structure is the standard for most screenplays, stage plays, and even novels. The bard himself used it 400 years ago to great effect, and it still sucks audiences in today. Why? It’s simple, gripping, and familiar to audiences. There’s something about

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Writing the Bible

A funny take on the process of writing the Bible.

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How-To: Know if your PC has USB 2.0 or USB1.1?

Madhur writes in from the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. Madhur in his mail writes to me asking about USB Versions and how to figure out which version is running on his PC. For his and all other readers, i have decided to put up a post on USB.

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Write Out of the Box on Squidoo

Great writing tools and resources for every writer- academic or creative.

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Saturday, March 8, 2008

ebook business.org - Writing ebook 1 to 5 of 53 ( 1 of 11 )

Writing ebook 1 to 5 of 53 ( 1 of 11 ) - business ebook search a lot of business ebook for download - ebook business, business ebooks, ebook business package

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Writing a book, part 3: trade publishing

Part of a series about how to publish technical books (or indeed any sort of book)

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Want to be an A student?

How do you like to get a good grade on your school project? How about showing your teachers that you can write a good essay? Believe it or not, you can find professionals to help you on your project. If it’s essay, term or even a research paper, you don’t have to blow your brains out just to get an awesome topics and

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Master thesis writing

Master thesis writing is a crucial thing in every student’s life. It is an important hurdle that you have to overcome to get your degree.

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Santa Barbara Real Estate Gets Wish Granted from the FHA

After a fair amount of backlash and letter writing, the government this week raised the mortgage limits for loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration in several high cost California counties, including Santa Barbara. The maximum amount of $729,750 will now be allowed for the Santa Barbara area and only time will tell ...

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Wedding Gift Thank You Notes

This article details some tips and examples for writing a wedding gift thank you note.

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Citi CEO memo to the employees - Don't stop believing

Citi CEO pep talk to the employees. Lot of truth in what he writes, let's see if he can engineer a turn around

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The Art of Email-Writing and How It Can Make or Break Your B

Emails are ubiquitous. Approximately 183 billion emails are sent every day, which translates into two million every second. For those keeping track at home, that’s officially a boat load of emails. Or, dare I say, a cruise-ship load?

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

19 Microblogging Platforms

List of 19 websites where you need write little to speak loud. Things like twiiter and pownce are the 2 biggies and here are other sites you can use.

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Saratoga Springs Girl’s Writing Has a National Audience

A 12 year from Saratoga Springs, NY is published in New Moon Magazine.

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex...

If I truly knew everything there was to know about sex, I would be incredibly wealthy, surrounded by beautiful women and not sitting here writing this article.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW, ASK FOR ADVICE AND ACCEPT CRITIQUE

Kurt A. Bryan, author of Double Move and The Game Breaker (both published under SterlingHouse Publisher's Pemberton Mysteries imprint), writes about writing. "If you have a desire to become Author, it is critical you write what you know about most of the time."

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How To Write A Travel Nursing Resume

Nice outline of how to write a resume if you are thinking about travel nursing.

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How do You Write Research Paper?

How do you write research paper? This is a question which can be attacked by a student involved in the writing research paper process from so many angles.

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Explode Your Clickbank Commissions

A Great Way to Earn Money Online with a Clickbank Portal; writing reviews about clickbank products and submitting these to article directories can be very time-consuming: what if you could promote all 10000 clickbank products from your own free website? Well now you can with a clickbank portal!

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Everything I learned about writing after journalism school.

Instructors were always careful to point out that nobody reads past the first paragraph anyway, so make sure what needs to be said is said before they are gone. This is only aggravated by the Internet and its multitude of shiny links waiting to be clicked. If my instructors are right, the majority of readers who clicked on this article are now gone

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Stumbleupon; The huge resource of blogs and photos

The Stumbleupon is a social network in which many people gather here to write their thoughts, diary and put favorite pictures on their blogs. People find their friends of same mentality, same thoughts, and same choice here. So they add them as friends. When both add each other, they are mutual friends. When you add someone you are fans of them

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Mark Victor Hansen - Book Marketing (learnings from the day)

Some great insight on book writing and book marketing.

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Write an Essay - Change Your World

What topics in the news spark your interest on one hand and leave you a bit curious on the other? You may be surprised to learn that your linguistic intelligence is wired to write your way to adventures that help you understand and grow in any area. How so?

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Selling Your Writing

Good advice for writers who want people to read what they write. It's about paying attention to what the readers want and need before you start writing.

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Money for Writing

Writing can earn you money! There's no doubt about this. However, there are many different ways to make a buck with what you write. You can choose to ...

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How to write blog articles , posting thoughts

The article title is belongs to your article's matter on your blog in which you write some new to teach your visitors in an extra ordinary way

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Push Button Niche Results Business Model.

Internet Marketing Business modeled after “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. If you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime” philosophy. Instead of creating a low cost ebook, create a high priced service "Business Solution in a Box". Mike Filsaime is an inspirational Internet Marketer. I would suggest reading everything he writes.

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Writing an eBook For Your Blog at Weekly Articles About Blog

"This post will describe what you need and the approach you should take to finally start and finish the eBook you’ve always wanted to publish."

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Write Your Goals

Goals are much more effective when they’re written down. Every book I’ve read about success principles and achieving your goals emphasizes the importance of writing them, in fact, some experts recommend actually writing them in longhand rather than typing them on a computer.

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Overcome Writers Block with These Writing Hooks

Ready to overcome writer's block? Jumpstart your creativity as you do article marketing or create website content using these amazing writing hooks.

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