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7 Tips Pros Use To Get Words on the Page

Men With Pens

Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. For example, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates likes to write before breakfast. That’s 3,650 pages in a non-leap year, enough to fill a library of books and stories over a lifetime. Get out of your own way, and you too can “gush.” Just ask Nabokov.

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” ” He’s not the sort of character I’d usually hang around with.

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The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh.

Stephanie LH Calahan

It can be as small as a little paperback book, or as big as a cookbook. Outlook also has an address book (Contacts) and many other wonderful features for busy professionals. If we have appts that are booked further out, I stick pin those to a magnetic cork strip, placed under the two calendars. Very well laid out.

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How to Write Massive Quantities on Demand

Men With Pens

is famous for his book Influence (and if you don’t have a copy, get one now ). whirr” – hit the keyboard. How to Write Massive Quantities on Demand first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Robert Cialdini, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing (wow!),

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How to Write like No One is Watching

Men With Pens

I sat there, my hands edging towards the keyboard… but I couldn’t bring myself to touch it. Traditional print markets like magazines and books have a long time lag between initial composition and final publication – the online world moves much faster. Your opening won’t be strong enough. Why would anyone read this anyway?