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Every writer's career has two aspects: the writing, and the marketing of your writing. It's vitally important that you realize this as early in your writing career as possible. If you don't, your career will languish in the doldrums. In 2007, there are more opportunities for writers than there have ever been, but you'll only see the opportunities if you know how to look for them.
One of the BIG shocks after I finally got a clue and was able to get accepted by a publisher and got one of my works in print was a facet of the business I'd never imagined - I now had to push and SELL. Mind you, I was of the long standing belief that a large majority of writers were shy, reclusive ...
For me, the heart of research has always been the ability to elicit information from others. For years, it never occurred to me to go to the library or rummage through magazines or official documents. If I wanted to know about something, I found experts on that subject and tried to crawl inside their ...
If there's one thing that gets me miffed it's when ideas for a new story or article seem to dry up. So I came up with this technique that can spark ideas into life pretty quickly, and it's fun too!
You simply think of a common phrase or colloquialism and do some quick, actually very quick, research ...