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It has many names glossophobia, communication apprehension, stage fright, having butterflies in the stomach. It has several symptoms a rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, a dryness in the mouth and unsteady hands. Most people are familiar with one recent poll or another showing that Americans rank fear of public speaking ahead of fear of death. Find something people are afraid of and you can sell a cure. Unfortunately, many “cures” out there are platitudes peddled by the snake oil salespeople of presentation training. They can actually increase apprehension as well as sabotage other aspects of the presentation. Here are the top five popular gimmicks for calming your nerves followed by three that actually work.

Imagine everyone in the room sitting in his or her underwear.

The results of your imagination could range from highly erotic to downright scary. One thing’s for certain; your mind won’t be on your presentation.

Pick a spot in the back of the room and focus only on it.

Your audience will wonder why you refuse to look at them. Eye contact is essential to create good rapport. Presenters who establish and maintain eye contact are perceived to be more honest and more persuasive.

A little bit of nervousness is good.

You’ve probably heard the saying “It’s okay to have butterflies in your stomach. Just make sure they fly in formation.” Enthusiasm, energy and excitement are good. Nervousness is bad. Nervous symptoms are easily recognized and rarely mistaken for energy. If you’re speaking to a hostile or indifferent audience, a little bit of nervousness is like a little bit of blood around sharks it only takes a little to start a feeding frenzy. In other words, swat those butterflies!

Use visual aids to channel your nervous energy.

Visuals should be used because they provide a visual reinforcement of your message, not because they provide an outlet for nervous movement. Presenters who use visuals to reduce their communication apprehension turn visual aids into visual distractions.

Memorize your speech, then recite it.

People who memorize tend to think of information as something stored up inside them waiting for release. When they start reciting, they want to dump it out as quickly as possible. Look up “recitation” in the dictionary and you’ll find one meaning is “reading or repeating aloud.” Would you want your presentation to be described as “reading or repeating aloud”?

“To conquer your fear, you have to focus on what caused it. Attack the cause and you diminish the condition.”

What Works

Be prepared.

When you bring the requisite knowledge to your presentation, you have eliminated one of the major causes of apprehension. Do sufficient research to ensure you are the expert on your topic. Anticipate difficult questions and prepare responses. Another aspect of preparation is practice. You should have rehearsed your presentation three to five times before you deliver it before a live audience. Ask a friend or association to listen in and “red flag” any unfamiliar language or confusing statements. The fewer the surprises, the more in control you’ll be.

Focus on the audience.

Research their needs, their knowledge level, their concerns and their motivations. Tailor your presentation to this unique audience, not some abstract conglomerate of people. Arrive early and mingle with individual audience members. Get to know a few of them. Ask them why they’re attending the presentation and what they hope to gain from it. Refer to some of them by name during the presentation. Remove some of the anonymity and you’ll also remove some of the apprehension.

Visualize success.

The perspective you bring to the situation frames your experience. Thoughts of failure often become self-fulfilling prophecies. Instead, picture yourself speaking confidently and accomplishing your purpose. Don’t think about it simply as something to “get over with.” Presentations provide excellent opportunities for business development and networking. When you have developed your presentation skills, you’ll enjoy a competitive edge. Leadership development specialists, business coaches and performance experts all agree: Effective communication skills are essential to achieving growth in any profession. There’s also no doubt that public speaking causes anxiety. You probably won’t be able to eliminate it completely, but if you’re sufficiently prepared, audience-focused and success-oriented, you’ll be able to keep anxiety under control and your career on track.

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People often ask why you would ghostwrite. Why spend all that time writing for someone else to put their name on it?

Simple, it is easier to find work as a ghostwriter than to try to persuade an editor to publish your work with your own bi-line. After Ghostwriting for a while and building up your reputation, jumping into the fire and going after the bi-line is much easier.

When you join a ghostwriting job marketplace, watch for projects that you know a little about. Thins about it, if you are a health junky and someone needs article written on binoculars you are going to need to do a lot more research than if a project comes up regarding health or fitness. Simply put when starting out try to bid on projects that you know something about that way, you will find your research 100% easier.

Find your niche. Some people enjoy writing short bulk articles, while others prefer to do e-books. There are also those who enjoy creating newsletters or press releases. What I am saying here is that you will always be more successful if you enjoy what it is you are doing.

Examine your style of writing. Is it formal, humorous or just relaxed and friendly? Once you have determined this it will help you to assess and determine what job types suit you best.

Build your profile as quickly as you can. Set up a Paypal account. This allows you to send invoices to clients and they can pay you instantly. This is extremely useful especially if you intend to create your own list of clients. Websites such as Elance do allow your clients to pay via paypal also so it really is worth having an account. These accounts are also free and you can send and receive money worldwide.

Having your own website is not essential but can be helpful. You can set it up and have testimonials on there, list your service and fee structure. You can even post an online portfolio and have a contact page where people can request quotations.

Work out the amount of hours you can spend writing each week, remembering to allow enough time for leisure activities. This will help you to evaluate exactly how much money you need to earn from your writing and is vital for your bidding process.

Keep a list of clients that you have worked for and the type of project you completed. This is extremely important especially if the client contacts you again for more work. You will have all the details on file and know exactly how much you charged, how long the project took, and the research if the topic is the same.

Keep in mind that you will pick up more ghostwriting tips as your career progresses and you will discover what works best for you. The tips above are designed to lead you in the right direction but the rest is really up to you

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How to get published? That’s the big money question for writers. Writing is fulfilling in and of itself, but every writer ultimately wants to learn how to get published.

A lot of writers think getting published is a matter of luck. Or it’s a matter of knowing the right person. Or it’s a matter of simply being born a brilliant writer.

Although all of the above will help you get published, you don’t have to have any of these things. You can LEARN how to get published.

When you follow The Eight Steps Success Plan For Writers, you’ll no longer wonder how to get published. You’ll BE published.

Here’s The Eight Steps Success Plan For Writers:

1. Create a successful writer’s mindset.

To have a successful writer’s mindset, you must know where you want to go with your writing. A goal of getting published isn’t enough. You must have a laser-focused intention. Use visualization to keep that intention at the forefront of your mind.

2. Develop the habit of journaling regularly.

Every serious writer MUST keep a journal. It is a tool that will improve your ability to notice the events in your world. It is also a tool that helps you mine your emotions and thoughts.

3. Practice writing daily.

The other way to improve your writing daily is by doing a daily practice. Writing is like playing a musical instrument. You must practice in order to improve.

The easiest writing practice to do is timed writings. Choose a length of time (at least 5 minutes more is better). Set a timer and just write.

4. Understand your strengths and weaknesses and write to your strengths.

Every writer has specific strengths and weaknesses. When you know yourself as a writer, you can choose the projects with which you can have the greatest success.

5. Write with feeling.

Writing is all about emotion. If your writing lacks emotion, it will be flat and uninteresting. You must know your own feelings about what you’re writing, and you must also know what feeling you want to evoke in your reader. Keep these emotions in mind as you write.

6. Fill your writing with just the right details.

Detail is essential to great writing, but too much detail can bury good writing under a layer of distraction that turns the writing dull. When you learn to create the perfect balance of details—just enough, but not too much, you become a writer who can easily get published.

7. Make your writing hypnotic.

“Hypnotic writing” is a term created by author, Joe Vitale. It’s a wonderful term that explains how a writer must be able to write in a way that grabs and holds a reader. You must have the ability to mesmerize your reader.

You create hypnotic writing with the use of short phrases, the use of rhythm, and pacing. You also create it with perfect word choice and a constant awareness that your writing must be for the reader.

8. Always have a writing plan.

An absolutely essential element of writing success is motivation. You must be able to stay motivated to start and finish your writing projects.

Many writers fail for lack of motivation. Procrastination and writer’s block are two common writing career killers.

You can avoid both procrastination and writer’s block by always having your projects planned out. Create a short term and a long term plan. List the projects you want to do this week, this month, and this year. Once you’ve created the list, get out your calendar and make a schedule for how you can complete your projects.

That’s it–The Eight Steps Success Plan For Writers.

These steps are not a quick-fix publishing solution. They won’t turn you into J.K. Rowling overnight. But The Eight Steps Success Plan For Writers will, if you work the steps diligently, turn you into a quality writer. It is also the foundation of how to get published.

Andrea Rains Waggener, J.D., novelist and book author, is the creator of Novel Writing Made Easy and of the writinghelppartnership.com how to get published writer’s success system How To Become A Writer Extraordinaire. She offers two Free Reports, The 18 Most Common Writing Mistakes And How To Avoid Them, AND A Dozen Fiction Writing Mistakes And How To Sweep Them Out Of Your Story at writinghelppartnership.com writinghelppartnership.com

If you have just entered the world of internet marketing, you will soon find out that getting huge amounts of high quality traffic to your website is not as easy as it seems. Most of the popular methods such as organic search traffic, and pay per click traffic need time and quite a bit of knowledge in order to successfully work. Article marketing is a bit different

Don’t get me wrong. When it comes to article marketing, you still have to learn some basics and put in hours of hard work. However, once you have those two requirements underneath your belt, you will find article marketing to be one of the easiest ways of driving quality traffic to your site. The best part is that the time needed for the traffic to enter your site is by far quicker than organic search, and by far less expensive than pay per click.

No only is article marketing the easiest, in most cases the quickest and low in cost (most of the time free), it also happens to drive extremely high quality to your site. The reason for this is because a reader has first been pre screened, pre sold and developed some kind of small relationship with you before he or she has even entered your site.

By the time your reader clicks on the link in the bio area of your article in order to enter your website, he or she has already become a high quality potential buyer of your products or services.

The only way to really experience article marketing is by trying it out your self.

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As we study the great literature of past periods one has to ask what will great authors of the future be like? Human societies and civilizations are changing rapidly and as we get into the information age where information come at us faster and faster and where fewer and fewer people sit down and read literature. Sure, there are plenty of people reading suspense novels, detective stories and cheap love stories, but is that really literature?

Is the age of literature dying? Will be authors of the future be virtual reality specialists who design, build and innovate artificial dreamlike environments to help humans in order so they can think? The future will be interesting indeed, but will we be willing to give up human literature of past periods and a future without such? Great authors of the future; what will they be like? Will the great authors of the future be similar to the authors of the past or is that style of writing to complex and to slow to read for a modern age.

Will readers of the future accept long drawn out novels where it takes 20 pages just to develop the character in order for the reader to understand the dynamics of their personal and inner psychology? Will the great authors of the past be replaced with virtual reality scenes of the future? How will the new paradigm of literature change the way we think and learn? Consider all of this in 2006.

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Article marketing has become a huge trend in internet marketing today. Many marketers are using articles as their primary, and even sole, form of traffic generation and search engine optimization. However some marketers lament that article marketing doesn’t seem to work for them, especially as their article submissions are often rejected.

I own and maintain three article directories. One is a general directory and two are niche directories. Every day I receive hundreds of article submissions and every day I reject dozens. When I first started I would carefully include a specific reason for each rejection but now submissions are so high it is all I can do to keep my head above water. Frankly, I feel it is more important to try to turn articles around in as timely a fashion as possible so I am all about speed now (and am still weeks behind with my general directory).

However I can share these tips in an open letter to article marketers who do not understand why their articles are rejected by my directories — and likely other article directories as well.

The primary reasons articles are rejected by me include:

Reason 1: Active links in the body of the article. The only place I want to see an active link is the author resource box. This is fairly standard with most article directories.

Reason 2: The article does not belong in this directory. Usually this is true of a large percentage of my niche directory rejections. If the directory is about internet promotion don’t submit your articles about breast augmentation!

Reason 3: The article was not submitted to the right category. If I′m in a nice mood or I′m really interested in the article then I might recategorize it. If I recognize an author who regularly delivers quality content I might recategorize it. If it is in the right broad category I might move it to a more specific subcategory. However if it was submitted with no apparent thought or effort then I will most likely reject it. If the author can’t be bothered to select the right category then why should I take the time?

Reason 4: Substandard English. If there are typos or poor grammar in the headline or summary then I am not impressed and will most likely reject the submission.

Reason 5: Subject spamming. If I receive a number of articles on the same subject and by the same author with similar titles and summaries then I will suspect article spamming. Rather than sort out which articles might offer quality unique content I simply reject them all.

Reason 6: Obscure topics. If I don’t think that your article about New Jersey Divorce Lawyers will really add anything to my directory then I might just choose to reject it. Similarly if I can’t tell what your article is about from the title, summary, or first paragraphs then I’m not going to read any further.

Reason 7: Blatant advertising. These are article directories so I don’t want press releases or straight advertisements. Articles should include information about something other than whatever business you are trying to promote.

The simple fact is that these are my directories so I use my own editorial judgement about the appropriate content. I use the feeds and articles from my directories on my web sites and in my blogs, and my bottom line is that the article should offer interesting and/or appealing information to the target audience. If it isn’t an article I want to see on my site then I choose to reject it.

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Of all the possible pronoun errors one could make, the confusion of I/me/myself surely is among the most common, and of those, it seems myself causes the most trouble.

If you are uncertain of the difference, you are far from alone. Many people who probably ought to know better, including editors, TV journalists, and even an English-teacher-turned-assistant-principal I once worked with, commonly use myself when they really mean me or I.

The good news is, common as the error may be, it’s not hard to identify and fix. Begin by defining each pronoun in grammatical terms and examining a simple example of correct general usage.

* I: subject pronoun, used when the speaker is the person performing
Ex: I baked cookies.

* me: object pronoun, used when the speaker is the person receiving
Ex: Cynthia baked cookies for me.

* myself: reflexive pronoun, used when the speaker performs and the action comes back to him
Ex: I ate dozens of cookies and made myself sick.

Confusion usually occurs when the pronoun is used as part of a group instead of alone.

* Wrong: You may submit your suggestions to either Phil Jackson or myself.
Right: You may submit your suggestions to either Phil Jackson or me.

* Wrong: Jane, the committee, and myself will work on the proposal tomorrow afternoon.
Right: Jane, the committee, and I will work on the proposal tomorrow afternoon.

It’s easy for that wrong pronoun to be disguised by a group. The speaker would probably not have made the pronoun error if the group factor were not present.

* More obviously wrong: You may submit your suggestions to myself.
Right: You may submit your suggestions to me.

* More obviously wrong: Myself will work on the proposal tomorrow afternoon.
Right: I will work on the proposal tomorrow afternoon.

Therefore, use the individual as a test. Identify the personal pronoun that is correct when used alone, then continue to use that same pronoun when adding other people to the statement. Try it step-by-step with this new example.

You are drafting a memo requesting to meet with your manager to resolve some problems expressed by many workers in your department. You are writing the memo on your own behalf, but Sue James and Chuck Johnson also want to be included in the meeting. How should all your identities be listed in this sentence?

___ are among a group of employees concerned about the new work schedule.

* Try it first using just your pronoun. (Here, as often, this will require changing the form of the verb; that’s normal.)
Result: I am among a group of employees concerned about the new work schedule.

* Add the other people back to the sentence. (Don’t forget to return the verb to plural!)
Result: Sue James, Chuck Johnson, and I are among a group of employees concerned about the new work schedule.

One final tip: in most cases, grammatical courtesy recommends listing others first, regardless which personal pronoun is correct. An exception would be phrasing such as this:

* I, along with a larger group including Sue James and Chuck Johnson, am concerned about the new work schedule.

Such phrasing implies that “I″ is assuming responsibility for or leading this group, so be careful about separating

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You know one of the best parts of writing is to see how it can change people’s lives. You can do a lot of great things through writing. It is much akin to skipping rocks in a pond and watching the ripple affect and pondering your place in the world. It has been a fun philosophy lesson for me in fact? I have very much enjoyed this experiment of mine, as I have now written 11,111 articles and put them online.

It has been extremely fun watching the emails I get and the questions people ask and the comments I get from them. Why Become a Writer or Author? Because you can make a difference and how much of a difference you make is often up to you and the strength of your person. It is much about personal character, passion and motivation.

I believe this is why Jenna Bush wrote the book about the single mom in Panama with HIV. She wanted to make a difference and so she will. Good for her. This is why you should become a writer. Think “Starfish″ story of throwing them one by one back into the sea? Or the movie “Pay It Forward” and you can begin to see why people become writers.

My personal goals in writing are two-fold. To get information out to the world in the format the reader desires such as short articles, ebooks and research reports. Also to make my work inexpensive for the masses for a nominal price so the most people can get value out of it and since they pay for the eBooks or research report, even if only a little bit then they are more apt to read it too!

I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.

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The Hero’s Journey (Monomyth) 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. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

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 catharses, of which there are usually four).

and more…

PHYSICAL SEPARATION

The steps to a stage of the Hero’s Journey can consist of a number of steps. Take the Physical Separation:

a) A Foreshadow. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Joe sees Jack and Ennis fooling around from the hilltop.

b) A Delay. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Jack says there’s “…nothing I can do about it down there….”

c) Resistance. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Ennis and Jack hold fown the tent.

d) Thinking of the Return. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Ennis says, “…Fuck Joe…oh yes, what if we need to work here again….”

e) Reasons for Remaining. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), “…you’ll run them sheep off again if you don’t quiet down….”

f) Preparation. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Jake brings the tent down.

g) Momento. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Jack keeps the shirt.

h) Promising to Return. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Jack asks Ennis, “…you gonna do this again next summer…”

i) Physical Separation. In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Ennis and Jack depart.

Learn more…

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1. Write to one person.

When you’re writing your article picture one person that you are writing to. This will make your writing more personable and help you to keep your readers interested in your article.

2. Use lots of white space within your article.

Using lots of white space will help you to make your article look more professional and keep more of the skim readers interested in your article.

If you have paragraphs that are too long, try to break them up into two or three paragraphs so that your article will be easier to read.

3. Double check your articles for errors.

Make sure that you haven’t misspelled any words, skipped words, or used a homonym such as “their” when you meant “there.”

Remember, that spell checking only catches spelling mistakes so you′ll need to go over your articles even after using your spell checker to find words used incorrectly and also to find words that were used twice in a row or omitted.

4. Pay attention to feedback you get for your articles.

Getting or seeking constructive feedback about your articles can help you to write better, get back on track with your writing if you’re in a slump, and also develop new things to write about.

Even negative feedback or criticisms can help you if it shows you things you can work on. Just don’t take everything to heart.

5. Improve your writing skills by trying different things.

When you first start writing your own articles, especially if you’re new to writing, you might feel that you can only write list articles like this one.

Nonetheless try your hand at other types of articles that you would like to write such as how to articles or straw man articles.

Also try writing on different subjects that you haven′t written about before.

6. Keep a file of articles you’ve written that you left unfinished or didn’t feel were ready to be published.

Also keep parts (i.e., tips, paragraphs, etc.), that you’ve edited out of your finished articles in this file.

You might be able to rewrite your unfinished articles later on, get new ideas to write about, or get a new tip or two for your list articles from this file.

7. If you run an affiliate program, let your affiliates publish your articles with their affiliate URLs in your resource box.

You’ll be able to effectively increase your sales by giving your affiliates an easy way to successfully promote your business to their visitors or subscribers.

8. Create an ebook compilation of your articles.

You could use your ebook as a bonus for subscribing to your ezine or you could let your affiliates brand your ebook with their affiliate URLs.

If you don’t run an affiliate program, you could let people brand your ebook with a link to their site or business to get more people to offer your ebook to their visitors or subscribers.

9. Participate in article swaps.

Your swaps will help you to get your articles run in ezines that have subscribers interested in your business.

Your article swaps can also help you to gain more reciprocal links and add more useful content to your site if you swap articles where you publish another writer’s article on your site in exchange for the same.

10. Create a list that people can subscribe to that announces when you’ve written a new article or articles.

Your list will keep people up to date on new articles they can publish in their ezines or post on their web sites.

If you let your affiliates use your articles to earn commissions, you can also use your list to attract more new affiliates and to keep your existing affiliates up to date on new articles they can use to promote your business.

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