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How many times have you stared at a blank page, deadline looming, and felt the trickles of sweat on your forehead? Or cringed at the thought of writing a thesis, term paper, business proposal, or status report? Or dreamt of writing a book, novel or screenplay, but pushed it aside as “too difficult; it would take forever”? Alright. Enough procrastinating. Let’s cut through the waste and nail down the solution, right here, right now.
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Journalists are taught how to write news, which means writing no-nonsense copy that gets to the important information as quickly as possible.

In a hard-hitting news story, there is no room for opinion, advice, humor or commentary. Most importantly, you should dispense with flowery writing and twinkling prose. It is not a literary masterpiece that is going to impress your readers. It is the information you give them.
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I stumbled upon an interesting article today about writing a name in chinese characters. There is no such thing as a chinese alphabet, so how can your name be written in chinese? It works this way: someone who knows Chinese will pick up the characters which sounds like your name, or closest to it. As the article explains:

“Now how does this work in reality? As you may imagine, the Chinese read the news of the world in Chinese and when, say, Bill Gates visits China, they write his name in Chinese. They use two words which sound like “gai” and “ci” (pronounced together as “gaitsu”) for his surname and “bi” and “er” (pronounced together as “beer”) for his first name. So his name in Chinese is Bier Gaici (beer gaitsu). All of these 4 characters originally have a meaning but it becomes irrelevant as soon as they are used for a foreign name.”

Adsense is a program designed by Google to help publishers monetize their websites using high contextually-accurate ads. Adwords is the other side of the coin which allows any person to create an account with Google and bid on keywords or key phrases to have their ads appear in either the search results ad placements, or in content sites that display Adsense ads.

Over the past few months I’ve identified a group of authors, writers, and publishers that I call: “Adsense Authors.”
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News writing can appear to be a restrictive discipline in that you are limited to writing what other people do or say. However, within this scope there are plenty of ways in which you can tell your story.
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Show Numbers as Numerals When Writing for Online Readers - It’s better to use “23″ than “twenty-three” to catch users’ eyes when they scan Web pages for facts, according to Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox recent article.

By Laura J. Thompson

Disciplining yourself to write isn’t an easy task, but you’ll get better at it with time. The trick to this is creating a writing schedule which forces you to write every day. If you don’t have a schedule, you’ll wind up watching television, reading books and surfing the Internet rather than creating your latest story or article.

The problem that many writers face is that there are only twenty-four hours in a day. You have to set aside time to sleep, eat, socialize with your family and go to your day job, if you have one. This leaves precious few hours to actually write, which is why you have to examine your typical day and determine when it will be most convenient to write.
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By Charles EssmeierSome six weeks ago, I began writing and submitting articles to free content sites in order to promote the six commercial Websites I own. The results have been both swift and dramatic, and the number of links from external Websites to my own Websites has increased from nearly nothing to more than 10,000 in a little more than a month. These results have inspired me to write more articles, and as I own six different Websites, I have six different topics to choose from. Still, my ideas occasionally run dry and that certainly happens to others who write articles for their own Websites. Writing and submitting articles on a regular basis does a lot for promoting your Websites, but where can you find more ideas for articles when you run out?
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By Deanna Mascle

Self publishing your own book is one of the publishing industry’s dirty little secrets. Mainstream publishers, editors, and authors easily dismiss self publishing and print on demand publishing as a rip-off for both the writer and reader. After all, if the writer was a real writer then they could find a real publisher, right? That has been the conventional wisdom for a long time but in today’s modern, technological society that conventional wisdom does not always hold true. So who should consider self publishing?
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