There are a few little things everyone should know before they walk into a tattoo parlor and get inked. First thing is first you need to be 110% sure of the tattoo design you have picked out. Don’t rush this decision, you will be living with it for the rest of your life. Absolutely do not walk in and just pick something off the wall you WILL regret it if you do. Another very important decision that needs to be made is which tattoo shop you decided to get inked at. Visit tattoo shops in your area and talk to the artist or just ask people you know who have tats and find out who did there’s. That’s how I found my tattoo shop. One of my college friends had several very nice tattoos and I asked where he got them done at and that’s how I choose my tattoo artist. There are a few little things that you should do before you get inked that will help the healing process and there are a few things that you should stay away from as well. The best thing you can do for your self is start taking Vitamin C and Zinc to help boost your immune system. Also you can make sure the area you want your tat is moisturized and the skin is healthy. Absolutely DO NOT drink any alcohol 72 hours before you are going to get inked. Alcohol thins your blood. So that means when you are getting tattooed you will bleed heavily and this makes the tattoo artists job even more difficult to do clean work. Also if you have a little cold or some sort of virus or are just feeling under the weather DO NOT get a tattoo wait until you have gotten better. Your Tattoo Friend Ashley

The pace of modern life and the associated changes to our towns and villages often goes unrecorded. It is of great value in future decades or centuries to find that someone has documented the people and places that have passed. A rewarding hobby can turn into a paying proposition! This is true of many pastimes, but no more so than the research into local history. Who famous lived in your town? How does the geology of the land contribute to make the place what it is today? What is there to do locally? Capture the facts before they are lost and sell the information! Just six things that you need to do to discover the facts and to make some money in the process! o Choose a location that you know quite well in contemporary terms. Visit the local library, any local museum and use the greatest research facility we have, the internet, to gather data on people, buildings and events over the centuries. Gather this data into a database and cross refer details to corroborate established facts rather than vague assertions. Seek any people who can substantiate more recent history. Photograph the locations, preferably digitally for ease of publication, and build up your base data. It does take time but it is at times quite exciting as separate facts come together to make another part of the whole picture. o Decide on the presentation structure of the information. Maybe a particular theme will emerge. Perhaps there is a central story around which the more recent and distant historical facts will merely provide a context for the key information. If the story is a well known one, seek in your research for new approaches to the events or delve into the narrower history of the people or locations that make the story live. Explore and find what remains today. o Consider the best media to use to present the information, possibly to bring the data completely up to date by recent film, illustrations or an e-book. Ensure accuracy at all times and where your research shows that there is genuine doubt, discuss the divergent issues and let the reader decide the most likely facts. Try to use media that will allow regular updates as facts emerge or local situations change. o Write the facts up with sensitivity and make it an interesting read whilst always only using the corroborated data or known issues. Where necessary introduce theories as opinions, not proven or certain facts. o Establish the timeline for your piece. I often use three broad periods of time to show background since records began through to a century ago, fairly recent evolution and change (about 100 years) and the past decade or so. In almost every location I have studied, the rate of change is accelerating rapidly. o Bringing it right up to date I usually add an illustrated directory of key services, clubs, sports facilities and social events for contemporary reference purposes and also to show the living culture of the town as a marker for reference in the future. As an example, I have recently completed a study of the old Market Town of Chatteris in the East Anglian Fens between Peterborough, Ely and Cambridge. This is a perfectly normal community which one could drive through in five minutes. The population has grown from 4,500 to around 12,000 in 20 years. Once researched, you discover that this town was for many years dominated by a nunnery which was finally demolished around 1820. First recorded in AD679, for many hundreds of years it was hardly accessible until the fens were drained by Vermuyden in the 17th century. Always largely an agricultural and market town it has evolved into light industry and is now growing as a commuter town. A fascinating story that is still rolling! This is published in complementary media forms, a 95 minute DVD film of “Chatteris at the Millennium” and a companion richly illustrated E-Book “Chatteris since the Millennium”, currently 67 pages long. The DVD studies the town and the history as seen in 1999 whilst the e-book records and establishes the immense and ongoing change and growth of the community over the past 7 years complete with a detailed directory of the modern town’s facilities, services and clubs. This DVD and E-book is available on Ebay ‘buy it now’ and is commended to those who wish to see an example product derived from the methods described above. Just type in “Chatteris” and you should find it easily. Please do email me if you have any questions. Why not go to work on your locality? The information is of interest to those who live there and also provides a useful source of reference across future decades or even centuries! More information from Jonathan Finch at auroraprtnrshipaol.com

The title of Mission’s first chapter is Michael. Here is how it starts … Enter Michael, dishevelled and panting. His movements are hurried, agitated and anxious. The kitchen door creaks on its hinges after his disinterested push. It does not close and it swings ajar behind him. In an instant, Michael has crossed the room as if out of a desire to distance himself from some pursuer, but now he is cornered. He stops, thinks for a moment and, realising the futility of trying to run away, returns to the door. He pauses there and, with his head cocked on one side, listens intently, trying to discern the frantic sounds of a shouted argument taking place outside. The sounds are dulled and muffled by echoes, but he stays where he is, afraid to approach them. There are several voices: at least five are shouting in apparent opposition without any one gaining the ascendancy. Thus all blend to form a single, incoherent and meaningless noise. Trying to listen is pointless and so, with a rueful shake of the head, he advances into the room again, but this time he moves more slowly, with greater resignation, beneath some weight. He decides to sit but cannot relax. Perched on the very edge of the settee, he leans forward with his head bowed and his hands resting on his knees. He seems poised to act but is powerless. He can do nothing, now. It is too late. Still without success he tries again to make……… The second chapter, entitled Mulonzya, deals primarily with the local member of parliament, James Mulonzya. But his father, Abel, and son, Charles play significant roles, as does an idealistic administrator, John Mwangangi, recently returned from a successful legal career in London. James and Charles are having dinner with John … “So the idea is this,” John continued. “The Father has been told he can use the school bus from Mutune once a week for nothing. All he will do is provide the petrol. The nuns have been very generous to us. Without the vehicle we could do nothing. Near Nairobi there is a group of Europeans who are researching into agricultural techniques for some agricultural research agency. Their farm is very productive but is subsidised, so it does not need to make a profit. Michael has persuaded them to sell us their maize and beans at a cheap rate. We will then bring it to Migwani, Mwingi, Mutonguni or wherever in the lorry and then sell off some of it to people who can afford it until we have covered costs and raised enough money for the next trip and then we will distribute the rest free to people who have nothing.” “That is illegal,” said Charles curtly. “You need a licence to trade grain.” “Ah, but we are not trading, Charles…” “You are selling some of it so surely the law would rule that you are trading.” “But that’s only to get us started. If we can get enough reasonably well-off people to give a hundred shillings each - and regularly - we will be able to carry on without having to sell any of the food. It could then never be argued that we were affecting the traders’ business because we would be supplying only those people who had absolutely no money to buy food for themselves.” “And how would you identify such people? On whose word do you judge whether a particular family can or cannot afford to feed itself?” “Priests, Chiefs, District Officers, Members of Parliament….” The argument had suddenly become very serious. “This food… It will only go to Catholics, then?” asked Mulonzya, as usual firmly grasping quite the wrong end of the other’s meaning. “Oh no. To anyone who is in need of it.” Charles spoke again. His voice spoke the words of a mind already made up. “What you propose is illegal. You need a licence to trade grain. Your school bus is licensed to carry children, not merchandise. Mutune is a government-funded school. I am sure that the Ministry of Education would not like to think that their property is being misused in this way. It is definitely illegal.” “You forget that I am trained in law. I would certainly be prepared to test what you say in the courts. Anyway, the whole project would be done in the name of the Church. Would you like to be seen to bring about a case against the Roman Catholic Church?” “If it is illegal we would oppose it,” said Charles. “It would certainly be against our interests. We would have to consult with our legal advisers, of course, but I have no doubt in my mind when I say that, whoever started such a scheme, we would seek to stop it through the courts.” James Mulonzya almost interrupted his son. “Would you, Mr Mwangangi, a magistrate and civil servant openly break the law?” There was some sincere as well as calculated shock in his voice. “If the law were to stand in the way of a simple, non-profit-making humanitarian scheme such as this, especially in an area racked with famine, then the law must be changed.” There was a hint of the beginning of anger in John’s voice. “If there must be a test case then so be it. Meanwhile people who would have gone hungry will be fed.” Charles and James Mulonzya began to laugh as he spoke. There was no disrespect, however, only familiarity. Both father and son knew that they had trod this ground far more regularly and successfully than their potential adversary. “Ah John, but now you are talking politics.” The third chapter, called Janet, is set mainly in London, thirty years on from the other four. When she left college, Janet worked in Migwani’s school and was Father Michael’s neighbour for two years. For two years after she returned from Africa, she corresponded with Michael, during a period of personal crisis, but she had not met him until unannounced he reappeared in her life. Turning back into the hall, the pause having done no more than shortened her next step, she looked down to see the long Kashmiri runner reveal herringboned terracotta tiles at its edges abutting the now stripped skirts and Janet Smythe, née Rowlandson, felt a sudden and unexpected twinge of nerves, a slight tightening of the breath alongside the slightest tingle of the spine, the kind of shiver she thought she used to feel when her first boyfriend arrived at the family home to pick her up. Now more than thirty years beyond such nonsense, the unexpected nervous trill forced a pause, a mere shortening of the rhythm of her step, just as she passed the second door on her left, which looked into the front room, beyond the closed folding doors. There, presenting the back of his large head above the back of a voluminous easy chair that faced into the room, was David, her husband, precisely where she expected to find him, holding the double spread of his broadsheet high up to catch the brighter light of the hallway behind him, absorbed in a minor piece at the foot of page seven, his head gently nodding to the regularity of the Bach fugues that Janet could just hear scratching from within foam pads of his headphones. “I’ll get it,” she said ritualistically, as she passed the open door, knowing full well he couldn’t hear. Thus she did not even check for a response which even at best would be a minor noise, not quite a grunt and definitely not a word, if, indeed, such a reference to the obvious might merit any recognition. And so Janet reached the door, a large, wide and heavy hardwood structure, white within and black to the street, hinged on the right, solid panelled in the lower half, but admitting two decorative stained glass panels above, their uneven frosting not allowing any view of those waiting outside, who invariably presented only fuzzed silhouettes against the scattered back-light of the streetlamps. As she turned the latch, Janet’s memory momentarily recreated childhood, prompted by the beautiful symmetry of the diffused street lights and thus reminding her of those same shapes her infancy called ‘angels’ in the frosted glass door of her parents’ suburban semi. Swinging the door open, she smiled at the two priests waiting in the cold and dark of a November evening. Boniface, the fourth chapter, describes the difficult life of a young teacher in a town near to Migwani. He is chosen by Father Michael to manage one of the Church’s projects, but his chapter is primarily concerned with his family relations. A violent crash shook Boniface out of his dream. He had seen it coming for almost a minute, but had not prepared himself for the shock. The car had laboured to the summit of a shallow rise to reveal a view of the road ahead. In a broad curve it swept across a wide valley, at the bottom of which a grey and narrow concrete bridge contrasted with the brown unedged earth of the rest of their route. On the down slope, Michael pressed his foot to the floor and the car quickly picked up speed. Boniface knew that at the bottom of the valley, where the road crossed a river bed, the junction between the murram of the road and the concrete of the bridge had worn badly, leaving a vertical step between the two surfaces, several inches high in parts. Everyone who travelled the main road knew the spot. Even the more irresponsible bus drivers would slow to a crawl here to negotiate the bump, but could still not prevent the flow of abuse from the rear seats when their vehicles lurched as they crossed onto the bridge and threw the most vulnerable passengers momentarily into the air. There was simply no way of avoiding it. By the time Michael’s car hit the ramp, it was doing fifty miles per hour, but of those inside the car only Josephine, Boniface’s wife, seemed concerned by the looming danger. Not until the wheels hit the step and lifted the entire car into the air did either of the men in front of her show any reaction. A split second before impact, she tried to utter a warning shout, but it was already too late. The car hit the ridge, flew into the air and came down with what seemed like a gigantic crash, flinging her from her seat and transforming her intended shout into a long high-pitched scream. Boniface simply held on. Michael’s previously vacant expression disappeared, transformed by the widening of his eyes to one of undiluted shock and surprise. After only a short skid, which the priest quickly and easily controlled, the car sped on without either a word or glance shared. Some moments later, Boniface did turn to face his wife who was bent low over the child in her lap and holding the top of her head which had bumped hard against the roof. He offered a short comforting smile to ease her discomfort and said, “Don’t worry, Josephine. Father always drives like this.” The final chapter introduces Munyasya, an ex-army officer who, late in life, has become destitute. It is his mission, however, which endures, despite being revealed as misguided. He is apparently possessed by the spirit of his long-dead step-father. In the bottle is my madness, the spirit which haunts me, exhausts me, taunts me, entraps me. I, the hunter, the warrior, am caged like a monkey. Let me free! Let me free to live my own life and die my own death. You hold the key, not I. I would break the lock but I can’t find the door. Another drink. Another drink to bring me closer to you, to hold you near until you let me go. Do you hear? You? Nzoka? Do you hear? He had been ignored until then. Hundreds of people had passed him by, but even those whom he had befriended in the past offered neither greeting nor any sign of recognition. People had met and stood in conversation less than spitting distance from where he lay without even acknowledging his presence. It was as if he had become a part of the tree beneath which he sat, merely an exposed root to be stepped over and avoided lest one should trip. His constant, almost silent murmuring remained always inaudible amongst the daily bustle of the market place, especially on market day, itself, when this flat triangle of hardened, bare, red earth rang with the noise and commotion of trade and humanity. These last words which he said, however, this oft-repeated question, habitually delivered with the air of a command, these words were never a whisper. Every muscle in him strained and shook to throw out the sound. His entire skeleton of a body stiffened and convulsed, the words grumbling forth from deep within his squelching chest. Thrown out as if spewed in rejection, the sound bellowed like thunder, chased by its own echo. It demanded attention, and received it, albeit begrudgingly and obliquely. It forced people to react, to look his way and thus acknowledge his presence. At such moments, all conversation, all business stopped for a moment as heads turned towards Munyasya’s tree. Those with no direct view craned their necks to see, would jostle for position for just a glimpse, but no-one would want to go too close. No-one would ever answer. No-one would ever intervene. Philip Spires .philipspires.co.uk

by Philip Yaffe Part 1 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call “pithy prose”. These short quotations can cover an unlimited variety of subjects: love, religion, politics, human nature, etc. What unites them is their ability to say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. It’s like being able to pour a liter of liquid into a half-liter bottle. They are superb examples of Mark Twain’s famous dictum, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” In principle, all writers and public speakers are capable of producing pithy prose, but clearly some are better at it than others. Any collection of pithy prose must necessarily be biased in terms of what it includes and excludes. I make no apologies for my selections, only for the hundreds of other meritorious quotations I had to leave out. No one will agree with all these quotations; this was not their intention. You may even find some of them repugnant or outrageous. This was their intention. We seldom learn anything of value from what we already agree with. Only those ideas that grate on our nerves can open our minds. As with oysters, irritation can produce pearls. So if anything you are about to read annoys or shocks you, try to think clearly and dispassionately about what it is saying. You will either be confirmed in your current belief or shaken into re-examining it. Either way, you win! This article is the first of an occasional series. In each succeeding article, I will be offering more amusing, educating, and exasperating quotations to your judgment. But just to be certain that we agree on what we are talking about, here it is in a nutshell. Pithy Prose: A quotation where at first you may not be quite certain what it means. But when you become certain, you become equally certain that it couldn’t have been said better any other way. In short, big ideas in small packages. If you have a better definition of pithy prose, please contact me. I would love to hear it. I have already mentioned Mark Twain, so I will begin with him. He offers such a treasure trove of witty, perceptive quotations that it would be almost unthinkable to start with anyone else. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a product of the American Deep South. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin”, and “Life on the Mississippi”, his three most popular books, clearly reflect this origin. However, like all great authors, Mark Twain’s books, essays, and other writings go far beyond geography. They are universal. So In no particular order, here are his pithy prose on a variety of subjects. 1. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. 2. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. 3. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. 4. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. 5. All generalizations are false, including this one. 6. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 7. Who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? 8. Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. 9. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. 10. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. 11. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. 12. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 13. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. 14. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. 15. I can live for two months on a good compliment. 16. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. 17. I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. 18. It isn’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. 19. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. 20. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. 21. It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. 22. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. 23. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 24. Man - a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. 25. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. 26. Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. 27. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. 28. Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. 29. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. 30. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. 31. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. 32. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. 33. The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. 34. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. 35. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work. 36. When a person cannot deceive himself, the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. 37. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. 38. When in doubt, tell the truth. 39. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. A Final Word Mark Twain is an almost inexhaustible source of pithy prose. The quotations included here barely scratch the surface. Let me conclude with a comment by the perhaps the only other source of pithy prose more prolific. Mark Twain never said this, or at least I never found the quotation. But I am certain it is something he would have liked to have said. “Most of us prefer to disparage a person who is almost always right rather than asking why we ourselves are almost always wrong.”

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What is so great about the book they’ve written, can you tie it with a current news event and or holiday? 2.Removing the Fluff is a Must! When writing a first draft, it’s expected to have at least some fluff. Fluff is words, sentences, certain aspects of your article that don’t necessarily add to your article. An example would be: “I had no energy. My energy had been sucked out of me” Now that’s not the great example, but you get the point. A good way to tell if you have fluff is to put your article away for a while. Why? Because wen you leave your article for a bit, the next time you look over you’ll see aspects of your article popping out. Certain words, facts and excess information that could easily be removed for a smooth flowing article. 3 fast tips that also apply are: 1. Editing- Proof read your articles and remember to use your spell checker. Grammar and spelling mistakes can easily turn your editor away. 2. 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Have the reader become excited and motivated if it’s a teaching article.

6 Steps to Clear, Acne-Free Skin Hundreds of medications, treatments, cleansers and cosmetics are available for people with acne, but the most important elements of an acne-fighting program won’t cost you a cent. 1. Nourish your skin by eating a healthy and balanced diet. Most health care specialists agree that a healthy diet will benefit your skin. Cut down on caffeine, sugar and refined carbohydrates, all of which can activate the hormones that tell your sebaceous glands to produce more oil. Add more fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, juices and other healthy treats to your daily diet, and you’ll see in improvement in your skin. 2. Drink lots of water to maintain the skin’s elasticity. Plenty of water is essential to the health of your skin. One of the main activities of the body’s self-healing system is to filter the blood, a job performed mostly by the kidneys, with help from the skin in the form of perspiration. This self-healing system removes the toxic wastes of metabolizing food and of other harmful substances that get into our bodies one way or another. This purification system operates efficiently only if the volume of water flowing through it is sufficient to carry away the wastes. 6 to 8 glasses (64 fluid ounces) of water a day is the recommendation. To reach your quota, carry bottled water with you in your car, your purse, your briefcase

Even the more experienced writers find it difficult to write effectively. Here are some tried and tested tips for writing articles effectively. If you want to get the most out of your article marketing efforts, then your article must be effective. It is the efficacy of the article that makes for increased sales generation. Writing articles will help you in the building of a powerful online presence. Given below are a few tips that might just help you in the writing of an effective article. Write a Good Article Everybody wants to write a good article. After all, nobody would like to write a bad article. However, the word good means different things for different writers. For some it would be writing articles that are informative, for others it would mean an article that has a lot of flowery language, while for many other writers it would mean using keywords in each and every sentence. One must realize that a good article means an article that is able to convey the information to the target audience in a way such that they are able to understand the topic and thus base their decision based on the content of that article. The Conversational Mode It’s best to talk like a friend while writing articles. Don’t write like a teacher giving instructions to students, unless specifically asked to do so. A conversational style of writing also enables a writer to connect with the conversation that might be going through a readers mind. This also allows a writer to build trust through his or her article as they connect with the reader in one form or the other. As a writer, your job is to not only write good article but also form a bond with the reader. You must get in touch with their thoughts and ideas. Lay your Foundation in Simplicity While you are writing articles, you must make sure that people understand your articles. This can only be accomplished if you write in a simple language. Article marketing concentrates on all kinds of people, which mean that there will be people, who do not have a firm hold of the nuances of the English language, who will read your articles. You need to configure your articles in a way such that even the average readers understand your written word. The Keyword Quotient A large part of writing articles is dictated by the integration of keywords into the content. Only articles having keywords are effective, when it comes to article marketing. This is because keywords make it easier for search engine spiders to recognize the efficacy of a particular article and thus rank them at the top of the pile. The efficacy of article marketing is dependent on the use of keywords and keyword phrases in the article. This has to be accomplished in a natural manner and it must not look like the keywords have been put in the article, just for the heck of it, without any thought whatsoever. These tips would definitely help you write effective articles. There are many more, but keeping these in mind will also help you immeasurably. When it comes to Writing Articles and Submit Article effectively, there’s only one resource you can trust on the Internet. That is .goodinternetmoney.com/Articles-Submission.php.

A poorly-written sales letter can turn off customers faster than a poor product or service. After all, customers will not care about what you sell until they know that you care about them first. If you cannot care for your grammar and writing skills, then why should they buy anything from you? The last thing anyone needs is a careless person, and your customers know that. Practice the craft on products or services that you are familiar with. Start practicing writing sales letters on a product or service that you actually like and use. Although this sounds easy, it can actually be difficult. How do you make a product or service sound good without sounding like you are hollering your praises out? How can your favorite shampoo sell without you having to showcase how beautiful your hair has turned out? How can you make your potential customers get that spa treatment of their dreams without you sounding like the spa paid you millions to make the endorsement? The best writers are those who can sound interested in something that they do not even remotely like. This can be a good practice exercise for you if you have already sharpened your writing skills for the previous exercise. Pick a product or service that you do not like, and try to endorse it. This can prepare you for the times when you might be assigned to do a sales letter on a product or service that you do not believe in; you can always opt out and tell your boss that you do not want to get in the way of your principles, but this option is one of the biggest no-no’s in the sales and marketing world. As soon as you know how to get your sales pitch out, it’s time to trim it down. The best sales pitches are no more than a few hundred words long. When writing a sales letter, you need to keep your words convincing, but to a minimum. Remember, not all your readers have all the time in the world to listen to what you say make your little letter worth their while. For more details go to .sales-page-rapid-fire.com .Look back at all your previous exercises and count how many words you used in describing a product or service that you liked, or did not like. How many words did you use? Did you use five hundred or two thousand words? Keep exercising: write the same sales pitch over again, with fewer words this time, but with the meat of your pitch still in it. .sale-trigger-generator.com .the-gurus-apprentice.com Keep on trimming your pitch until you are left with nothing but the convincing summary of your endorsement. Writing a sales letter can be difficult if you do not know how to make a sales pitch. As with any other letter, you need to be formal and respectful, but not stiff and boring. You need all your skills as a writer and salesperson, and you need to put them all into practice. So what are you waiting for? Pick up that pen, or get to that keyboard, and start writing a sales letter!

Article Summary: Over the years, I’ve found that new screenwriters frequently have confusions and misunderstandings on the proper way to write slug lines, also known as master scene headings. This article covers the basics of writing industry accepted screenplay slug lines. TIPS ON SLUG LINES Scene headings or slug lines, as they are commonly called, are a widely accepted convention of “spec” or “master scene” screenplay form. Over the years, I’ve found that new writers frequently have confusions and misunderstandings on the subject, despite having read a basic book or two on the craft aspects of screenwriting. Hence, the reason for this article. Every time the “where” or the “when” of your story changes, it’s expected that you’ll reorient the reader as to location and time of day with a new slug line. A slug line is composed of three parts: 1) INT. or EXT. Is it an interior or exterior scene? 2) WHERE The physical location or name of the set where the action of the scene takes place. 3) TIME OF DAY Usually simply DAY or NIGHT. Examples: INT. JOE’S BAR AND GRILL

Learn how to write “how to” articles and it is easy to promote your website. They are one of the most popular types of articles online. Some people will read articles just for entertainment or to learn general information, but everyone wants to know how to do something. Before you start cranking out those “how to” articles, though, you need to know a basic principle and a few tricks. First, an online article is not the same as an article in a print magazine. In the print world, the writer is paid to be purely informative and entertaining. Online articles are informative as well, but since you give them away, they have little value to you unless they get readers to come to your website. Keep that important principle in mind. Make sure you know how to create a good “authors resource box” that will motivate the reader to click on that link and visit your website. You also have to get the reader to read that far, which you can do by using the first tip below. Since it’s on-topic and relevant to this article, I can simply tell you that you’re going to like what you see in my own resource box below. (That’s an example of using curiosity to “hook” the reader.) How-To Articles - Three Tips 1. Tell the reader almost everything she needs to know. Almost, but not everything. The point here is to give real value, but leave her wanting more. This keeps her reading, to see what else there is, and finally, it get’s her to look at the author information at the end of the article, where hopefully she clicks through to your website to learn more. It is easy to use this technique. For example, two paragraphs ago I mentioned that you need to know how to create a good “authors resource box” to make a reader into a visitor. Of course, how to do that isn’t covered in this article, so the curious reader will hopefully click through to my site to learn how. Another way to do this is to have six tips on how to do whatever, and then mention in the resource box that there are ten more tips on your website. 2. If you sell products, mention them relevantly. You can’t use an article as a sales pitch, but what if the things you sell are relevant to your article? Mention them specifically, but don’t mention in the article that you sell them. Keep that to the resource box. For example, suppose you sell scrapbook materials, and your article is on how to create the perfect scrapbook. Go ahead and mention the specific materials and even the brands you recommend. The reader will wonder where he can get these things, and in the author’s resource box he’ll see that you sell them on your website. There is nothing wrong with this technique. A woman who reads an article on “How To Tie Fishing Flies” also wants to know the best materials and where to buy them. 3. Have something new to say. You are telling the reader how to do something, but so are many others. Try to have your own unique angle or a “special” tip that isn’t found in other writings on the subject. You want the reader to know that you are the expert and your website is the one to visit. Copyright Steve Gillman. For more on How To Write Articles, including that all-important resource box, and to get a free ebook, visit: .999articles.com