Do You Want to Write For Children? Consider Joining a Children's Writers Coaching Club!

A children's writers' coaching club is different than a how to writing course for kids.Coaching clubs are designed to give anewbie writer and illustrator a sense of belongingness.Besides that,awell-informed children's writers group also sharesinvaluable tips and tricks on the craft of writing andillustratingfor kids. If you have ideas for a story, the best way to start is to actually narrow down the age group you want to write for. Then spend some time observing kids in public places such as the library or at a playground - that is,if you don't have any kids of your own.

So I've Written a Great Children's Story - Now What?

If you're not part of it, children's publishing can be a confusing world. The books you read as a child are not the same as books that are published today. The standard is much higher, which makes it increasingly necessary to know the world of publishing and marketing inside out. Experts and published writers ofa children's writers coaching club know what it takes to become a published children's author. There is nothing more beneficial than to learn the tricks of the trade froma children's writer who is already successful at what you want to do.

And here is the best part of belonging to a children's writers coaching club!

These clubs have also great resources like tip sheets and writer's checklist so you can know if you are on track.You have the opportunity to submit a manuscript for a fiction or non-fiction category which is evaluated and honestly critiqued by the coordinator and finally,you cancontinue to improve your craft with monthly writing assignments.

All this without having to leave your house!

So what are you waiting for? Learn the craft of writing and publishing for kids today! Join a children's coaching club today!

You'll be glad you did.

For more information about writing for children, and the Children's Writers' Coaching Club, visit http://www.newteacherresourcecenter.com and scroll down the right sidebar of the homepage

Dorit Sasson is an educator, children's author, freelance writer, and founder and director of the New Teacher Resource Center

The Nature of a Freelance Web Content Writer's Job

What every website needs is relevant content and to be on top of the game, enlisting the services of an efficient freelance web content writer is definitely a must. Web content is necessary so that your products and services would be portrayed to the rest of the world. But this does not mean that just any content would do. Content here has to be structured as well as of quality so that it can fulfill its purpose of capturing the attention of your visitors. And because there is much demand for web content these days, there is definitely much demand for the services of web content writers.

There are actually a lot of advantages that you can enjoy, should you hire a freelance web content writer. An advantage is that you can actually have a lot of articles written by these writers under your name. Yes, they will all have you as the author because you purchase legal rights to these articles. Moreover, you can also edit or make adjustments to these articles as you see fit since these are your own, after all. But before you go ahead and hire a web content writer for your own SEO or search engine optimization purposes, you should still learn the basics of SEO so that you will have a better understanding of what lies ahead of you and your website.

SEO or search engine optimization is all about producing articles that are filled with keywords and key phrases so that more quality traffic can be directed to your website. Keyword densities are then employed so that there would be significant presence of high-paying keywords and key phrases in your articles.

The services of a freelance web content writer can be grouped into two. These are edifying content writing and commercial writing. But for discussion's sake, let us concentrate on commercial content writing, which has advertising as its main focus. On-page and off-page factors are considered here, which include meta tags, title tags, description tags, alt tags, inward links, headings, as well as relevant keywords.

Web content writing would then include the development of fresh content, the development of informative content for websites, the generation of content for products, services, and sites that are informational, the writing and/or rewriting of existing content, and the development of content for online magazines, forums, blogs, and social marketing campaigns, amongst many others.

The important thing to remember, as a writer, is that you need to be able to compose whatever is needed by the client. Availability, adaptability, resourcefulness, research skills, and writing skills are just amongst the many skills you need to incorporate if you want to be a successful freelance web content writer.

Anna is a freelance content writer for more than 5 years. She is knowledgeable in SEO, affiliate marketing and knows how important articles are in the world of internet marketing. If you want to contact her, please visit her blog @ The Freelance Content Writers

Various Types of Ghosts

You have read volumes about ghosts and have browsed hundreds of websites to devour more information on ghosts, but have you ever wondered how many types of ghosts there are? The fact is that there are various types of ghosts out there and all these are minutely described and documented by the Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF).


The Spiritual Science Research Foundation has undertaken extensive research on ghosts in order to demystify this widespread phenomenon and help people in recognising and treating the adverse effects caused by ghosts through proven methodology according to the science of Spirituality.


At the outset, it is important to note that while we use the phrase ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) as a collective noun to cover the entire gamut of negative energies, there is a vast difference between the lower order ghosts and higher order ghosts such as subtle sorcerers (maantriks) from the sixth and seventh region of Hell. They differ according to their spiritual strength. Ghosts primarily use their spiritual strength to harm humanity.


The generic types of ghosts as identified by the Spiritual Science Research Foundation in ascending order of hierarchy as well as power and strength are:

• Common ghost


• Demons


• Black serpent


• Female goblin


• Jaakhin


• Witch


• Spirit


• Subtle sorcerer


The Hierarchy among Ghosts

There is a hierarchy among ghosts which is based on their spiritual power or strength. Ultimately all ghosts are controlled by subtle sorcerers (maantriks).


Basic shape and form of types of ghosts

The spiritual principle that word, touch, form, taste, smell and its associated energy coexist is also true with ghosts. Depending on their type of energy, they take up generic forms. These forms can however change, depending on what the ghost is trying to achieve. For example, if the ghost is trying to intimidate, it will take up an intimidating form, whereas if it is trying to fool a spiritual healer it may take a form of an angel http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/angel/index.php or a positive energy. They can also take the form of our departed ancestors thus misleading psychics and the people who come to psychics to enquire about departed relatives. This is true in almost all cases.


How does one become a Ghost in the first place?

When a person dies only his physical body ceases to exist. His subtle body however continues to exist and moves on to the other regions of the Universe. Some of these subtle bodies become ghosts. Most ghosts have unfulfilled desires such as cravings for sex, alcohol, revenge, etc. or derive pleasure out of exerting control over and tormenting humans and other subtle bodies. The subtle body of a person after physical death is defined as a ghost if their characteristics and intentions match the above. There is no special process as such which they go through to become a ghost.


How does a Ghost become a particular type of Ghost?

The main reason behind a person becoming a certain type of ghost is due to their predominant personality trait and their predominant thought at the time of death. For example people involved in adversely affecting humanity at large are more likely to become subtle sorcerers (maantriks). On the other hand excessive worldly desires and constantly thinking ill about others may culminate in one becoming a Common Ghost (Bhoot) after death.


Summary

The most reliable way of reducing the risk of being affected or possessed by the various types of ghosts, is undertaking spiritual practice as per the 5 basic principles of spirituality http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/spirituality/basicpricinples_spirituality_d.php. Spiritual practice and spiritual healing remedies, coupled with personality defect removal and eradication of ego are the tools to access supreme protection from God that insulates one from the attack of ghosts as well as helps us proceed to higher regions in the afterlife.

Visit SSRFs website to explore more on the salient features of the various types of ghosts, view subtle drawings and pictures of various types of ghosts and discover how they can affect our lives: http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/difficulties/Ghosts_Demons/typesofghosts.php

How Did You Choose Your Religion

Fiction Tips

Capture the Idea

Many years ago, a noted author said to me, "I had rather write a note on the cuff of my blouse than to lose a good idea." Wow! That stuck with me.

Capture the idea at the moment it comes! I guess that's why I have so many file cabinets in my home. I can hardly bear to throw away all those scraps of ideas! And while that's a good place to store old manuscripts (and new ones), and ideas and plain old stuff, you can't very well carry a file cabinet around with you. So what to do?

Notebooks! Use notebooks! Use notebooks like an artist uses a sketchbook.

Yes, the computer is quick and easy. But the computer is not selective on its own. It may hold information longer than your mind, but it cannot bring all the information together as your mind can. While you can feed those ideas into the computer, still and yet, a writer NEEDS a notebook (or notebooks!).

A Writer's Laboratory

I still have on my bookshelf two small loose-leaf notebooks that I filled when I first began to write seriously. One is yellow, the other is blue. Yes, there they are in all their glory. In it, I wrote snippets of overheard conversations; names I felt were different or interesting; town names that caught my fancy, descriptions of sounds, sights, smells, and then there were the cute and funny things my kids did. They created for me a writer's laboratory as I recorded their actions and conversations.

Entry Sample

One entry from a winter day goes like this:

Clouds of fog were surprised to find themselves held captive in the night by the icy hands of the frigid air. Countless millions of droplets, soft and fat with moisture, were squeezed in the icy grip, then transformed into exquisite crystallized formations and designs. Each was individually fastened with miracle adhesive powers to every tree branch, every blade of dead brown grass, every strand of fence wire, in a sort of dress-up, flocking occasion. The first glow of dawn revealed that nothing had escaped the sparkle-tinsel effect. It later turned to fiery sparkles in the bold winter sunshine.

Stop - Write It Down

Insights and perceptions will flit through your mind like a quick firefly, lighting for a brief moment then gone forever into the darkness. Oh, you think you'll remember that little idea. Or that reaction. Or that snippet you heard. Guess what? You're kidding yourself. You will not. Stop whatever you are doing at that moment and write it down. Keep notebooks in purse or pocket, by the bed, in the car and in the john. Will you be laughed at? You can pretty well count on it. But when the novel comes out, when the work is published, and it contains the content that you hurried to write down (sometimes almost impolitely) you will be forgiven.

And even if you aren't forgiven, you shouldn't really care. Because you are only doing the WORK that is required of a serious writer.

Don't rely on the cuff of your blouse (or shirt as the case may be)! Buy notebooks and fill them! In the days to come, you be so thankful you did.

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Five Things Christian Writers Should Know

"Just because you have a computer, doesn't make you a writer," said a publishing executive at a recent Book Expo of America.

Fact is 81% of all Americans think they should write a book (according to Write & Publish magazine) and only two percent of that crowd ever actually complete a manuscript - and get it published.

True computers have made writing a book easier and print-on-demand (POD) has made publishing a snap. Problem is there are about 150,000 new books a year and they're not all selling!

So here are some simple things to do to move you from book idea, manuscript to real sales!

Learn about writing. Taking writing courses. You can go to American Christian Writers website and get info on their American School of Christian Writing, The Writer's Institute and/or Writer's Mini Course. Also subscribe to their newsletter (The Christian Communicator or The Advanced Christian Writer). Take time to go to various writers' conferences where you'll meet editors, publishers and other authors. You may even find a mentor at some of these events.

Getting a writing mentor is so critical to your success - if you listen and heed their advice! There are tons of book coaches. Google book coach.

Finally, read! Best-selling Christian fiction author, Victoria Christopher Murray, said on a recent Chocolate Pages Show, "In order to be a good writer, you have to read good writing." I am so surprised when I talk to many Christian writers and I ask if they have read any of the "best-sellers" - as least the Christian or spiritual books. They answer, "NO."

Some have never even read "The Purpose Driven Life" (the best selling book of all time), The Shack (a Christian publishing phenomenon in the book world) or The Secret (at least take cues how they have marketed the mega-star of a book). Most Christian authors don't even take note of any of the top 10 New York Times or CBA best-sellers.

Ughh! You have to know what the market is buying and read it to see why the book is highly acclaimed. By doing a little homework, you can improve your writing. You have to move it from a hobby to a craft if you want a viable book.

Books Every Writer Needs at Their Fingertips!

- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Knowlton Zinsser

Best book I've read on what, specifically, makes up a great piece of writing

- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E. B. White

Also subscribe to Writer's Digest. Invaluable information every month!

Learn about self-publishing and how the book industry works. I have had writers come to me and tell me their "publishing nightmare" stories. They talk about how printers or subsidy publishers took advantage of them.

Yes, there are companies who will swindle you. But, if you are well-informed, it will lessen the chances of someone ripping you off. Don't rely on one source for all your information. Use Google and do some research! You must do your due diligence.

Know where to get an ISBN, how to get national distribution, where to find a cover designer, typesetter, printer, etc. Ask other self-published authors what they've done and how it has worked for them. Follow the leaders. Do what they did to achieve success.

Study what Kendra Norman Bellamy, Stephanie Perry Moore, Marilynn Griffith or Kim Brooks have done. Most authors have their "publishing testimonial" on their website or offer publishing tips to new authors. Read their advice - you can learn from mistakes or from mentors. Mentors are cheaper.

Learn about marketing and publicity. Build a platform. No book will sell without telling others about it - over and over again. Not just once. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising. Creating "buzz" requires a strategy and a strong platform. (See this Podcast show)

Once the book is published a lot of authors believe it will sell by itself. Many Christians sway the other way and are too humble to tell anyone about their book. They believe if they put it up on Amazon or tell a few of their "yes buddies" it will take off. NOT! Just like any product that is sold for cold cash, it must be marketed and promoted in order to sell. It takes money to make money.

Learn about agents. Agents are not your "literary fairy God-mothers." They are in business to make money. And they make money by selling "marketable" writers to publishing houses. Besides having a great book, decent platform, an audience - you must also have a good book proposal. The proposal is what sells your book. Part of that proposal is the marketing plan. Again, it's about the bottom line.

It took former Heart & Soul editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver 25 years to have her first book published. And she had a platform and was a professional writer. She had to find the right publishing house. She says she went through 10 agents and eventually got the divine connection and got three book deals.

Learn about Web 2.0, podcasting, blogging, social networking. Did you know you can blog on Amazon.com if you're an author? You can even put up video reviews. How cool is that? You must embrace technology and keep up with what is moving books. Obviously the best way to move books is to get people talking - and the more they hear your passion and get curious about all the "buzz" they keep hearing from you online - the more you will attract customers.

So, "get out there" by joining Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter. Do a Blogtalk Radio Show and get a Youtube channel. Post up your blogs in RSS feeds and even do some daring stuff like join a lot of "nings" or start one! Join the Chocolate Pages Network (a new social network for Christian Authors). There is so many ways for an author to get exposure online - hey, it may even up on Oprah as part of her "Book Club."

Ministry marketing pioneer and PR Coach Pam Perry helps African American Christian authors garner publicity and leverage online strategies. As a 20-year PR veteran, she is also the co-author of "Synergy Energy: How to Use the Power of Partnerships to Market Your Book, Grow Your Business and Brand Your Ministry" For a free MP3 of "What Every Christian Author Should Know," go to http://www.PamPerryPR.com/. She's also the creator of the ChocolatePagesNetwork, a social network for Christian authors and the Chocolate Pages Show at Blogtalk radio. She offers free help at her blogsite: http://www.MinistryMarketingSolutions.com/ with her monthly Ezine and teleclasses

7 Deadly Writing Sins

1. Sloth

The definition of sloth has changed over time. At one time, it was known as the sin of sadness and despair. Dante described it as the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul." Today, it is generally considered synonymous with laziness or indifference - the failure to use one's God-given talents and abilities to their fullest. So what does this mean for a writer?

It means that we should stretch beyond our comfort zone and challenge ourselves to hone our skills and learn new ones at every opportunity.

It also means that we should approach each day's work with enthusiasm and joy - joy that we have within us the ability to communicate clearly, to educate, to entertain, and to provoke thought and discussion among readers. Joy that we are able to see the world in infinite and interesting ways, and that we are able to transform that experience into words that we can share with others.

It means that instead of practicing avoidance when it's time to write, we ought to look forward to applying butt to chair and crafting the words that will touch another person's mind.

2. Gluttony

Gluttony is described as overindulgence and waste. Did Emperor Joseph II's accuse Mozart of gluttony when he criticized his work, saying, "Too many notes, my dear Mozart"? Perhaps. Perhaps we commit gluttony when we indulge our passion for words and wordplay and waste the reader's time by failing to engage, enlighten, or entertain anyone but ourselves.

3. Greed

Greed - as a sin - refers to obtaining or hoarding wealth, in particular. And some writers are very good at eschewing greed, saying, "I don't write for money, I write for the sheer love of it. I write because I can't not write. I write for art. I write for myself, alone." This last bit, "I write only for myself," could be seen as a form of hoarding. While ideas and words may not be material objects or wealth, they have value and should be shared - particularly if you accept the notion that writing is a God-given talent.

Shared, yes - stolen, no. Plagiarism would be a form of greed, coupled with envy. Steal someone else's words? I must have sensed this was a sin, given the number of times I've told rip-off artists to go straight to Hell. Whoops... guess I should re-read that section on "wrath."

"I write because I must," might be a form of pride - also one of the seven deadly sins. The implication in the tone is that anyone who doesn't feel that same compulsion is a lesser being, a "non-writer." We all have gifts; where would we be, after all, without the astute readers who buy our books or the skilled laborers who built the cold-water flat in the corner of the garret where we writers notoriously gravitate to do our work?

To write only for money would be a joyless thing (see "Sloth" above), but it is no sin to earn a comfortable living. One could argue that a comfortable living allows one to turn one's thoughts from gluttony and greed; knowing where that next meal is coming from tends to take the focus off of food.

4. Envy

Schadenfreude. Isn't that a fun word? Envy isn't merely wanting what someone else has, but wanting it to the point of feeling sorrow or resentment at another person's good fortune, and feeling a little gleeful when they are deprived of it. My mother once said that it is easy to find friends with broad shoulders to cry on when you are miserable, but hard to find any to come celebrate your good news with you. We do well to celebrate our colleagues' success - it can't help but earn us good Karma points. When another writer announces a sale, it doesn't mean there's one less publishing opportunity in the universe to be scooped up by us. When someone reports a six-figure advance, we should take that as a sign that there is abundance in the universe, and resolve to apply butt to chair just a little more diligently so that we might be next.

5. Lust

Ask the spouse or lover of any writer, and I'll bet they'd say there's just not enough of this sin going around...

6. Pride

Too many people confuse "pride" and "self-confidence." It's a confusing word, too: On the one hand, we are told that pride is a sin; on the other, we are told to "take pride in [our] work." Pride - the sin - equates to narcissism or excessive self-love. Dante defined it as "love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor." So how does this apply to us and our writing? Most of us are our own harshest critics. We could do with a little more self-love, and few of us are prone to excess in that department. But those of us who are published - do we ever think of those who simply write for the love of writing, with vague dreams of being published "some day," as "wannabes"? Do we dismiss the typo-ridden scrawls out of hand - and thus the writer who promulgated them? Someone helped us, when we were young and nave and just beginning to find our voices as writers. It's a debt marked "payable to the hopeful novice."

7. Anger/Wrath

Interestingly, wrath encompasses anger directed inward - so the next time you are tempted to bang your head against the wall, muttering, "Stupid, stupid, stupid - this reads as smoothly as a pig walks on stilts!" consider that you may be committing the sin of wrath. On the whole, though, writers have an excellent outlet for anger and wrath - they can sublimate the urge to kill and torment others who dearly deserve it by letting their characters damn themselves to Hell.

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer who claims, tongue-in-cheek, to channel the spirits of Edgar Allan Poe, Erma Bombeck, and O. Henry. Holly is the author of the popular children's book, Trockle http://trockle.wordpress.com For more information, visit her blog, "Do I Have to Spell It Out?" at http://blog.jahangiri.us

Get Paid to Write Online

Are you sitting at home wondering how you could do something to make some real money? Ever thought that you might could get paid to write? Lots of people are. What's that you say? "ME? Make money writing? You gotta be kidding! Right?".

Level of Writing Skills Required

Well, no-o. Actually I'm not kidding. You do not have to be a really good writer to get paid to write online. Tell you what. Go online and type "article directory" into a search engine search window. Go visit various article directories and look at some of their articles. Don't stop at the first page where they put the best ones.

Go to page 5 or 10 on a subject, read a few and ask yourself, "Could I do as good as or better than that?" Most of the articles I see out there today wouldn't have gotten as high as a "C" in my 9th grade English class! The standards are NOT high...

If you can write in plain, clear, understandable English at the 6th to 9th grade level, then you can get paid to write online.

Professional writers have a disadvantage on the Net. Most of what they "know" (have been taught) is WRONG! They want to 'swing for the fences' and write a best-seller. The Net wants plain vanilla, fast and lots of it.

While a pro writer struggles over perfecting a 1,000 word piece, those that get paid to write online will turn out 6,000 words of readable text. If that's twelve 500-word articles he'll get at least $10 for them. Once he or she is known for on-time delivery and O.K. quality, that could be $20+ each.

It's relatively easy to write 6,000 words in a day. You do the math...

Ideal for Work at Home

When you get paid to write online, everything goes through your computer terminal. You don't have to dress up and commute to somewhere. You can work 100% at home. The hours are your choice. You can work anytime you like, whenever it's convenient to you.

It's the same way with the amount of work you take on. You can do a little or a lot, you decide. When you finish a contract you can rest for as long as you like. There is no ongoing obligation. You can write at home, at the beach, on vacation, anytime, anywhere you have an Internet connection. Can't beat the convenience!

Fast turnaround, fast cash when you get paid to write online.

To get paid to write online, you do everything (except write) online. You go to writer's markets like elance.com or guru.com and look over the offers posted. You pick one, make contact, negotiate terms and get a contract. This can and usually does happen in hours.

You can begin to write on the contract the same day, deliver the work in 3-4 days and get a deposit into your PayPal account within a week of starting. You not only get paid to write online, you get paid to write fast; it's a quick turnaround between work and pay. No deductions, no holdbacks, just cash in your pocket

All told, there are a lot of advantages when you get paid to write online, and it's a lot easier to break into than you might think...

For more details on how to get paid to write, more information on how to get paid to write online, follow the links below...

For more detailed information on how to get paid to write for the Internet, visit: Get Paid to Write

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Jorge Chavez is an experienced writer, Internet marketer and author who buys, sells and produces written materials for the Internet.

Writing Jobs - What You Should Know Before Accepting

After a few years of writing some writers look much older than their age. They have deep frown lines, and startle sharply at any loud noise. Here's why they're nervous wrecks: they never grab the reins of writing jobs they're offered, and they've never learned the power of "No."

There's a secret you need to know if you want to make money writing: many of your clients have no idea of what they want you to write, and why. They have an amorphous idea, or even a collection of ideas of what they want. They expect their writer (you) to put bones and flesh on their ideas.

Your first task as a writer if you want to avoid frown lines and lead a peaceful productive life, is to help your potential clients to define exactly what they want -- BEFORE you accept a writing job.

Here are three steps to doing that.

1. If It's Not in the Brief, It's Not Going to Happen

Every writing job starts with a brief, or job description. I advise my writing students to study each brief, and then rewrite it in their own words. When you do this, holes in the brief will come to light, and you can start asking questions.

Please get into the habit of asking lots of questions. No, you won't look stupid or inexperienced -- remember that 99.9 per cent of your clients aren't clear on exactly what they want. Your first task is to help them to decide and articulate the scope of the job they want you to do.

Make it your motto: "if it's not in the brief, it's not going to happen."

2. Trust Your Intuition, and Google

You'll be offered writing jobs, and your gut will clench. Sometimes it's because a writing job seems too good to be true. Trust your gut. If you can sense that there's something not quite right about a job, you're rarely wrong.

Use Google. Google each and every prospective client, without exception. If something seems wrong, stay clear. A client's problems need never become your problems, unless you willingly slip a noose around your own neck.

3. Learn to Say: "No"

Yes, you can refuse writing jobs. As your writing career develops, you'll refuse more jobs, because you're booked up. You'll become selective, only taking jobs which a client can articulate clearly, and which you know you can complete in a timely manner. You'll have more confidence.

However, you should be selective right from the beginning of your career. If a prospect won't respond promptly to questions you have about a brief, pass on the job. There are always more writing jobs.

Finally, avoid being the kind of writer who becomes jubilant whenever you're offered a writing job. Check the jobs out carefully before you accept, ensuring that the scope of the job is clearly defined in your brief.

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Omnibus of Science Fiction

Forty-some years ago my uncle gave me a science fiction anthology, a thick red hardback that I read from cover to cover. It inspired a life long love of the genre. The stories in that book made me think outside the box. They filled me with awe for the imagination it took to write them and sometimes they scared the hell out of me. That book remained in my collection for many years. At some point it disappeared, but not from my memory. Recently I had a desire to read it again and thanks to Alibris.com I was able to purchase a used copy.

The title is OMNIBUS OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by Groff Conklin, a well-known and prolific editor of the genre. It was published in 1952, the Golden Age of Science Fiction. It's a hefty tome, 562 pages, with 43 stories divided into sections relating to a common theme. Some stories are fun, some are thought-provoking and some are adventurous. I love them all.

Part I. Wonders of Earth and of Man

Katherine MacLean's "And be Merry" originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in February, 1950. When her husband takes off on an archeology trip, a biologist does rejuvenation experiments on herself. Believing she'll be immortal if she can avoid accidental death, she becomes afraid to live. Her husband realizes he must convince her she's dying in order to get her to live again, and he tells her she has a slow growing tumor that is inoperable.

Other stories in this section are:

"John Thomas's Cube" by John Leimert

"Hyperpilosity" by L. Sprague de Camp

"The Thing in the Woods" by Fletcher Pratt & B.F. Ruby

"The Bees from Borneo" by Will H. Gray

"The Rag Thing" by David Grinnell

"The Conqueror" by Mark Clifton

Part II. Inventions, Dangerous and Otherwise

The intriguing short story, "A Subway Named Mobius," by A.J. Deutsch was published in Astounding Science Fiction in December, 1950. The Boston Subway Authority builds an addition to the subway system and a train disappears with three hundred passengers. The closed system became so interconnected and complex that it turned into a Mobius strip, that continuous loop with one side made famous by M.C. Escher.

Other stories in this section are:

"Never Underestimate ..." by Theodore Sturgeon

"The Doorbell" by David H. Keller

"Backfire" by Ross Rocklynne

"The Box" by James Blish

"Zeritsky's Law" by Ann Griffith

"The Fourth Dynasty" by R.R. Winterbotham

Part III. From Outer Space

In "The Colour Out of Space" By H.P. Lovecraft a surveyor discovers an abandoned farm with an old well at the center. The land is devoid of life and he inquires about the name - the blasted heath. An old hermit tells him the story. In the 1880's the farm was productive until a meteorite of indescribable color crashed beside the well. After hearing the terrifying circumstances that befell the farmer and his family the surveyor ends by saying he won't be coming back and wouldn't recommend drinking the water.

Other stories in this section are:

"The Head Hunters" by Ralph Williams

"The Star Dummy" by Anthony Boucher

"Catch That Martian" by Damon Knight

"Shipshape Home" by Richard Matheson

"Homo Sol" by Isaac Asimov

Part IV. Far Traveling

"Kaleidoscope" by Ray Bradbury is a heart-breaking tale of astronauts drifting through space after their ship is destroyed. They have contact with each other but no hope of being rescued. One man laments the fact he has accomplished nothing worthwhile but as his life ends he becomes a shooting star visible to a child on earth.

Other stories in this section are:

"Alexander the Bait" by William Tenn

"Nothing Happens on the Moon" by Paul Ernst

"Trigger Tide" by Wyman Guin

"Plague" by Murray Leinster

"Winner Lose All" by Jack Vance

"Test Piece" by Eric Frank Russell

"Environment" by Chester S. Geier

Part V. Adventures in Dimension

"Spectator Sport" by John D. MacDonald was first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories in February 1950. A man travels into the future and discovers nothing much has changed. Shortly after he left someone invented virtual reality and the entire population is permanently wired into it.

Other stories in this section are:

"High Threshold" by Alan E. Nourse

"Recruiting Station" by A.E. van Vogt

"A Stone and a Spear" by Raymond F. Jones

"What You Need" by Lewis Padgett

"The Choice" by W. Hilton-Young

Part VI. Worlds of Tomorrow

"History Lesson" by Arthur C. Clarke was first published in 1949. In the future a final ice age looms. A tribe of nomadic humans travels toward the equator but gets caught between two advancing glaciers. They hide a few 21st century relics in a cairn. Five thousand years later Venusian reptiles travel to Earth and recover the relics. They try to learn about life on the Third Planet - by analyzing a cartoon film reel

Other stories in this section are:

"The War Against the Moon" by Andre Maurois

"Pleasant Dreams" by Ralph Robin

"Manners of the Age" by H.B. Fyfe

"The Weapon" by Fredric Brown

"The Scarlet Plague" by Jack London

"Heritage" by Robert Abernathy

"Instinct" by Lester del Rey

"Counter Charm" by Peter Phillips

Omnibus Of Science Fiction

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Prison Chaplain - Role in Ministry

The Chaplain provides a vital part of the whole process within the law enforcement community. The primary goal of the prison Chaplain is to provide Pastoral care to the inmate. The Chaplain becomes pastor to the inmates as well as their teacher in spiritual matters.

This important aspect incorporates areas of spiritual, moral and emotional development for the incarcerated.

Achievement in these areas will help to insure the future success of offender as a productive member of the community at large. The Chaplain must integrate these tools for change into the programs inaugurated. He will provide comprehensive services to all inmates in the various facilities assigned to him within its parameters of security

In the capacity of pastor the Chaplain will provide and often conduct
Chapel Worship services for the inmates. Depending on the number of Chaplains at a facility this will mean providing services for all faiths.

The Chaplain is also responsible to provide religious Instruction, for the inmates. This may be done through regular Bible Studies, or doctrinal classes. This is sometimes accomplished through organized discipleship groups among the inmates themselves.

The role of pastor often is extended to families of inmates and prison staff. This may involve counseling, and instruction in moral and spiritual development that will establish an environment for rebuilding the family upon release of the prisoner.

There will be time when the Chaplain is called on to contact
friends or relatives. These incidents may involve hardship cases, illness, legal and financial needs, or the death of an inmate.

Counseling Prisoners will take on many facets. It is therefore important that the prison chaplain have an understanding of the inmates, themselves as well as their felt needs.

1. Attending Court hearings and trials

2. Conferring and consulting with prison officials

3. Assisting prisoners find jobs, housing, and community support upon release

The Chaplain may be asked to provide these same services to, prison staff, public officials, and others within the community. He may be asked to work with the local church to provide ministry support through prayer, volunteers and finances.

The Chaplain often becomes a Public Relations Representative to the community in behalf of the prison

To Coordinate Volunteer Services

The religious volunteer becomes an extension of the chaplain in ministering to the needs of the inmate. This mission, like that of the church includes regeneration, spiritual healing and development. Volunteers need to be integrated into the total objective of religious programming of the institution and not just a patchwork of superimposed programs to fill program needs or slots and keep inmates occupied. Training phases are usually sequential and required. Avoid conflicts with training phases and training objectives, scheduled. Recognize the philosophy of the chaplain training staff

In order to be more effective in ministering to the prison community we should expand our understanding of the correctional process.

Richard R. Blake, Christian Education Consultant, Book Store Owner, Training Director Prison Ministry

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Life Lessons - Getting Over It

We all have (or have had) things from our past that haunt us. No matter what we do they seem to be there with us especially when we aren't being distracted by other people and events. Sometimes we deliberately keep ourselves busy to avoid thinking about our "ghosts" and "skeletons in the closet". But that is not the solution; it is just postponing the time when you are forced to deal with it.

Why do we continue to focus on things from the past? The answer is because we haven't learned the lessons that we were supposed to learn. All the drama in our lives occurs for one reason only - spiritual growth. There is always something to learn from each and every experience in our lives. When we fail to learn the lesson we end up stuck in the same little loop, experiencing the same problems or making the same wrong choices over and over. But the loop gets faster and more chaotic as it repeats itself.

Creating diversions for ourselves will not accomplish anything except to delay the inevitable. And if you get to the end of this lifetime without learning what you came here to learn, then you will keep reincarnating and having the same problems all over again. Even if you don't reach complete enlightenment in this lifetime, every lesson learned is one less thing to learn the next time around.

How do we avoid being stuck in a loop which is detrimental to our well being, our health and possibly even our sanity? We have to learn the lesson. Once we realize what the lesson is and accept it, that's all we have to do. There is no big complicated procedure. Once we recognize it, it will fade away of its own accord.

Why suffer years and years of misery, grief and self admonishment! Do you like feeling sorry for yourself? I did a long time ago and I can tell you it doesn't accomplish a thing. You probably think you want others to feel sorry for you but believe me, they won't. They may feel pity for you but that is not the same thing at all. And some people might avoid you entirely because they don't want to be weighed down with your problems! You may believe you have control over your self inflicted misery but one day it might take control of you. Dealing with the source of your misery will not make your misery worse; it will cure it! But most people fail to realize that.

When we are spiritually awake, it becomes increasingly easier to see the lessons. Which is just as well because once we are serious about our spiritual life the lessons come more often. But they are minor challenges because we can recognize them easily and deal with them quickly. And each new lesson learned brings us closer to enlightenment.

The past is the past! It can't be changed; it can't be undone! Don't stay stuck there! Get over it and move on!

"Today is the first day of the rest of my life!" (unknown source)

This is a favorite quote of mine. Make this your motto and let the past stay where it belongs and begin your new life starting from today.

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Prophecy - Second Heaven Authority III

The fact that God favors a just man or woman (Proverbs 12:2) is one of the principles of the Kingdom of God. That favor with God and or man is assured because of your relationship with God through faith in His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Victory is promised to you over bad experiences, fear, negativism and needs which are bringing pressure on you. However, experiencing God's favor is directly related to your understanding of His favor and knowing how to release it into your circumstances. This favor is a powerful Key that will unlock the blessings of God over your life. The office of the prophet or the prophetic gift can not operate on a high level without this Key. This article will show you what you can do to release His favor.

Jesus came that we might have a full, meaningful, purposeful abundant life. (John 10:10). If you have been following these Second Heaven Authority articles you will realize that the Second Heaven is a spiritual place between what we call the natural sky/universe(First Heaven) and the actual dwelling place(Third Heaven) of God in Heaven. This spiritual place is where demonic principalities operate from. It is also the domain through which Holy Angels from God's Heaven travel back and forth from Heaven to earth. Strategically, it is important then for you as a Believer to realize how declaring God's favour for you and walking in it will block the oppression that filters down to earth from the Second Heaven. Your words and declarations have great authority in the Second Heaven if they are in alignment with God's Word and are spoken in faith.

Out of necessity this kind of article must contain scripture references to establish authenticity, so I have indulged in the following scripture verses to anchor this truth. Read them carefully because they are reinforcing the fact that God looks at you with great favour. That favour will influence the outcome of many of life's difficult battles if you embrace these truths.

Let me first establish the fact that God does have favour for all those that trust in Him:

Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Matthew 17:20 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

Genesis 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Psalms 27:14 Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honour are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.

Proverbs 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. These verses from the Book of Proverbs concern the wisdom of God which in turn releases His favour.

God causes even a man's enemies to be at peace with him. (Proverbs 16:7) The benedictions of the Bible are that God's face shines on you. (Psalms 80: 19)

How do you implement these truths? It is your confession that turns the tide from defeat to victory. You must believe in the heart and confess with your mouth (Romans 10:10). The knowledge that God's favour rests on you is activated by the words of your mouth which releases the evidence of those blessings.

It is what comes out of the mouth that defiles us (Matthew 16:18) But if God says we have favour, we must confess it even in the face of impossible circumstances.

Now remember, God blesses you not out of obligation but out of love for you. However,that love obligates Him to you. Here is how you can implement this Key in your life. Doing this will cancel the powers of those demonic principalities that live in the Second Heaven. Doing this will prevent them from hindering, stopping or stealing the blessings of God from you.

Make a list of all God's promises pertaining to your concerns whether a need for a job, marriage difficulties, or whatever. Begin to confess God's favour according to the promises. God's promises are yes and amen. ( 2 Corinthians 1:20)

As a child of God, you can confess God's grace on you and that you will flourish and prosper.

(Proverbs 14:11, Psalms. 84: 11, Psalms 92:12)

God's condition is that you do not regard iniquity in your heart. If so, He will not hear you. (Proverbs 66:18) If you have unconfessed sin in your heart then deal with that and proceed from there.

In your prayers begin to praise and thank God for His favour. Rebuke fear, doubt and faithlessness. Release in the name of Jesus, God's favour. Begin to change your thinking. To be transformed requires having one's mind renewed. Search His word for what God says about His favour for His Sons and Daughters. Partner with the Holy Spirit in this so that His favour increases in your life. When God smiles at you great blessing comes to your life. Every need is met for all things are possible with Him.

Keith A. Paul has many years of Minstry experience and is an Author. He is used in the gift of prophecy, dream interpretation and words of knowledge which are gifts of the Holy Spirit. He currently lives in Abbotsford B.C. Canada. He travels internationally speaking and imparting the supernatural works of the Holy Spirit. To receive Keith's free Prophetic Words, free Dream Interpretation or purchase His E Books please visit http://www.restorationplaceministries.com

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Various Types of Ghosts

You have read volumes about ghosts and have browsed hundreds of websites to devour more information on ghosts, but have you ever wondered how many types of ghosts there are? The fact is that there are various types of ghosts out there and all these are minutely described and documented by the Spiritual Science Research Foundation (SSRF).


The Spiritual Science Research Foundation has undertaken extensive research on ghosts in order to demystify this widespread phenomenon and help people in recognising and treating the adverse effects caused by ghosts through proven methodology according to the science of Spirituality.


At the outset, it is important to note that while we use the phrase ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) as a collective noun to cover the entire gamut of negative energies, there is a vast difference between the lower order ghosts and higher order ghosts such as subtle sorcerers (maantriks) from the sixth and seventh region of Hell. They differ according to their spiritual strength. Ghosts primarily use their spiritual strength to harm humanity.


The generic types of ghosts as identified by the Spiritual Science Research Foundation in ascending order of hierarchy as well as power and strength are:

• Common ghost


• Demons


• Black serpent


• Female goblin


• Jaakhin


• Witch


• Spirit


• Subtle sorcerer


The Hierarchy among Ghosts

There is a hierarchy among ghosts which is based on their spiritual power or strength. Ultimately all ghosts are controlled by subtle sorcerers (maantriks).


Basic shape and form of types of ghosts

The spiritual principle that word, touch, form, taste, smell and its associated energy coexist is also true with ghosts. Depending on their type of energy, they take up generic forms. These forms can however change, depending on what the ghost is trying to achieve. For example, if the ghost is trying to intimidate, it will take up an intimidating form, whereas if it is trying to fool a spiritual healer it may take a form of an angel http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/spiritualscience/angel/index.php or a positive energy. They can also take the form of our departed ancestors thus misleading psychics and the people who come to psychics to enquire about departed relatives. This is true in almost all cases.


How does one become a Ghost in the first place?

When a person dies only his physical body ceases to exist. His subtle body however continues to exist and moves on to the other regions of the Universe. Some of these subtle bodies become ghosts. Most ghosts have unfulfilled desires such as cravings for sex, alcohol, revenge, etc. or derive pleasure out of exerting control over and tormenting humans and other subtle bodies. The subtle body of a person after physical death is defined as a ghost if their characteristics and intentions match the above. There is no special process as such which they go through to become a ghost.


How does a Ghost become a particular type of Ghost?

The main reason behind a person becoming a certain type of ghost is due to their predominant personality trait and their predominant thought at the time of death. For example people involved in adversely affecting humanity at large are more likely to become subtle sorcerers (maantriks). On the other hand excessive worldly desires and constantly thinking ill about others may culminate in one becoming a Common Ghost (Bhoot) after death.


Summary

The most reliable way of reducing the risk of being affected or possessed by the various types of ghosts, is undertaking spiritual practice as per the 5 basic principles of spirituality http://www.spiritualresearchfoundation.org/spiritualresearch/happiness/spirituality/basicpricinples_spirituality_d.php. Spiritual practice and spiritual healing remedies, coupled with personality defect removal and eradication of ego are the tools to access supreme protection from God that insulates one from the attack of ghosts as well as helps us proceed to higher regions in the afterlife.

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How to Keep Your Article Content Fresh and Interesting

Webmasters everywhere are constantly on the lookout for fresh and interesting content for their website. Along with these content qualities is the requirement that it be unique. Everyone wants their website to stand out above the others in the search engine results.

So what is the trick for you to keep a steady supply of this quality content coming your way?

One trick stands out above the others: Personality. Everyone has it. Along with personality some basic research would also be helpful.

There are authors who are very good at writing content or articles and giving them personality. We know them most often as copywriters or professional authors.

We can purchase the services of these professionals and reap the rewards. I've personally purchased articles from such a person, otherwise known as a ghost-writer, and have been very happy with their work.

The downside to this approach is that the good ones cost money. Unless you have a lot of this to spend your supply will be somewhat limited. The other downside is that their personality, no matter how good it is in writing, is not your personality.

If you're really serious about succeeding with an online business, why not learn the art of writing online content yourself? Sure it takes time. Once you perfect it however, you have a quality asset for succeeding in the competitive world of online business opportunities.

The easiest way to get started is to pick a subject matter you have experience with. If you have your own website, hopefully you have chosen an area of expertise or a hobby that interests you.

There are two areas you need to master in your quest to be the ultimate in online content authoring: Techniques for writing and the subject matter itself. If you start with an area of interest to you that you have experience with then the subject matter is easy. You can then simply focus on learning the techniques.

What are the techniques and how do you master them?

The techniques for writing articles are many and beyond the scope of this article. Offline, bookstores have resources for learning the techniques. Online, your best option is to find some good forums and read what others have to say. Much can be learned this way.

The following are some good tips to master the technique of writing articles:

* Read other peoples articles. Learn what kind of subject matter they write about and how they communicate this to readers. If you come across an author who really draws you into the article, find more articles they have written and study how they write it.

* Join forum groups. Read what other people do and how they do it. Ask questions if you need help. You'll find many websites offering email courses to learn the techniques, usually for a price. I've never signed up for one, so I can't speak to the quality of this kind of learning process although I have spent a good deal of time reading through different online forums and have learned much this way.

* Learn how the search engines view your articles. If you want to succeed financially online then knowing how to write for maximum exposure in the search engines is important. Here again, a good forum group will help. Some e-courses delivered via email (free) can also provide good information. Just have to be careful that what you sign up for is quality and not just an opportunity for spammers to flood your inbox.

* Practice makes perfect. You will need to write articles, and most likely many of them to succeed. You will not improve or succeed and reach your goals unless you're doing the work.

The internet is forgiving to those who initially start their article creation venture. A poorly written article for the most part goes largely unnoticed. If this is your first online venture, you may be surprised just how unnoticed poor content can be on the web.

Mastering the technique of article writing takes time. However, once you get past the learning curve, you'll be glad you persevered.

Once mastered, move on to new subjects and maybe you'll even find your goldmine of opportunity in the process!

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Secrets of Article Writing - How to Get Indexed

There is actually no magic trick to getting listed by Google within 24 hours. Yes, I know there are plenty of experts and gurus online who claim that it is nearly impossible to do so, but it isn't. Anyone can get listed under one day in Google. Let's say that you have created a brand new website today, and you go to Google.com and you do a search for your website.

For argument's sake, let's call it "yournewsite". If you type this URL into the search browser, you will get a return of something along the lines of "sorry, no information is available for the URL "yournewsite." Now, because your new website is actually brand new, it hasn't yet been indexed by Google, and so no information will be found.

In order to get your site ranked by Google, it must first get indexed by them to show you are there. In other words, in order to get your site ranked by Google, it must first get indexed.

And when your website gets indexed, important details such as the title, description and URL will appear in the Google search results. When I first created my website, I was tempted to use shortcuts to get my site indexed. One of the first things I did was to use Google's own website submission form to get my site ranked. By completing the form, Google stated that it would take approximately four weeks for the site to get placed on the index. But you don't actually need this. Forget it. I will show you how to get indexed and ranked by Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo! and MSN almost immediately. Do not complete any of these search engine submission forms. They are a waste of time and money.

How to Get Listed by Google in 24 Hours Guaranteed

The easiest and quickest way to get ranked by Google within 24 hours is to follow the steps highlighted below.

1. Type your main keyword into Google's search engine. You will be presented with a list of search results.

2. Take a look at each of the websites and check the Google page rank for each site. If you remember, the more websites (back links) you have linking to your site, the higher your page rank will be.

Now, keep an eye open for the websites that have a page rank of five or higher. If you find any, make a list.

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Small Business Management

A small business may be defined as a business with a small number of employees. The legal definition of "small" often varies by country and industry, but is generally under 100 employees. The common characteristic that sets them apart from large enterprises is that they posses less tangible properties.

Small business management pertains to the independent ownership, supervision and control of assets, resources, products, services, workforce and profits of an enterprise which is not prevalent in its area of operation.

In an economic atmosphere that breeds and sustains entrepreneurship, a lot of individuals are attracted to the prospect of possessing and directing his own business. They choose having a small enterprise to be close to costumersenabling fast, flexible, and personalized service, to innovate less expensively, and to manage solely.

Managing both small and large businesses involves the five major functions of managementplanning, organizing, directing, controlling, and coordinating.

The mistake that most small business owner-managers commit is giving less attention to planning and controlling functions. These two, when fulfilled effectively would result to excellent goal setting. And the success of every business relies heavily on its long-range goals.

The most popular approach applied to most small businesses is management by objectives or MBO. The reason for this is that it is result-oriented and jobs are perceived in terms of achievements rather than simply functions.

The first step in developing an effective MBO program is to define your business. A transparent and attainable vision of the business is critical for planning, marketing, product development, building and equipment, and financial and staff needs.

The next step is to set both short- and long-range business goals. Long-range goals would serve as the mold from which your companys MBO program would take form. These goals would triumphantly be attained through management and employee communication. The staff should also take part in the formulation of goals, to increase their sense of commitment in fulfilling them.

The third step in developing the MBO is devising a work plan. The work plan should address the following areas: (1) goalshould be specific and concise; (2) measurementbenchmarks to be used; major problems to be anticipated; (3) work stepsmost essential steps to be completed at a fixed time; and (4) supervisor's goalsemployees should identify which of their manager's goals relate to their own.

The fourth step would be to report progress. An MBO program must include a provision for regular progress reports. Goals and objectives can only be attained through conducting regular record and review of progress. Progress which is below expectation can enable problem identification.

The fifth and final step would be to evaluate performance. This is done by compiling and reviewing the past results of the steps done in the development of the MBO. Measure every element and know if each coordinated and supported each other.

Small businesses face an array of problems most commonly, bankruptcy and under- capitalization This is often a result of poor planning rather than economic conditions - it is a common rule of thumb that the entrepreneur should have access to a sum of money at least equal to the projected revenue for the first year of business in addition to his anticipated expenses.

Getting into small businesses is not as easy as it seems. To avoid the problems stated above, the owner-manager should first ensure that he has or would be able to raise enough funds. And no matter how small his enterprise is, he should not fail to apply the major functions of management.

Copyright 2007 Ismael D. Tabije

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Time Management Mastery - 10 Tips For a Better Life

Creating a personal vision and setting goals will automatically push you to accomplish more. The loftier your goals and the longer the time frame, the more difficult it will be to manage your time in the best way.

Some tips to help you on your path:

1. Plan your days in advance in 30 minute time blocks.

2. Make daily to do lists and prioritize the tasks. Put the tasks into the time blocks.

3. Make a don't do list. This a list of unproductive things you are doing now so that you can replace them with things that really matter. They can include nearly anything, but in the beginning they will most likely revolve around mindless television watching and just "hanging" out.

4. Track your daily activity for 1 week. Keep a log of what you do for every minute of the day, and look for ways to save time. Look for tasks you can eliminate or delegate to someone else. Use the extra time so you can accomplish more of what is on your goals list.

5. After the 1st week compare the tasks you planned in your 30 minute time blocks and what you actually did during your week of time tracking. What was your biggest time waster? What are 3 things you can do to eliminate the waste in your week?

6. Learn to read faster! The faster you can take in information with full comprehension the faster you will be able to get through routine tasks and learn new skills. Speed reading is an incredible advantage. If you have never taken a speed reading course or something of the like, make it a priority.

7. Prepare for the next day the night before. Pack your lunch, lay out your clothes, and know exactly where everything you need to start the day is located. You will save an enormous amount of time just by doing simple preparations and eliminating your "looking" time.

8. Right before you sleep at night, your most important task of the next day. Think about it intensely for 5-10 minutes and then let it go from your mind and go to sleep. Let your subconscious mind take over while you sleep. Do not try to control your subconscious mind, just let it run on auto-pilot. You will be amazed at how much of your task, if not all of it will be completed the next day. While you are sleeping your subconscious mind is working. Take advantage of it!

9. Practice taking action on your ideas immediately. Do it now! Procrastination and its opposite action are both learned habits. Decide that you are eliminating all procrastination from your life. Important tasks are going into your to do list and are blocked into an interval in your calendar. Even if it is not blocked until 6 months from now that is o.k., just get it done when it is time.

10. Forget about the minor stuff. Some things are just not that important. When you purposely decide to leave a few things out, you will realize they were not that important in the first place.

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Article Writing System

Obviously, most writing begins by brainstorming potential articles. And, this system is no different. However, for Internet marketers it is this step that can decide how much subsequent attention your articles get. If you pick the wrong topic or the wrong keywords, the search engines might ignore your articles in favor of other sites that used these techniques to increase traffic. At the very least, you might find yourself on page 20 of the search results, while your competitors rank on the first three pages of the search results.

Secondly, you want to have some idea of the types of structures that certain topics follow. Maybe you are doing a "how-to" article and want to write something in that genre. People who read how-to articles follow a certain structure. There are actually seven different structural outlines that we'll discuss that can help you lay out your thoughts quickly and research only the material that is relevant to the article. So, you will add your topic and choose a relevant structure, then you will need to do research.

Thirdly, after you have the topic, you still need to branch out to see how many articles or stories can be created from that single topic. You will need to spend some time mind mapping (a way to organize your research and brainstorming) your topic to figure out just how wide a topic it is and whether you should stick with it or try something that is more flexible and easier to write. There are tools we will go into that will help you do this and still be able to write your articles without having to exit the software.

That's it for the background preparation work! Then, you can sit down and write not just one, but many articles from that little extra time you spent preparing your writing session. Not only that, but you will find that the articles that you turn out are higher quality and have the potential to draw a larger audience because you started out with this in mind, as an Internet marketer, and didn't just write things haphazardly.

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Top 10 Tips to Writing Great Candle Lighting Ceremony Poems

10. Get inspired.

Think about an anecdote or personal trait that makes this person special to you and write it down.

Example: For a bar mitzvah boy's grandfather who passed away very recently, the notes one could write about him are as follows:

He was Irish, Catholic, not Jewish. He was so proud of the man that David is becoming. He lived in Florida and he made David feel safe in Florida by telling him that his home was really David's Florida home, so David was never homesick in Florida. He was a baker, he used to make bread on the kitchen table without a bowl, he made a lake in the middle of the flour. There needs to be something about David remembering him making bread with the lake on the table. The candle will be lit by Grandpa's brother Uncle Frank and Aunt Marianne. This is the first family get together without him.

With a little work you can turn it into this:

My grandfather who I love so dear

Passed away recently, but I know he is near

His was my second home in Florida, of this I know

He told me how proud he was as he watched me grow

Grandpa was a baker and bread he would always make

With flour on the table, in the center he made a lake

This candle is to honor him, that has been my plan

Please come up to light it with me, Uncle Frank & Aunt Marianne

9. Make poems that are 4-8 lines.

Too few will be hard to convey your message and too many might bore your audience.

8. Try to keep each poem the same length.

You don't want Grandma to be upset that she got 4 lines when Uncle Bill got 8.

7. If you are having trouble finding a word to rhyme with another word, you can either pick a different word (like choosing "great" instead of "good" or "sweet" instead of "nice") or try going to http://www.rhymezone.com/

It is a great rhyming dictionary on-line that comes in handy for those tough to rhyme words.

6. Try to make the first line rhyme with the second line and the third line should rhyme with the fourth line.

It's an AABBCCDD pattern that makes it simpler to read and find a rhyming word.

5. If you know who you want to call up to light the candle, find a word that rhymes with their name

With you guys as family I am never alone... (and end the line with) Come on up Uncle Bill and Aunt Joan.

4. An easy method to use is to find a last line that rhymes with the number you are on.

For example:

Grandma's cooking always tastes like heaven,

So come on up to light candle number eleven.

3. There are a few catch phrases that you can use for any poem such as:

...I love you ...

Come light candle number two.

And...

"To my aunt and uncle whom I truly adore,

Please come up to light candle number four."

Here is an example of how you turn the notes you jot down into a poem. For Grandma & PopPop: Michael is their first and only grandchild, he has slept there every Friday the first 2 years of his life, and still sleeps over at times. They took him skiing for the first time when he was 4, they take him to movies, play cards, you name it, they do it for him!

Turn that into:

There are two special people here who I just love and adore

They introduced me to skiing when I was a boy of four

I have learned so much from both of them about being a good friend

Whether it's at the movies or playing cards, there's laughter without end

When I was little I stayed with them almost every Friday night

Grandma & PopPop it's number twelve, I'd love your help to light

2. If there is someone on the list that your family knows, but you don't know so well, be sure to speak to your family and get some insight into who they are and why they are special.

Example:

For a very dear friend of Mom and Dad's - JoAnn. Steven's mom has known JoAnn since they were 6 and of course JoAnn knows Steven since his birth. She helped the family a great deal when Mom and Dad were going through a divorce. She helped move them from Staten Island to NJ, she stayed there for 2 weeks to help them settle in. Always there for Mom, serious or fun...she is a lot of fun to be around.

Turn that into:

This next candle is for a family friend who's always there in a fix

She's known me since my birth and known Mom since they were six

From Staten Island to New Jersey, she helped us with our move

Two weeks she kept us company, till we got into a groove

Always fun to be around, that's why I'm such a fan

Please come up for candle eleven, mom's dear friend JoAnn

1. When in doubt, go to a professional who will write the poems for you and allow you to concentrate on all the other things you have to do when becoming a bar or bat mitzvah. Visit me at www.thepoemlady.com or email heymannyc@yahoo.com. I'll write candle lighting poems for you based on the information you provide. I also help pick out the songs and make the whole thing effort free. The poems are sweet and funny. You can even print them out and roll them up in a scroll and hand them to the candle-lighters as they come up so they can take their personalized poem home with them.

Most important, just remember to have fun and enjoy your special day

jill - the poem lady
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Thought Leaders - Using Article Marketing To Entrench Yourself and Your Personal Brand

A "Thought Leader" is someone recognized as an authority in their field of expertise...also known as a visionary. Few people set out to become a "thought leader" or "guru," but there is good reason to not only establish yourself as an expert, but as a higher-level expert or "thought leader" for your market.

How can you become a "thought leader" for your niche or industry?

Besides risk-taking, leading a company that leads an industry, being vocal in your own blog and posting comments on other blogs & top industry forums within your niche... the easy answer to saturate the market is via the use of syndicated articles!

Here's a mini-course on how to get started to build your own "thought leadership" following via submissions of EzineArticles:

QUANTITY: You'll need more than 100 articles to really do this right, and as you approach the 500-1,000 article level, you'll be closer to reaching a saturation point that builds a buzz around your name, your ideas, your articles and your expert opinions.

Could you influence a market with 1 or 2 articles? Nope. Can you do it with 10-50 articles? Perhaps 10 years ago you could. Today's market is very competitive and as such, you need to do more than 'what everyone else does' if you want to stand out and get to the top, especially if you're in a niche that is very popular already.

QUALITY: You want to use your articles to communicate your single-minded focus as the expert of your niche. This means quality articles, very little babble, and 1 or 2 links in the resource box that must reinforce your expertise and personal brand. This is not the time to be an affiliate marketer.

Example: If you want people to take your Digital Photography business seriously, you can't post a Geocities, Tripod, etc. junk URL in your article resource box...but rather, you must post a domain name that you own that further solidifies the unity of your message. Also, leave out domains that you own that have nothing to do with the purpose of the article you're writing.

Note: Quality does not mean high word-count quantity. Best if you keep your word-count in the 250-500 words per article so that you can achieve a high article count. A 500-word article performs the same as a 5,000-word article, so why give the marketplace more than they can absorb in an easy reading? Today's reader "scans" rather than deliberately reading every word of your articles.

CONTROVERSY: Unlike other article writing reasons, when you write to achieve market "thought leadership" status, you must stir up the market by taking some gray issues and make them black and white. This is a good opportunity to take current events and provide your expert analysis and support reasons why certain issues are good or bad for the market, economy, world, etc.

CONSISTENCY: Using article marketing or putting your hundreds of articles into distribution is not a one-shot Charlie routine, but rather it's a drum you begin beating and every week for a few years you pound your article submission drums louder and louder.

It pays to create a burst of submissions (50-250) when you initially start, and then taper off to 10-100 new submissions per month until you reach a market saturation point that you feel puts your voice, your brand, your articles at the front of the pack.

PROMOTION: Once you put your articles into distribution via the various article directories, ezine publishers, and specialty web directories of your niche - the next step is to promote them further by using them to establish credibility as you participate in forums, blog comments, your own blog/online journal, and your email newsletter.

"Thought Leadership" via Syndicated Articles Conclusion:

It is possible to take the net by storm to position yourself as a 'thought leader' via putting hundreds and thousands of your articles into distribution. Within 6-18 months, you can become known as a "thought leader" in your niche if you'll do what no one else is doing and in a volume/quality that no one else had done to date for your niche. There is time and you can do it. Go for it! :-)

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

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Writing Chapters And Scenes

You don't even need chapters anymore in some novels, but then you might simply have a lot of chapters.

Normally a Chapter in a Novel is three to five scenes. What then makes the difference between a chapter and its scenes? And why is this important in planning a novel?

In planning your novel or screen play, first you want to create every possible scene or event. Visualize putting each scene or event on a paper card, whether you actually do this or not.

The above exercise, even if you are not a writer, can show you if you can produce an exciting story out of your imagination and life experience. Take an evening and just writing on small cards a series of story-events and see what you come up with. You might be surprised at your creativity!

A scene-event is a dramatization, usually with characters, that happens in one place. It has one action, its reaction, reflection and developmental choice.

Keep this formula in mind and use it over and over again. The formula applies to both characters and plot developments.

The action may be from one of the characters or an outside event like a bank robbery. Thus developments happen both to and in characters but also in the time-line called a plot.

A plot is a time-line of character development and resolution combined with a time-line of action and event development and resolution. Keep this is mind as another primary writing structure for both the novel and the screen play.

The developed writer knows and uses over and over the writing craft structures that work in dramatizing story.

Know your fundamentals. You are the writer using craft tools to tell story. Your readers and viewers experience your story vicariously as real to them because you have used writing craft tools successfully in telling story.

Know your writing craft!

It's a short and simple message, but true.

Story development and resolution is a time-line of scenes, one right after another. Each scene causes another scene to happen, usually sequentially. As a writer you are little different from a scientist. A scientist investigates cause and effect over and over again in his and her research area. You as a writer get to construct cause and effect sequences over and over again in creating dramatically your story.

Thus use scene development and chapter development to keep the story development happening in the most involving ways possible.

Do we need chapters if we have scenes? Do we need acts in plays if we have scenes?

A chapter is a collection of interrelated scenes around a common theme or sub-theme. A story theme is a life issue and life insight dramatized. All great story has a life theme that is dramatized. Story-goals and story-themes are elements of the dramatization of the main story-theme that the story is all about.

Love triumphs over hate, or does it?

In the movie about the theme: pay it forward, the boy who invents and practices this is killed in the end at school, almost accidentally in a knife attack by two other boys. The theme is a great one of good doing more good in the world despite evil that would destroy the good in life.

However, the writer of the novel and the movie is unclear how to write story to theme and so fails the story potential despite a new and strong theme.

In a nutshell, the boy who does acts of kindness in paying it forward gets killed for no reason. Why his attackers hate him enough to kill him is never developed, nor is a character behavior of the good boy dramatized in such a way as to cause murderous hate in another boy.

Killing the boy at the end makes no sense. It gives the wrong feeling to the viewer and reader. It makes one feel the message is 'do good while you can for bad will eventually or quickly overcome you.' I don't really think this is the story message that the writer wanted to convey. If so it is interesting but contradictory to reality and to the story theme of pay it forward, which is to do good deeds to those in need because good deeds have been done to you by others.

Our point here is that you need to be aware of good story-craft in writing up your stories.

Events as scenes are singular. Chapters are families of scenes and so are multiples which cluster around sub-themes of your main theme and story.

In the full The Writer's Interface, a 92,000 words document, you will find a lot more craft tools and ideas that go with scene and chapter development.

While scenes, one after another, give the stepping stones development of your total story, chapters give the cluster development of sub-themes dramatized and leading to main theme development in theme resolution.

Do the good guys win out over the bad guys, the main story archetype? Well, mostly the answer has to be yes because of reader and viewer psychology. Resolution to the tension of good versus evil, with good winning out over evil, is thought of in the human mind as positive and healing.

Thus again in the Pay It Forward novel and movie the hero boy getting stabbed to death as a resolution to the story does not make sense internally or externally in life. Are we supposed to think that in thousands of grade and high schools in the country there are killer boys with knives out to kill at least one other student before they fully grow up? Absurd, but here done and ridiculous. Thus again we say this writer has no good knowledge of story and theme and how it all works to produce and really important novel.

You don't have to be as unconscious or stupid, do you?

Learn your craft then. This is what we also are devoted to. We give a few important ideas here. We give around 2000 writing craft ideas in The Writer's Interface as a service to serious writers who want to do an effective job in writing their novels and screen plays.

Comments To Make

What are your views on writer imagination versus writer craft knowledge in creating novels, plays and stories? What now stands in your way as a writer from producing good work that will sell to lots of readers and viewers?

Strephon Kaplan-Williams is a well-published writer with over 350,000 of his books in circulation in eight languages. He is also a professional dreamwork psychologist and now specializing in writer creativity and writing craft tools. His The Writer's Interface is the first comprehensive collection of writing craft tools ever published that is sure to gain wide acceptance among writers and in the field of writing software. He uses the WriteItNow software as his primary writing organizer for his novel, now with 100,000 words and undergoing a major revision. To learn more about how chapters and scenes go to make up an exciting novel you can visit him at

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Beyond Motivation - Passion

It seems that just as we shifted paradigms in the eighties, we worked synergistically in the nineties; now we are passionate in the naughties. Even my local petrol station has passion brochures at the pump! So what are we passionate for ?

Last October I got some unasked for, but expert, advice from an extreme extrovert to be more passionate. After I had calmed down, I took a long hard look at what I was doing and seriously questioned my passion level. This was after all, expert advice.

My research took me through a motley assortment of superficial pop psychology and self help books, all with Passion in the title and each more inane than the last. Finally I stumbled across a book by Sydney author Peter Wallman, The Wisdom of Passion. He appeared to get to the real core of what Passion is, and after meeting with him I was convinced that he had identified a simple but powerful process for identifying and capturing our core passions. I loved the simplicity of the process and the clarity it brought to me and my business. Now I assist others to identify what it is that gets their juices flowing.

Along the way through research, self analysis and questioning of my clients and others who have Passion Mapped I have identified some keys to passion.

Passion is very personal and unique to the individual.

Most of our strongest passions are kept internalised and rarely expressed outwardly.

The most powerful passions are not material (or sport).

Connecting strongly with our passions creates a magnetic effect We attract people and opportunities.

Eliciting deep passions requires skill, we have learned well from the school of hard knocks to keep this side of ourselves hidden.

When we express our passion, our voices change, our eyes sparkle, and our physical demeanor shifts.

Passion is contagious be very careful.

Passion comes before motivation and way before action.

Passion makes a difference.

I share my story of being told to be more passionate with colleagues and clients and generally get snorts of bemusement. As an introvert, I am not given to bounding into a room, leaping in the air, giving great shouts, or jumping up and down on a sofa Oprahs or anyone elses. So how do I express Passion? Tell me after you talk to me!!!

Passion is not something you have more (or less) of. Passion is inherent and intrinsic.

Last week I had the opportunity to coach 10 leaders and staff members of a niche organisation during three intense days.
Each of these individuals has a determination and a spark in their eyes, a tone of voice and a body posture which unmistakably conveys the depth of their passion about the work they do. Unsurprisingly, the organisations Director is passionately leading from the front - a true visionary leader. I felt honoured and very humbled to be coaching this particular team. Their common focus and harnessed energy, steered by their Director, is making a huge difference to their client base. Truly a high impact and passion based organisation.

One of our tasks as leaders is to uncover and unleash the hidden power of Passion in our employees, to harness and direct this passion towards a common shared goal. Just imagine, if you will, for a moment what your team could achieve this year if they were as passionately involved and focused as the organisation I mentioned earlier.

Kofi Annan said To live is to choose. But to choose, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go, and why you want to get there.
In business our Mission and Values statements spell out who we are and what we stand for, Our Vision statement gives where we want to go, and our Strategy gives us the how. But the why is missing.

Passion is the why!!

Liz Cassidy, founder of Third Sigma International is an author, Speaker, Trainer and Executive Coach and is passionate about facilitating results in the businesses, professional and personal lives of her clients. For more information http://www.thirdsigma.com.au

Karen Armstrong

Distractions While Writing Articles; The Good, Bad and the Ugly

Many people who write articles and post them at online article submission web sites will listen to music while they work. This can be distracting and sometimes cause mistakes, although for some it can be very enjoyable. For others it can be a knowing and detracting.

On the other hand visuals like watching Discovery Channel, Wings, Weather Channel, Sci Fi, Movie Channel, Sports or News can also be enjoyable while writing and yet watching TV while writing will most definitely add to the number of errors in your articles. I have also noticed that my articles also come out differently. That is to say that the subject matter of whenever I am watching may end up setting the tone for my article. Then if I switch while in the middle of an article it seems to change the outcome a bit?

I know if you are watching a Docu-Drama, Action film or listening to music with lots of verbal irony, Country or some of the newer stuff then you must re-check your articles and be careful editing, otherwise too many mistakes. If you are writing lots of articles and also listening to music or watching TV while doing so then perhaps you need to look over your articles a little bit better to make sure you are saying what you really want to say. Please consider this in 2006.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.

What is Creative Writing?

Traditionally, all writing has been classified into two clear-cut categories, non-creative writing and creative writing. Non-creative writing usually deals with hard, cold facts. Its purpose is to inform readers and enhance their knowledge about a specific happening, situation, product, or concept. For instance, a book on history, a news write-up on a recent event, and a technical article on the latest software are all examples of non-creative writing.

In contrast, creative writing is inspired writing or writing that comes from within. It may or may not be based on facts. Even when based on facts, the purpose of creative writing is to reveal these facts in a new light, as perceived by the author. A creative writer reflects on the people and things surrounding her, meditates on concepts like love and fidelity, and then puts her thoughts and feelings on paper. Novels, poems, and short stories are all examples of creative writing.

To understand the difference between non-creative and creative writing more clearly, let us consider a road accident. A simple report of what happened in the road accident-who was injured, who was driving, etc-is an example of non-creative writing. However, if the same accident is woven into a story about the injured man, perhaps portraying him as a victim of fate rather than the motor driver, the resulting work would be called creative writing.

As you've probably guessed, both these styles of writing require different skill sets. While a non-creative writer must focus on writing with an analytical and methodical approach, a successful creative writer must be imaginative, philosophical, and to a certain extent, visionary.

The good news is that the traditional dividing line between non-creative and creative writing is blurring. It is not uncommon to find a non-creative work written in a highly creative way so that the work not onl book y informs but also inspires the reader. A good example of such a work is Sophie's World, a New York Times Bestseller, by Jostein Gaarder. Although Sophie's World is about the history of philosophy, something that most readers would consider a dull subject, Gaarder treats the subject as a wonderful mystery novel.

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