Over the course of your writing, especially if you're writing non-fiction, you may find there are a number of reasons that people could want to sue you about when it comes to writing, but there are many other ways to protect yourself in the eyes of the law. Ask Permission Say for example that you want to write about a person in your book. This doesn't necessarily have to be a celeb... read more »

When there is a time in your relationship when nothing seems to be going right and you and your partner are at an emotional distance from each other, sometimes the remedy for this situation calls for the Love Letter Technique. Writing a love letter to your partner enables you release those bottled up feelings that you have inside of you and the emotions that you have pushed aside. There are ti... read more »

The internet has facilitated many things, one of which is publishing. While some may argue that ezines are making print media obsolete, ezines give writers a better opportunity to reach a worldwide audience. Distribution becomes much easier, and now you can write about anything you want. Ezines open up a whole new world to creative people. If you're interested in ezines or are thinking o... read more »

As people working in the creative field, we all want to put all of our time and effort towards working on what we do best. To be realistic, we can't do that. A lot of things in life won't allow us to get by living solely on our dreams. There are bills to be paid and things to be done that will take up our time, making total dedication to our art impossible. Just because you can'... read more »

• Read material that requires thinking - particularly biographies, news magazines and newspapers. Read a non-fiction book for 20 minutes each day. Carry reading material with you for when you can turn dead time into learning time, even if only for a few minutes. Read the best of the mystery novels and try to keep one step ahead of the detectives. Get a quality dictionary and read the meaning... read more »

How to Write Professional E-Mails Although e-mail has become ubiquitous in business and surveys show that American workers are spending increasingly larger amounts of time on the internet, most workers have not given much thought to how to fashion their e-mails in a manner that best represents them. Most of us spend more of our time on thinking about how we should dress for work than on what p... read more »

Hobbies should be rewarding and pleasurable. They should involve something you love without question, and also something they you would be satisfied doing forever without pay. This last competent is essential to writing as a hobby. This isn't to say that a lot of people don't make a lot of money writing, it's just to say that you shouldn't start writing for a hobby just be... read more »

Writing can be a scary thing in the world of advertising. What you write down cannot ever be taken back. Your writing will be spread around for hundreds or thousands of people to see and if you did not do something right you might be in a position of bringing an advertisement down. Some applications of color printing have more of a focus on writing than others, such as newsletter printing and ... read more »

As a kid, I used to wonder where writers came up with all the cool, original names for their characters. After years of dabbling in fantasy story-telling and role-playing stories, I've developed a few methods of my own that I will now share with you. Whether you are writing fiction, playing D&D, or taking part in online story threads, your characters should have at least one name. Make it... read more »

Its a common occurrence in college: finals are coming up and you have three or four papers all due in the same week. This must happen to me just about every quarter. You could stress and cram all the work by pulling a few all nighters only to turn in the paper five minutes before the deadline. But why stress out when you can get an extension. Even if you don't need one, they can help space ... read more »