Anyone who writes knows this scenario at one time or another: You have something to say, great ideas to express. So, you go to the page only to find your mind has gone as blank as the sheet or screen before you. Paralyzed, you write not a word. Somewhere in the synapses of your imagination,...

You may have heard about the five phases of grief. Psychological professionals have outlined the pattern of emotions that humans cycle through during the grieving process. As a writing professional, Ive discovered the five phases of receiving feedback. Any writer who is advancing in their career...

Your first time out of the gate, youre going to be tempted to tackle an information product project that is much too complicated. After all, you know so much and cant leave out any of the valuable points! Or, you lack confidence that anyone will pay you a dime unless your ebook, book or course...

The Final Powerful Secrets To Infuse Your Brain With The Write Idea (part 3 Of 3)!

This is the third in a series of articles with brain-tempting tips that will enable you to make your dream of authoring a book become your reality. Leaders today have a book. The best business decision you...

A writing exercise that is helpful in learning a very specific style of writing is called Emulation. This is done to match the style of a specific author.

In essence, you create an entirely new passage using an existing passage as your guide.

For example if you wanted to try to...

Writing Articles pertaining to Your Home-based Business Oppurtunity is one of the most profitable, inexpensive and longterm Internet Marketing Strategies of all. Most people feel they aren’t capable of writing articles; But think of it this way, if You can talk–You can write...

Many struggling writers come to me asking what they can do to improve their writing. They continually face problems with sentence and paragraph structure as well as surface errors such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation. They know the basic rules of English and can often be very effective...

In 1865 at the 5th Worldpostkonference in Karlsruhe, Germany there was the first suggestion to induct a kind of postpiece with an integrated postmark. But this suggestion was rejected because of moral aspects.

At the end of 1869 in Austria there was an idea of an correspondence-card with...

Like many authors, writing a novel was always an aspiration. When I finally started the process, in Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace I had a great story that had evolved from real-life events. Still, the majority of my experience was writing nonfiction, a style that generally called for...

You have completed your ms, and now what?

You may ask yourself:
How can I submit it to publishers?
How can I present it?

Here comes the cover letter. It is not difficult to write one, just follow the instructions below.

Submitting the right cover letter to the...

24 million adults in the United States consider themselves creative writers but less than 5% have ever been published anywhere. 172,000 titles were released in 2005. It has been estimated that at any one time there are between 5 to 6 million manuscripts looking for a publishing home. Many...

Self-publishing has become common practice for many writers who want accolades of having a book published, no matter who publishes it. Writers choose self-publishing for various reasons. Many writers desire the freedom and business aspects of publishing work independently. A self-published...