A Guide To Writing

Discover how easy it is to make money by writing.

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Inviting writers to submit short stories of 1200 words or less. You can enter as many times as you like. The entries received last year covered a wide variety of subjects and styles. This year will publish the three best stories in the 2009 Anthology. Prizes include GBP 80 for first place. GBP 40 for second. GBP 20 for third. Best three stories are published. Deadline for entries is 13th July 2009.

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When you first find out youre to be the best man at a wedding, its probably a pretty good feeling.When you find out there is a speech involved, however, you may change your mind.All you need to make this a painless exercise, however, are several best man speech ideas.

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Summary: Now that you have read this article you may want to start on your new and found press release once you do a few you will get used to doing them over and over again. These tips are here to help you so utilize them and get the word out about your business.

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Well, if you haven’t heard the negative news surrounding the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich (now referred to as Rod), you just might be living in a vacuum. After watching Rod on The Today Show (1-26-09) this morning, I seriously wonder if he has schizophrenia. His grandiose comparisons to Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King almost made me lose my breakfast. And to add insult to injury I heard this morning that he may have an offer to host a radio talk show.

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The late, Gary C. Halbert, is my favorite copywriting mentor. Not only was he ultra-successful but he could teach the art and science of crafting ad copy like nobody’s business.

One of the things I learned from Gary is the importance of making things easy on yourself. For example, let’s say you want to write an ebook on losing weight.

What’s the best course of action?

Well, maybe you can study horse racing. Maybe you can spend years around the best horse trainers to find out what their secrets are. Maybe you can get in with the inner circle of horse racing. But is all of that time, work and stress necessary? Not at all. There is a much more hassle-free method to getting everything you need to know about horse racing.

Forget about all that work. It won’t pay off any more than taking the easy road. Gary’s advice would probably be to acquire all of the best books and report written about horse racing. The hot selling ones. Read them and note all of the exciting little secrets horse racing fans want to know.

Armed with this research you write your version of a health and fitness book. Only this book has all the great info from the other books you read. The exclusive details that bring value to your book. The end product is a book filled with the very best information on health and fitness.

Smart.

You can do the same thing when creating advertising. In fact, this works great if you have to craft a sales message on the fly for any kind of media.

The technical term for this copywriting technique is called… swiping. And boy does it ever work! Gary even held an entire seminar on copywriting. The bulk of that seminar focused on how to swipe blockbuster ads ethically and legally.

Forget about learning how to write like the best copywriters. That takes way too much time and is unnecessary. Once you learn how to swipe putting together promotions that bring in money is much easier.

When you do, here’s what’ll happen as a result…

** You’ll eliminate writer’s block forever. Because now youll access a starting point for your ads. You wont be guessing at what to write. The swipes reveal exactly what to write in your ads to make them effective and responsive.

** Ad writing will be much faster. All you do is model your ad after the swipe. Therefore, the guessing element is taken out of the equation. It’s like using a proven template to write your ads.

** The ads you write could be three times more responsive. Think about it. You are essentially modeling success. When you do that success is on your side.

So the idea is to build a swipe file and use it when creating ads.

For poems up to 40 lines. Prizes include GBP 200 for first place. GBP 100; GBP 50. On the family: GBP 30; Humorous: GBP 15; Minimalist: GBP 15. Deadline for entries is 17th February 2009.

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Entries to be accompanied by a cover sheet with author contact details, including an email address if possible. Prizes include GBP 100 for first place. Quality anthology publication for shortlisted works. Deadline for entries is 30th September 2009.

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Aside from the probability that most students will be wealthier than the average first time buyer or working class citizen, thanks to their immunity from the credit crunch (for the time being anyway) they

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Two monthly writing competitions, Short Story (up to 3000 words) and Flash Fiction (up to 400 words). Winner from each category receives GBP 20 and will be published on website. Entry fee is GBP 3 and the closing date is the 26th of each month. Competitions are on-going. Prizes include GBP 20 for first place. Stories will be published on website with permanent link. Deadline for entries is 31st December 2009.

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