When speaking start at the end!

June 30th, 2008

Before you start speaking you should know that your audience will forget what you said before you even sit down. That’s the way people are. They forget…fast! The best way to help them remember what you want them to remember is to provide useful handouts! Handouts make you remember-able.

Writer’s Market 2009

June 30th, 2008

Did you know that Writer’s Market 2009 Edition is now available? It’s got 1170 pages of useful information for writers. For a creative tool in using the Writer’s Market go to The Writer’s Creativity Finder.

Put your creativity cap on!

June 30th, 2008

Creativity is one of the most important attributes that you can have these days. The fact is the everyone is creative…to a degree. The trick is to develop one’s creative abilities. One way to be more creative is to stop and think about a problem. Here’s an example…look at this number.

What order are the numbers in? It’s actually very simple if you stop to think about it.

How did you become a writer?

June 30th, 2008

Many people are curious about how a writer became a writer. It turns out there are as many reasons as there are writers. To find out how many writers got started try How We Became Writers. It describes how writers, some who are well-known and others who aren’t as well-known…yet…got their start.

Odds and Ends

June 29th, 2008

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