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Writing About Books

Posted by Sharon | August 13, 2008 .

Or should that be: writing for a books site? One of my latest gigs is writing for Webooks. It’s an ebook publishing site that is expanding to include articles related to the books’ content. I’ve written four articles for them so far, and two have been published. They are Moving Your Article From Mag To […]

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Sharing Knowledge

Posted by Sharon | July 28, 2008 .

Well, I couldn’t resist adding my name to another site, especially when it comes from Google. I’ve just published my first Knol using a sample article on off plan property that I had lying around.  It was very easy to publish and I think I’ll put more of my work there in the future. To […]

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Jordan Gives Thumbs-Up To Ghostwriting

Posted by Sharon | July 23, 2008 .

Katie Price, the British glamour model formerly known as Jordan, revealed that she doesn’t write her own books. Instead, she comes up with the concept and a ghostwriter fleshes it out.
‘I say how I want the storyline to be, each chapter is done, I read through it change it and then it goes away to […]

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Great Week For Guest Blogging

Posted by Sharon | July 18, 2008 .

It’s been a good week for me this week. In addition to getting repeat work from old clients and landing a couple of new gigs, I’ve had posts published on several blogs. These are professional blogging gigs, which means that people pay me to blog. Here are some of my posts from the past week:

Feeding […]

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Five Things I Can Do That Are Not On My Resume

Posted by Sharon | June 26, 2008 .

Men with Pens wrote today about how a great reputation can ruin your business, making the point that sometimes the work you publicize creates a particular image of the skills you have. It occurred to me that all of us have skills that we don’t promote, but which we use competently. Here are some of […]

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June Work Update

Posted by Sharon | June 20, 2008 .

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I thought I’d bring you up to date on what I’ve been doing in June.  I started the month with articles on eco-friendly travel in Florida, and wrote some new posts for Daily Writing Tips, where one of the posts that got the most attention was on […]

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Writing About Social Media

Posted by Sharon | May 23, 2008 .

I recently had the chance to write about one of my favourite social media/networking sites, Twitter. It’s amazing how much information is out there. Although I’m a Twitter user, I started out not knowing as much as I could have about what makes it tick. I knew a lot about how people used it, and […]

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Hire Me To Write Your Press Release

Posted by Sharon | May 7, 2008 .

If you can write the news, you can write a press release.  As I’ve shown in my posts on Daily Writing Tips, the techniques for writing news stories and press releases are identical. As a former journalist and editor, I have read and written plenty of press releases, and the secret is simple:

a killer headline
a […]

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Writing About English

Posted by Sharon | April 4, 2008 .

I think the English language is fascinating, which makes being a freelance writer even more fun. I love to play with words, coin new ones and find out what old ones mean. That’s why my gig at DailyWritingTips is perfect.

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Writing Tips For 2007

Posted by Sharon | December 13, 2007 .

I have a regular gig writing posts on writing for Daily Writing Tips. Here’s a list of my posts so far this year.
There, Their, They’re
Contractions
Note Taking Tip
The Right Climate
Principle, Principal
Say What?
Not Nice At All
Word Subtraction
The Art Of Writing News
Why We Need Paragraphs
Spanish Loan Words
Writing For Magazines
How To Change Your Writing Style
On The QT
Four Tips For […]

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