You are a writer. Your mother, father, brother and best friend all think you are good enough to win a Nobel prize. This will not guarantee you a thing.
Get a grant. This is the way to do it - some inside secrets. First you need to be an incorporated organisation; that’s a big stumbling block. [...]

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Los Gatos, Calif., May 26, 2009 — Smashwords, an independent publisher, distributor and retailer of ebooks, today introduced the Smashwords Affiliate Marketing Program. The program allows bloggers, authors, readers, publishers, website operators, online specialty bookstores and professional affiliate marketers to receive commissions of 11 percent or more simply by linking to Smashwords ebooks.
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by David Goldsmith
There are many ways to earn a good living as a writer. In my book “25 Ways to Write for Money” I cover twenty five different ways that you can turn your words into cash. In this article I want to show you five ways that you can get started on right now.
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While researching this post, what really struck me was the sheer quantity of word processing applications, in a wide variety of flavours there are now. There’s full scale offices, word processors mini and maxi, text editors, online, offline, collaborative, private, chapter based, etc etc. Now I had to wonder, just who uses all these apps, [...]

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