No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem but the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it and if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as writing ABC. Writing is actually not a very complicated thing. It is just like drawing, painting, and even cooking. It is an art! Your imagination is all that it takes to get it started. What makes it hard is not writing itself but how people make it hard than it really is. The first key to writing a novel is the ability to dream and imagine. Think back to when you were a little child and dreamed. Your imagination took you to places you’ve never been before. It made you do things you never thought you could do. Having superpowers…being in strange places…the conditions are limitless. Writing a novel is actually imagination translated into words. You close your eyes and let your thoughts drift while creating a web of consequential ideas. Afterwhich, you write them down on paper. The second key to writing is formulating the premise of your novel. Let’s say you’d start with a huge asteroid moving about in space. Then suddenly it collided with another asteroid and instantly created an explosion. Some of the explosion’s debris fell down into the earth’s atmosphere. By accident a person comes in contact with it. These sequence of events could be your initial start in which you let your mind take hold of and run with to produce the succeeding events. The third key would be creating a stream of spontaneous ideas. Once you have the initial idea, sink down into it and allow yourself to be completely absorbed. Let’s say after the person comes in contact with the asteroid debris, he gains supernatural powers! And then he notices some new changes in his being, not just physically but also emotionally and psychologically. This is where an avalanche of new ideas start coming in. You will notice that you are no longer directing your story but your story is directing you. That makes writing now so easy. You don’t need to analyze anything because the story now starts to play like a movie. All you have to do is put them into words as the story plays in your head. Next, make sure you are able to retain your daydreaming and concentration as one event goes after another. This state is now called the “alpha state”. According to Judith Tramayne-Barth, this is the place between consciousness and sleep. Time stands still when you are in this state. Words keep coming to you until you start to feel pain in your legs and in your waist and then you suddenly flick consciousness and you become flabbergasted because you’ve not only written one or two pages but five or more without even knowing it! The next key would be to practice flipping in and out of the “alpha state”. You can do this by rereading what you’ve written and internalizing it as if it was your first time. It might take you time, as much as hours or even days before you are able to go to your “alpha state” again but once you’re adept at going into the zone, it would only be a matter of minutes before you start writing a new dialogue. So, you’ve finished your story! Now it’s time to do the final touch-ups. There is still one last thing that you need to do. Yea, you guessed it. You need to check the entire story again for spelling, punctuations, grammar, correct word usage and coherence. You might even need to revise it a few times before you are able to arrive with the final output. But don’t fret, it’s not much work really compared to writing the entire novel. What’s important is you now have your own novel, written by yourself, using your very own imagination. How much more proud could you get?

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Technology keeps churning out innovations that promise to change, improve, or make our life easier. One of these revolutionary and ambitious technologies pledges to change the way we write English, whether or not we’re native English speakers. Since the first word possessors surfaced a few decades ago, developments in the field of English grammar software have taken up the ambitious challenge of transforming our English writing into correct and rich by using advanced Natural Language Processing. How Does it Work? Most professional grammar processing solutions rely on a smart English analyzing engine which is constantly fed with a massive quantity of accurate words, sentences, and phrases?simulating the human mind?and eventually rolling out an updated online grammar dictionary that compares the user’s existing written text with the analyzed results, suggesting corrections. Top Benefits (1) Upgrades English writing - professional and accurate. (2) Saves proofreading time and most importantly, embarrassing grammar or spelling errors. (3) Improves overall English writing skills. Choosing the Right English Grammar Software Many English writing solutions are available today; however, several key issues must be carefully examined when choosing your solution. Make sure the solution you choose: (1) Is based on a smart, auto-updated online grammar dictionary. (2) Supports any text-based applications. (3) Provides an intuitive user interface and includes the following features: proofreading, automatic punctuation check, online spell check, online synonyms dictionary and text enrichment. (4) Provides you with ready-made templates for various purposes, such as business correspondence, thank you notes, and memos. (5) Includes translation features that enable instantaneous translation of any given text. Learn more about English Grammar Software and explore the latest solutions in English writing at: .english-writing-solutions.com © 2007 Gil Lavi. All Rights Reserved.

Google stops bans ads from Custom Writing Service companies: A Parable of a cheating wife. The turmoil caused by some universities brought up the issue of academic dishonesty and cheating on a new level. The university professors believe that prohibiting custom writing firms from openly advertising their services will reduce instances of plagiarism in schools and universities. To support the public campaign against plagiarism Google announced that it will no longer accept ads from custom writing companies starting June 1st, 2007. But is it the right way to combat plagiarism? Lessons from history on prohibition: Americans know about the prohibition law, which was supposed to cut alcohol consumption in the USA. They all know that such move did not really stop alcohol production and consumption, but rather increased its value and benefited many bootleggers, who could make a fortune because of such laws. The current educational campaigns against alcoholism are more effective. The Soviet Union in the 50’s completely outlawed religion, yet churches, temples and synagogues continued to exist and people despite the prohibition continued visiting them. It was only after the break up of the USSR, when the representatives of different religions and sects rushed to convert the communist “atheists” to believers, the demand for churches fell. Surprised? The competition reduced the value of churches in minds of the post-soviet citizens. Plus, the post-soviets after the end of total control, could get that desired ‘peace of mind and soul’ elsewhere, not necessarily in religions. The Emancipation Proclamation benefited the slaves only in theory not in practice, as the runaway slaves would be put in “contraband camps” in the North. In the South, Ku Klux Klan again did its austerities (when the union troops left the territory). The Separate but Equal again shows that laws to work require not only the right signature, they require the change of attitudes and beliefs. The solution: To combat plagiarism at educational institutions one does not really need harsh rules and regulations. One needs to establish the proper support and student assistance programs. After all, Custom writing service companies by large provide that support, example, and tutoring that school and universities teachers don’t. While there is always a small percentage of students who order term papers and essays just because they don’t want to spend time on those, the majority of essays and term papers are ordered by students who don’t understand the topic and their professor usually tells them “to read it in the book” or that the student “should have listened to the lectures more attentively”. Back 15 years ago when I was in college and did not understand something I could not really get any meaningful help from my professors. They usually summarized the points they said in class and after about 10-15 minutes of such “help” would either look at their watches or directly say that they have to go/do other things. Some of them instead of explaining the missing elements would say something like (‘do the questions at the end of the chapter and you’ll understand it all’). Such ‘coldness’, pretentious impartiality, or perhaps lack of motivation to teach is exactly what prompts students to seek help elsewhere. After all, if any school runs an anonymous survey, the researchers will be surprised to find out that the same class of the same level using the same book yet different professor would have substantially different figures regarding student cheating (random research, all validity measures preserved). The Parable: One jealous husband was always afraid that his wife could cheat on him. As a result, he got extremely suspicious and jealous. He would make unexpected returns to his house, randomly visited her at work and even paid money to one of her girlfriends to keep an eye on her at “girls’ parties” he could not attend. He would write down the mileage on the car and personally measured the distance from the house to her work

We all hit that place in the life of our E-zine, that place where we just sit at our computers scratching our heads. “Oh, what to write, what to write!” we moan and lament. In times like these (yep, this mistress of E-zines Made EZ experiences it, too!), it’s good to revisit why you have an E-zine and the benefits it provides - for you and your readers. First, think about why you started your E-zine. * Because you had something to offer the world. Perhaps you’re an expert in corporate assessments or in organizational strategies. You have TONS of information that people in your target market would find helpful. * You wanted to touch your target market as often as possible. Remember, it can take 7 - 10 touches to convert a suspect into a prospect. Alexandria Brown, the E-zine Queen, is always amazed at people who have been on her E-zine subscription list for 4 years before buying anything. Patience, my dears, patience. * Writing is something you can do, or you wouldn’t have started the E-zine in the first place. Perhaps you love to write. Maybe it’s the one place where you can be a little flowery and whimsical, or where your dry sense of humor shines through. Next, think about what your E-zine means to your subscribers. * Each month (or every week, or every two weeks - whatever your schedule is) your subscribers depend upon receiving your E-zine with helpful tips. Believe it or not, skip an issue, and you’ll hear about it. I remember reading a story when I was a little girl about an old woman who lived by herself and started to feel as if she didn’t matter: she was alone, she didn’t seem to have friends, etc. One day, she decided to stay in bed. A couple of hours later, people were banging loudly on her door. “Your tea kettle didn’t whistle this morning. I slept in and was late for work!” said the milkman. “And when I didn’t get my milk this morning, the baby was hungry and crying,” said the mother. And so it went. You’ll find that your E-zine has a similar impact. * It’s a ready source of information and reference. It’s like being handed a Word of the Day. For those of you who like the Word of the Day, notice how you try to use today’s word. Imagine your E-zine like that. Your subscribers receive your information and try to apply it. * It’s a calling card. You’re that communications expert, right? So, when you send out your E-zine on the importance of communication in the workplace with a blurb about your corporate communication workshops, one of your subscribers sends it to a friend who is looking for a company to present such a workshop. Finally, getting that issue out for this month (or week or whatever) creates its own benefits. * That’s one more that you’ve completed. Done for this month!!!! What a good feeling that is to have completed one more task on your to-do list. And it’s easy! You’re just writing about what you already know. You don’t have to do much research; you just write. * Each article you write has its own marketing benefits. Perhaps you submit your article to article directories. This article is different from the last, and so you have a new topic and new keywords to attract more people. * Think of each article as a chapter in a larger book. After a time, you might want to compile the various articles into a special report that you can offer as a gift or offer as a product. Naomi and I can see the collection of articles we’ve written being a fabulous addition to our E-zines Made EZ manual. Hopefully, this has renewed your passion and interest in your E-zine. If your energy and excitement around writing your E-zine have been high, then keep this handy for those times when you’re a little low on the energy scale. ——- Dawn Goldberg is Chief Operating Officer of Assist University, Founder and Chief Writing Officer of Write Well U., mother, community leader, and former teacher. Her goal is to help others become better and stronger writers. Visit her website at .writewellu.com for more information about writing well.

The whole point of writing is to create something a great deal better than we “really” talk

When writing fiction, the author must rely upon his/her instincts and experiences to create a story. This article will provide an overview of 7 of the major elements of writing fiction in good form, i.e., the form editors expect. Plotting Plotting and characterization carry the other elements of the book. The plotting must be believable, plausible, and interesting. It is a sequence of events connected in a cause-and-effect manner. Generally the plot consists of a series of increasingly more intense conflicts, a climax (the most intense part of the book), and a final resolution. The plot must advance as the book unfolds. Usually the closer to the end of the book the climax is placed the better. Long works like novels can have many subplots and secondary climaxes and resolutions. Avoid using subplots in order to have cliché characters. Avoid too many coincidences. Flashbacks have been overused. A book is stronger when it runs chronologically. Characterization The reader should be able to identify with and care about the characters in the sense that the characters seem real to the reader. The characters must do something, and what they do must seem reasonable for them to have done it. Characters should be introduced early in the book. The more often a character is mentioned or appears, the more significance the reader will attach to the character. Also, the main character should be introduced before setting, so that the setting can be introduced from the point of view of the character. The nature of characters can be brought out through minimal description and the actions, thoughts, and dialogue of the characters. The author should allow the reader to make judgments about the characters; the author should avoid making the judgments for the reader. The feelings of the character should be demonstrated rather than told by the narrator. Yet, there are some very good books in which much of the narrative voice is about a character’s feelings and thoughts or in which the narration goes into great detail and analysis of a character’s feelings and thoughts at some point. So one rule about writing fiction is that there are no rules, or maybe: If it works, it works. Scene Scene includes the place and time in which the book takes place. The scene should be described in specifics to make the book seem real, to set the atmosphere and mood of the book, to place limitations on the characters, or to help establish the basic conflict of the book. Weather can be an important part of a scene. The scene can be used for contrast, having something taking place in an unexpected place. Also, the more unfamiliar the reader is with the setting, the more interesting the scene. Dialogue Dialogue makes fiction seem real. However, dialogue that copies reality may actually slow down a book. Avoid unnecessary or repetitive dialogue. Dialect in dialogue can be difficult to read. A small amount of it can be used to establish the nature of a character, but overuse will intrude on the book. The level of use of language by the characters- pronunciation, diction, grammar, etc.- is often used to characterize people in a book. Most often the main characters use the best English. Profanity and vulgarisms can be used where they seem appropriate. Overuse amounts to author intrusion and can interrupt the reader’s belief in the book. Too much exposition through dialogue can slow down a book. Characters should not repeat in dialogue events which have already happened in the book. Also, one character should not tell another character what the second character should already know just so the author can convey information to the reader.  The form of dialogue should be varied to keep the reader interested. However, don’t try to find too many different ways to say “said.” Interior dialogue is what a character is thinking. Dramatic dialogue is a character thinking out loud, without response from other characters. Indirect dialogue is the narrator telling what a character said. Dialogue should be used to develop character or to advance the book. It should not be used just to hear characters talk. Point of View First person point of view has the main character telling the story or a secondary character telling the main character’s story. Everything that happens in the book must be seen or experienced by the character doing the narration. The reader’s judgment of other characters in the book will be heavily influenced by the narrator. This can be very limiting. Also, a book written in first person usually means that the main character won’t die in the plot. However, first person point of view gives a sense of intimacy to the book. Third person point of view can be objective or omniscient. An objective narrator describes actions but not the inner thoughts or feelings of the characters. An omniscient narrator can describe all the actions of all of the characters but also all of their inner thoughts and feelings as well. Genre Genre is the main category into which a book fits. Most stories meet the criteria for multiple genres, but you should have some focus, identifying a market before you begin writing fiction. Narrative Voice Narrative voice is the way the author uses language. The longer the work the less important language becomes. Above all, the author’s work must tell a story. The author should not be more concerned with the words used than with the tale the author is trying to tell. Don’t be a fanatic about words. The language is less important than characterization and plotting. However, a combination of a good story and good narrative voice will be a delight to read. Mistakes in English amount to author intrusion and detract greatly from the book. The most effective writing uses the active voice, and nouns and verbs so specific that they require no modifiers. The choice of words can help set the tone of the book. Beginning authors often miss one critical fact about writing fiction. It is up to the author to please the reader, not the other way around. Patrick Dent, author of the new covert ops thriller, Execution of Justice, at Action Adventure Book The online resource to help new authors refine their writing and marketing skills. Creative Writing, Fiction

An acquaintance asks me for advice about how to become a poet. No problem, I can give you some clues, but please do take your heart medication before you read this through, since it contains some strong truths. First, you have to realize that nobody cares about what you want to be, so don’t go around complaining that you are misunderstood. Artistic sensitivity is fine, but please keep it to yourself, since there is already too much noise in the world. Second, you should just start writing your poetry and do not ask anyone for permission. If you do happen to ask someone for permission, you most likely won’t even get a response. Again, it’s not that most people won’t understand you, it’s simply that they are too busy with their own lives. Third, you have to develop a thick skin. This is a quintessential requirement for any artist, as it is for salesmen and lawyers. People will criticize your work for no reason, editors will correct the unique syntax that you have worked so hard to create, and bookshops will place your poetry books in the cooking section. Fourth, you have to push your work around and try to find the small percentage of people who might like your poetry. No matter how good a poet you are, that percentage will always remain small, but remember that there are 6.7 billion people in the world. Even if only one person in a thousand likes your poetry, that still makes 6.7 million people. I know that you are going to ask me when you will know for sure that you are a poet. This is an easy question for me to answer. You will know one day in the evening, after many years of taking daily steps towards your goal. By that time, you might be already discouraged and ready to quit poetry altogether, but take heart. On that evening, you will be invited to a party by someone you barely know. You will attend in the hope, after so many years, of meeting a publisher who will really appreciate your work. Ten minutes after you arrive at the party, your hope will vanish. Nobody will pay any attention to you and you will wonder if you have received the invitation by error. You will retire to a corner to sip your green tea in loneliness, but then, you will realize that two young women are staring at you from the opposite side of the room. The two will cross the room and stand still a meter away from you. “Can we ask you a question?” one of them will say. “Sure,” you will reply, wondering if they are mistaking you for someone else. “We want to become a writers,” they will continue. “Could you give us some advice about how to write a book?” At that point, you will frantically try to figure out a brilliant answer, something that will identify you as a successful poet. You will look around the room, a little desperate, realizing that you have no good advice to offer. You will wish that someone would join the conversation and give you the answer, but of course, no one will. As you mumble your piece of advice, you will feel embarrassed by your lack of ideas and imagination. “Writing a book is easy,” you will say, “you just start at the beginning and finish at the end.” Then you will blush, ashamed of having spoken out such triviality. The two women will stare at you in silence for a long time and then exchange a satisfied look. “I told you he was a poet,” one of them will comment in awe. “You were right,” the other will concur. And at that moment, at that very moment, you will know yourself for sure. See John Vespasian’s blog johnvespasian.blogspot.com/

College English term paper is one of the most wide-spread types of written assignments. College English paper is assigned for students during their second or third year of study. College students would usually find it complex and difficult as it requires a huge amount of work to be done for its successful completing. Hence when students are doing their college English term paper, they would always feel like they are at the verge of giving up. However, for the students to get the best grades in their college English term paper is not impossible. Writing a good term paper does indeed, take much time and work which means reading, analyzing, researching, and revising. Before writing the students are always advised to have proper planning for writing your English term paper. As the process already mentioned above, the students are required to determine their time frames and durations for them to finish each task. This is a great way for them to keep track on their English term paper, especially in college, dateline have to be strictly followed. While gathering resources, consider reference books, articles, and Internet resources. Remember that you professor wants to see that you are able to do a good piece of work paying particular attention to the details of the language. Developing a good thesis statement for your college English term papers is a key to its success and hence should be treated correspondingly. A good thesis is argumentative: it makes a specific case and tries to prove something. It should also be controversial. In your term paper you must the point clear to the reader which stand are you taking for your term paper, and then argue your way through your stands and give your reasons with statements from other experts to back you up. However, always bare in mind that your term paper must also try to persuade your reader to believe in your findings, start to agree with what you say, your English term paper would be a success if you are able to persuade the readers to take the same stands as yours. As a college student, you must always know the format of writing your English term paper well enough. There are certain formats that you must make sure to follow, such as the formats of writing the thesis, the paragraphs and most importantly while stating the references and in text citations in your term paper. This is crucial as it will determine a big chunk of the marks and grades of your college English term paper. Your thesis should appear close to the beginning of the writing, most often it is the final sentence of the first paragraph. It should be mentioned though that the thesis statement must be at the beginning of readers’ experience yet it never comes of at the beginning of the experience of the writer. If you are getting helpless you can always log on to the internet or hit to your professors’ office, or the library to find out the collections of other people’s English term papers to give you some guidelines. The article was produced by the writer of masterpapers.com. Sharon White is a senior writer and writers consultant at Term Papers writing. Get some useful tips for college English paper and buy term paper.

A couple who have made a new life for themselves in France share the secrets of their success with Paul Smith For many of us, holidays are a time for indulging in the fantasy of upping sticks and moving to France. But few are brave enough to make the dream come true. Nothing could have been further from the thoughts of Steve and Helen Humphrey just 18 months ago. The couple, both in their early forties, had built successful careers in England. Steve was a sales director in the food industry handling major accounts like J Sainsbury and Tesco. Helen had worked in advertising in Covent Garden and, over the last 10 years, built up an interior design portfolio with hotel, restaurant and private clients. The couple had just moved to a village near Pershore where they were ‘blissfully happy and content’ when, in early August 2003, they decided to book a well-earned, late break. They wanted to return to a favourite haunt - the Domaine de Peyrecaty in the Dordogne - where they had already enjoyed three ‘fab’ holidays. It’s easy to understand the attraction of this charming property. With its original stone buildings, it was once a working farm and would have grown tobacco, walnuts and maize. Perhaps its former owners had supplemented their income selling cepes from the estate’s extensive woodland, or even much sought after truffles. Imagine the Humphreys’ dismay, then, when they discovered it was no longer available and was up for sale. Helen takes up the story: “We were not looking to buy abroad at all, but after inquiring about the price we thought that maybe it was worth a view. We flew over to France the following weekend and made an offer. Why? Well, we like a challenge, so why not? We must have been plied with too much wine!” The compromis de vente was signed in September and in November 2003 the proud new owners and their two fluffy, white Burman cats moved out to France. There was much to be done, says Helen. “Like most of the English who come out to find their dreams here, we’d no past experience of running holiday properties, no bar or cooking experience and no French language. “It has been lots and lots of hard work, decorating and getting the properties up to scratch