Six Top Tips - You Could be Proofreading From Home Real Soon
May 11, 2008
Six Top Tips - You Could be Proofreading From Home Real Soon
by: Niall Cinneide
Perhaps you are working for a proof reading company and you are looking for to get into freelance work. Or, maybe you are looking to start a career proofreading from home. In any case, you want to learn how to find proofreading jobs, right? The career is out there, but how do you break in? Many people try unsuccessfully to do this for a long time. Here are some good, solid tips about the proofreading industry, and how to break in.
Tip 1. Educate yourself by taking a few proof reading courses. This can include those that are provided from home as well. You’ll find options all over the internet in this area.
Tip 2. Use your skills to create sample work. Get a project to do for free. This can be a great way to break in. Use it to build your portfolio.
Tip 3. Learn to be a good salesperson. Not only will you need to create work that will impress your clients, but you will have to sell yourself to them in the first place. Learn what it is that they are looking for. This could be quality work, good prices, guaranteed work.
What Hurricane Katrina Can Teach Authors
May 10, 2008
What Hurricane Katrina Can Teach Authors
by: Lynne Klippel
By now, you are heartsick and tired of looking at the images of the horror and devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. However, if you are an author and self-publisher, it pays to look at this disaster as a wake-up call.
Just for a moment, image that a disaster stuck YOUR home. What would happen to your writing and to your business? Could you keep things going if you had no electricity, no internet connection, or no phone service? How could you continue to sell your books, even if you were unable to get online to process orders?
There are several important steps all authors and self-publishers need to take immediately to ensure that your books and your business are protected from natural disasters, fires, and unexpected events like plumbing leaks or computer meltdowns.
* Your number one priority should be to create several back-up copies of your manuscript. You can burn it onto a CD and store it in a safe deposit box. Send a copy to your mother or friend who lives out of state. Another option would be to consider creating a private blog where you can immediately access your work from any internet connection. For a free service check out www.livejournal where you can set up a totally private blog. Another option is www.blogger.com but blogs there may be accessible via blog rings.
Consider Self Publishing in Ebook Format
May 9, 2008
Consider Self Publishing in Ebook Format
by: John R
Today, more than every before authors are presented with publishing opportunities that have never existed before. This is not to understate the hard work that authors have to go through to get recognition, write great books, and make a full time living from their passion of expression. However, it is to say that today, due to advances in communications technology, authors can now get their books distributed much easier than they could a decade ago. One very popular way that authors are distributing their work is digitally through ebooks. Digital books are gaining so much popularity that even some of the most popular authors in the world have used it to distribute their books. Stephen King for example published “Riding the Bullet” exclusively in ebook format. When this ebook began distribution over Barns and Nobel and Amazon.com there was so much demand for the download that the servers of these two book giants slowed down almost to a halt. People that wanted to download the ebook were put in a large queue with the hundreds of thousands of other who downloaded the ebook as well.
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written–Fast! - Part 1
May 8, 2008
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written–Fast! - Part 1
by: Judy Cullins
Why don’t you write a book?
Most people complain it takes too long. They are too busy. One professional coach said she was not a natural writer. An entrepreneur feared it wouldn’t sell, or it would be too much effort. A professional speaker says she is so busy marketing herself, she doesn’t know where to find the time to write.
These are reasons, but they aren’t real, they are myths. You can write a profitable book–even a lot of books–fast!
Fast depends on you, your intention, and attention that you will give your book Fast depends on your creating a blueprint of simple step-by-step strategies to write a fast, focused book.
Getting Your Book Written–Six Myths and Options
1. Takes talent.
Actually, the less writing know how you have, the better. In my innocent beginnings I thought I was a speaker, a trainer, a teacher, a coach. I didn’t think of myself as a writer!
Proofreading Your Own Document
May 8, 2008
Proofreading Your Own Document
by: Jan Kovarik
You’ve just written an important paper, business communique, or other document that will be read by others and perhaps will be the basis for a classroom grade, a prospective business arrangement, or provide necessary information for a specific situation. Regardless of the end use of this document, it is important to you that it not contain any errors or embarrassing grammar and punctuation mistakes. You’ve run spellcheck, but you understand that spellcheck isn’t foolproof. Your document needs to be proofread.
Ideally, you need a professional proofreader (or some other objective person) to read your document and correct whatever errors there might be in it. However, time and circumstance are not always conducive to using a proofreader. When this happens, you have to proofread it yourself.
Self-proofreading is fraught with pitfalls, the biggest of which is that you are “too close” to the text. That is, you know what you meant to write, even if that’s not exactly what you did write. Your brain can easily fill in the gaps and skim over simple errors like an incorrect wrong verb tense or a missed word in a well-used phrase. The mechanism in your brain that does this is called your “short-term memory”—and it can be very strong. Before you self-proofread, you need to allow your short-term memory (STM) to “dump” (that is, to allow what is stored in your STM to be deleted).
It’s A Dog-Eat-Dog World In The Freelance Work Marketplace
May 7, 2008
It’s A Dog-Eat-Dog World In The Freelance Work Marketplace
by: Lorraine Cote
The Trials and Tribulations of Finding Writing Work in the Freelance Work Marketplace
There are many ways to find freelance writing work on the net. The most popular method is by signing up to one or more of the many freelance work sites available. There are a ton of them to choose from. Take Elance.com for instance, it is the site that I am known as a “service provider” and it’s where I get most of my writing projects. While I do also have offline clients, mostly corporations, Elance is a good supplement to my writing business.
However, there are some things that you should be aware of before you go rushing off to sign up to one of these sites. Take a look! (I will use Elance as an example because it is the one I am most familiar with).
Costs: Many of these sites don’t charge a signup fee, however, many charge either a monthly fee (can be quite steep like Elance, writing category, $75 per month for select provider status), or they charge a transaction fee for each project you accept. Many charge both (again Elance does this, 8.5% of total project amount).
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written–Fast! - Part 2
May 6, 2008
Defy the Myths, Get Your Book Written–Fast! - Part 2
by: Judy Cullins
Why don’t you write a book?
Most people complain it takes too long. They are too busy. One professional coach said she was not a natural writer. An entrepreneur feared it wouldn’t sell, or it would be too much effort. A professional speaker says she is so busy marketing herself, she doesn’t know where to find the time to write.
These are reasons, but they aren’t real, they are myths. You can write a profitable book–even a lot of books–fast!
Fast depends on you, your intention, and attention that you will give your book Fast depends on your creating a blueprint of simple step-by-step strategies to write a fast, focused book.
Getting Your Book Written–Six Myths and Options
Part one of this article is available at www.bookcoaching.com/freearticles/article-41.shtml.
4. Takes writing ability.
If you can talk you can write. Readers want books written by a wise and savvy friend who will guide them gracefully to success. They want passion and natural writing more than perfect syntax.
How To Make Real Money From Writing?
May 6, 2008
How To Make Real Money From Writing?
by: Linda Correli
The significance of writing skills is emphasized far and wide over and over again. Writing skills are called mandatory, indispensable, crucial and drastic ability, a ticket to the thriving future of the person.
The overwhelming majority of instructors and employers which were surveyed recently stressed that writing skills are critical both for academic and career success. The survey carried by Lin Grensing revealed that 79 percent of respondent executives cited writing as one of the most neglected skills in the business world, yet one of the most important to productivity. They also admitted that approximately 80 percent of their employees at all levels need to improve their writing skills.
To master good writing skills means not only to become well-educated and competent person, but as well taps you into the wealth of lucrative opportunities. It exactly means that you can turn your gift of eloquence into sideline and perhaps steady income. The money earned from writing can become a good support for you, so you can spend them on different insignificant trinkets, which will significantly reduce your general outcome.
Screenwriters & Filmmakers - Pitching the Cold Heart of the Banker
May 5, 2008
Screenwriters & Filmmakers - Pitching the Cold Heart of the Banker
by: John Gaskin
Can a creative pitch alone get your script produced? Pitching the script is an art that is much talked about, put into college curriculums and lauded by the Pop Culture. But, there’s a big factor missing from creative pitches. It’s fundamental; but broadly ignored by key creative people.
For over 20 years I’ve been hired by Film Financiers (Studio Exec’s, Bonding Companies, etc.) to watch over their investment during the film’s production. I’ve also had more than a few independent filmmakers ask me for help in getting their film off the ground. So, I’ve been rubbing elbows with the elusive Film Financier (of one stripe or another) for some time.
Creative screenwriters, directors and filmmakers, especially when they’re new at the game of film production, conceive that the money for wonderful scripts should be found - like apples dropping from a tree. ‘Fraid not. Filmmaking is as much about the money as it is about the creative.
The person who you’re pitching may be wearing blue jeans and topsiders, but he’s still a Financier (or his immediate superior is). When pitching your script, think - I’m looking into the cold heart of a banker.
New Recipe For Your Fresh Paper Pie
May 4, 2008
New Recipe For Your Fresh Paper Pie
by: Linda Correli
Many writers aspire to create original and incomparable works, so that to stand them out of heaps of previously written stuff. They resort to crafty tricks to grab the attention of readers and eagerly try to find an unoccupied niche, undeveloped idea or some lurid news to make their papers one of a kind. Catchy titles, simple and persuasive language, personal apply to the reader and intricate plot are only some clever dodges authors harness in writing.
No matter what the purpose of the written work is writing presents a kind of competition with unstated rules, where the strongest survives. These are writers who find the appropriate appeal to the reader, winning, controversial and topical theme, which proves to be helpful, instructive or explanatory. In a word, a paper which makes readers tick and turns to be useful for them.
In chase of complete satisfaction of readers the majority of writers forget that writing is a creative process rather than fitting of different variables into the existed templates and search of the burning issues of vital importance which can be easily harnessed.
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