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Sharon Hurley Hall is a freelance writer and ghostwriter who has worked in writing for 20 years. Sharon specializes in writing about writing, but she has also written on parenting, education, youth work, web development, business, finance and the metals

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Arts & Humanities > Marketing & Selling Writing How to prepare and promote your sample clips for freelance writing: 3 of 10

Preparing clips for freelance writing is not impossible, even if you have never been published. Here are four strategies you can try: 1. Use your blog as an example of your writing. Point editors towards it and they'll be able to see your writing and people's responses to it. That will give them an idea of how popular you mi...
Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging How to start a blog: 6 of 14

The easiest way to start a blog is to let someone else host it for you. That means you don't have to mess around with code. Good options for this include Google's Blogger.com, where you can be up and running in less than five minutes. Although it has a bad name because of the number of splogs, it is still probably the quicke...
Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Best blogs and paying blogs on the web: 2 of 4

Deciding on the best blog site will depend on what a person is looking for. There are many blog sites that have a great and active community, such as WritingUp.com. WritingUp also works on the adsense revenue sharing model, which means that it is possible to earn money if people click on the ads on your posts. This is not a ...
Arts & Humanities > Marketing & Selling Writing Freelance writing: 26 of 31

You can get paid to write. I do. My friend Suzanne James does. Here is how I did it. 1. I wrote for free. I wrote on consumer reviews sites and I wrote free articles for article directories. I did that so I could polish my writing and so I could have recent clips to show people. 2. I started a blog on WritingUp, so that I co...
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips The writer's office: What you really need: 28 of 32

To set up the perfect writer's home office, you need to start with the tools of the trade. That means you need a computer with decent RAM and hard drive as well as wired and wireless connections to the Internet and a telephone. Even better than this is a laptop, which means you can write anywhere. Add to this a printer and a...
Travel > Travel Planning & Advice Best honeymoon destinations: 18 of 20

The Caribbean is a wonderful place to go on honeymoon. You can choose from islands with different heritage, including English, French, Spanish and Dutch. With all of them you get beautiful beaches and warm sunshine. There are quiet islands and lively islands, depending on your taste - and you can enjoy a range of cultural ex...
Health & Fitness > Diet & Weight Loss Fast track to weight loss: How to lose weight in a hurry: 6 of 6

There are two things that I have tried in the last two years that have led to weight loss. With the low GI Diet I lost 20 pounds within a couple of months, simply by cutting down on carbohydrates and eating foods that burn slowly in the body. The Low GI Diet book lays it out clearly, with red, amber and green lists of what y...
Computers & Technology > Software & Web Development How social bookmarking works: 4 of 4

Social bookmarking works like adding bookmarks or favourites in your browser. The difference is that you get to share those bookmarks with others. And instead of just adding a link, you can use tags, which are words or descriptions to identify the bookmarks. That makes it easy to find the bookmarks again and to see what othe...