You should believe in yourself! The people who review and rank these things are people who wanted to be writers but couldn't. Almost every writer you hear about talks about how hard it is to get published in the beginning, sending manustript after mausscript to many many publishers... So I think that part of your experience is quite normal. Lots of great writers have been rejected over a... read more »

You should believe in yourself! The people who review and rank these things are people who wanted to be writers but couldn't. Almost every writer you hear about talks about how hard it is to get published in the beginning, sending manustript after mausscript to many many publishers... So I think that part of your experience is quite normal. Lots of great writers have been rejected ov... read more »

There will come a time in your career where you will most likely be changing jobs. Although most job departures are voluntary -- meaning you, as the employee are choosing to resign, there are unfortunately, many other circumstances where you will be asked to leave. In other words, you will be laid off, or fired. Although resigning from a job because of a better opportunity is obviously preferab... read more »

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 »

With the recession taking away jobs for many and hours for those that are still "employed", the classic advice of making up the difference with a second job becomes all the more difficult. After all, if there was a "second" job available, wouldn't it already be someone else's "first" job? Where then can you work part time and make some extra money? Freela... 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 »