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The National Weather Service (NWS) reports that billions of dollars were lost in flood damage every year. This property damage includes homes, properties and other valuables. In the 1990's alone, there was over $50 billion in damages from floods. Not only was property damaged during ...
As I have intimated in previous offerings, the research that goes into writing a historical novel can be almost minimal, or can entail weeks and months of endeavor. If one wishes to write about something as remote as the caravans carrying silk in the ancient ...
There are different answers as to why we edit because there are always different people doing the job, and that's why editing means different things to different people. Students will have a slightly different idea about what it means to edit than the office worker ...
I went to my local grocery store the other day. I needed some shaved deli meat for my famous "Killer Roast Beef Sandwiches." The deli counter is right there when you walk in and the scene was a typical early evening gotta-get-somethin-for-dinner rush. I counted ...
Have you ever wondered, as you sit at your keyboard, if there are any secrets to successful novel writing? Well there are - and here are five of them. Remember these secrets and your novel writing will improve overnight! To call the points below 'secrets' ...
Almost everyone longs for a place where they fit in, a place where they feel safe and loved. For most people, their families provide this security, but Paul Miller had to find it out in the world and in his own heart. In his new ...
Every good freelance editor knows that one of the initial stages of editing text is to check the accuracy of the piece, and that means correcting where necessary the facts and figures as well as the punctuation and grammar. In most of the work that ...
This is James Ross' first exploration into the literary world, and he should pat himself on the back for producing a very well designed and executed story. I like my heroes heroic and my villains villainous, and Ross delivers. Being a book reviewer, I maybe treat ...
Do you love reading a good book? Do you love to curl up in an easy chair or some other incredibly comfortable place and really enjoy this book? Have you ever finished a book, and thought to yourself, "I could've written that!" Well, guess what? Because ...
The crazy world of publishing can be a scary and confusing place for a new book writer, and it can be nice to get a little bit of guidance on how to navigate around things like writer guidelines, publishing houses,literary agents, and such. While ...
