While attending Oxford, young Samuel was mortified when a fellow student left a pair of shoes on the doorstep one night after noticing the condition of his tattered shoes. He dropped out of Oxford after a year, unable to pay his tuition.

Johnson started a teaching career. Lacking a degree, and with physical handicaps that made him a target for children’s disrespect, he was not successful.

So he turned to writing where his career finally blossomed. Johnson was a prolific writer, creating a dictionary, poems, sermons, books, and political essays. Today he is the second most frequently quoted person in the English-speaking world, second only to Shakespeare.

What does this story have to do with you?

At first glance, nothing.

Look a little deeper into his writings and you’ll find this quote:

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”

Bam. Kind of hits you right between the eyes doesn’t it?

At this time of year when we are rushing around with holiday preparations, looking back at 2008 and beating ourselves up for all the things we did or did not do, those twelve words put it all into perspective.

Ponder this on a winter’s night:

* Are you happy at home?
* How can you mark and celebrate the richness of your home life?
* In what ways does your business support your home life or subtract from it?
* What are you going to do to enhance your happiness at home?

As you wind up 2008 and look ahead to 2009, use these words to create what really matters in your life and your business. Do the same for your readers.

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”

Samuel Johnson

Raise your glass with me in celebration of all the little things that make home feel like home.

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“The difference between a would-be author and a published author is the published author has audacity.” ~ Jennifer Manlowe

Fear can be a huge boulder in any writer’s path, preventing her or him from being able to see that there might be a way to work with, even capitalize on, its universality.

Fear has a way of throwing us off balance, making us feel uncertain and insecure, but it is not meant to discourage us. Its purpose is to notify us that we are taking steps away from our comfort zone and across that scary bridge that connects our old life with our new one.

It’s a good idea to remember that fear never goes away. But sometimes some of them shrink. I compare my fears to miserable, cave-dwelling Trolls under the bridge of possibility. They seem to make it their primary goal to keep me scared and preferring to wait on the familiar side of the bridge–the “safe” one I’ve known most of my life.

But, I believe that whenever we face our fear, we overcome an inner obstacle and move into new territory, both inside and out.

Many would-be authors let their fears keep them from embracing their writerly possibilities.

Which type of fear keeps you from fulfilling your writing goals?

Here is just a small sampling (based on my clients’ and my own experiences):

* Fear of change
* Fear we’ll be neglecting our other responsibilities (in the old days women could be arrested for being authors)
* Fear of the unknown
* Fear of failing
* Fear of succeeding
* Fear of being too old to be relevant or too young to write a memoir
* Fear of being seen as frivolous or vain
* Fear of losing money–knowing, in fact, there are no guarantees
* Fear of being broke
* Fear of having to BE an author, i.e., “Will I have to pump out books like Stephen King for the rest of my life?”
* Fear of not having what it takes (discipline, talent, passion, a compelling story to tell)
* Fear of being wrong (too many typos and grammatical errors)
* Fear of not being able to begin (or finish!)
* Fear of humiliation, worries of what friends, family or colleagues will think
* Fear of self-delusion; that your experiment as an author will appear to be grandiose, self-indulgent
* Fear that it’s all been said before
* Fear of being audacious, “How dare I think I have something unique or relevant to say!”
* Fear of no longer having this goal (dream?)
* Fear of a lawsuit or of physical retaliation (from those that think you’re really writing about them!); and finally, the biggest fear of them all:
* Fear of being ordinary (just another schmo on the bus).

The point of this list is for us to see that we all have fears! It’s called being a sentient (conscious) being.

If we don’t feel fear at all, we may be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)–a kind of numbness born of frequent exposure to traumatic experiences. Of course, we could be sociopaths–people who have no capacity for empathizing with other living beings. But, my guess, most of us suffer from neither of these troubling conditions.

Instead, feeling fear is quite ordinary even for the Einsteins, Dr. Kings, Aung San Suu Kyis and Anne Franks of the world. The fact is, we all feel fear and wish we would not get stopped by this tedious truism of human existence. But I’m here to tell you that while there is no way around what scares us, everybody can find ways to move through their fears.

With great frequency, I say to my memoir clients and to myself: “Just keep walking! All dark tunnels have openings.”

While comfort with fear is a contradiction in terms, we can learn to honor our fear, recognizing its arrival, listening to its intelligence, and respecting it as a harbinger of transformation. Indeed, it informs us that what we are doing (or about to do) is significant. On this occasion, we truly care.

“Do or do not… there is no try.” ~ Yoda, Star Wars

I dare you readers who are writers to experiment with this four-pronged method for walking through fear:

(1) Circle an end date in your calendar when you would like to have a finished manuscript or poem that is ready for publication. This commitment tells your “inner writer” that you are taking it seriously and want to follow its dictates. I’ve found that making this mental promise a physical one, in writing, is a magical act; (2) Write any part of your first draft (keep this action very simple); (3) Tell a friend what you have accomplished thus far, (or write and tell me); then (4) Get back to it the next day.

Everything I have ever completed has been supported by this four-step method–from passing graduate exams in Hebrew, Spanish, French and Ancient Greek, to learning to fly on a Trapeze (just once, thank God!), to publishing seven books. And, I swear, I’m no genius!

“Say it, Do it, Report it, Repeat it.” ~ Molly Gordon, Accidental Entrepreneur and Master Certified Coach

When we work with our fears, we can take the focus off resisting them, thus freeing up a ton of energy. Think about trying to hold under water a helium balloon for most of your waking life. Such resistance might be a major reason we’re all so exhausted, have TMJ, or buckets of chronic neck and shoulder pain.

After we have made the commitment and taken action to complete our book or other writing, we will have evidence that fears can be walked through, perhaps even worked through, at least for today.

Jennifer Manlowe (PhD, CPC) is an author, speaker and Certified Publishing Coach. People who hire Jennifer want to authorize their voice through writing and publishing their memoirs.

“Memoir is about finding your voice. Whether your goal be a full length book or a personal essay, the end product is always the writer’s voice.” ~ Lynne Griffin

Set up a sample session through Dr. Manlowe’s website: http://AuthorizeU.com. Should you sign up to work with her, you will instantly receive her eBooks, Writing from Life and Getting Into Print.

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For the most, part freelance writers were limited to the number of producers of media; such as newspapers and magazines. And, there was a cap on the number of jobs available at any point in time. If you wanted to be published you had to compete with other writers for the few jobs that weren’t taken by staff members.

Today, because of the internet, there are literally thousands of opportunities for good writers to find work every day. Just by its very nature, web sites need content, and that content is mostly made up of text.

There are literally millions of websites and blogs that need content. Of course they need that content to convey information about their product or service to their readers. But, they also need high-quality, relevant content in order to be found on the front page of a search engines so they can stay ahead of their competitors.

Now, let’s look at what this means to you – the writer. Each website needs content, and in order to keep being found, they need fresh, high-quality, relevant content. Now, if there are millions of websites – you can now begin to see the opportunities for you as a freelance writer.

And content for websites is just one type of writing that’s needed. There are also businesses that need articles, special reports, eBooks, email autoresponders and white papers written. Every day, more and more people are looking on the internet for information on every topic you can think of.

Some of the major topics are health and fitness, relationships, money issues, pet care; and so on. You can do a quick search in the books section of a site like Amazon to see what topics are selling the best to give you an idea of what content people are looking for.

And, you don’t need any special training or certificates to get a job as a freelance writer. According to a survey done in 1993 by the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, the average adult in the U.S. reads between the 8th and 9th grade reading levels.

Once you know where to look, you’ll find more writing jobs than you physically have time to write. There are sites on the internet that cater to freelance writers that connect freelancers and the clients that want to hire them.

You can list yourself as a freelance writer on each site. When your potential customers have a writing job, they post the scope of the job on the site. You then submit a bid for that job and the client hires from those who bid.

Visit http://www.GhostwritingCash.com to download a solid business plan for earning freelance writing money so you can get paid to write at a decent rate.

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From my youth to this day when I am traveling, I continue to think about what life must have been like in the old days of the west. In my mind, I see Indians crossing the vast landscape or sitting on their horses atop a nearby mountain overlooking the vast expanse below. I see wagon trains slowly rolling across the plains on their way to a new life. I think of the many hardships they must have faced in order to make a better life, and I think of the many that never made it to their destination because of accident, disease, and ambush by Indians and devious white men. It amazes me to think of the millions of buffalo that roamed the vast western plains then. A small herd of buffalo roams near my home and images of the Old West seem so real. That is, until the camel appears. It is a strange sight to see this long-legged dromedary mixed in with the buffalo.

What strikes me most about these early settlers is their determination and willingness to endure in order to reach their goal. To me, that is still the spirit of people all over the world. Something about the human spirit compels people to search for a better existence and to keep going until life gets better. We owe a debt of gratitude to those who came before us because they did not give up. Whatever is in your heart to accomplish, do not waver. Dreams still come true. Western authors take us back to a time when life was not so easy, a time when life was raw and full of possibilities. Stories of courage and strength abound. Tales of families sticking together to eke out a better way of life compel us all to do our best.

I am a full blooded Texan who grew up in west Texas. I have been retired from public school education for 13 years, after working in special education most of the time as an educational diagnostician and special education consultant. I am married with four grandchildren: two boys and two girls. I find retirement to be a great deal of fun. I like to read, write, do arts and crafts and play with our grandchildren. At age seventy, I published my first western novel called, The Revenge of Sadie Jackson. You can read the first chapter free at http://www.revenge-of-sadie-jackson.weebly.com

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Here, presented a few steps, or how you can do to make the school play scenarios (scenarist). The steps are as follows:

1.      Specify the story idea
This is the earliest stages how you can create a scenario writing later drama school. Your first step is to define the story idea of the scenario. You can dig up or find the idea of inspiration itself. The experience that you never feel or you experience in your daily life.
By having experience, you later can make the school play scenarios with spiced by your imaginations. Or if you do not already have an interesting experience that could be raised in a school play scenario, you can dig up the stories and experiences of your friends.

2.Top of  Form

The trick remains the same. But, finding stories ideas are not easy. You must be diligent, industrious interviewing your friends to get stories ideas. Not just passively wait for inspiration to come.
If you still do not have find stories ideas, you try to watch news, read the readings from various sources, novels, tabloids or magazines. That way you will be getting stories ideas to created scenarios. Try, you do this way first. Choose one of the courses so you can find stories ideas.

]]> http://www.scenariste.org/257/improve-text-writing-part-1/feed 0 http://www.scenariste.org/247/writing-for-money-get-paid-to-write-online-even-if-youve-never-written-a-thing-in-your-life http://www.scenariste.org/247/writing-for-money-get-paid-to-write-online-even-if-youve-never-written-a-thing-in-your-life#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:13:08 +0000 admin http://www.scenariste.org/?p=247 Writing for money has become highly popular, particularly in the past year or two as economic conditions have gone down hill. People are looking for any way possible to make money, pay the bills, and put food on the table. Can you get paid to write online, even if you’ve never written a thing in your life? You absolutely can; in fact, there are no limits to how much you can make if you set your mind to it.

Why is there such a need for writers online? The internet is growing by leaps and bounds; more and more people are going online and creating businesses of their own, largely due to the fact that traditional jobs are disappearing. Websites need content, articles drive traffic to those sites and help build page rank. When you think about it, what’s the web made up of? Content! There’s plenty to be written, and writing for money is a genuine, legitimate opportunity that’s just waiting for you.

You’re thinking “but I’ve never written anything! I don’t know where to start.” That’s normal. For the most part, website owners and content sites that pay you to write want articles that average about 300 to 500 words – some shorter, some longer.

All you need to do is make a list of topics you have some knowledge on; this can be hobbies, passions and interests. Go online and do some research on your topics, then write up an article in your own words. Study how other people write – the titles, opening paragraphs, etc. Write a few of your own, and once you feel comfortable with your work submit your articles to some of the online sites that are similar to consignment shops. When your article sells, you make money!

Another thought is to contact website owners and offer them a free article for their site. If your article is what they are looking for, they’re likely to hire you to write fresh content for their site on a regular basis. A few of these, and you’re in business!

Hundreds of thousands of people just like you get paid to write online, and most have no special training or education in writing. Are you ready to set your own hours, work from home and live comfortably? This is the ONE opportunity online that allows absolutely anyone to create their own destiny. Will you be next?

Discover how easy it is to make money writing online with Tess Tackett’s ebook, Write for Prosperity at http://writeforprosperity.yolasite.com. If you’re ready to make money writing this book offers step by step instructions, and tips to make your writing easier.

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How you can get paid to write

There are literally dozens of ways to go about it, but some of the simplest ways to make money writing online include:

Contacting website owners and offering a free article. Web masters need fresh new content on a regular basis to help rank their sites and drive traffic. If you offer an article or two for free and the owner likes your work, chances are they will pay you for future articles and content.

Write your own ebooks and sell them online. While you may not be a seasoned writer, writing about something you know is easy. Make a list of your hobbies, interests and passions. From that list, choose a topic that you could easily write about. Write an information packed ebook, and sell it online. This is how tens of thousands of people make money writing with only a computer and internet connection. Information products are hot today, and people love the fact that they can download an ebook instantly upon purchase.

Write for content providing companies. There are dozens of them online. These sites provide content to website owners for a price; you do the writing, the company sets the price and you keep a large percentage of the selling price when someone purchases the article.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the writing opportunities available to you today. It makes no difference whether you are a complete newbie and have zero experience, you can get paid to write.

Discover the secrets to earning a very lucrative income through writing with Tess Tackett’s “Write for Prosperity” ebook at http://writeforprosperity.yolasite.com. No matter how new you are to the game, you can get paid to write.

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While there are plenty of ways you can make money writing online, we will talk about 3 of them here. The fact is, anyone who can talk or write words that form a sentence can do this! Here are some ideas for those looking for a fantastic opportunity to start a writing career.

1. Write articles and submit them to website owners. If you’ve surfed the web, you know there are websites on nearly any topic imaginable. Write a few articles, contact the web master and offer an article or two free. If they like your articles, they will likely pay you to write content for them in the future.

2. Write ebooks. Information sells online, and lots of it. Have a hobby or passion that you know a great deal about? Write an ebook and sell it on the web. This is one of the most popular ways that people make money writing online.

3. Write for content providers. There are dozens of content providers on the internet that offer articles, web pages and other content on every topic to those business owners who need them. You can become a writer for these sites by simply signing up and providing a sample of your work.

In all honesty, even a beginner can earn money writing online. The internet is a goldmine when it comes to opportunities for writing content, and someone has to do the work – so why shouldn’t it be you? If you want to build an incredible income for yourself, learn more about the opportunities right now.

Discover how you can make money writing online with Tess Tackett’s “Write for Prosperity” ebook at http://writeforprosperity.yolasite.com. Even beginners can make money writing online, no experience required.

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This is the first opportunity for you as a freelance writer. You can connect with website owners and write web content for them. With millions of websites on millions of different topics there is more than enough demand. The way the internet works also means that there is a constant demand for fresh content and for you as a writer this means that there is virtually a never ending supply of work.

While creating web content is one opportunity there is also a lot of more traditional writing jobs that you can find online. Many “real businesses” are turning online to find quality writers to fulfill their writing needs. A typical example is transcribing work where you simply transcribe audio or video content. More advanced versions is with technical writers that compile manuals or technical documents.

The concept of a ghost writer is also something that’s become very popular online – even though its been around for a long time. You basically author a book, a story or a manual as a ghost writer and sell it on to someone who takes over the authorship. With millions of e-books going online there is indeed a huge opportunity for ghost writers.

Obviously payment needs to be addressed. There are no hard and fast rules for how much you can earn. In theory you can earn just as much online as you could offline but the main benefit is the flexibility that an online job offers. There are a number of options available to you. You can register at freelance website to sell your services, you can find long term contracts or you can wind permanent employment with writing agencies. Its up to you and you need to weight up all the pro’s and con’s to see what works best for you. In the end the opportunity is there and you need to take it and run with it.

Read more about finding high paying writing jobs online and learn more about writing articles for money…

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shakespeare

Advanced writing text on script theater, drama and film becomes an easier way right now. Indeed, in the past of time, some arts and literature school or even college were seriously teaches how to make a good script and dedicated by the procedures in the rule of literature. They need even three years to five years to create, learn, and understand the contents of the work that they write. By the long term, it is expected the students can be more able to make scripts good and beautiful.

Many colleges offer this term with some credible references figures of word literature. Shakespeare is one of gorgeous literature figures in all time through his work, sometimes change the world becomes more colorful and meaningful. One of his master pieces is Romeo and Juliet, even world knows about that feature. Study the subject of writing this script in college is the script writing for the theater, drama and film can be qualified and targeted.

Progressing writing as the subject matter to the relationships of this genres are depend to the genetically script different to wrote in songs. The media also supports the techniques of writing script. Concerning to the format will significantly demand on the useful of the script while it would become particularly needed.  Script on drama, theater, and film script dialogue will bring the cognition between the cast to the audiences. Creating the atmosphere on the dialogue is so important to get sympathy and largely feeling unification to the audiences and of course the emotional tracking cast is also important. But, it needs to be watch out about the circumstances on the script with does not has particular deal purposes after wrote the work. Be careful with the quotation that we have made. It would become the different style of languages that we used. So, indeed, we should have deal purpose before writing the genres in theater, drama, and film schools.   Have nice writing!

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