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Wordpreneur News - Issue 061Click here to subscribe free and get every issue of Wordpreneur News automatically by email. WORDPRENEUR NEWS How to Make Money Writing! http://www.wordpreneur.com Issue 061 - February 17, 2005 This free ezine is sent only to opt-in subscribers. If you wish to remove yourself from the list, please follow the instructions at the bottom. IN THIS ISSUE * AND THE WINNER IS... * DID YOU KNOW? The e-Factory.com Tell-a-Friend Contest * IDEAS 5 Dynamite Ways to Generate Ideas for Parenting Articles * MARKETS Publish it Now! No Matter What it Is * TECHNIQUE Making Better Word Choices - 4 Examples * Resources * Admin Stuff AND THE WINNER IS... The winner of our recently concluded "Tell-a-Friend and Win" contest is... To Be Announced Yup. The "winner" has neither replied nor confirmed the email we sent. Which means that if by Wednesday, February 23, 2005 the prizes (2 books) are still unclaimed, we'll give them to the next person in line, so to speak. Stay tuned! In the meantime, stay tuned also for our next issue. Why? Because we've got more neat prizes to give out. Another contest? You betcha! DID YOU KNOW? The e-Factory.com Tell-a-Friend and Win Contest Just like our contest, we're also giving away free books (this time of interest to netpreneurs) through our e-Factory.com site. The current e-Factory.com Tell-a-Friend and Win contest ends tomorrow, February 18, and the prize is a real (not ebook) copy of "Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week" by Laura Lemay (Sams Publishing) Read more about it at: http://www.e-factory.com/news/033.html Or, just go directly to that site's Tell-a-Friend page at: http://www.e-factory.com/taf.html ------------------------------------------------------------ WRITE FOR DISCUSSION BOARDS: $1200 PER WEEK... Find hundreds of freelance jobs just like these. Click below for more. http://www.wordpreneur.com/cgi-bin/pl.pl?cjfwe2 ------------------------------------------------------------ ADVANCE YOUR CAREER! Get an accredited online degree today! http://www.wordpreneur.com/cgi-bin/pl.pl?cjdd ------------------------------------------------------------ 5 DYNAMITE WAYS TO GENERATE IDEAS FOR PARENTING ARTICLES by Terri Pilcher Category: Ideas - http://www.wordpreneur.com/ideas The key to selling reprints to parenting publications is the creation of dynamite ideas followed through with professional writing. Here, I'm focusing only on finding those lucrative topics. Most topics in regional parenting publications are straightforward: finance, parenting tips, health, sports, and education. The trick is to twist them in an unusual way. 1. If you're a parent, what do you wish you knew about a topic? Write down questions that you have as you go through the day. When I was driving the other day, I complained to myself about bad teenage drivers. Then I wondered, "What can parents do to encourage good driving?" If you already know the answer to the question, it won't make a good article unless you're an expert on the subject. * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/ideas/parenting.html PUBLISH IT NOW! NO MATTER WHAT IT IS by Mark Barnes Category: Markets - http://www.wordpreneur.com/markets Do you want to publish something? An article, a non-fiction piece, a short story, a children's book, the great American novel? What are you waiting for? You may be answering that it's just too competitive. Competition in the writing industry is fierce, no doubt, but many good writers have piles of work collecting dust in a box, sitting in the corner, or in file upon file, tucked away in a desktop PC. You may be one of them, and their problem and yours is not the competition. It's the approach. Ten years ago, publishing anything from a 500-word article to a suspense/thriller was a cumbersome task. The problem was the overwhelming procedure of querying an editor, waiting for a response to the query, tossing aside numerous rejections, then sending off your work after the query. Then, someone actually asked to see the work, only to decide they didn't like it, after all. All of this might take a total of four months, and all you have to show for your efforts is frustration and disappointment. * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/markets/publish_now.html MAKING BETTER WORD CHOICES - 4 EXAMPLES by David Clapham Category: Technique - http://www.wordpreneur.com/technique Choosing the wrong words can have a poor effect on your writing and on you. Whether you are writing a cover letter for a job, a business proposal, or an application essay for graduate school using words poorly can result in negative feedback. One could find entire books regarding word choices for writers, this article will touch on some fundamental, but important ways to choose the correct word for your situation. Our starting point will be the use of "There are" or "There is" to begin sentences. Consider this; the word "there" indicates "not here" (in other words, some other place). Now look at the sentence below and think about what the meaning is and what might be intended. There are four dogs playing with a ball. If the writer meant that four dogs are over there and they are playing with a ball, then this would be technically correct. If the intention was merely that four dogs are playing with a ball, here, there, or anywhere, then the sentence could be worded better. The following sentence would show better wording on the writer's part. * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/technique/word_choices.html ------------------------------------------------------------ VISIT E-FACTORY.COM - http://www.e-factory.com 100% free and useful articles on how to build, run, and grow your very own Internet enterprise! Recent additions include: * Advertising on a Budget - Part 2: Thinking Small * Basic Graphic Design * Forums - Should You Have Them on Your Website? Next Issue: * Advertising on a Budget - Part 3: Frequency, Frequency, Frequency * Build Your Own Online Network * Junk Mail? ------------------------------------------------------------ RESOURCES * BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TRAVEL WRITER Learn step-by-step how to create travel writing that sells. 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