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Editor’s Note:  This is a guest post from Melissa Cameron.  Melissa, who lives in Texas next to her elderly parents, is married with 2 children. She lives a productive life in Austin, freelancing from home, which allows her to spend more time with her family. She enjoys writing about parenting, history, and how to live [...]

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10+ Great Sub-Reddits for Writers

by David Lazar on November 10, 2011

Editor’s Note:  this is a guest post from David Lazar.  Please read more about David in the bio footer.
Here you can improve your writing skills, get honest criticism of your writing, and some needed and deserved encouragement. You can also learn new words, help others, and find and make friends with many like-minded Redditors.
Let me [...]

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Marketing Your Writing Services

by Kirk Ward on October 28, 2011

Editor’s Note:  This is a guest post from Kirk Ward.  Please read more about Kirk in the author’s box.

Freelancers of all types have one thing in common, they are notoriously bad marketers. Freelance writers are among the worst of the lot.
Well, after throwing that out, I’m probably not going to get an all expense paid [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Hannah Conti.  Please read more about Hannah in the footer.

Death continues to be a virtually inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers. The mystery of the afterlife (or lack thereof), the fear of death, ghosts or spirits, spiritual battles, and so on continue as popular literary themes.
These are not [...]

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What is Google+ and Do I Need It?

by Jeff Gross on October 22, 2011

Google started with a lofty goal, their mission statement sounded more like the ratings of a madman than a proper goal for a company back in 1998 when first developed and still privately owned – “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Within a decade it didn’t seem so insane anymore, [...]

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Has Technology Isolated Us?

by Pat Tate on October 19, 2011

In the 1940’s life was simple. Families engaged with one another. Boys still climbed outside and threw a baseball around with the neighborhood kids. People sat together at the family dinner table and talked about their day, their thoughts, their concerns, their triumphs.
In today’s world, it is far more likely that the children will be [...]

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