226: The Exotic Streets Of Bangkok
After two days of jet-lag, I decided I was now ready to do some sight-seeing in Bangkok I dressed in shorts and T-shirt, and carried a towel and a bottle of ice water to pour over my head to ward off heat stroke...

227: Book Review: Getting From College To Career By Lindsey Pollak
The subtitle reads ’90 things to do before you join the real world,’ and I have to admit that made my head spin My lovely wife always has a ’To Do’ list for me, and she has worked out that if her list has four or five items on it, I may actually do two or three of them...

228: Niche Blogging With Adsense
Niche blogging is not new, but due to the improvement of free blogging platforms it is the new marketing strategy for making easy money Niche blogging with Adsense involves blog writing while publishing advertising such as Adsense for a commission...

229: Genre And Niche For The Freelance Creative Writer
A freelance creative writer has to think carefully about what genre they should write in and how it can be marketed to a niche If you do creative writing rather than tutorial or non fiction writing, don’t dismiss the value of a niche to display your work in...

230: Language: Tricks Of The Trade
To write well you must learn to use language tricks that can add to your writing the color, style, and appeal you want it to have. The five suggestions that follow have been called tricks because they work like magic to lift your composition out of the dull and the routine....

231: Five Reasons Why You Can’t Be A Writer (And Why None Of Them Are True)
I have a very clean house I vacuum almost daily, regularly dust my silverware drawer for crumbs, and organize my closets at least three times a year...

232: The Six Writing Hats
It’s summertime in Australia and summertime in Australia means one thing – cricket And if there ever was a “mental” sport, it’s cricket...

233: An Interview With Michael Mehas, Author, Film Maker, And Lawyer, About Stolen Boy
Stolen Boy is a work of fiction, but based on the Jessie James Hollywood case … what author Michael Mehas says may make the difference between Hollywood’s life and death Stolen Boy is powerful stuff...

234: Avoid These Five Online Article Writing Mistakes
Writing and distributing articles online can do a fabulous job of spreading around links to your web site Six weeks ago, for example, I distributed an article through iSnare...

235: How to Write Your Single Book into a Wildly Successful Book Series
Are you planning to write just one book? Wait! Before you decide, at least let me show you how easy it is to make your single book into a series of books. By the way, publishers love book series and readers become fanatical over a serial of books....

236: Attract More Readers than Most Best Selling Authors
Selling books is viewed by many authors as a way to make money, but if you want influence getting readers is a much better idea. This article explains how to reach hundreds of thousands of readers....

237: Resume Writing
Resume writing can be a daunting task to those unfamiliar with the process, and even to those who are familiar with it It is important to do your research and make sure your resume writing skills are up to par, but never fear, for there are several ways to accomplish this...

238: The Details Are In The Calendar
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...

239: Do You Have Trouble Puttings Words to Paper?
A writer will use a number of different techniques when using their words to grab a reader's attention....

240: What Is An Article?
Official definition says: An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work These nonfictional prose compositions appear in magazines, newspapers, academic journals, the internet, or any other type of publication...

241: Writing a News Story on the Web? 15 Tips to Make Your Story Shine
With millions of people reading news online, there is still no clear style to news writing on the web. While some traditional news writing tips work with online writing, some additional factors have ...

242: Writing Book Reports
If you are a student, writing a book report is something you will probably have to do at some time whether you want to or notIt has never been a favorite activity for most but it is always valuable...

243: Getting Published:Tips For Young Writers
The task of getting published is one of the daunting aspects of writing This can be difficult, if you want to get published by a traditional publishing house...

244: Young Writers
If you are between the ages of 8 to 18 and love to write, be it short stories, plays or poems, then you are a young writer For the writer nothing is more satisfying than finishing a story, play, poem etc...

245: Writing Stories
There’s nothing like writing a story It is a truly satisfying creative process...

246: How To Write A Book
Many people dream of writing their own book The sad fact is that for every 500 people who want to write a book, there might be only 1 or 2 who actually do it...

247: Book Publishing - What Is The Secret To Getting Your Book Published?
As a three-time published author and creative writing teacher I get asked a lot: "What is the secret to getting your book published" Many of the interrogators are disappointed, some even disbelieving, when I tell them there is no secret...

248: Improving Your Child's Writing
The home and the school working together can make immeasurable strides in both how to write and what to write. The parent and the child can together generate a natural and lasting desire for correctness and neatness....

249: Cross Pens: As Gifts And Starting A Writing Career
Realistically, budding writers get a kick out of signing their manuscripts with a flourish Why not give them Cross pens to spur them on to greater heights...

250: Book Publishing - How I Got Into Book Publishing
As a published author and creative writing teacher I often get asked how writers can get published One of the simplest ways to answer that question is tell the story of my publishing contracts with two different publishers...