Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
For a while, I was beginning to think that there was something wrong with my cooking. My husband began to put Tabasco sauce on just about everything that I made him for dinner. Either I was a bad cook, or his taste buds were getting worn out. I was relieved ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Video games are some of the most entertaining things around. There are a wide variety of genres of games out there so it is impossible to ever get bored. There are racing games, fighting games, first person shooter games and a never ending list. Although all of the games are ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Back in the day, publishing was a pretty straightforward process. On the one hand, it was phenomenally difficult to succeed. You had to get the attention of the right editor at the right time, have a good publicist, and be extremely lucky to even be considered in the first place. ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
If you have never done it before, writing a book can be pretty difficult. After all, there are so many different sources of information, so many different factors to consider, and so many different competing strategies. Should you write your manuscript all at once, or work on a synopsis and ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Writer’s all start out writing the same things. Most start out writing their diaries as children, and may move on to short stories or poems. However, when they decide that this is something that they want to do for a living, there are many different directions they can go. Some ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
As word processors go, most will say that they love Microsoft Word, and that is all that they use. When you get a job anywhere, you will find that this is what they use as well, though some still use the WordPerfect software. However, for someone like me, I don’t ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
As someone who makes a living working from home, I have to tell you that it is not quite as glamorous as you might think. Don't get me wrong – I love to work from home. I get to set my own hours, work in my pajamas all day, and ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Overseas work is something that I tried out on a whim when I was graduating from college. I had never pictured spending my life working abroad. I had pretty conventional dreams actually. Although I talked a pretty counterculture talk, in the long run I intended to settle down. I wanted ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Back when I was a kid, both me and my brother used to love wooden swords. We would get them at the state fair every year. They were not the wooden practice swords that you see in martial art supply stores. They were actually pretty rudimentary weapons, but we both ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
I remember quite clearly the day my friend asked me to go with her to buy a phone for her car. I asked her why she hadn’t considered getting a cellular phone. She had never heard of one, but thought that would be a much better idea than one that ...
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