Get Specific With Your Pitch Letters

Query letters are a writer's best bet for a sale, but few professionals are willing to share their secrets. This article shows writers how to be specific in query letters and make their editors' lives easier.

Writing An Ebook

Writing an e-book isn't just about slapping together some text and selling it off. Here are some considerations when you're planning on writing an e-book.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Screenwriting Tools

188 stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about... Abbreviated Excerpts 6.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Screenwriting Tips And Tricks 5

188 stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about...The Elixir

Writing Your Very First eBook

This article gives some general guidelines that you need to follow to create your first eBook simply and quickly. Like everything in life, you need to follow a map, and this is it as far as eBook creation is concerned!

Getting Started in Science Writing

Science writing is one of the most exciting niches in journalism-science writers get to travel, meet intelligent and interesting people and report on new developments from the dramatic and groundbreaking to the quirky and peculiar.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Key Story Structure

188 stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about... In entering the World of the Sword...

The Origins Of Writing

The first recorded history of writing tablets comes from Sumer in 3100 BC. The chief of the temple called the 'sangu' (accountant) was responsible for noting animals and other goods to tally the temple's wealth. The images of these goods were simply drawn on lumps of wet clay and lines drawn in accordance with the number of each, allowed to dry in the sun and became a permanent tablet.

The Alphabet - Early Developments

Recording the language of spoken Gothic becomes the intellectual task of Ulfilas, the first known human to undertake the task of creating a written language from purely oral speech. He created a new alphabet from the Greek and Roman text devising twenty-seven new letters to translate the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language. His work in incomplete but portions of the Epistles and the Gospels remain, predating Jerome's Latin translation.

Party or Paper? How to Find Time to Edit Your Work in College

College students usually everything to the last minute and pass in their work without thoroughly editing and proofreading first. You'd ask your friends to read it over, but they're too busy, and what do they really know anyway? Editing by Amanda exists to pick up where college students leave off. Paper editing finally made simple.

Academic Essay Writing

Academic essay writing is more than a skill. Academic essay writing requires professionalism, responsibility, and a desire to learn. Still in doubt?

Women's Fiction vs Romance

Women's fiction as a genre is coming into its own, even though it is often compared with romance.

The Development Of Alphabet - 2500 BC To The Phonecians

The Indus script, written by officials of the Indus valley, was used mainly to assist the bureaucrats in administration. These seals were carved in soapstone or steatite, the center of which depicts an animal or yogic-like postured human form above and around it formal symbols, short lines or other animal forms. The significance and interpretations of these thousands of seals are unknown but the supposition is for trade and accounting purposes. These seals have also been mass-produced from molds on religious and ritual objects.

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth)- Every Hero Must Fight His (Or Her) Final Battle Alone...

The Hero's Journey (also known as the Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon.