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Novel To Screenplay: The Challenges Of Adaptation Article Summary: Some basic steps when adapting a novel to the screenplay form.ADAPTATION 101Brimming with confidence, you've just signed the check purchasing the rights to adapt John Doe's fabulous, but little known novel, Lawrence of Monrovia, to screenplay form. Suddenly, panic sets in. "What was I thinking? How the devil am I going to convert this 400-page novel to a 110-page screenplay?" The answer is: "The same way you transport six elephants in a Hyundai… three in the front seat and three in the ...

Once Upon A Time…reflections On Storytelling We are the storytellers: our days begin with “once upon a time” and end with “tell me a story”. We are descended from the folks who sat around the fires at night, describing the hunt for those who stayed behind. Today, the storyteller’s role has evolved to tell us which laundry detergent to use or car...

One Minute Marketing So, you say you're too busy to market your book? Well, welcome to the club. Most of the authors I work with or coach work day jobs and try to cram in as much marketing as they can after they come home from an exhausting day at the office. Working this way can be completely overwhelming. It’s no wonder mot authors only market their books for ninety days. Who could stand to keep up this pace any longer than that? There were so many things authors need to do, most simply don’t know...

Online Copywriting Vs. Writing Copy For Print Online copywriting has the same goals as print content, but there at least seven distinct points of departure between writing copy online and for print.Online copywriting and print copywriting are very different. You hear that all the time. But that's an observation as unhelpful as it is obvious. What are the real similarities and differences between writing for the web and writing for print?Similarities between Online Copywriting and Print CopywritingDespite their differences, copywriting for print and online copywriting share some essential similarities, which are just as important to understand as the differences:

Online Writing Workshop, “writing For The Real World: A Refresher For Busy Professionals,” Begins September 13, 2004 Writing911.com’s popular writing workshop, “Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals,” is being turned into an online writing course (e-course), beginning September 13, 2004.Writing911.com is now offering its popular writing workshop, “Writing for the Real World: A Refresher for Busy Professionals,” as an online course, or e-course. The first e-course will start September 13, 2004, with classes running through the fall. The cours...

Oracle Financials Implementation In Brazil – Consultant Review, Plus Competition Among the major international ERP brands, localized for Brazilian market we should mention SAP with its recently localized product: SAP Business One, Oracle: Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Financials/Oracle Applica...

Ovecoming Writer's Block What is writer's block?Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing tosay. Oh well, I'm outta here!Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We've allexperienced this phenomenon when we absolutely have towrite something, particularly on deadline. I'm talkingabout. . . . .uh, I can't think of what the word is .. . oh, yes, it's on the tip of my tongue . . . it's:WRITER'S BLOCK!!!!Whew! ...

Overcoming Writer's Block Ovecoming Writer's BlockBy Karen MartinWhat is writer's block?Well, I just can't think of a single darn thing tosay. Oh well, I'm outta here!Sound familiar? No! Oh, get real! We've ...

Part 1 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? In the beginning of your story you have to grab your readers’ interest and sustain it till the end. Our hook is our character. Readers keep on reading to find out more about the character. To see what he’ll do in the story; how he’ll solve his problems. Wh...

Part 2 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be kept on the main character. This shouldn’t be taken to the extreme though. In other words, you don’t just write the story of the main character...

Part 3 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? Do you Have Too Many Characters?Because of the limited word length we have to work with in short stories, it¡¦s best to keep the amount of characters at a minimum. In order for characters to come alive, we have to fully develop them. And to achieve that takes up many of our precious words. Fully developing a character isn¡¦t merely stating what he looks like, but rather the kind of person he is, based on what he s...

Part 4 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? If Your Character Isn’t ‘Normal,’ Can We See It? Human nature is a fascinating thing and it’s especially fascinating to the writer. The writer’s mind is sharp; taking in every detail she sees and hears around her and using it to her advant...

Part 5 Of 5 - Have You Established Your Main Character At The Start? Do You Allow Readers To Feel The Character’s Emotions?What readers will use to feel what your character is going...

Passing Your Ccna And Ccnp: Configuring And Troubleshooting Router-on-a-stick For CCNA and CCNP candidates, it's hard not to laugh the first time you hear the phrase "router on a stick". Let's face it, that's a pretty silly term. But as those who have passed the CCNA and CCNP exams know, this is a vital exam topic that you must know how to configure and troubleshoot. Basic Cisco theory states that for hosts in different VLANs to communicate, a Layer 3 device must be involved to handle the routing between the VLANs. That device is a router, and there are special considerations that must be taken into account for both the physical router itself and the configuration you'll b...

Payment Methods On Ebay Gone are the days when only cash (or cattle in some cases) was the only accepted mode of payment for trades. As the concept of trading evolved, so did the means of paying for items. Today’s electronic world pushes the envelop further. With the advent of online trading systems such as eBay, many new forms of payment have flourished. First of all, on eBay, the mode of payment depends on the agreement between the buyer and the seller. Most often, the seller will specify his or her desired payment method. In these cases, the seller often has primacy in the d...

Platform Development Tip: #1 - Switch Writing Hats! Platform-Building Tip #1: Switch Writing Hats!Around eighty percent of nonfiction books today are written by “experts,” that is people who have a) earned credentials in the field they’re writing about, b) germinated information via articles, live presentations or other media, or c) had extraordinary, unique or memorably told life experiences relevant to their topic.For an autobiographical work, such as a memoir, an author needn’t have any special expertise—she is the foremost authority on her own life. For a how-to or self-help book, however, the first thing mainstream publishers want to know is, “Does the author have a platform?”Among the multiple definitions of “platform” in Merriam ...

Power Of The Written Word (part I )- Need Of Expression As human brain developed so did the feelings and desire to express them. The need led to development of the language. From howls and moans to the meaningful words today humans have made a great achievement. Same applies to writing too. What started as signs is a full fledged script now. (There are many of them but that is not the issue here)For a moment imagine a world without a language. You cannot. It is impossible. Without language we would be missing much of the pleasure that ...

Power Writing 101: Tips And Tricks To Get You Taken Seriously! In my ten years as an advertiser, I’ve encountered plenty of folks with a flair for writing. They were born having some idea of where to put the words within the sentence, and the sentences within the paragraph. They usually know what words to use – when to say ‘bloom’ instead of ‘grow,’ or ‘confused’ instead of ‘befuddled.’But having a flair doesn’t make...

Powerful Article Writing Strategies For Exploding Traffic And Link Popularity. One of the most discussed topics today is Article Writing. Many Webmasters are jumping into the bandwagon and are trying to revive...

Printer Ink Cartridges - Easier And Convenient While working and printing out important documents you discover you are out of ink. Years ago that would have posed a dilemma. Daisy wheels and ribbons were used in printers in the past. Let's delve into the advancements made in printer cartridges.1984 was the start of inkjet printers and printer cartridges. It was now easy to print documents and change ink cartridges. This comes after years of changing ribbons and adding toner ink to reservoirs within the computer. Dot matrix printing used a ribbon.Printing became easier and more convenient as the industry discovered new ways to make it happen. When ink is squirted onto the paper through tiny nozzles it is called drop on demand. How much ink is dropped on the paper and which nozzle is fired and when is controlled by the software driver.

Professional Traffic Building Tips Let’s face it; the Internet is cluttered with all sorts of guides about increasing traffic to your web site. Unfortunately, most of these guides are outdated or incomplete. In fact, many of the techniques being touted in them will get you in serious trouble. Wouldn’t you like to build up quality traffic that will stand the test of time? The key phrase is “test of time”. You don’t want to be a flash in the pan.FIRST THINGS FIRSTBefore you rush out to tell the world that your brand new web site is open for business, set it up properly. Do not even start to think about traffic if your web site still has broken links, empty content, and other unfinished business. While patience can be a hard thing to control, having some will pay of...

Professional Writers Learn To Manage Their Emotions Summary: Learning to survive in the marketplace requires some fancy emotional footwork. Read these tips for raising your writer's emotional I.Q.Professional Writers Learn To Manage Their EmotionsBy Bonnie BootsUnpublished writers often feel being paid for publication is the benchmark of a “real” writer So they read all the books on writing and dutifully send off queries, filled with hope and fear that one will be accepted; hope they’ll get the chance to be a real writer, fear they won’t live up to the challenge. Sadly, for some, their fears will turn out to be well founded. The emotional toll of writing for publication will be more painful then they can be...

Profiting From Writing Your Own Ebook As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love and relationships. People crave information and will pay to get the info they want.That's why ebooks are the hottest products on the Internet. It's digital information that's downloadable and therefore brings instant gratification to the user. In just a matter of minutes, you can have expert knowledge saved on your hard drive that you can read at your leisure. It can be printed out and made into a regular book. It's ...

Publish Or Perish: It’s Not Only For Academia, Part 1 I am the daughter of an obsessed writer. My father, a math teacher by vocation, a writer by avocation, brought me up believing that writing is a fine passion and that the highlight of a writer’s life is being published. He gave me his love of the English language, great literature and great writers. He instructed me on the importance of realistic dialogue, creating characters we remember, and good plot twists. I was drawn to his typewriter before I could spell. In fact, one of our memorable pho...

Publish Or Perish: It’s Not Only For Academia, Part 2 The Writer's Journey Is the Biggest Payoff of All!There are ways, too, to share our writing short of being published. Several come to mind. I think of Terry, a writer in one of my weekly workshops. He’d been working on his book for several years and during that time, the make-up of the group hadn’t changed much. All five of us had pretty much been with Terry throughout the creation of his novel. When he read the last chapter for what he hoped would be the last time, we listened, wanting it to work for his sake, but knowing if it didn’t, we would tell him that, too. I remember my heart beating faster as he read. It’s working, so far… so far… I kept thinking. And it was! When he fi...

Quick Strategies For Writing Your Essay Under Pressure Most writing is done under time pressure. Yet, while the majority of students have to write in haste - with limited time, limited space and an instructor to please few approach to this task systematically. Though, writing under increasing time pressure requires the ability to zero in one activity, turning all the strengths to successful fulfillment of this task in t...

Quotations As Expressions In Life Quotations are expressions, usually in the spoken form or in literature, which are referenced to by others. Usually, quotations are written within quotation marks, as a verbum dicendi, to indicate that it was an expression given by a particular person. Nowadays, quotations are usually referenced from sources such as literature, speeches, movie dialogues, interviews or even song lyrics.Where are quotations used?Quotations are used for many reasons. In the scientific arena, quotations are utilized to indicate a previous study that was conducted by another researcher, in which it is currently being referenc...

Raise Your Hand If You’d Consider Giving Up The Rights To Your Book Forever If Random House pulls up to your house with a U-haul filled with millions and wants to buy your book, maybe you’d consider giving up the rights forever. But, let’s come back to the real world. In the real world, many authors find that the best way to launch a writing career is to essentially self-publish by using a print-on-demand (POD) publisher.The problem is that the POD buffet is filled with the equivalent of healthy choices (publishers who charge low or no publishing fees and allow authors to terminate the contracts at anytime) and unhealthy choices (publishers that charge exorbitant upfron...

Rating Ebook Compilers By Karen MartinNow that you've finished writing your eBook and have abasic understanding of what an eBook compiler does,you may be feeling overwhelmed by the number ofcompilers on the market. To help you make yourdecision, I have tested and reviewed the best-ratedeBook compilers currently available....

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