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Oh the stories your little red diary can produce. Do they still make those things? Are they still called diaries? Why were they red? Perhaps there were other colors, but somehow I never remembered seeing any other color besides red. The presence of the gold lock and key signified that the contents were off limits to those other than the owner. Why was everyone so curious about what was inside that little red book, especially when it belonged to someone else? Is it because when you know something is forbidden, your urge to explore the mysteries behind it intensifies? One thing for sure, you could only write a brief summary of what you were entering in your diary, because there were only three to four lines in that compact treasure trove.

Whether you called it a diary, journal, log, record, chronicle or memoir, your daily account of events were written and securely tucked away from those snoops who were eager to get their hands on your personal secrets. As I look through that little red diary my mother gave me when I was entering high school, I couldn’t believe some of the emotional, as well as, monotonous stuff I wrote. Although I may not remember all of those events vividly, boy can I write some thrillers from my teenage accounts. As I reflected on some of the things I wrote, I thought about the writing opportunities that these daily records could produce. I felt obligated to fill in those tiny little lines with something that occurred on that particular day. Here are a few things I jotted down that appear to be pointless and non-incriminating, but definitely have hidden story potential:

1. What I ate that day

2. Where I went that day

3. The day I got my report card

4. What album I bought that day

5. My first kiss

6. My first argument with my boyfriend

7. My first heartbreak

8. The day I got my drivers license

9. The day I got my first after school job

10. The day I bought my car

11. What I felt like on graduation day

Each one of these seemingly boring entries has the potential to produce some exciting compositions (a poem, short story, novel or article). Imagine that! I listed eleven things from a five year diary that could generate clips and credits to add to my writing portfolio. You could generate interest and excitement to any memoir, by simply adding a splash of creativity to make your words come alive.

This is the first of a twelve part series encompassing “My Little Red Diary” that will break down these eleven daily accounts and offer suggestions for creating marketable compositions from them. You may want to burn that diary, because it could contain some scandalous things. Before you do that, take a closer look to see if your diary holds some profitable possibilities without offending or damaging another party. You never know what sizzling stories could come from those daily accounts.

Kym Gordon Moore is a public relations strategist for budget conscious new authors and coordinates creative marketing packages for her clients. She is fascinated with writing instruments, machines and other noteworthy objects that contributed to the progression of the art of writing. Many of her articles, essays, short stories and poems appeared in a variety of magazines, newspapers, ezines and anthologies. kymgmoore.com kymgmoore.com

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

There is only one story.

The Hero’s Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharsis).

d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story.

and more…

Separation

Before the Hero goes in search of the Sword, it is not unusual for him or her to separate physically and ideologically from others. This feature can be seen in some of the most successful stories of our time:

a) In Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indy is separated from Marion.

b) In Star Wars (1977), Luke et al are separated from Ben and the droids.

c) In Dances with Wolves (1990), John must leave Stands with a Fist and the tribe.

Learn more…

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I just finished to read a book. A story for kids (yes, I like them), interesting, told with participation and sometimes irony.

Which is the problem, then? Simple, if the author have been reading “How to Write a Children’s Book in 30 Days or Less″ by Caterina Christakos, he could have written it decidedly better.

There aren’t outcrying defects, but something doesn’t work. The characters seem a little flat, descriptions o vercome the story, the author sometimes appears between the lines…

Who is Caterina Christakos, anyway? She is an actress, protagonist of the film “Alone and Restless”, and a model for companies like Physique and Sephora.

She is also a published author of books like: “And Dreams Lost Along the Way”, “If I Could Remember All the Things She Forgot”, “How to Completely Blow Your Competition Away at Any Audition” and many articles (search the net).

And she also wrote “How to Write a Children’s Book in 30 Days or Less”. A book that shines like a small jewel. Of course, exists plenty of books teaching to write, addressed to beginners or published authors.

This book is different. It’s truly packed with useful advices since the first page. It’s a book to use, read, study, take and retake, accompanying you as you write *your* book.

It is dense of precious tips. Sure, not all is new. Some techniques can be found in other books, in writing courses, in internet sites…

For example, to carry always a pad and pen, to talk with childrens, to prevent the ill-famed writer’s block, to open the story with a bang… Tips perhaps already known, but here they succeed in composing an harmonic, progressive whole, a structured and organized plan.

The things become interesting when Caterina Christakos explains how to create *incredible* characters. And, incredibly, her method is one of the simplest and more intuitive.

Use the common sense, she recommends, look at people around you. Think of them as characters: your uncle behind the store counter, your cousin as a tender school-teacher, that limping boy with thick glasses as a brave hero who saves his friends…

What? You know nobody? Fear not. Switch on the television, leaf through the magazines, surf the net. But then, why to limit yourselves to the human race? In many other species you will find characters for your book.

The main point is this: you must know your characters. And to know them you must sketch their biography. Not only their height, eyes color, mannerisms, but above all their soul and mind, the experiences that forged them, the strong points and the weaknesses…

Write, write pages about them. Perhaps no one of those traits will appear in the final draft. This is not a problem: these qualities will help you to understand what your characters will make in a specified situation.

Many times will be just your characters who indicate how to pull them from intricate situations, to advance the story, to resolve the problems that will spring out along the road…

The central part of the book is… the ending! It indicates the day by day activities that will allow you to create a draft, edit it, breathe life into your characters, prepare the manuscript for publication - eventually publish it yourselves as an e-book.

All this in thirty days.

Look at the calendar on the wall in front of you, or open your diary… Which day is today? Well, between thirty days you could have finished your first book. Or your second, third… who knows?

Thirty days. Thirty-short-days.

Perhaps you will not produce twelve books this year… Not even Caterina Christakos seems to have made it, as far as I know.

Nevertheless, in thirty days you will succeed to create a story with vivid, lifelike characters, that will touch the reader’s heart.

And you will not have to neglect your daily activities: for example to bath the dog, vacuum the house, do the laundry, follow your preferred show…

But it doesn’t end here. Caterina Christakos makes an interesting recommendation, hard to be found in other books: use your imagination! In a new way.

Every writer possesses imagination, fantasy, ability to “see things″. But often he uses it only to see herself as a scribbler that nobody will ever esteem, an author that the critics will demolish without mercy, a dreamer that no editor will want to publish.

The author invites to make the same, to use the imagination, but this time in a positive manner, in order to create a “treasure map”.

The “treasure map″ is a sort of great screen in which to see yourselves reaching the success, leafing with satisfaction through your published book, or signing in the middle of a fans crowd.

It’s a technique useful not only to reach the success as a writer, but also to achieve whichever goal in your life.

You can have your copy of “How to Write a Children’s Book in 30 Days or Less″ visiting webpage of Caterina Christakos at: howtowriteachildrensbook.com” target=”_new howtowriteachildrensbook.com

What else? Your copy, grab it as soon as possible.

And now… see you in thirty days (or less)!

About The Author

Gianfranco Cazzaro is an italian freelance writer, especially dedicated to tales and articles for children and teens. Visit his website (in italian and partly in english) at: locomondo.altervista.org” target=”_new locomondo.altervista.org or e-mail him: mailto:locomondo@altervista.org locomondo@altervista.org

If you’ve never come up with any ebooks or digital products on your own but you’ve been writing articles and posting in forums, then you’re in for a big surprise.

You won′t believe that you already have your own digital product in hand.

You’d probably think that your own product has to be an ebook, a piece of software or some sort.

That is normal.

Though you can’t actually hold a digital product, the image of a book that appears on a website seems appealing and real enough to imagine that it’s a tangible, physical product - when an ebook is really a simple PDF or executable file.

That’s why creating an ebook can sometimes be a logical way to own a digital product.

But, you’ve been missing the point.

Like I said in the opening paragraph, if you have been writing articles and posting in forums, you definitely already have your own product in hand.

Take writing articles for example.

You can write a 500 to 600-word article about a topic and then leave an affiliate link to the website you’re promoting in the author byline.

Since there’s no article can be written exactly the same by two different authors, unless you plagiarize word for word, your article is your own unique product - in this case, a marketing product on its own.

What you need to do next is market your article as if you’re marketing an ebook or other digital product and make sure that there are as many people as possible read your article.

How do you market your own articles?

One way to do it is by submitting your articles to hundreds of article directories and thousands of ezine publishers.

If you want a quick result, and get your article listed in major search engines in as little as one day, pay for the article submission service or use article submitter software. You’ll get a wider distribution in a short period of time this way.

What if you don′t write an article, but have been actively posting in forums?

Well, use bits and pieces of the postings and turn them into articles.

For example, post a question like “how do you get top ranking in search engine?”

Then, when you get enough responses, compile the answers and write an article based on the information you have. Next, give a catchy headline for the article such as “Top 7 Sure-fire Ways to Achieve Top Search Engine Ranking in Less Than a Week.”

Include a short promotion about you in the author byline and Presto! You’ve got an article. You’ve got your own product.

Of course, you don′t normally create an image of article cover (like ebook normally has ebook cover), and lose the feeling of a ‘real’ product, but you can always turn a few of your articles into a short report. And guess what? Lots of people create images for their reports. You can do the same too.

Now, can you easily create a 500-word article?

How fast can you write a 500-word article?

Can you write more than one 500-word article?

Think about it. I′ve just created a product of my own and you’re done reading it in less then 3 minutes.

Is this article a great product? You’ll be the judge, but what’s more important is that I’ve already successfully marketed “my own product” to you.

Haven’t I?

Zamri Nanyan models a low-cost, high-profit concept to build successful internet businesses, as mentioned at LowCost-HighProfit.com LowCost-HighProfit.com. He now owns and operates several money-making websites from the comfort of his own house. Read more about Zamri Nanyan at ZamriNanyan.com ZamriNanyan.com

If you’re just starting out as a writer — as in, you have moved from “Some day I’m going to write a book” to “Hey, I just wrote the first chapter of my first novel…now what?” — the following advice is a summary of tried-and-true stock tidbits you’ll hear in some way, shape or form every time you ask an author what it takes to become one. And if you’ve been at this for a while…well, you’ve heard all this before. But you might at least take away an understanding chuckle.

Let me begin by stating something you might not be aware of: writing is work. Most successful authors talk about the joy of creation and the high that comes with filling a page with words that work together to create a story (and of course, the royalty checks help the high along). But I want you to know what you′re getting into. Yes, the elation writing brings on a good day is incomparable. Addictive. Unbelievably thrilling. However, if you plan on getting serious about writing, there will be days when it’s a drag. Depressing. Very nearly painful. Because the first thing you have to do is. . .

Write every day.

I’m not talking Monday through Friday here. You have to write every single day. Much like those stubborn arm and leg muscles that atrophy with disuse, your writing mind needs regular exercise. Even when you’re sick, or tired, or would much rather be out in the yard lying on the grass and identifying cloud shapes. . . you must make time every day to plant your butt in a chair and get some words down. It may sound harsh, but it’s the only way to improve. Practice makes perfect! (Ah, another tired old cliché. I wonder how many I can fit in this article?)

Show, don’t tell.

This little gem is the extraordinarily abridged version of the Writer’s Bible (if such a thing existed). The concept is simple, but once you grasp it your writing will be a hundred times more powerful when you apply it. Here’s the gist: when you put your characters down on paper, let the reader see their emotions–don’t bash them over the head with static statements that tell them exactly what’s going on. An example:

Sally pulled into the middle lane and got cut off. She was mad.

That’s telling. Now, here’s how to show:

As Sally pulled into the next lane to pass the rusted Chevy truck whose little old driver’s curly blue hair barely cleared the back of the seat, a screaming yellow Camaro swerved over from the passing lane, clearing her front bumper by mere inches. Gritting her teeth, she slammed the brake and laid on the horn, then screamed, “Watch where you’re going, jerkoff!” for good measure–like the schmuck in the Camaro could really hear her at ninety miles an hour.

The simple statement “She was mad” takes on a whole new dimension. Without actually saying it, the reader knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that Sally was mad. Here’s another, shorter example:

Telling: Jeff grew thoughtful.

Showing: Jeff sat down and propped a hand beneath his chin, a distant look in his eyes.

It’s far more effective to show a character taking action than to simply give a laundry list of thoughts and emotions. Once you master Show, Don’t Tell, you’re well on your way to writer-dom.

(Don’t always) Write what you know.

This doesn’t necessarily mean if you work in a convenience store, your main character should be a retail clerk. It also doesn’t mean you have to learn some spells before you try and write a fantasy novel about wizards. By now you may be asking: what does it mean, then?

Writing what you know simply means using all of your life experiences and the people you’ve known and observed to give your stories believability. Most of us don’t like our jobs enough to inflict them on our protagonists–though it works for Grisham!–but maybe you have a longtime hobby you could transform into an unusual career.

As for the people you know. . . go ahead, exploit them in your writing without fear. Perhaps you have an aunt with a knack for (wrongly) judging new acquaintances by their choice of footwear. Or maybe you know a guy at the office who comes in late every day with a new weak excuse on a par with “the dog ate my homework.” Small personality quirks can pave the way for integral characterization–and if you mix them carefully enough, no one will suspect you′ve used them for writing fodder.

So you think what you know won′t make an interesting story? Fortunately for you, there’s an addendum to this caveat: write what you know. . . and research what you don′t. An example: if you want to write a story featuring a cop, but you haven′t ever so much as set foot in a police station (and if you say you’ve never even been pulled over, you’re either a liar or you don′t have a driver’s license) you can start by scanning the ‘net for information. Then go to the library and get some books — most of them carry preparation manuals for law enforcement exams that contain great information on police procedures. And perhaps most importantly: get in touch with a cop and ask some questions. You’d be surprised how willing people are to talk to you when you preface your statements with, “I’m writing a book…” Apply these techniques to any profession, culture or lifestyle you want to write about, and not only will your writing be more believable; you’ll expand your personal horizons and enrich your own life.

Persevere.The most simplistic, most repeated advice writers give is this: never give up. If you decide to seek publication, you will be rejected. Over and over again. Know this going in. Understanding won’t make rejection any less painful, but at least you’ll be prepared to take your lumps and keep moving ahead. Be assured that you have something to say, and someone out there wants to hear it. . . you just have to be patient until you find that someone.

No matter what else you do, don’t quit. You don’t want to be the person who says, “I used to write, but. . . ” — do you?

Unpublished writers, take heart. If you strive to improve your craft, if you write every day, if your burning desire to tell your story drives you to the computer at three in the morning to get that idea down before you forget–no matter what the rest of the world says, I say: congratulations. You already are a writer.

The world just doesn’t know it yet.

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So you’ve taken the plunge and thrown in your safe, secure full time job to see if you can really make it as a freelance writer. Now, reality is sinking in and you realise that the familiar arrival of next week’s paycheck simply isn’t going to happen. Do you resign yourself to the idea that a career as a freelance writer is synonymous with insecurity? Will you convince yourself of the romantic notion of being an artist starving in a garret?

Let me tell you one thing I know for sure: it doesn’t have to be that way.

Life as a freelancer has all the benefits of being able to work for yourself — plus the bonus that there is no longer a ceiling to your salary. If you play your cards right, pick your jobs carefully and excel at what you do, then the sky really is the limit. You don’t have to struggle financially. In fact, you could carve out quite a lucrative freelance writing business.

You notice that I use the word “business”. Because to really succeed as a freelancer, I think that’s how you need to treat your work. And when you start seeing it as a business, you begin to understand its potential. You can expand, increase your margins and create repeat customers.

If there’s one thing I evangelise on, it’s helping freelance writers understand that they don’t have to be constantly on the back foot — wondering if they can really make a healthy living.

I′m constantly amazed by the number of people who ask me if it’s “tough as a freelancer”. And every week I get a question like: “Do you find that you get enough work to get by?”

Yes I do. And I do more than just “get by″. It’s been six years since I quit my full time job to try and crack the freelancing world. Back then, I really did think I was going to be on Struggle Street. But at the time, I hated my job so much that I jumped at the chance to freelance. Then after about six months of stressing out about where my next gig was going to come from, I decided to take a different approach.

I couldn′t suddenly conjure up a throng of eager editors wanting me to write for them overnight. So I did what I could — and I changed my attitude.

I realised I didn’t want become the stereotype of a struggling freelance writer. I dreamt that freelance writing would become as lucrative for me one day as if I had pursued a career in something like banking or finance.

Now six years later, I′m earning seven times what I did in my first year of freelancing. And that figure is projected to increase by 50% over the next year.

And I haven’t taken on another job or inherited a Burger King franchise! It’s all through my work as a freelance writer.

So I asked myself what have been the key elements contributing to this. These tips might help you consider how you can boost your freelance career.

1. Treat freelance writing as a business.

Never sit at your desk in your pyjamas. This means you make sure you wake up and “go to work” like you would in any other job.

2. Diversify your writing Write for more than just one genre or for one publisher. This helps if the publisher goes belly up — like the one who went bankrupt on me before paying the $3500 they owed me!

3. Pursue other writing-related projects.

Consider other avenues that can make you money. I also diversified from just writing to doing freelance editing and the occasional freelance teaching gig where I trained people how to write.

4. Keep on top of your finances, invoices and taxes.

If your finances aren’t in order, that’s an extra stress you just don’t need. When you know your accounts are up to date, you have a clearer idea of your financial position — it’s often better than you think. Make yourself do your accounts, invoicing and debt collecting for at least an hour every week

5. Believe it is possible.

Dream big. What’s the point of dreaming small? I believed that it was in the realms of possibility I would be able to earn a very healthy living. If I didn’t, it might have become a self-perpetuating prophecy.

If you′re considering taking the plunge but are worried that you won’t make enough money, my advice is that if you do what you love, the money will follow. When you work in an area you are passionate about, you will be good at it, and you′ll be in demand. And the law of supply and demand dictates that you′ll be able to charge a premium for your services. Good luck!

Sarah Craven is a freelance writer who is passionate about helping other freelancers find career success, financial security, and creative inspiration. If you want to boost your freelance career, you can visit Sarah′s website/blog freelancewritingworld.com/ freelancewritingworld.com/ which is full of tips, resources, personal insights and writing opportunities.

For those of you who love to write historical fiction, this article may be useful for you to develop writing skills as well as to improve quality of your writing piece.

As we all know among people who are historical fiction writers that writing kind of this work requires a lot of time and massive effort as well as creativity to combine the historical fact with the story to make the perfect casting as well as endearing and dislikeable characters.

The benefit of writing historical fiction is the historical part is very easy to draw attention of the readers or audiences. This is because of most of historical fact already memorable for people in terms of the story itself as well as the characters in the story and they will easily understand what you are trying to present. However, even though the history is good and memorable for people, but if it is present poorly so it will generate unpleasant reading experience, which means the writer must spend a lot a lot of time to create story to make it reliable and realistic applied to all characters in the story as well as they have to specify length of the story do not too long or too short.

How to create effective piece of historical fiction writing work

You have to make sure that you write the true and accurate history. There might be some other people that know better than you about the fact of the history. Apart from that, the key point is you have to make them feel that they have been sent to the period of such a story. Therefore, it is very necessary for you to take a comprehensive study about time and period of the history as well as the fact and all the detail inside that story to make sure you have complete accuracy of it.

In fact, not only you have to know exactly about time sequence of the history but also you have to know about the place where the story actually happened and it’s surrounding. For example, if you are writing about political situation you will have to know the major and sometimes minor historical and political events of the country and the impact of the situation that effect to other country countries surrounding it. Then you have to find out how the people who live in that period about their attitude as well as their actual feeling about that situation.

But this is only half way through, you still have some more work to do. You may also have to take further study of pattern of languages that people used in that period as well as other element. You have to study about what kind of type of dressing they worn social and all detail of life style such as food, transportation entertainment, music style that they listen or even type of weapon that they used.

So this is only first step of how to create a quality and effective historical fiction, which is very easy to follow, then take further study how to improve your writing skill of historical story then you will become success.

Tatiya T.

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I had a dream about dangling participles last night probably because I had a bowl of chocolate-chip, fudge brownie, chocolate ice cream followed by a second bowl of hand picked sweet cherries, before I went to bed. Instead of sugarplums dancing in my head, there were dangling participles hovering over the bedpost. It sounds kind of kinky doesn’t it?

What is a participle? It is a word ending in &quoting&quot and sometimes &quoted&quot. It looks like a verb but acts as an adjective. A participle is used to describe other words in a sentence.

Dangling participles are writing faux pas. They are often humorous without intending to be, but can be both confusing and annoying when trying to convey a message. In order to avoid dangling participles in your writing, be specific. Avoid generalizations. Two examples of generalizations are "there is", and "it".

Make sure you include a noun or verb in the sentence for the participle to clearly modify. A modifier is a word or group of words that describe other words in a sentence.

Whew! Let’s see now, dangling participles, verbs, adjectives, modifiers, there’s a lot to think about. Let’s have fun with dangling participles and their sometimes humorous, but confusing messages.

1.Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. (Is the dangling participle writing carefully?)

Correct: Avoid dangling participles while you are writing.

2. Flitting from flower to flower, the baseball player watched the bee. (I don’t think the baseball player is flitting from flower to flower, but you never know.)

Correct: The baseball player watched the bee flitting from flower to flower.

3. After being cracked open, the cook boiled the egg. (Oh, oh violence in the kitchen! I hope the cook wasn’t cracked open before the egg was boiled.)

Correct: The cook boiled the egg after it was cracked open.

4. Leaping off the cliff, I saw the mountain goat land safely 20 feet below me. (Look out below the goat and I are on our way down!)

Correct: Leaping off the cliff, the mountain goat landed safely 20 feet below me.

So, folks, a dangling participle is not some kinky physical problem. It is a grammar problem. When writing, make your communication clear.

ALWAYS remember never to eat chocolate-chip, fudge brownie, chocolate ice cream followed by sweet cherries, before going to bed. I sometimes have a problem with dangling participles, but today I have a stomachache.

Copyright © 2006 by Pamela Beers. All rights reserved.

Pamela Beers is a freelance writier, and educator. Visit her website at pamelabers.com pamelabeers.com for writing and marketing tips.

So you′re looking at some slow business days? Instead of mindless clicking or blowing all your hard-earned cash at the mall, write web articles to promote your company website.

Did you know? Articles are one of the most enjoyable Search Engine Optimization tricks around. In fact; if you′re really into the article marketing thing, you can easily get into an article writing frenzy where you′re writing as many as seven articles a day. Yes, much like that old childhood favorite, your one article can quickly become two little, three little, four little articles… five little… you get the idea.

Become known as the expert.

Sure, you know it’s a great idea to post informative articles on your website. But don′t stop there. Get in on the article marketing action and share your business savvy with intrepreneurs who will soon look to you as The Guy With All the Answers. And, the articles don′t have to stop at “Your Website.” Smart article marketers know that to reach your audience of article readers, you’ve got to hit all the hottest article distribution sites, plus contact specialized sites personally and convince them to run your articles in their blogs, on their article pages and in their monthly newsletters.

Join an article distribution site.

The easiest place to get on an article writing roll is by creating a membership with an article syndication or distribution site. Read a handful of articles from other authors to get the feel of what people are reading these days. Do some keyword searching to find the hottest search terms. Select topics that you’re comfortable with, and that can just roll right out of you and onto the document page.

Think of articles as web copy.

Think short and sweet. In fact; don′t think of your articles as articles at all! This is not magazine writing 101, this is web articles - and web articles are really web copy. I cannot say this enough times. So when you write your articles, train your mind to think “I am writing web copy” and then just do a simple How To, Reasons Why or “5 or 7 Tips” style article with a few paragraphs containing just a couple sentences each.

Create an author bio that will impress people.

When you get to the end of the article, write an author bio that will establish you as an authority in your field. You ARE an authority, yes? Well of course you are… or you wouldn’t be able to write articles so easily and effortlessly. Include a live URL in your author bio. Tell people to click. Yes, you must tell them. People are silly, they forget to do the simplest things.

Go for “freestyle articles.”

On a day when you have absolutely zero going on (okay, is there ever really a day like that?) just take some time to reflect upon your recent experiences for a bit. After you’ve reached your epiphany, start cranking out those articles. It doesn’t really matter what the topic is or if you stick to one category or branch out to alternate niches. The idea here is to just free your mind and let the articles pour out.

Writing articles is good for your soul, and good for your business! But if you′re just not a writer, there is another way. Call up someone who will ghostwrite your articles for you. Heck, I can do that. Maybe you should call me.

Copyright 2005 Dina Giolitto. All rights reserved.

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Outsourcing jobs from abroad is now considered as the next-generation in home-based businesses. One type of job that is has widely been a good source of income is Freelance article Writing or also known as Copywriting. This is mainly because:

1. Copywriting is easy to do when you are creative and has good research skills.

2. Anyone can do it and it just takes some practice and a desire to write.

3. It’s fun!

4. The more experiences you have, the more chances you are able to get more writing jobs.

5. Above all is that lots of ‘netizens especially webmasters don’t have time to write web contents′ and articles for themselves that’s why they hire others to write for them.

This is basically the reason why Copywriting jobs is growing so fast as one of the most sought-out jobs.

This is where people who want to write can experience the benefits of copywriting especially when we talk of its money-making potentials. At first it may not be a good source of profit since most clients can afford to spend as low as $1 per 500-word article to as much as $30 on a 1000-word article. Nevertheless, once you have establish yourself as a freelance writer your client-base will surely grow. It only takes patience and determination to work out this type of business.

Now when you have a good market of clients and writing jobs becoming too many, this can also be good way for you to unload yourself and share the jobs to others. This way you just get the cut for marketing and getting jobs for them. SO when you have established a pool of other writers you are now able to earn more than you can imagine.

This is how I was hooked up with this great business when I was receiving writing request from my clients who I do graphics. I realized that perhaps copywriting has a huge market. So what I did I set up my own copywriter.manigsaca.com copywriter site to promote my services. Then from there clients kept coming in. Of course it takes for you market your services and copywriting site to forums and boards as well as sending emails to friends and existing clients.

With, if you would like to earn extra income perhaps copywriting is a very great business niche for you to come in.

Happy Copywriting!!

Ariel Joey G. Manigsaca works as graphic designer at axillon.com axillon.com and at the same time does copywriting at copywriter.manigsaca.com copywriter.manigsaca.com