Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Monday, August 13, 2007

Top Tips To Earn Money Writing Online

Through the powerfulness of the cyberspace it is highly possible in today's modern human race to supplement your income by earning other money authorship online. The coming of engineering have enabled writers from all walkings of life to fall in a community of budding authors. No longer make you have got to wait for: "the bank check is in the mail!" Very often the velocity of publication your work online conveys quick, easy, direct remuneration.

The authors of past spent many calendar months putting pen to paper, which later they had to shift into typed manuscripts. These were posted out by mail to editors and book publishers. Decisions of credence or diminution often took respective calendar months to get back with the writer, if declined the author would normally submit elsewhere and the long rhythm began again.

Today's modern author is still basically underneath the same; a author is a author and have to write, constantly. There are still the dedicated fiction/non fiction authors' seeking publication, but it have go hard for unknown writers to go recognised and accepted. Unfortunately in this twenty-four hours and age publishing houses are looking for a celebrated name on the dust screen in order to make sales.

However the cyberspace have got changed the chances of the unpublished writer, no longer makes a budding writer have to seek his work in paper, and many writers are now well known online.

There are assorted ways you can gain speedy and easy money by authorship using the internet. Start a blog, these tin be free to put up and maintain. Choose one of your front-runner topics and compose everyday. It's a great manner to hone your authorship accomplishments and by posting regularly you will construct up a readership. Topographic Point advertisements on your land site and as your reader hits increase, so should your advertisement chink revenue.

Completing studies is not really classified as a authors ideal position, if you are in demand of other hard cash then see sign language up for some but they are clip consuming when you should be concentrating on your authorship skills. However there are study companies who volition pay you for well written merchandise reviews.

Take a course of study and there are many online that will learn and usher you through the copywriting techniques or the rudiments of independent writing. Positions here necessitate a much higher criterion of authorship but the earning potentiality is far greater.

Everybody today is searching and demanding information and there is a huge marketplace for ebooks, covering every topic imaginable. Use your specialised cognition whether from a hobby, involvement or calling and compose an enlightening ebook. The length can run from anywhere between 3,000 to10,000 words. Keep it lively you could include illustrations, graphs, anything to heighten your subject and offering it for sale.

Again workings within your personal insight, research the cyberspace under land sites like 'google' for companies who are advertisement for well written articles on given subjects. Start a hunt under 'articles wanted', coil down until you happen a verbal description matching your expertise. The marketplace is very popular so guarantee you read their verbal descriptions carefully and work to ran into the deadline.

Having worked through the above chances you may have got sensed that the chief word here is to diversify. Over the course of study of a calendar month you could finish your workload with many different companies. Construct up contacts, like everything in life take it steady and in clip you will detect which course of study of action to concentrate on and which one will work best for you.

Then come ups that fantastic twenty-four hours when you actually have got to turn work away. You've made it. You earned it.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Book Proposal Structure

The book proposal is the most of import tool of the nonfictional prose writer, at least during the initial phases of book publication when the author is looking for a literary agent and publisher. But book proposal construction is never discussed in high school and college courses. So where makes one larn this of import skill?

The best topographic point to larn how to compose a book proposal is from a literary agent. The literary agent is the go-between between author and publisher, and agents cognize what getting editors at publication houses are looking for. They cognize from direct experience. And they cognize because knowing is their breadstuff and butter. If they didn't cognize they wouldn't sell anything. Everything I'm saying about the construction of the book proposal come ups from what I've learned over the old age from literary agents.

The figure 1 thing that these agents emphasis is that a book proposal necessitates to have got respective separate discreet sections. You can't just throw together a couple of pages describing your book and hope to sell anything these days. The book industry, largely concentrated in New House Of York City, have evolved a rather standard formatting for the book proposal, and knowing this formatting will assist any budding immature author acquire his or her ft in the door and land a book contract.

The first few pages, often called the Overview, are the most of import portion of the book proposal. If you cannot sell your thought in these gap paragraphs, if you cannot gaining control reader attention, then you should rethink your project. The Overview presents your book to the reader and summarizes what is best about it. One of the things that an Overview often incorporates is the book handle, a one-sentence drumhead used by gross sales representatives to sell the book to bookshop buyers. "The first book about the Civil War from the position of children," might be a book handle. Very often the book manage incorporates the phrase "the first book about --" or "the first book to --" which demoes possible purchasers that there's something unique, and hopefully intriguing, about your book.

The followers subdivisions should also look in the book proposal, roughly in this order: a selling section, describing how the publishing house can sell the book; a publicity section, explaining how you'll capture radiocommunication and television attention; a Competing Books section, explaining why your book is better than anything else written on the subject; an About the Writer section, highlighting your relevant certificate and publications; a List of Chapters, which mathematical functions like a tabular array of table of contents for your book; a Chapter-by-Chapter Summaries section, which fleshes out each chapter in a paragraph or two; and a few Sample Chapters, which will demo how your book will sound when completed.

If you follow this criterion format, your book proposal will be off to a good start and will affect literary agents and editors with your professionalism and thoroughness. But if you can't compose a proposal, they'll never believe you can compose the book.

Friday, June 29, 2007

How to Make Money With Your Book

Writing, publishing and marketing a book can be a tremendous investment of time and money--so much so that many aspiring authors won't embark on the journey until it's clear they will get something (preferably dollars) out of it. Trouble is, they don't know how to make money with a book beyond the traditional model of "sell book, get paid a royalty". Royalties can be slim pickings, sometimes just 7 percent of the book's retail price. If you're looking to make more you'll have to think of your book as not just a book--you'll have to have a bigger picture in mind.

Does Your Topic Have Moneymaking Potential?

Be honest. Do others want what you have to offer? If your book is a memoir, for instance, with stories that only your family members can truly appreciate, there won't be a big market for it. However if your memoir is a harrowing tale of recovery, that's different. Others would want to read it and connect it to their own experience in one way or another.
You'll want to think the same way about your fiction or non-fiction book. What's selling in the stores right now? Can you make such a connection? Can your book tie into a current wave of popularity (Chick lit.? Business leadership? Current events?) Or is your book different, but so totally out of the box that you can grab some attention for it? The clearer you can be with nailing down a market for your book, the easier your job will be.

Sell It In Bulk

Why sell one book at a time when you can just as easily sell 25, 50, 100 or more all at once? Think about getting a company or a group to make a volume purchase. Support groups might want all their members to have your recovery memoir; churches might be interested in passing on inspirational works to their congregations; businesses certainly are in need of free gifts for their customers. Do a little research and find out what possibilities exist for your book.

Use Your Book in Your Business

If you're an entrepreneur, a book can be an excellent lead generator. It's a way to reach customers who may not have found you through your usual marketing strategies. You'll see this technique at work in books such as "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" and "No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs". These books offer invitations to free seminars, coupons for free gifts, contests, free trial subscriptions to newsletters. The authors of these books understand that while they'll make a little money from selling the book, the real funds will flow from turning the customer into a purchaser of their higher end products.

Use Your Book to Pursue Job Opportunities

If you're not an entrepreneur, you can still earn financial benefits from your book in non-direct ways. Think of it like this: your book becomes your business. You use it to attract speaking engagements, teaching gigs, or even consulting work. You could develop a workshop around your book. Many of the teachers in continuing education programs such as those offered through The Learning Annex (www.learningannex.com) are authors who have done just that. If you're in the corporate world, think of this: few people get to walk around with the word "author" on their resume, so it's sure to stand out when you're hunting for your next job. In fact, it may bring you better offers!

Prepare Your Plan of Action

If you've been putting off starting your book because you're not sure if there's money in it, then do your research. Take a few of these ideas, or use them to think up new possibilities, and map out how you could make money with your book. If the numbers look good, print them up, post them near your computer screen and let the vision of those potential dollars inspire you to your book's conclusion.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Hero's Journey, Monomyth (188 Stages) Screenplays for Films

FORWARD

The 188 stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188+ stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

[The terminology is most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) to Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Thelma and Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979)].

THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY

THE 188 STAGE HERO'S JOURNEY:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharses, of which there are usually four).

d) Tells you what to write. For example, at a certain stage of the story, the focus should be on the Call to Adventure and the micro elements within.

ABRIDGED TIPS, EXCERPTS AND EXAMPLES:

(simply go to http://www.heros-journey.info/ for full details)

*****Devolved State*****

This is a total expression of the Hero's Ordinary World and Ordinary Self. It is a benchmark. In Tsotsi (2005), Tsotsi is part of a criminal gang, which is something he will leave behind by the end of the story. In Get Carter (1971- the superior version with Michael Caine), we discover in the first scene that Jack Carter's Outer Challenge is to discover who killed his brother, his Inner Challenge is to escape from his criminal associates / past and his Romantic Challenge is to wrestle Britt Ekland away from the mob boss.

*****First Trial Inner Cave - No Going Back*****

A number of things happen in the Inner Cave of the First Trial. One element is the No Going Back. In Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Blanche wants out but Buck (and therefore she) can't get out because he has killed a man.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Just Write

Have you ever questioned why you write? Have you ever written a piece that seemed to be five hundred words of nothing? Or had your conclusion written out but lacked an intro or middle? I too get ahead of myself sometimes. I'm so eager to be done with whole writing process that I'm already thinking of the most eloquent way to say "the end".

You get to a point where you really don't want to draft, edit, proofread or do any of the other things to that go with writing. Perhaps you'll go and put a load in the laundry.

Laundry! When did chores become more satisfying than producing a written piece to share with like-minded people, or to illustrate a different perspective? If you put too much pressure on yourself then anything seems more important than writing. And you'll be finding any excuse to escape and procrastinate.

It's not that you are procrastinating from the actual task. You like writing. You like expressing yourself and possibly getting a little praise in the process. It's the stress that you are procrastinating against.

The pen chewing, fingers drumming, backspace pushing, stress. You know that lurking around your worksite are all those devilish obstacles such as writers block, brain fogs, your computer crashing right when you are in the middle of the most glorious sentence you ever wrote. Your hands will cramp up, or worse you'll just sit there staring at the nothingness which is your writing career-why must you suffer so-

There's really no need to be so dramatic or get an anxiety attack when you have to write. You know that the second you get started you won't be able to stop and that a hand cramp was never a good enough reason to stop writing and you love those, Ah ha moments that follow after a good healthy brain fog. And let's face it, has there ever been a better excuse to make the kids clean up then "I'm in the zone, if I stop now I may never write again!"

Yes, we have to take a few blows for our "art", moments when we just aren't as creative as we'd like to be. Or times when we would rather not jot down another phrase again, but it isn't possible. Whether you use articles to promote a business, write literature for children or poetry for social movements, you know that you can not go a long period of time without communicating yourself with one of life's most difficult tools-words. Try as you might the laundry just doesn't have that same spark of excitement as writing.

Don't write to change the world. Don't write to make a point. Don't write to make money. Just write. Write because you want to, because it excites you, because you like doing it. All the glory comes later and it forms itself as you go along. Just write, and then sit back and watch it happen. Ask yourself seriously, if you never became a best selling author, or even published could you really stop. You can procrastinate all you want be inevitably you'll be creeping back to your worksite to rekindle your relationship with your writing. Don't get discouraged and don't put so much pressure on yourself. Just write, whatever it is you want to say.