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Record your loved ones' stories in their own words go
You score your own goal when you set a target and meet it go
So you want to be remembered go

Sending motoring tips to a gardening magazine is silly go
Writing for pay is like hunting for prey go
News is not hearsay go

Payback time for writers go
Make Money Writing go
Writing is your business go

Happy bookday to you go
So you want to be a writer go
Jack writes in tongues go

The slowness of the hand eases the creative mind go
The velvet bulldozer is sandy row go
The unfolding story go

Get the picture go
Playing for real go
A life in crime go

race against time go
you write for you go
from B to A go

on being a local reporter go
some days are stones go

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Was Aunt Sally right about Uncle Bobby?
It is always useful to know what you want to write about before you take pen to paper.
This is particularly important when you set out to write a family history. For families are, by definition, a web of relationships. Some are benign, others are not. more

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Record your family's stories in their own words
Within every family are human triumphs, failures and adversities, unique and common to all. more
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Score your own writing goal
Achieving anything requires some action on your part. The more you attempt, the more you will achieve; but especially in writing. For to be a writer, is to write. more

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So you want to be remembered

Every person on the planet is important including you. But you knew that already. As a species we live and prosper by the accumulated knowledge of our times and of those that have gone before. go

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Sending motoring tips to a gardening magazine is silly
WRITING articles for nothing is good writing practice; but it will not keep the wolf from the door for very long unless the wolf likes a good laugh. A working writer needs to target a market where she will see a return for her effort. For return read money. go

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Writing for pay is like hunting for prey
You write for love. Then you write for fame and publication. But you need food to stay alive. Sadly, nobody will bring you food while you do so and you need to hunt for it yourself. go

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News is not hearsay
The first man to run a 26-mile marathon was a messenger sent to report the news of the battle. Exhausted, he dropped dead after he reported the news. Not all reporting is quite that injurious to your health. go

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Payback time for writers

Beginner writers have as much chance of having work published as an established writer. It’s a matter of the right words at the right time for the right editor in the right frame of mind for your submission. go

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Make Money Writing

You can make money as a writer. To do so, you need to have a writing plan that concentrates on finding a market for your work. Just don't try to sell Christmas trees in July go

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Writing is your business

A writer running a writing business is paid for what she produces. You need to remember the biggest single asset your writing business has is you. Ask yourself what is not being published. Could you write it?
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Happy bookday to you

Happy writers have happy bookdays. When you become a published writer, there is no doubt about it. You have the the published proof. When your name appears on a book, it is yours. here

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So you want to be a writer

It’s easy to be a writer. You sit down and add one word to another until you have a sentence. Then you add another sentence and another until you have a paragraph. Then lots and lots and lots of paragraphs and you have a chapter. A given number of chapters will result in a book. here

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Jack writes in tongues

THOUGH he speaks neither Hindi, Russian nor Bulgarian, retired schoolteacher and author Jack Harte has seen his short stories and books translated into all three languages in the past year. here

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The slowness of the hand eases the creative mind
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"I use the computer to write; but when I am stuck I can unblock it by handwriting, it’s something to do with the eye hand contact and if you are stuck, it can help you," says Christine Dwyer Hickey. more

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The Velvet Bulldozer is Sandy Row
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Writing a book about your battle for educational rights for your children is something that not all writers are called to do; but now there is a waiting list in the public library for the title. Turning down a literary agent’s offer of representation was just another milestone. more

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The unfolding story
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JUST picking up a leaflet can sometimes open up possibilities for a writer. Grace Jolliffe little expected that when she read a publisher’s flyer seeking book proposals that Willy Russell (Educating Rita) would option the resultant novel for a film. Or that she would become the scritwriter of her own novel, Piggy Monk Square. more

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Get the Picture
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To be noticed you have to stand out and in a visual age the easiest way to do that is by showing your own picture and or a picture of your work, whether that is a book jacket or a still from a production of your play or even a picture of something amusing that will match your subject. more

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Playing for real
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In the United States the two most popular online fantasy games have more than 500,000 and 400,000 players playing them.

In the Far East, four million people subscribe to one online game alone.

Author Conor Kostick has signed a $50,000 book deal with Penguin in the USA for his books on the subject Epic and Saga. here

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A life in crime
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AFTER many years as a full time writer Ken Bruen still finds the sight of his published titles astonishing.

"I have been publishing two a year for the past six years. What I most like is my overnight success after more than 30 years writing."

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from B to A
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some pieces on the journey from basic to acclaim
Most people have to learn the basics of writing before they are published and read by a wider audience, so here follow a few basics.
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At forty-two years of age Tom is the freelance cub reporter on a weekly local paper.

He lives his days in a state of controlled terror; but is he happy?.

You betcha.

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Some days are stones
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Some weeks bring good news and some not so good for those writers outside the ranks of young female authors currently enjoying home and international success.

True to form, for Kildare writer Martin Malone there was good news and bad news in one month.

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You write for you
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WRITING is like falling in love, anybody can do it.

It doesn’t have to be the preserve of the learning classes nor do you have to write a bestseller to be a writer. here

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