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Features

• Advice About Advice
  Find the best of "good advice" about writing
• The Audit: A Real-Life Tax Adventure
• Not-So-Secret Agent Basics
• Banned Books Week
• Bio Blurbs
  Writing your "short bio."
• Book Reviews: Riles & Rules
  Reviews, reviewers, and some rules about how to get reviewed.
• Copyright Basics
  Copyright exists the moment the work is fixed in a tangible form.
• Email: Electronic Communication
• First Fiction
  It may be easier for a first-timer to get a book contract than for a veteran writer.
• How Do I Get Published?
• Getting Paid
  Freelancing often has very little to do with being paid and everything to do with being *owed* money
• Inspiration
• Proofreading: Captain Ellison of the Proof Patrol & Some Monks
• Myth Busting: Twelve Fallacies About Writing and Publishing
• Rights Basics
  The owner of a copyright owns a variety of rights that can each be sold or assigned separately to a third party.
• The Taxman (or -woman) Cometh
• Confessions of a Word Wonk

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Tips

• (Using) Adverbs and Adjectives
• Capitalization
• Confusing Words
• Dangling Modifiers
• (Using) Metaphors
• Mistakes Spell-Checkers Will Not Catch (and That Drive Editors Crazy)
• Style: Cyberwords
• Style: Numbers
• Passive & Active Voice
• Point of View
• Pronoun Pointers
• Punctuation Pointers
• ampersand
• colon
• exclamation mark
• question mark
• quotation marks
• virgule
• Punctuating Compound Sentences
• Underlining and Italics
• When Punctuation Marks Collide
• Redundancies
• Sorting Out Shall, Shan't, Will, and
• Won't
• Specialized, but Unacceptable, Meanings for Words
• Spelling
• Irregular Plurals
• Ten Tips for Better Spelling
• Title Capitalization
• Trademarks & What to Do With Them

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Resources

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• Mystery Writing
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• Postage & Shipping
• Romance Writing
• References for Writers
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  • Translation
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  • Geographical Reference/Maps
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• Scams & Warnings
• Screenwriting
• Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing
• Viruses & Hoaxes

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