Writing Articles: O - P

Oblivious Webmasters and E-zine Publishers Sitting on a 24 carat Goldmine!
It continues to amaze me that everyday I see more and more
webmasters and e-zine publishers still worrying about the high
costs of online advertising and promotion when all this time they
have been sitting on a 24 carat goldmine. A goldmine so va...
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Omnipotence.
Omnipotence.

I started with true confidence,
That I could achieve my goals,
That I could quietly persuade,
And all would gradually unfold,
Each in its own compartment,
Each growing slow but sure,
Nothing would be impossible,
Ev...
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On Grammer (And Yes, I Know I Spelled Grammar Wrong)
There has been a growing trend, in academic circles and in my own life, to place grammar and its larger rules upon an impeachable pedestal. A growing number of people who seem to cling to the rules of grammar as if its only through the memorization of th...
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One Person's Porn is My Erotica
Erotica is not something easily defined or easily accepted by society. I often been accused of writing porn by those who think that any kind of writing that examines the bounds of intimacy is dirty a...
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Online Booklet Results
Selling over 500,000 copies of an informational tips booklet, '110 Ideas
for Organizing Your Business Life,' and earning a quarter of a million
dollars in the process is not at all where I thought I would end up when I
started writing a tips bo...
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Online Poetry Community Begins Topic Slam Competitions
Urbanlivez.com, underground hip hop poetry forum is looking for poets, rappers and lyricists.

Atlanta, GA, July 20, 2004 — The Urbanlivez.com online urban poetry community has jumped on to the band wagon of the popular hip-hop, rap battle forum tr...
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Online Writing and Beyond: Writers Will Lead the Content Revolution
Introduction

It is often thrown around loosely on the web that "Content is king."

If content is king, then what is a content writer?

Unfortunately, we are not yet royalty. We're never paid as well or
considered as skilled as...
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Orientalism
Edward Said's Orientalism can be summed up in three following points: first he talks of the distinction between pure and political knowledge, shows the power relation of any text to political, cultur...
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Ovecoming Writer's Block
What is writer's block? Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing to say. Oh well, I'm outta here! Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We've all experienced this phenomenon when we absolutely h...
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Overcome Writers Block with Snake Dancing
Writers block! Even columnist Dave Berry has it. He admits that at least 30 times a day when writing his humor column, he gets up from his computer to sip his Pepsi and to divert his attention when h...
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Overcoming Writers Block
Ah, I remember writers block. I used to suffer from it a long
time ago. Today I write dozens of articles a week, perhaps five
hundred a year. Earlier in my life, I would go months and months
without writing a word. Why? Writers block. But I su...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 1 of 6
By Laraine Anne Barker ACCEPT, EXCEPT Not commonly seen even from unpublished writers, who are probably familiar with the difference because they're all waiting for an acceptance! "We accept your in...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 2 of 6
BAITED, BATED Baited usually refers to traps or snares. When the reference is to someone who is hardly daring to breathe, the correct word is always bated: "She watched with bated breath." I've yet t...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 3 of 6
ELICIT, ILLICIT Elicit means to extract or draw out; illicit means not legal. EVERYONE, EVERY ONE Everyone means every person in a group; every one means each person and is always followed by "of". "...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 4 of 6
LATER, LATTER Later means afterwards; latter is the second of two things. "Later that day we went for a walk." "We have two choices. The latter is the more reliable, but the former would be cheaper."...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 5 of 6
PASSED, PAST Passed is the past tense of pass. Past means a time that has gone. "Time passed and we all forgot the incident." "In times past it was the custom for women to wear hats in church." P...
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Pairs/Groups Of Words Often Confused - Part 6 of 6
SALE, SAIL Sale is either offering something for purchase ("for sale") or offering it at a special price ("on sale"); sail is part of a ship or boat. SELL, CELL Sell is to exchange for money; cell i...
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PAIRS/GROUPS OF WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN CONFUSED
SALE, SAIL
Sale is either offering something for purchase ("for sale")
or offering it at a special price ("on sale"); sail is part
of a ship or boat.

SELL, CELL
Sell is to exchange for money; cell is a small room.

SCENE, SEEN...
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Parent Loans or Student Loans – what is going to be best for my child?
At least 20% of college students need some type of loan to help pay for their college education. Such a statistic can lead to students graduating with an unmanageable debt load. An alternative is for...
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Parent PLUS Loans
Do you have good credit that you would like to put towards the further education of your child? Is your child planning on becoming a student at an American college or university? Is your child a depe...
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Parts is Parts
When you write a book, or even a report or paper,
sometimes a detailed plan can make all the difference
between doing a thorough, well thought out job and
making a mish mash of all the parts and pieces.

Presenting a simple, easy-to-fol...
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PERFECT PITCH - Query Letters that Kill
If you are reading this then you are either looking for information on how to write a query letter or your curiosity has been exited by the heading. Either way, the article has grabbed your attention and hopefully what you will read here will live up to y...
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Personal Profile Of The Week: Jim Edwards
Jim Edwards is the author and co-author of several ebooks,
including two wildly successful best-sellers: "How to Write
and Publish your own ebook...in as little as 7 Days" with
Joe Vitale http://hop.clickbank.net/?bizreport/7dayebook
and "3...
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Personal Profile Of The Week: Judy Cullins
Judy Cullins is a 22-year veteran publisher, book
coach, and author of _Write your eBook or Other
Short Book--Fast!_ and _Ten Non-techie Ways to
Market Your Book Online_, and 30+ others. She
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Personalize Your Headlines For Increased Profits!
Personalizing your headlines to your target audience can
significantly improve your sales response. You can do this by
mentioning a person by name, their city, their career field,
their job title, or group right in the headline. You will find
...
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Phases of Instructional Design/Technical Writing
The development of a project is typically done in four different phases. In the project analysis phase, a market research is conducted to determine the courses that need to be developed and the information that they should cover. In the design phase, the ...
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Plain speaking –- 4 secrets for getting your book purchased
What can be more infuriating to a potential purchaser of a non-fiction book than chapter headings which give no clue as to their contents? After all, if someone is looking in the non-fiction section of a book store, it implies they want facts, not a fancy...
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Platform Development Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!
Platform-Building Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!

Around eighty percent of nonfiction books today are written by “experts,” that is people who have a) earned credentials in the field they’re writing about, b) germinated information via articles, live ...
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Platform Development Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!
Platform-Building Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats! Around eighty percent of nonfiction books today are written by “experts,” that is people who have a) earned credentials in the field they’re writing abo...
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Poem of the Sky
The sky is blue and the clouds are pure
I ask God
Release my soul
Let me seek not other's approval nor acceptance
But to experience your sweetness and grace in the beauty of your presence

May I drink the holiness of your splendor ...
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Poem- Each Time
Each Time

Each time I worry
An angel would whisper "Fear Not Fear Not"
It is God who sees you through

Each time I am disappointed
An angel would whisper "Don't Give up! Don't give up!"
She is showing you the stories of li...
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Poem--Friendship, Love and Fear
friendship; a dance on the razor's edge
feelings; tender like the silken clouds
words, unpredictable like the dancer's steps

what is friendship
perhaps i don't know
what is love
perhaps i don't know
but surely this is a grea...
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Poetry in a Nutshell
Poetry is more than just rhyming and prose that is in meters and verse. It is an art form. It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be critisized to the point where it just "su...
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Poetry Techniques
The style of writing poetry differs from person to person; long or short meters, three or four lines to a stanza. But the great thing is, no matter how a poem is written it still holds great emotion....
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Poetry Workshops
I find poetry workshops study more the theory and craft of writing poetry. I joined one in the past and found it to be filled with snobs who pretty much write bad poetry. Half of what they say can no...
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Poetry: Exploration And Experience
Are you ready to abandon your poems? Before you toss your newest poem away, revisit it using some exercises that have proven helpful to poets who are feeling “stuck.” If you explore some of these ideas, you may be steps closer to placing your poetry in a ...
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Pope John Paul II's Legacy at the Centre Stage of International Arena
Pope John Paul II's Legacy at the Centre Stage of International Arena By Shafquat Rabbee : When on October 16, 1978, Pope John Paul II emerged from the plume of white smoke above the roof of the Sis...
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog
Emlyn Williams Theatre, Mold, North Wales: 20th February 2003 Clwyd Theatr Cymru commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) with a superb run of perfo...
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Post Colonial Studies
Postcolonialism has been defined as: A description of institutional conditions in formerly colonial societies. An abstract condition of the global condition after the colonial period. A descripti...
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Power Writing 101: Tips and Tricks to Get You Taken Seriously!
In my ten years as an advertiser, I’ve encountered plenty of folks with a flair for writing. They were born having some idea of where to put the words within the sentence, and the sentences within the paragraph. They usually know what words to use – when ...
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Powerful Lessons From A $20 Bill
By Catherine Franz

Just last week I was speaking to a group of 50 women
and men. I opened by holding up a $20 and asking
who would like this $20 bill. I also mentioned there
were no strings attached. You would have thought that
ever...
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Powerful, Profitable Topics for Your eBook - Current Events
Powerful, Profitable Topics for Your eBook - Current Events

You have thought about writing your own eBook for months
now, but you just can't seem to decide on an idea that
will get you started?

Don't be discouraged, you are not the ...
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Preparing a Business Proposal
If you dream of starting your own business, there may be just one, small
thing standing in your way - lack of funds! One way around this, is to
enlist the support of a "sleeping partner" - no, not that sort of sleeping
partner! But someone who ...
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Preselling. Your Pathway to Success

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MYCPS!... The ONLY Book Of Its Kind

"Make Your Content PREsell!" ("MYCPS!") is the ONLY book of its kind. There are, of course, hundreds of books that teach you how to write, the classic being...
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Press Release - Man's Restored Image
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EDITORS: For review copies or interview requests, contact:
Promotional Services Department
Tel: 800-839-8640 ext. 244
Fax: 812-961-3133
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Print-On-Demand Publishing - A Definition and a Comparison
Print On Demand
A Definition and a Comparison
Copyright 2004, Michael LaRocca

The purpose of this article is to consider Print-On-Demand
publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its
strengths and its weaknesses. You ...
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Private versus Federal Consolidation Loans – What’s the Difference?
A consolidation loan lets you combine your federal student loans into a single loan with one monthly payment. There are two programs available for consolidating student loans: The Federal Family Ed...
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Professional Writers Dance Between Passionate and Impersonal
People that love to write often feel being paid for publication is the benchmark of a “real” writer. So they read all the books on writing and dutifully send off queries, filled with hope and fear th...
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Profiting From Writing Your Own Ebook
As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love and relationships. People crave information and...
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Promote Your Books by Blogging
A blog is the best tool in your Internet marketing arsenal. Why? Search engines spider (check for updates) blogs more often than the average website. The reason for this is that blogs provide a continuous stream of new content from the author plus reader ...
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Promote your Coaching or Speaking Business Through eBooks
In these uncertain times when we all would like to feel safe, and
when we don't really want to travel so much for our business, we
need to look to the Online Marketing Machine of ePublishing.

Your audience today is Internet savvy. They lo...
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PROMOTE YOUR E-BUSINESS WITH AN E-BOOK
Most online businesses are looking for ways to promote
their products or services using the resources that are
available on the Internet.

One of the resources that can be used as a way to
promote the products or services of a business are<...
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Promote your work: Get your book reviewed
So you've written your first novel, short story, comic book or other work and it's good. You have now also got a publisher interested or you are going down one of the many self-publishing roots (such as ebooks/e-books or we-publish.com as examples). So ...
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Promoting Your Ezine and Recruiting Subscribers
So you're ready to start promoting the publication of your ezine in an effort to recruit subscribers. First of all you will need a webpage a list of free webhosts are here thefreesite.com, if you don...
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Promoting Your Online Writing Portfolio
Dear Writing Reader, One of the most popular questions from Authors on my site, Writing.Com, is: "How do I promote my Online Writing Portfolio outside of Writing.Com?" Here are my top five tips for i...
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Promotion - Credibility Extras
For many of us, marketing our titles is one of the most tedious tasks of being an author. Even authors who published with large New York houses are expected to take part in marketing and promotion. M...
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Proof Reading-The in "Audible" Art Form
If you are a writer of an ebook you definitely get others to proof-read your work, right? Is
proof-reading one of those tasks that if you had the option you would rather take the
garbage out to the bottom of the driveway and tolerate the stench then...
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Proofreading Your Own Document
You've just written an important paper, business communique, or other document that will be read by others and perhaps will be the basis for a classroom grade, a prospective business arrangement, or ...
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PROPOSAL WRITING
Writing to persuade is a tough task, but with a bit of planning
it can be made easier and more effective.

When you try to persuade someone, often you'll be trying to do
one of these three things:

* confirm an existing belief;

*...
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Protect Your E-book Files!
Title: Protect Your E-books Files!
Perkins Failsafe System for Protecting Your Fame and Fortune

Three years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book Publishing Association, when one of the esteemed publisher member...
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Protecting and Registering Your Ebook
Once you've created your ebook, you'll want to take the
necessary steps to protect your work. Although many
ebook compilers will enable you to password protect your
ebook, none can offer complete security.

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Protecting your on-line real estate
Now that you have an active website and ezine, you should be
concerned about protecting it! Let's face it, your website
is wide open to anyone with an itchy right clicking finger
and an Internet connection.

Protecting your intellectual pr...
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Public Domain Copyrights Rule#1 Rule#2
By following the simple Rule#1 And Rule#2. You will be well on your way in make History today!

Follow Rule One Ane Two

Rule #1:What are public domains? Public domains are expired copyrights from 1923 to 1963. 85% of everything right now falls...
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Public Service Announcement (PSA) Radio Copy Writing Success
What if the Super Bowl television commercials were all public service announcement (PSA) advertisements rather than beer, cars and soda commercials? Imagine, The Red Cross followed by the Make A Wish...
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Publicity Through Philanthropy For Writers
I am twenty three years old, have sold over four thousand copies of my first book in a matter of a month after it's release and recently been contacted for contracts with Random House and Harper Coll...
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Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author
My story is that an author who’d done online writing for such dot gones as Themestream, Written By Me, and The Vines, someone trying hard to have fiction, poetry and nonfiction in print for real, rec...
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PublishAmerica - Publishing Parasites
I have to admit to being readily impressed by company names. Maybe it's an age thing. You see, I was around when we had nationalised industries here in Britain, you know, British Railways, British ...
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Publisher, Are You Getting What You Deserve?
Isn't it about time that publishers reaped their long, overdue recognition? Jane Fulton and Jude Wright, owners of Three Dollar Ads think so! Since we are both publishers, we got together and decided...
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Publishing and Promoting of Poetry anthologies and chapbooks
So you have always dreamed of having your poetry published? Why not self-publish it or go with a pod publisher? Poetry is something perfect for self-publishing or pod publishing. Now you are asking y...
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Publishing Information For Genre Writers
I finally did it. I went to my first science fiction convention, LepreCon 27, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and had a great time. (To see some pictures of LepreCon 27, go to http://www.CreativeCauldron.com/leprecon.shtml)

I found out that the people at s...
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Publishing Pit Bulls
Publishing Pit Bulls

You have invested a great deal into your writing: time, attention, your heart and soul, maybe even a few tears, and now you’re considering investing even more: your cold hard cash. Rather than accepting “No” as an answer to you...
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Publishing Trends: Traditional vs ePublishing
Publishing Trends: Traditional vs ePublishing

You’ve done what most people only talk about. You’ve written a book, spent countless hours agonizing for just the right words only to delete many of them in the painful editing process. After many month...
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Publishing Your Book—What Way is Best For You? - Part 1
Publishing Your Book—What Way is Best For You? - Part 1
Judy Cullins c 2004 All Rights Reserved

Your print or ebook is nearly finished. You wonder if you should try to get an agent to represent you to the publisher. Maybe you've already sent ou...
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Publishing Your Book—What Way is Best For You? - Part 2
Publishing Your Book—What Way is Best For You? - Part 2
Judy Cullins c 2004 All Rights Reserved

Your print or ebook is nearly finished. You wonder if you should try to get an agent to represent you to the publisher. Maybe you've already sent ou...
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Publishing Your Own Book of Poetry
Many established poets published themselves initially, some of them do so continually. In the literary arena that currently exists this is very acceptable and respected. But before you consider self-publishing consider the following.

Does your poet...
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Pulling Sales with Your Ad Copy
One of the best marketing tools available to your internet business is good sales ad copy. This can pull in sales faster than just about anything. If you’re not a writer or cringe at the thought of ...
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Pumping Up The Emotional Side Of Gizmos, Widgets And Powdered Eggs.
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Pumping Up The Emotional Side Of Gizmos,...
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PUT IT IN WRITING!
Ever been asked to 'Put it in Writing.'? Sure, you have. Did
you immediately go to your desk and effortlessly record your
thoughts and suggestions? Or, perhaps, you struggled and
anguished? For most folks, producing useful, credible and
appr...
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