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Basics tutorial in setting up a free Blogger blog, uploading images and placing text for fiction writers wanting to publishe illustrated stories onto the web.

You are very capable of setting and achieving your goals when it comes to writing a book. Be prepared to celebrate your small successes along the way. They will lead to your ultimate goal of holding your completed book in your hands. I can speak from experience that becoming an author of a published book is one of the most special moments you will ever have.

Whether it's a preface, introduction, foreword, or prologue, the text that comes before your first chapter is key to setting the stage for your readers.

One of Wendy C. Allen's blogs. Wendy is a writer of sci-fi, romance, and horror short stories and novels, most noted as the creator of The Twighlight Manor series, a multi-volume epic gothic sci-fi-romance set in the haunted house, known as The Twighlight Manor. Wendy also owns The Twighlight Manor Press and editor of Moonsnails Magazine and Buried Treasure Magazine.

Many generators at Seventh Sanctum - from magic, art, characters, writing, superheroes, names, organizations, equipment, evil, technology and settings, to name a few

A set of mailing lists (groups) which communicate via Email, open to all styles and genres of writing. There several critiquing and discussion lists to join and participate in.

Writer's News magazine - the website includes subscription forms for the physical magazine, and links to home study courses, an active set of community boards, competition details, and U.K. writing news stories.

To learn how to write a novel, you need to understand two main elements, character and plot. The book is set out in two main parts: Part One: Mapping the Journey Part Two: Stages of the Journey

So many writers have been inspired by places from RS Thomas' Wales to Woody Allen's New York but what if place just doesn't get your juices flowing? Where does that leave you? Scottish writer Jim Murdoch talks about why places leave him cold and how this has affected his writing.

Freeware writing project organiser. Includes elements (characters, settings, events) with annotations, structure maps and timelines.

Using term "critical" in relation to critical essay does not imply that you will have to attack a certain work. One can create a critical essay that wholeheartedly agrees with assigned literature. The word "critical" describes your attitude when you examine the reviewed work. Such mind-set may be termed as "uninvolved analysis," which implies that you consider the coherence of the literature, the completeness of its desribed events, and so forth, before you accept or refuse it.

Learn Tony Evans alternative report: How Coconut Oil Will Set You Free - and Improve Your Health!

If you are organized and set up the systems you need, you can be more productive.

Editorial guidelines are the rules set forth by publishers for contributing authors. Learn how to understand these guidelines so that your article is more likely to be accepted for publication.

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Tips and ideas are provided for improving a blog to increase readership, along with how to increase the web presence of a blog within a niche.

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McFadden's San Diego nightlife is at gaslamp downtown. The Gaslamp's most recognized restaurant, bar and lounge offers only the greatest high quality fun and drinks.

ane Green. Writer. Londoner transplanted to America 21 years ago. Mother of six. Former art student. Author of 21 novels and one cookbook. Mostly tired. When did you first WANT to write a book? When Freya North wrote Sally and I thought, hang on, I could do that too. I was a journalist on the daily express at the time, and had read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and realized no-one was doing this for women. Little did I know that Helen Fielding was in her flat a mile away crafting Bridget Jones's Diary. When did you take a step to start writing? I was already a journalist. Nick Lloyd left as editor of the express, and the new editor had me writing about giraffes instead of relationships. It was clearly time to make a change. I very stupidly left my job, and gave myself three months to write a book AND get a publishing deal. Miraculously, there was a bidding war for my first book, about two days before that time period was up. How long did it take you to complete your first book from the first idea to release? I think a year. How long did it take you to complete your latest book from the first idea to release? About three years, but it is historical fiction, set in the sixties in London and Marrakech, and required intensive research, including moving back to London for a bit. Read more.....