Articles on Writing - page 11

Great Technical Writing: The User-Product Life Cycle - A Documentation Tool


The User-Product Life Cycle (U-PLC) is a powerful tool for the User Document writer. Use the U-PLC to generate the high-level topics for your User Document.

THE USER-PRODUCT...
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Internet Authors Don't Need Club Class


If you go into any supermarket in England and inspect the fruit, you may be pleased to see that some of the apples are bagged up and labelled 'Class 1'. However, looking around, you may be...
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How To Become A Bestselling Book Author


What IS a best-selling author?

You have to answer that in your own mind.

Technically, it's any book that makes it into the Top 100 list at ANY online or...
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Book Development: How To Create Tantalizing Titles And Sensational Content


Years ago when Napoleon Hill's famous manuscript on building wealth was ready for publication, it had no title.

His publisher called and said, "If you don't come up with a...
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How a Freelance Writer Finds Work


Work is the central issue of a freelance writer's life - the ability to find work and the desire and ability to do it. When I first began freelancing, close to 40 years ago, finding the...
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Book Expo America for the Author or Aspiring Author


Book Expo America is the book industry’s largest annual U. S. event where publishers exhibit their next season books to retail book buyers. The event rotates around Chicago, New...
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Science Fiction Writing - Ten Cliches to Avoid


Science Fiction has become so much part of our culture that icons from it are all around us, in film, TV, computer games and music. Adoption into the mainstream makes science fiction...
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Hiring a GHOST WRITER: 10 Questions You MUST Ask Before Hiring a Wordsmith!


When it comes to hiring a ghost writer, you need to be incredibly strategic about who you choose to pen your piece. Writers, like everyone, see the world from their own unique perspective,...
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Bestsellers and Book Sales Expectations


Most new authors have no idea how book sales happen or what numbers to expect. A typical successful book from a major publisher sells between 20,000 and 40,000 copies. Healthy book sales...
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Self-Publishing: Vanity or Necessity?


Over the last decade, I have watched Christian publishers shift their focus away from being “message minded” to being “dollar minded.” Rather than Christian publishers setting the...
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