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Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author?

Professional Creative Writing Assessments

By Anne Hart

Published: March, 2009

  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
  • Pages: 264
  • Size: 5x8
  • Paperback $18.95 from publisher, ASJA Press imprint, www.iUniverse.com. Available also at most online bookseller's Web sites.
  • ISBN: 9781440125201
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Are you best-suited to be a historical novelist, mystery writer, short story sprinter, digital interactive story writer on ancient civilizations, a nonfiction writer, or an author of thrillers using historical settings or universal themes?

Do you think like a fiction writer, investigative journalist, or an imaginative, creative nonfiction author writing biography in the style of genre or mainstream fiction? Enhance your creativity.

How are you going to clarify and resolve the issues, problems, or situations in your plot by the way your characters behave to move the action forward? How do you get measurable results when writing fiction or creative nonfiction? Consider what steps you show to reveal how your story is resolved by the characters.

This also is known as the denouement. Denouement as it applies to a short story or novel is the final resolution. It’s your clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot. What category of denouement will your characters take to move the plot forward?

Take the writing style preference classifier and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using facts and acts. Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction, decisive or investigative?

Would you rather write for readers that need to interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits you? What’s your writing profile?

Enjoy this ancient echoes writing genre interest, personality, and aptitude classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more creative. There are 35 questions—seven questions for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices, five assessments and a section on how to write a novel/story/script by developing depth of character that drives your plot.

Obtain the paperback book at most online bookseller's Web sites or browse the book at the publisher's Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000124541

 

Paperback Books by Anne Hart

 

 

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ADVENTURES IN MY BELOVED MEDIEVAL ALANIA AND BEYOND

A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains

By Anne Hart

  • Published: February, 2009
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 324
  • Size: 5x8
  • ISBN: 9781440119552
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This Medieval Princess in the Caucasus Mountains Seeks to Do Acts of Kindness. My life adventure is resilience and to find a voice that resonates all of my confidence. Now in my youth just before I will become sixteen years of age, my confidence speaks all about lighting a wonderful brightness and walking out of the darkness of insatiable banalities.

With the renewal of spring, the world is repaired, and the gardens bloom in my magnificent Alania. I walk up steep hills and ride far to remember each intimate glimpse of blooms on trees and to listen as waterfalls whisper. We have come up here all the way from Sarkel to remain here in the mountains, close to my childhood home.

To insure my confidence, my voice, and my resilience, here I light the eternal flame to brighten the damp room. I am Raziet, now called Serakh. I am Karachaian-Balkarian, and from my grandfathers, of sweet Alania. I am partly Khazar and partly from the peoples that dwell by Mount Elbrus. I am all of them, all mixed together for generations. My many ancestors came from Persia, the Kavkaz, the Steppes, Turan and Altai, the Urals, the Adigha, and beyond where the sky rides the moon.

I am the tamga of the horse, the orchards, my pet wolf, and the open grasslands. And today, I am here, not where the Volga meets the Caspian, but with our friends and my cousin breathing deeply the sparkling air beneath my Mount Elbrus. We wait in our aoul. We are all of my magnificient Alania, and here now, in this land of orchards to the north, the scent of the birch trees, the patina, the starlight, my venture, value, and vision.

Sit at my table and experience the eternal light of Alania and Khazaria and all the rest of these mountains and rivers from the Caucasus to the seas of Pontus and Meotis. We are all one from many in the joy of life and we are here to do acts of kindness.

 

How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues

Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language

By Anne Hart

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  • Published: October, 2008
  • Format: Perfect Bound Softcover
  • Pages: 188
  • Size: 6x9
  • ISBN: 9780595535354
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People vary in responses to food. What can scientists and researchers tell most family members about "healing nutrition" information to combat childhood type-2 diabetes or weight issues?

How do you explain individualized, tailored, and customized nutrition in plain language to parents, children, and food retailers and to your own healthcare practitioner?

Is it a scientific fact, metabolic reality, common sense, or cultural practice that reports of eating a lot of meat by a metabolic-typed carbohydrate type person might turn to fat, whereas eating mostly vegetables and fruits by a protein-type person might turn to fat because the carbohydrate-type person may be a slow oxidizer of sugar but the protein-type person may be a fast oxider of sugar? (Sugar perhaps would hit the bloodstream faster, causing spikes in insulin due to possible insulin resistance.) Tests can determine how you metabolize foods.

Would a nutrigenomics-oriented genetic test of specific markers give clues? Or would measuring the insulin response after eating sweets reveal sugar spikes that a fasting glucose blood test might not show on paper?

What's out there to learn about dangerous eating, food misinformation, and healing foods? Is it true that one person's dangerous foods are another person's healing foods based on metabolic and genetic body types? Is it true that specific foods turn into fuel for one person but become fat for another individual?

 I'm the author of 90+ books listed at http://annehart.tripod.com. Here is a list of my published books. I'm a book author full time and also write for magazines freelance since 1963. I'm a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Mensa. Here's a list of my paperback published books in print available from most online booksellers and the publisher.  My creativity enhancement blog is at: http://creativityquestionnaires.blogspot.com/ 

Available Paperback Books Written by Anne Hart

Click on Underlined Link to Browse Each Book at Publisher's Web site at http://www.iuniverse.com. Books also are listed with most online booksellers. 

 

1.    101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

2.    101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients  

3.    102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy  

4.    1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity

5.    30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open  

6.    32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses  

7.    35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start  

8.    801 Action Verbs for Communicators  

9.    A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book  

10.  A Private Eye Called Mama Africa  

11.  Ancient and Medieval Teenage Diaries

12.  Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye  

13.  Astronauts and Their Cats  

14.  Cleopatra's Daughter  

15.  Counseling Anarchists  

16.  Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals

17.  Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules  

18.  Creative Genealogy Projects  

19.  Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less  

20.  Cyber Snoop Nation  

21.  Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism  

22.  Dogs with Careers: Ten Happy-Ending Stories of Purpose and Passion  

23.  Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New England Settlers

24.  Employment Personality Tests Decoded

25.  Ethno-Playography  

26.  Find Your Personal Adam And Eve .

27.  Four Astronauts and a Kitten  

28.  How To Stop Elderly Abuse  

29.  How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program  

30.  How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners  

31.  How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry

32.   How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online  

33.  How to Make Money Organizing Information  

34.  How to Make Money Selling Facts  

35.  How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC  

36.  How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses  

37.  How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients  

38.  How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family History Research  

39.  How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls  

40.  How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes  

41.  How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with Wealthy Strangers  

42.  How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses  

43.  How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books  

44.  How to Video Record Your Dog's Life Story  

45.  How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or Current Events  

46.  Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine  

47.  Is Radical Liberalism or Extreme Conservatism a Character Disorder, Mental Disease, or Publicity Campaign?  

48.  Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service  

49.  Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement  

50.  Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses  

51.  Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA  

52.  Murder in the Women's Studies Department  

53.  New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman .

54.  Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond to Food  

55.  One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me.

56.  Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines  

57.  Power Dating Games  

58.  Predictive Medicine for Rookies  

59.  Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays  

60.  Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome  

61.  Roman Justice: SPQR  

62.  Sacramento Latina  

63.  Scrapbooking, Time Capsules, Life Story Desktop Videography & Beyond with Poser 5, CorelDRAW ® Graphics Suite 12 & Corel WordPerfect Office Suite 12  

64.  Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy  

65.  Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity  

66.  The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History  

67.  The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik  

68.  The DNA Detectives  

69.  The Date Who Unleashed Hell  

70.  The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook  

71.  The Khazars Will Rise Again!  

72.  The Writer's Bible  

73.  Tools for Mystery Writers  

74.  Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry Online  

75.  Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry  

76.  Verbal Intercourse  

77.  Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records  

78.  Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now, & What Are They Paying?  

79.  Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother  

80.  Writer's Guide to Book Proposals  

81.  Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops  

82.  Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes  

83.  Writing What People Buy  

84.  Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries

85.  How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club: The Craft of Producing Salable Living Legacies, Celebrations of Life, Genealogy Periodicals, Family Newsletters, Time Capsules, Biographies, Fiction, Memoirs, Ethno-Plays, Skits, Monologues, Autobiographies, Events, Reunion Publications, or Gift Books

86. How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods: Solve your stain removal problems with spices, oils, salt, baking soda, vegetables, cream of tartar, milk, vinegar, or alcohol, and make your own mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, and pesticides from zinc, plants, calcium, oils, or vitamins. Shine hardwood floors and furniture with tea and linseed oil. Here are the best of the recipes and also where to find more home-made cleaning or greening recipes on-line.

87. How Nutrigenomics Fights Childhood Type-2 Diabetes & Weight Issues: Validating Holistic Nutrition in Plain Language. ISBN: 0-595-53535-6.

88. ADVENTURES in my beloved MEDIEVAL ALANIA and beyond, A TIME-TRAVEL NOVEL SET IN THE 10TH CENTURY CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS. ISBN: 9781440119552

89. Traveling Poems and Short Stories. Published both in paperback and as an e-book by lulu.com. See: http://www.lulu.com/content/3879306.

90.Do You Have the Aptitude & Personality to Be A Popular Author? Professional Creative Writing Asessment ISBN:9781440125201.

 

Plays, poetry, video and audio lectures, and Novels

 

See http://www.lulu.com  and search under author's name, Anne Hart for paperback books, plays, and video or audio lecture files.

 

  Growing Up During Coney Island's Heyday: The Play  http://www.lulu.com/content/4453372

 

 

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RESOURCES

Creative and Business Writing Resources on the Web

© 2007 By Anne Hart

Training Beginners in the Business of Writing and the Writing of
Business

Alexander Communications
Business Writing Seminars Provides on-site.
http://www.alexcommunications.com/

The Business Writing Center

Online, Instructor-Led Business Writing Courses Business Writing
Workshops at Company Sites.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/



Business Writing Workshop Catalog
http://www.writingtrainers.com/workshop/workcat.htm



Salary Wizard
http://www.salary.com



Copywriter.com
This is a Web site where words get results. Site is created by Al
Bredenberg Creative Services.
http://www.copywriter.com



American Reporter
This magazine is the online cooperative "reporter's newspaper."
http://www.american-reporter.com/

Executive Speech and Business Writing Internet And Marketing
Strategies For Writers. Practical advice books on how to use the
Internet to further your writing career and market your writing.
http://www.speechwriter.net/


Instructional Solutions
http://www.instructionalsolutions.com/


Internet Strategies for Writers
http://www.washwriter.org/resources/membersonly/archive/netstrats.htm

Rules of Punctuation for Business Writing
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/tpl4.htm


Writing Successful Business Proposals
Writing Center as is public relations writing and copywriting.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/center/bwc360.htm



Writers Conferences and Seminars

E-book World

Offering conferences, networking, and information on writing and
publishing as well as all other business aspects of the e-book
marketplace.
http://www.e-book-world.com/ebook-fr.shtml

Newspaper Association of America

Conferences, marketing resources, circulation data, surveys, and
events.
http://www.naa.org

Poynter Online
(Everything You Need to be a Better Journalist)
http://www.poynter.org/
Finding Paying Markets for Freelance Writers

Finding Writing Markets Online:

Online sources for finding the latest print markets: electronic
newsstands, publication

Web sites and guideline databases. Electronic newsstands help you
find emarkets

for writing.

http://www.NewsDirectory.com

Writers Guideline Databases.

Online listing of writing markets and databases on marketing your
writing.

www.Marketlist.com



Writers Guideline Publications

These may link you to guidelines on a publication's Web site.

www.writersdigest.com



Media Directories

To send review copies of books and freelance article queries to
publications listed

in media directories.

General Major Media Directories for Freelance Writers

Gebbie Press

The All-in-One Media Directory

PR Media Directory: Newspapers Radio TV Magazines:Press releases,

Faxes, e-mail, publicity, and freelance. Media directory includes TV
and

radio stations, daily and weekly newspapers, and consumer and trade

magazines.

http://www.gebbieinc.com/

http://www.gebbieinc.com/presto1.htm



Gebbie Press:

Magazine Publishers on the Internet

An alphabetical listing of leading publishers in the United States,
and

links to their web sites.

http://www.gebbieinc.com/publish.htm



Electronic Media Directories

Press Flash

Distribute your Web firm's press releases to media outlets throughout

the world using the services and resources provided by Press Flash.
Press

release writing services are also provided.

http://www.pressflash.com/



E-zine directories

E-Publications Directors Resource List

If you want to write for electronic publications, see these e-
publications directories.

At this site you can find out information on writing for electronic
markets.

http://www.zinebook.com



E-Zine Advice Publications Online

Contentious

This publication is the e-zine that advises and offers information
for people who

write or publish content on the Web. Find out where to write for
other electronic

magazines. Offers online options for frustrated journalists.

http://www.contentious.com/



Ethnic Media Directories

American Minorities Media

American Minorities Media is a subsidiary of Market Place Media, the
leading

media placement company reaching specialized markets.

http://www.marketmedia.com/amm



Specialized Markets

MarketMedia.com

Media and promotions solutions for reaching specialized markets such
as senior

citizens, minorities, military, students, and others. Also media
analysis is offered.

http://www.marketmedia.com/



Freelance Editorial Association

(Includes desktop publishers)

The current online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997,
includes listings

by skills as well as a specialties index. This association published
the hardcopy,

Yellow Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to advertise

their skills and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.

http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html



International

International Journalists' Network

If you write about overseas subjects or travel, you'll find the
International Center

for Journalists' online source full of training information and media
directories.

http://www.ijnet.org



SAJA: South Asian Journalists Association

Writers interested in South Asian features, covering the people,
businesses, or

processes impacting South Asia will find excellent resources in this
association

and its publications.

http://www.saja.org/job.html



International Women's Writing Guild

The International Women's Writing Guild, headquartered in New York and

founded in 1976, is a network for the personal and professional
empowerment of

women through writing.

http://www.iwwg.com



Poets.Org (from the Academy of American Poets)

http://www.awpwriter.org/



Pressbox—UK

Pressbox is the UK online press center offering press release and
copywriting services

providing a professional resource for news, press releases, and
postings to

carefully targeted audiences.

http://www.pressbox.co.uk



Associazioni ed Enti Professionali—America

List of South American, Canadian, and US writers' organizations. This
site contains

a fine list of writers' associations and language translation firms.

http://www.alice.it/writers/grp.wri/wgrpame.htm



Rural Press Interactive

Rural Press Interactive outlines opportunities to target specific
markets throughout

Australia, includes metro, regional and rural. The association brings
press and

Internet together with a network of publications and sites.

http://www.rpinteractive.com.au



Electronic Pages and E-Marketing for Writers

The development journal of the International Informatics Institute is
called Electronic

Pages. It offers at the site, articles, forums, and announcements of
conferences

as well as great advice on writing for the electronic market

http://www.electric-pages.com/



Tailwind.com

Responsible e-mail marketing, help for small businesses, help for the
small business

owner such as freelance writers.

http://www.tailwind.com/db/y.asp?hid=90&nid=1



Marketing Strategies and Techniques for Writers

101 Marketing Tips for Writers: This site offers a list of 101
marketing tips,

Cassell Success Guide, and some links for writers, such as if
you "want to break

into advertising, go to church." Published by Cassell Network of
Writers, Cassell

Communications, Inc.

http://www.bitcave.com/101tips.htm



Elaine's Marketing Suggestions for Writers

The Professional Association for Christian Writers

http://www.christianwritersinfo.net/ElaineTips.htm

Writers Information Network (WIN). Christian writer's information
network

and advice: quality writing for the Christian markets.

http://www.bluejaypub.com/win/ElaineTips.htm



Business Writing Associations

American Business Press

The American Business Press is the industry association for business-
to-business

information providers, including producers of magazines, CD-ROMS, Web

sites, trade shows and products that build upon the printed product.
The association

has a staff of specialists in government affairs, marketing,
communications,

promotion and finance.

http://www.salesdoctors.com/directory/dircos/3103a03.htm



American Society of Business Press Editors

(ASBPE) is the professional association for full-time and freelance
editors and

writers employed in the business, trade, and specialty press.

http://www.asbpe.org/



Writers', Journalists', & Editors' Associations

Academy Of American Poets

Provides information, events, publications, education, and
professional services

to people writing poetry as a profession. The Academy of American
Poets offers

poetry exhibits online and biographies, photographs, and selected
poems.

http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/kkochfst.htm



American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Links on how electronic publishing allows a writer to create a
parallel product

line to profitably meet more needs in a different way. This site
contains links and

resources for the organization called American Society of Journalists
and Authors

and features books by members and speakers. ASJA Writer Referral
Service is at

http://www.asja.org



American Copy Editors Society

The society focuses on improving the quality of journalism. Writerly
resources

include editorial advice, job openings, discussion boards and
conference updates.

http://www.copydesk.org/



The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

More than 80,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music
publishers belong

to this society. ASCAP protects the rights of its members by
licensing and paying

royalties for copyrighted works. The job board and Resource Guide to
the Music

Business are excellent resources for writers interested in the
business of writing

lyrics or song and music publishing.

http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html



American Jewish Press Association

Founded nearly 50 years ago as an association for the English-
language Jewish

press in North America, today more than 150 newspapers, publications
and individual

journalists are members. Excellent job bank. Publishes a directory of
members.

http://www.ajpa.org/



Association of Jewish Book Publishers

http://www.avotaynu.com/ajbp.html



Writers Guild of America

Association of screenwriters and animation scriptwriters that work
for union

wages for the film and TV production industry. You may register
scripts here, or

find a list of agents, WGA news, online mentor service, and research
links.

http://www.wga.org/



Society for Professional Journalists

This society offers local chapters, a code of ethics in journalism,
and professional

membership events, contests, and awards as well as meetings covering
the business

of journalism to any working journalist, freelance or staff.
Maintains local

and student chapters nationwide.



The society offers ethics news, publications, job referrals, and
continuing education

seminars for journalists and grants scholarships in journalism. SPJ
publishes

Quill magazine, a trade journal for journalists. Maintains a site
called The Electronic

Journalist for online writers.

http://spj.org/



National Writers Association

Foundation partnerships, courses, publications, services for writers.
Excellent site

for contract reading, critiques, and help for all types of writers.
National Writers

Press, a leader in self-publishing of books.

http://www.nationalwriters.com/



American Society of Media Photographers

Offers an online gallery of work done by members of this professional
association

for photographers. The links of this national organization includes a
directory

and links to members' Web pages. Useful for writers seeking media
photographers

to work with on an article or book that needs media photography work.

http://www.asmp.org/



Association of Writers & Writing Programs

The mission of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is to
foster literary

talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to
a good

education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers
of contemporary

writing.

http://www.awpwriter.org/



Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

SCBWI is dedicated to serving those who write, illustrate, or share
an interest in

children's literature. The site offers conferences, regional
newsletters, a bimonthly

bulletin, writing and publishing links and tips, including other
informational

publications.

http://www.scbwi.org/



Writersclub.com

Resource links for writers.

http://www.writers.club.com/



California Writers Clubs

List of writers clubs and resources with links to seminars, training,
magazines,

groups, conferences, career centers, area writers' organizations,
book cafes, and

directories of newspapers.

http://www.calwriters.org/



Society for Professional Journalists

Their New Way Journalism Page is excellent.

http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/



Society of American Business Editors and Writers

Members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have
joined

together in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic
journalism,

through both individual and collective efforts.

http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage



Technical Writers Associations

Society for Technical Communication

STC is the largest professional organization serving the technical
communication

profession.

http://www.stc.org/



Society for Technical Communicators

Technical writing information, grants, salary surveys, loans, and
book listings.

http://www.stc-va.org



HTML Writers Guild

International association of Web authors offering tips on good Web
writing,

design information and technology resources for writers of html.

http://www.hwg.org



Hypertext Writers Guild

If you write content in hypertext or want to learn, you can benefit
from the

resources, tips, and networks at the Hypertext Writers Guild.

http://www.mindspring.com/guild/



Computer Press Association

The Computer Press Association (CPA) was established to promote
excellence in

the field of computer journalism. Members include working editors,
writers, producers,

and freelancers who cover issues related to computers and technology.

http://www.computerpress.org/



Associations for Business or Marketing Journalists and Copywriters:

Freelance or Staff

American Business Press

Non-profit, global association for business-to-business information

Providers including databases, conventions, and other media.

http://www.americanbusinesspress.com/



American Society of Business Press Editors

(ASBPE) is the professional association for full-time and freelance
editors and

writers employed in the business, trade, and specialty press.

http://www.asbpe.org/



Associated Business Writers of America

This site contains an excellent list of writers' associations.

http://www.poewar.com/articles/associations.htm



Association of Professional Communication Consultants

APCC creates a "professional community where communication consultants

increase their knowledge, grow their businesses, and achieve high
standards of

professional practice." APCC's mission is to "support members as they
help clients

reach their goals through better communication."

http://www.apcc-online.org/



Cat Writers' Association, Inc. (CWA)

http://www.catwriters.org/



Dog Writers Association of America

http://www.dwaa.org/



Freelance Editorial Association

(Includes desktop publishers)

The current online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997,
includes listings

by skills as well as a specialties index. This association published
the hardcopy,

Yellow Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to advertise

their skills and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.

http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html



Selected List of Multimedia Publishers/Producers/Distributors

Kay E. Vandergrift has compiled an excellent list in order to
facilitate easy access

to contact media publishers, producers and distributors.

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/mediacatalog.html



Society of American Business Editors and Writers

Members of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have
joined

together in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic
journalism,

through both individual and collective efforts.

http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage



Software Publishers Association

Are you a multimedia developer or publisher? Or do you own multimedia
content

that you want to license? See The Software Publishers Association
Legal

Guide to Multimedia. It's a guide to the legal issues of developing,
protecting,

and distributing multimedia products.

http://www.awl-he.com/titles/0201409313.html



Women In Scholarly Publishing

Women in Scholarly Publishing (WiSP) is a professional organization
serving the

educational and professional advancement of its members. WiSP is
committed to

achieving equal opportunity and compensation for all those employed
in the field

of scholarly publishing.

http://www.wispnet.org/about.html



Writers Guild of America

Association of screenwriters and animation script writers who work
for union

wages for the film and TV production industry. You may register
scripts here,

find a list of agents, WGA news, online mentor service, and research
links.

http://www.wga.org/



National Writers Union

http://www.nwu.org/nwu/



Truck Writers of North America

This site lists a glossary of trucking terms for writers and a list
of freelance writing

jobs available for writers specializing in writing about trucking and
the truck

industry. Excellent freelance writing job postings listed in their
job bank. TWNA

is an organization of professionals who are involved in gathering,
writing and

reporting news and information about trucks, trucking and the
trucking industry.

http://www.twna.org/job_postings.htm



Advertising/Multimedia

Association of Independent Commercial Producers

Kaufman Astoria Studios

This association specializes in photo-real visual effects. Job bank
on site for programmers,

artists, and other creative people interested in working on photo-
realistic

projects.

http://www.telefilm-south.com/index.html



International Chain of Industrial and Technical Advertising Agencies

http://www.thevines.com

National Writers Association (NWA)

Foundation partnerships, courses, publications, services for writers.
Excellent site

for contract reading, critiques, and help for all types of writers.
National Writers

Press, a leader in self-publishing of books.

http://www.nationalwriters.com/



Academy Of Television Arts and Sciences

News, activities, committee events, publications, and awards related
to the TV

production, marketing, and scriptwriting industry.

http://www.emmys.tv/



Advertising Club of New York

Strives to elevate the understanding of marketing and advertising
communications

by providing a common forum.

http://www.adclubny.org/index_home.shtml



Advertising Production Club of New York (APC)

Has products, manufacturers, and associations database and
information at site.

http://www.arcat.com/arcatcos/cos36/arc36681.cfm



Advertising Women of New York

Holds events and has mentoring program. AWNY'S mission is to provide a

forum for personal and professional growth; to serve as a catalyst
for the advancement

of women in the communications field; to promote and support
philanthropic

endeavors through the AWNY Foundation.

http://www.awny.org/



Science Writers Associations

American Medical Writers Association

For freelance and staff writers focusing on medical issues in the
news, pharmaceutical

copywriting, healthcare articles, health and nutrition, and related
medical

writing. Also see American Medical Writers Association Job Market for
freelancers

and full-time staff, for members.

http://www.amwa.org/about/about.html





National Association of Science Writers.

For writing, marketing, publishing, job information, and legal issues
discussion

of writers and journalists in all of the sciences such as
pharmaceutical, life sciences,

physical sciences, social sciences, and archaeology/anthropology.

http://nasw.org/



Aviation/Space Writers Association (AWA)

This professional association has publications, events, and tips for
freelance and

staff writers or journalists who cover the space and aviation
industries.

http://brad.net/aero_outlook/other_resources/orgs.html#awa



Council of Biology Editors

Council of Biology Editors offers documentation. The 1994 CBE
(Council of

Biology Editors) manual, Scientific Style and Format, describes two
systems of

documentation in the handbook they offer in this association for
editors working

on biological documentation.

www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE6.html



DC Science Writers Association

Washington, DC area science writers group for local science writers
in Washington

and surrounding states.

http://www.nasw.org/dcswa/



Georgia Area Science Writers Association—GASWA:

Local science writers group in the state of Georgia, USA.

http://www.nasw.org/users/GASWA/



New England Science Writers Association

Science writers in the New England states have this organization.

http://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/nesw/



Canadian Science Writers Association

For science writers in Canada, an association offering networking and
education

in science writing as well as writing tips.

http://www.interlog.com/∼cswa/



Canadian Farm Writers' Federation

Founded in 1955, The Canadian Farm Writers' Federation (CFWF) serves
the

common interests of agricultural journalists, editors and
broadcasters as well as

those in business and government whose primary responsibility is
agricultural

communications.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/Research/cfwf/



Penn State Association of Science Writers

An association for science writers in Pennsylvania.

http://nasw.org/users/cpnasw/cpnasw.htm



Society of Environmental Journalists

The world's largest organization of journalists, students, and
teachers who write

about the environment and are interested in the business of writing
and selling

writing covering the environment.

http://www.sej.org/



Indexers, Editors, Proofreaders, and Copywriters Associations

American Society of Indexers

ASI is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization, serving
and dedicated

to the advancement of indexers, librarians, abstractors, editors,
publishers, database

producers, data searchers, product developers, technical writers,
academic

professionals, researchers and readers, and others concerned with
indexing of

books and periodicals.

http://www.asindexing.org/goals.shtml



The Editorial Freelancers Association

The professional resource for editorial freelancers, EFA, is a
national, nonprofit,

professional organization of self-employed workers in publishing and
communications.

The Freelance Editorial Association merged with the Editorial
Freelancers

Association in June 2000 and is now known as EFA. The association
offers

jobs listings, marketing, setting fees information, a Yellow Pages of
freelancers,

skills listing, and the e-publication, Freelance Editorial
Association News.

http://www.the-efa.org/ or
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/index.html or the

newsletter http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/Newsletter.html



Writing Help Resources with Links

Children's Book Council

Resource site for children's books with a guide to children's writing
and material

on forthcoming books.

http://www.cbcbooks.org



Associated Writing Programs

Offers lists of university writing programs, conferences, and
resources. Publishes

The Writers Chronicle.

http://www.awpwriter.org



Absolute Write

Writing links offered on how to write or publish novels, nonfiction,
plays, poetry,

and scripts.

http://www.absolutewrite.com



Writers Toolbox

Resources for fiction and nonfiction writers, screenwriters,
journalists, and technical

writers. Excellent resource for writing help.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346



Proofreaders

List of names and addresses of freelance proofreaders, from the
Editorial

Freelancers Association (EFA).

http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP/proofreaders.htm



Biology Editors, Rates and Payment, Editing and Proofreading

Biology editors and proofreaders charge upwards of $35 an hour.
Biology Editors

Company has an excellent Web site discussing how much to charge for
technical

writing or proofreading and editing scientific material, or proposal
development

and technical writing.

http://www.biologyeditors.com/rates_and_payment.html



Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Writers

Artslynx: International Writing Resources

If you want more listings of writers' associations with links,
including information

for poets, these are excellent resources.

http://www.artslynx.org/



Hollywood Creative Directory

Job board for the entertainment industry, directories, and places to
contact.

http://www.hcdonline.com



Mystery Writers



Sisters in Crime

Sisters in Crime combats discrimination against women in the mystery
field, educates

publishers, the public, and mystery writers and readers as to the
inequalities

in the treatment of female authors, and raises the awareness of their
contribution

to the field.

http://www.sistersincrime.org/



MysteryNet's Mystery Organizations

Mystery Network

Mystery entertainment and information for mystery fans and enthusiasts

http://www.mysterynet.com/organizations



ClueLass

Network with other mystery writers here for news, mystery releases,
and look at

the resource directory for mystery writers, Deadly Directory.

http://www.cluelass.com



Romance Writers Associations

Romance Writers of America

RWA is a non-profit professional/educational association of 8,400
romance writers

and other industry professionals.

http://www.rwanational.com/



eHarlequin.com

Harlequin publishers runs the eHarlequin.com site for romance readers
and writers.

Gives writers a picture of what readers expect as it focuses on
readers.

http://eharlequin.women.com/harl/



Content Producers

Content Exchange LLC

Content creators online list their resumes and job opportunities are
listed as well.

Mailing list also.

http://www.content-exchange.com



Copyeditors

The Slot

Style points not in most stylebooks for copy editors or those who
want to be

freelance copy editors.

http://www.theslot.com



Marketing

Writers Market Online

Writers Market book listing publishers and their needs is now online
if you subscribe

to the updated market information.



American Marketing Association

The American Marketing Association is an organization for those
interested in

marketing. Network with marketing professionals to research timely
and factual

information for business articles. Read marketing research
publications.

http://www.ama.org/



Market Research Organizations

Market research links, trends, and conference schedules

http://www.wsa.com/wsa/directories/membership/MarketTrend/info.html



Center for Research in Marketing

Bridging the gap between marketing theory and practice through
rigorous and

relevant research.

http://www.csom.umn.edu/CSOM/MktgCenter/MktgCenter.html



Publishers Marketing Association

For writers thinking of self-publishing, the Publishers Marketing
Association

(PMA) is the largest non-profit trade association representing
independent publishers

of books, audio, video and CDs. Their mission is to advance
independent

publishing through professional development, creative marketing, and
global

affiliation.

http://www.pma-online.org/



The Market Research Industry

Information on what the Market Research Industry is doing. A full-
service market

research and consulting firm.

http://www.asiresearch.com/mri/mri.htm



PubList.com

Reference of more than 150,000 publications and contacts for writers
or those

who need permissions.

http://www.publist.com



Book Marketing Update

Self-published authors may subscribe to access independent book
publishers,

booksellers, and self-publishing feedback.

http://www.bookmarket.com/index.html



Software Publishing Association

Find any software or computer book publisher or games. A good
resource for

writers looking for publishers.

http://www.shopforacomputer.com/software/software_publishing_associati
on.html



Software and Information Industry Council

Many press release articles, news and conferences on trends shaping
digital content

and the educational technology market. Excellent link to keep current
on

news and resource material, especially about protecting privacy
during the evolution

of the digital economy.

http://www.siia.net/



Copyright Information, ISBN, and Resources for Self-Publishers

Copyright, ISBN Number, and Library of Congress Registration
Information for

Self-Publishing Writers and Publishers, U.S. Copyright Office.

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/



Copyright Registration

All the information you need to know in order to learn how to
copyright your

writing before you market your work. A link also features information
on registration

of copyright procedures and instruction.

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#rp



Library of Congress

Learn how to get a Library of Congress registration number for your
self-published

book, pamphlet, or booklet and other services to publishers and self-
publishers

http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/infopub/



International ISBN Agency

How to Get an ISBN Number. Does your self-published book need an ISBN

number? Find out how to receive an ISBN number at this Web site.

www.isbn.spk-berlin.de/html/howtoget.htm



International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN)

The International standard numbering system for the information
industry is

administered by R.R. Bowker. The U.S. Agency for ISBN assignment can
be

contacted at: 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ 07974, Tel: 908-
665-

6770—Fax: 908-665-2895.

http://www.bowker.com/standards/home/



International Standard Serial Numbers

Do you write and self-publish serials or would like to publish
serials written by

other authors? Perhaps you need an International Standard Serials
number.

Serials are print or non-print publications issued in parts, usually
bearing issue

numbers and/or dates. A serial is expected to continue indefinitely.
Serials include

magazines, newspapers, annuals (such as reports, yearbooks, and
directories),

journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions of societies, and
monographic series.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/ and http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/issnbro.html



Resources for Business, Technical, and Humanities Writers

Internet Resources for Business and Technical Writers

This site provides excellent resources for the business writer. Links
to resources

for business writers: Internet Technical Writing Course Guide and
career links.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/ww_tech.html



Hypertext Writer's Guide and the Research and Documentation

Online List of Style

Manuals and Glossary of Internet and Library Terms

Helpful resources for business writers and others who want to learn
about how to

write in hypertext.

http://hildegard.engl.uvic.ca/writers/resources.htm

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/



Researching Humanities Links

The humanities links are useful to the writer learning the business
of writing

from any genre of writing business, science, art, nutrition, or your
own specialty.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/humanities/overview.htm



Finding Writing Jobs Online

Techwriters.com

Technical writers will find Techwriters.com the best place to look
for a technical

writing job, other than through membership in technical writer's
organizations.

http://www.techwriters.com/



Technical Writing Jobs

Find current technical writing jobs here, including both staff and
contract job

listings. Excellent site for technical writing and related
communications media

jobs.

http://www.techwriters.com/placement/writer_nationwide_jobs.asp



JournalismJobs.com

This the job board for finding jobs if you're a media person. Post
your resume,

look at recent job listings, or receive job notification by email at:

http://www.journalismjobs.com/



Journalism Jobs Page

The Journalism Jobs site lists current journalism jobs around the
nation. It has

links to other journalism job listing sites.

http://pages.towson.edu/bhalle/jjobs.html



Sun Oasis Jobs

Good site for freelance writers, also staff journalism and tech
writing jobs offered.

Search by location. Updated frequently; contains classified ads from
editors.

http://www.sunoasis.com



Truck Writers of North America

This site lists a glossary of trucking terms for writers and a list
of freelance writing

jobs available for writers specializing in writing about trucking and
the truck

industry.



Excellent freelance writing job postings listed in their job bank.
TWNA is an

organization of professionals who are involved in gathering, writing
and reporting

news and information about trucks, trucking and the trucking industry.

http://www.twna.org/job_postings.htm



All Freelance

Links to resources, articles, and job listings for freelance writers,
illustrators,

designers, programmers, and other independent contractors.

http://www.allfreelance.com/



Hire Minds

Job postings, e-newsletter, message board, and gatherings in New York
City for

media, publishing, or creative people.

http://www.hireminds.com/



Net Read

Publishing jobs listed along with content on publishing industry
employment.

www.netread.com/jobs/jobs/



Monique's Newsjobs

Monique's Newsjobs is a comprehensive list of jobs for journalists.
Working

journalists highly recommended this site. It's recommended by
Writer's Digest as

the best list for journalists around to date.

http://www.news.jobs.net



Creative Freelancers

Submit your resume and samples, or look at the help-wanted area
offering

freelance writing, editing, or proofreading employment.

http://www.freelancers.com



Writing Employment Center

You'll find a daily updated listing of jobs here for writers and
related editorial

workers.

http://poewar.com/jobs/htm



Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction is a magazine of essays and literary nonfiction
that offers job

opportunities on the magazine from time to time. The publication is
dedicated

solely to the creative nonfiction genre.

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/opportunities.htm



Broadcast-Related Links:

Finding Radio, TV, and Film or Film School Jobs, Airchecks, and

Talent

TV and radio Jobs.Com lists timely jobs and talent, including radio,
TV, and

film school, as well as links to real audio air-checks, available
talent, and you can

post an air check. You can find broadcast-related links here.

at http://tvandradiojobs.com/



All Starr Radio

An excellent site sampling what writers write about when they speak
on the radio.

Includes information on comedy, such as a link where you can list the
weird

things that happened to you.

http://www.allstarradio.com



TV and RadioJobs.com

TV andRadioJobs.com has 13,000+ Unique Visits a day. Almost half its
visitors

are radio management types looking for fresh talent. Available for a
small fee:

Post your 6-minute air-check on their streaming server for 5 months.

http://tvandradiojobs.com/



Air Newslink Job Link for Journalists

Search JobLink ads for journalists. Links to resources, publications,
or interact

with their search engine. Fill out their online form to narrow your
job search in

journalism.

http://ajr.newslink.org/joblink.html



Reference Books/Sites for Writers

Allwords.com

Word definitions, origins, and translations: look up works in five
languages.

Some audio pronunciations available and information for crossword
puzzle

enthusiasts.

http://www.allwords.com



Guinness World Records

Guinness Book of Records for entertainment.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com



Rare Diseases Information

If you're a health or medical writer interested in writing about rare
diseases and

support groups or need to find more information, try this health site.

http://www.rarediseases.org



Fundraising

If you need to raise funds for a worthy cause, or to publish your own
book, look

at these tips on how to pan a fundraiser by an excellent Internet
fundraising company.

http://www.fundraising.com



Young Writers

The Writing Corner

Writers under 18 may publish their writing on the site.

http://www.writingcorner.com



The Quill Society

Free writing club for young writers from 12 to 24 with online
publishing

resources, help, and forums.

http://www.quilll.net/home/index.htm



Templates for Feedback

Flashbase.com

Templates available on site to help writers track reader feedback or
responses

from proofreaders or agents and editors.

http://www.flashbase.com



Writers' Unions

National Writers Union

Excellent, timely informational articles on preventing your written
work from

being used without your permission electronically. Offers articles on
all aspects of

prevention of abuses to writers at work, including independent
writers. Job referral

listings and other services as union.

http://www.nwu.org/



Communications Workers of America

This is the largest union in America of journalists, printers,
publishers, telecommunications

workers, broadcast workers, and others involved in communications

from writers to telephone company employees and broadcasters.

http://www3.cwa-union.org/



What is Creative Nonfiction?

(Audio excerpts) from the magazine, Creative Nonfiction

Audio excerpts online on the definition and discussion of what is
creative nonfiction

for writers interested in writing for this genre.

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/whatiscnf.htm



Eastgate Systems, Inc.

"The primary source for serious hypertext,"—Robert Coover, The New
York

Times Book Review. The role of narrative in the Web experience is a
pressing

concern throughout the Web world, from entertainment to e-commerce.
Subscribe

to electronic roundtable newsletter, E-Narrative.

http://www.eNarrative.org/1/news.html



Archived Articles on E-Lance Employment

E-Lance Economy Not Happening

Read how and why the decline in self-employment has accelerated since
1997.

http://www.asja.org/newspub/x0101b.php



Hungry Minds, Red Hat, Join to Form Press

Hungry Minds Inc, (Nasdaq: HMIN) (formerly IDG Books Worldwide) and

Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced a joint multi-title publishing
agreement

to produce books around Red Hat's extensive product line, including
Red

Hat(R) Linux.

http://www.authorlink.com/pubnews.html#redhat



Niche Marketing Via the Web

This article is a case history of interest to journalists working
online or those who

want to Niche Marketing Via the Web: A Case Study Creating a Parallel
Electronic

Publishing Line by Gordon Burgett, from the December 2000 issue of the

ASJA Newsletter, is an excellent article on electronic publishing by
the author of

Publishing to Niche Markets, by Gordon Burgett. Find a need and fill
it.

http://www.asja.org/newspub/x0012a.php



Grant Proposal Writing Instruction

How toWrite a Research Grant. How to get grant guidelines and sample
proposals

so you can write a research grant proposal.

http://www.ialc.wsu.edu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal
.html#research





How to Write an Institutional Grant

Instruction and techniques in writing great institutional grant
proposals adapted

from Bob Lucas's workshop.

http://www.ialc.wsuedu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal.
html#institutional



The Intensive American Language Center's site on Grant Proposal
Writing

How to write proposals for grants. Methods of how to implement your
idea. Article

and free instruction site offered by the Intensive American Language
Center

of Washington State University. Excellent article on how to write
grant proposals.

The Intensive American Language Center's site on Grant Proposal
Writing is

adapted from a workshop by Bob Lucas.

http://www.ialc.wsu.edu/ialc/faculty_teaching/grants/WtngGrantProposal
.html



Creative Nonfiction

This magazine offers excellent articles online or by subscription.
See archived

articles online specializing in creative nonfiction, including essays.

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue14/14conten
ts.htm



"Traps," by Lee Martin.

Also issue #14, Creative Nonfiction, "What Men Think, What Men Write,"

contains two articles than can be read online.

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue14/14martin
_traps.htm



See issue #12, Creative Nonfiction, Emerging Women Writers II, "The
Old

Sort: of Connemaras & Sweet Corn," by Caroline Nesbitt.

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue12/12nesbit
t_theoldsort.htm



Anne Hart's Web sites: Writing Instruction Books & Strategies;
Writing and

Personal History Journalism Techniques/Course, Book Information,
Articles,

Excerpts, & Resources

http://annehart.tripod.com



Bibliographies



Bibliography 1.

Autobiography as Therapy

Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing

Celia Hunt

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-747-2 ISBN-13: 9781853027475, 200pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.



Nobody Nowhere

The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl

Donna Williams

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-718-9 ISBN-13: 9781853027185, 224pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998



By the same author:

Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct

Donna Williams

Autism: An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the `Mechanics'
of

`Autism' and its Developmental `Cousins'

Donna Williams

Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism

Donna Williams

Exposure Anxiety—The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection

Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond

Donna Williams

The Jumbled Jigsaw: An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of
Autistic Spectrum

`Fruit Salads'

Donna Williams

280 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open

Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding

Donna Williams

Nobody Nowhere: A music CD

Donna Williams

Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper

Donna Williams

Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism

Donna Williams



Creative Writing Therapy and Biblio/Poetry Therapy



Creative Writing With Child and Adult Victims of Abuse

Edited by Jacki Pritchard and Eric Sainsbury

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-192-0 ISBN-13: 9781843101925, 192pp, J

essica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2004.



Category: Creative Writing as Therapy.

Creative Writing in Health and Social Care

Edited by Fiona Sampson

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-136-X ISBN-13: 9781843101369, 240pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2004.



Categories: Creative Writing as Therapy, Health Care

Letters to Children in Family Therapy

A Narrative Approach

Torben Marner

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-894-0 ISBN-13: 9781853028946, 112pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.



Categories: Arts Therapies, Creative Writing as Therapy, Working with
Children

and Families

More Than Just a Meal

The Art of Eating Disorders

Susan R. Makin

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-805-3 ISBN-13: 9781853028052, 224pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.



Categories: Art Therapy, Creative Writing as Therapy

The Self on the Page: Theory and Practice of Creative Writing in
Personal Development

Edited by Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-470-8 ISBN-13: 9781853024702, 220pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998.

Category: Creative Writing as Therapy

Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography in Creative Writing

Celia Hunt

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-747-2 ISBN-13: 9781853027475, 200pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.



Category: Creative Writing as Therapy

The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing

Writing Myself

Gillie Bolton

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-599-2 ISBN-13: 9781853025990, 248pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998.



Category: Creative Writing as Therapy

Writing My Way Through Cancer. Myra Schneider

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-113-0 ISBN-13: 9781843101130, 208pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2003.



Categories: Counseling, Creative Writing as Therapy

Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health

Deborah Philips, Liz Linington and Debra Penman

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-650-6 ISBN-13: 9781853026508, 160pp.
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1999.



Category: Creative Writing as Therapy

Writing Works

A Resource Handbook for Therapeutic Writing Workshops and Activities

Edited by Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-468-7 ISBN-13: 9781843104681, 256pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2006.



Categories: Creative Writing as Therapy, Health and Social Care

Analyzing Verbal Interaction

Autobiography of a Theory

Developing a Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered
Practice

Yvonne M. Agazarian and Susan P. Gantt

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-847-9 ISBN-13: 9781853028472, 272pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, 2000.



Creative Writing for Healing, Therapy, or Spiritual Quests

A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters From the Lower East Side to
the Jewish

Daily Forward. Metzker, Isaac, ed Doubleday and Co. 1971. Garden
City, NY

Akeret, Robert & Klein, Daniel. Family Tales, Family Wisdom: How To
Gather

The Stories of A Lifetime and Share Them With Your Family ((New York:
William

Morrow & Co., Inc., 1991).



Aronie, Nancy Slonim, Writing from the Heart: Tapping the Power of
Your

Inner Voice ((New York: Hyperion, 1998).

Baldwin, Christina, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual
Quest

(New York: Bantam Books 1991).



Barrington, Judith. Writing The Memoir: From Truth to Art (Portland,
OR:

The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997).



Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process: A Handbook, by Arleen

McCarty Hynes and Mary Hynes-Berry, North Star Press of St Cloud,
Inc.,

1994.



Broyles, Anne, Journaling:A Spirit Journey (Nashville: The Upper
Room,1988).

Cameron, Julia. Heart Steps: Prayers and Declarations for a Creative
Life ((New

York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997).



Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher
Creativity ((New

York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1992).



Cohen, Barbara and Taylor, Louise, Woman's Best Friend: A Celebration
of

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Music Therapy at a Child Development Centre

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Clinical Practice, Research and Teaching

Amelia Oldfield

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.2006.



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A Guide for Parents

Elaine Streeter

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Jessica

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Categories: Intellectual Disabilities, Music Therapy, Special
Education

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Children

A Clinical Manual

3rd edition

Michael D. Cassity and Julia E. Cassity

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Jessica

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Music and Altered States

Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions

Edited by David Aldridge and Jörg Fachner

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.



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Music and People with Developmental Disabilities

Music Therapy, Remedial Music Making and Musical Activities

F W Schalkwijk

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-226-8 ISBN-13: 9781853022265, 160pp,
Jessica

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Category: Music Therapy

The Music Effect

Music Physiology and Clinical Applications

Daniel J. Schneck and Dorita S. Berger

Illustrated by Geoffrey Rowland

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-771-6 ISBN-13: 9781843107712, 272pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.



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Music for Life

Aspects of Creative Music Therapy with Adult Clients

Gary Ansdell

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Jessica

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Music Therapy and Group Work

Sound Company

Edited by Alison Davies and Eleanor Richards

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.



Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation

Performing Health

Edited by David Aldridge

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-302-8 ISBN-13: 9781843103028, 304pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.



Categories: Dementia, Health Care, Music Therapy, Occupational
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Speech Therapy

Music Therapy in Children's Hospices

Jessie's Fund in Action

Edited by Mercédès Pavlicevic

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.



Categories: Bereavement and Palliative Care, Music Therapy

Music Therapy in Context

Music, Meaning and Relationship

Mercédès Pavlicevic

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1997.



Category: Music Therapy

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Edited by David Aldridge

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-776-6 ISBN-13: 9781853027765, 256pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2000.



Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy in Health and Education

Edited by Margaret Heal and Tony Wigram

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-175-X ISBN-13: 9781853021756, Jessica
Kingsley

Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 304pp, 1993.



Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy in Palliative Care

New Voices

290 30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open

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Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy Methods in Neurorehabilitation

A Clinician's Manual, by Felicity Baker and Jeanette Tamplin

With a contribution from Jeanette Kennelly

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-412-1 ISBN-13: 9781843104124, 256pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2006.



Categories: Brain Injury, Health Care, Music Therapy

Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine

From Out of the Silence

David Aldridge

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-296-9 ISBN-13: 9781853022968, 352pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1996.



Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy with Children

David Aldridge

CD-Rom, ISBN-10: 1-85302-757-X ISBN-13: 9781853027574, Jessica
Kingsley

Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1998.



Category: Music Therapy

Music Therapy, Sensory Integration and the Autistic Child

Dorita S. Berger

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-700-7 ISBN-13: 9781843107002, 256pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.



Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Music Therapy

Music Therapy: Intimate Notes

Mercédès Pavlicevic

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-692-1 ISBN-13: 9781853026928, 176pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 1999.



Category: Music Therapy

Music, Music Therapy and Trauma

International Perspectives

Edited by Julie P. Sutton

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-027-4 ISBN-13: 9781843100270, 272pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2002.



Categories: Mental Health, Music Therapy

Pied Piper

Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills

John Bean and Amelia Oldfield

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-994-7 ISBN-13: 9781853029943, 96pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2001.



Category: Music Therapy

Receptive Methods in Music Therapy

Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians,
Educators

and Students

Denise Grocke and Tony Wigram

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-413-X ISBN-13: 9781843104131, 288pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. December 2006.



Category: Music Therapy

Roots of Musicality

Music Therapy and Personal Development

Daniel Perret

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-336-2 ISBN-13: 9781843103363, 192pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK. 2005.



Categories: Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Music Therapy

Therapeutic Voicework

Principles and Practice for the Use of Singing as a Therapy

Paul Newham

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-85302-361-2 ISBN-13: 9781853023613, 592pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1997.



Category: Music Therapy

Using Voice and Movement in Therapy

The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy

Paul Newham

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.



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Using Voice and Song in Therapy

The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy

Paul Newham

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.



Categories: Dance and Movement Therapy, Music Therapy

Receptive Methods in Music Therapy

Techniques and Clinical Applications for Music Therapy Clinicians,
Educators

and Students

Denise Grocke and Tony Wigram

Foreword by Cheryl Dileo

This practical book describes the specific use of receptive
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techniques in music therapy clinical practice and research, including
relaxation

with music for children and adults, the use of visualisation and
imagery, music

and collage, song-lyric discussion, vibroacoustic …

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, December 2006.



Category: Music Therapy

Dramatherapy

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The Practical Application of Voice Movement Therapy

Paul Newham

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Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, UK.1999.



Categories: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama, Music Therapy

Empowering Children through Art and Expression

Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief

Bruce St Thomas and Paul Johnson

Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the
successful use of

arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those
whose lives

have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a
different culture

or community.

Paperback, ISBN-13: 9781843107897, 176pp, Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 116

Pentonville Road, London, April 2007.



Categories: Arts Therapies, Bereavement and Palliative Care,
Counselling,

Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Working with Children and Families

Healing the Inner City Child

Creative Arts Therapies with At-Risk Youth

Edited by Vanessa A. Camilleri

Healing the Inner City Child presents a diverse collection of
creative arts therapies

approaches to meeting the specific mental health needs of inner city
children,

who are disproportionately likely to experience violence, crime and
family pressures

and are at risk of depression and …

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-824-0 ISBN-13: 9781843108245, 320pp,
Jessica

Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, April 2007.



Categories: Arts Therapies, Working with Children and Families

Playing the Other

Dramatizing Personal Narratives in Playback Theatre

Nick Rowe

This book is an exploration and critique of `playback theatre', a
form of improvised

theatre in which a company of performers spontaneously enact
autobiographical

stories told to them by members of the audience.

Paperback, ISBN-10: 1-84310-421-0 ISBN-13: 9781843104216, Jessica
Kingsley

Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London, 208pp, January 2007.



Category: Dramatherapy and Psychodrama

Pop-Up Book Craft Instruction

The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for Aspiring Paper Engineers.
David

A Carter and James Diaz, Little simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
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COMPUTER GAME SCRIPTWRITING STRATEGIES

Also read my 2002 Version of this article at:

http://www.writers.net/articles/writers/computer_board_games.php

How to Write Scripts for Computer and Board Games

Author:  Anne Hart
Date:  07-01-02

The goal of fiction writers in the new media is to adapt your story, novel, or script to as many platforms, formats and media as possible and to sell to multiple markets - either online, multi-casting, or multimedia. Computer game scripts aren't only for computer games anymore. They're used in dramatizations for training and learning simulations and other learning materials as well as for entertainment online, on disk, and for infotainment and edutainment at all levels from corporate training to Web sites for children and young adults, seniors, and students.

Here's how to write a computer game script that you can adapt to any type of simulation training or interactive learning as well as entertainment fiction. The average computer screen interactive video or game has double the amount of writing (as a non-interactive video or film script) to account for the camera directions, the director's directions (since you're the director and the writer on the computer as you are in animation).

So to adapt your screenplay to the digital media as a computer game script, separate the beginning, middle and ending exactly as you would cut off the beginning, middle, and ending of a short story or novel. In a screenplay, every scene forms a creative concept. In the industry, the executives try to separate the one-line high concept from the whole-story-based creative concept.

A creative concept is a basic device that's used like an all-encompassing net to catch all the important events of the story. Think of your creative concept as a Native American dream catcher net full of feathers and beads woven into memories and facts of your story. Your concept’s one purpose is to grab the audience's attention and squeeze until it gives a specific emotional response.

Summarize the highlights into a single paragraph that tells the story. In a screenplay, it has been said and for the past two decades been written about that you divide your story into three acts. However, in adapting a script or story to the new interactive media, you don't divide it into three acts, and you don't divide it into six acts. You bring out eight octopus-sized tentacles or branches and you hang your computer game script or interactive book story on those eight branches.

It has been said that at each new path, or what the screenplay books of the seventies used to call turning points, a new crisis happens that propels the action in forward. However, in the new media, each new crisis instead propels the action down another branching pathway, through another road, and into another narrative. Again, the reader chooses when the action is supposed to branch and turn on its dime to move forward in not so much a new direction, but in the direction the reader says it will move.

The writer no longer chooses. Interactively, the reader chooses.

If you need to write a premise and introduce your hero, in an interactive script you adapt your old media book by writing a summary of the end first and then working backwards to the first chapter or the first page. Interactive books are adapted by writing back starting with the end of the book, story, or script and shuffling the deck. The crisis that sets the story in motion is never limited to only one crisis, but eight, or four, or two, or some other even number. Let the reader choose the crisis the viewer wants to work with, and give more than one summary of each chapter. You adapt a script to the new media by working backwards from the end of the adventure.

Here are some problems to solve as you write your dramatizations for training scripts online or computer game scripts:

·         In a nonfiction interactive script, find your biggest weapon to slay the problem that has to be solved in the action of your nonfiction script. This cliffhanger approach is good when you're writing a how-to training video, film, or CD-ROM learning tool.

·         Create a high-stakes races to hook your cliffhanger on.

·         Find a new acronym for each 7-minute scene in your script and lay your cliffhanger on at the end of each 7-8 minute segment of a nonfiction script.

·         If you're looking for a cover-all that makes your script hang together, use the cliffhanger to make a connection between what's a household name in your script, the problem to be solved, and the method your narrator or main character uses in the dramatization to solve the problem and reach a conclusion.

·         Sell your cliffhangers to the interactive TV market targeting ADSL (assymetric digital subscriber line) technology. ADSL is high bandwidth Internet connectivity that you can use to bring your script to commercial quality video on the Web. Use videoconferencing as a means to transmit your scripts to a live audience interested in nonfiction - that is problem solving, skill training, test taking/preparation, and feedback at business meetings.

·         Use wireless paths to sell your cliffhangers, and use cliffhangers in training videos and videoconferencing. The phone companies are eager to get into the interactive TV business.

·         Write scripts about bandwidth itself for a technical audience as practice, using cliffhangers every 7-8 minutes as paths provided for the narrator to take new action and move the script faster until a problem is solved at the end and the skill is learned by the corporate employee or student watching your script.

·         Have your script read before a live audience or through videoconferencing and have the audience decide which cliffhangers to insert at each point. Use about 8 cliffhangers per instructional film script.

·         Cliffhangers can be used in nonfiction comic books or graphic instructional materials. Most comic books are 32 pages in length. Double that size to 64 pages and you come out with a script for a computer game lasting 22 minutes or more. You also get a graphic
novel at that length or a booklet on how to perform a special skill.

The competing cliffhangers grow in volume as the story moves forward, even if it's a routine safety instructional film to train vehicle drivers. Test your cliffhangers' performance. Set up a Web site and get feedback from your cliffhangers from an audience. Try before you make your cliffhangers permanent.

You're teaching even if you're not writing anything instructional in the traditional sense. Propaganda films teach a lesson, too. You get at
the emotional response of the audience through cliffhangers. Then you appeal to their thinking, logical side to insert the facts that come after the cliffhanger. Either the narrator, the product, or the audience can become involved n the cliffhanger and solve the problem to get the answer. Use mazes when appropriate. Even mazes can become cliffhangers, and text mazes of logic are useful only when you are teaching the viewer to use test methods to solve problems. When writing cliffhangers, use more emotion and less demand that the audience think. Most people view a script to have fun and learn by passive imprinting and associations rather than to be forced to solve problems.

Therefore, let the dramatized character solve the cliffhanger/problem. A cliffhanger is a substitute for a problem to be solved in a nonfiction script. In a fiction script, a cliffhanger is hidden problem to be solved and exposed suspense requiring emotional reactions to solve.

Five Steps to Dramatizing Interactive Personal Essays for the Digital Media

1.       Ask a specific question.

2.       Use the essay to answer the question.

3.       Write the question at the start of the essay and make your question interactive inserting many branches or possibilities each possibility narrowing down more and more to concentrate your reader's mind.

4.       Use the interactivity to ask the reader how does this paragraph help answer the question?

5.       Whenever the paragraph finishes answering the question begin a new branching narrative, pathway, or choice for the reader. It's time for a break of concentration and a shifting to a cliff-hanger. Even the brief personal essays in interactive media can have cliffhangers, even in nonfiction, autobiography, and other personal essays based on life experience. Many experiences can lead to a topic for writing in any media, such as how to receive email interviews.

Another fiction with a real-life practical use online topic you can make a script or article from is how to get terrific email interviews. Books can be written from lists such as a list fleshed out of what are the funniest things that happened to employers recruiting employees on the Internet, such as viruses that came with resumes. Base your writing on interviews with dozens of human resources personnel who hire people from the Internet based on resumes and correspondence coming in my email and from Web page recruiting.

A writer gets all interviews for a book from the Internet. I once wrote a book based on hundreds of interviews all gotten by email. I requested the interview by email and got the person on the other side to give me the interview by email only. Most of my interviews in the past were with famous and best- selling authors and screenwriters, including interviews with big-name screenwriters who switched to writing for the new media (like Ken Goldstein, publisher/screenwriter of the Carmen San Diego series for Broderbund), and best selling interactive novel writers/publishers, and virtual press publishers. You could write a computer game, animation script, essay or an article or book on how to get great interviews by email for any writer who is working on a book or a column. Your title could be: Secrets of Success in Email Interviewing. What\'s the funniest thing that happened to you on the Internet while writing your column or other creative writing?

Interview

Jeffrey Sullivan of DigitalArcana, Inc.
http://www.DigitalArcana.com

What outlook do you see in interactive multimedia for freelance fiction and/or nonfiction writers as far as making a living, opening a writing service or home-based business, or getting a job?

There is tremendous opportunity for writers (both fiction and non-fiction) in the area of interactive media. The incredible growth in the market has spawned a strong appetite for new talent, and the increasing market shares in the more mature sub-markets mean some increase in pay rates. Building a career in this field remains a fantastic opportunity, but there are some things to remember:

1.       Know your field. Don\'t just hop on the bandwagon because you hear interactive is "the next hot thing." Not only will it be easy for potential employers to sniff this out, but it's the absolute worst thing you can do, both for your personal employment opportunities, and for opportunities for writers in general. One of the biggest problems in interactive is that there are a lot of "displaced writers" from other media who figure that "writing is writing," so they just hop into interactive, over-promise what they can do in this tricky medium, and leave producers with a bad taste in their mouth for "professional writers."

2.       The newer the field, the more appetite, but the less the pay (in general). if you want to be on the cutting edge, be prepared to pay the dues.

3.       Love this stuff. If you're just in it for a paycheck, then #1-2 above will ensure that you not only flop, but that you make it harder for other writers to follow you.

What kind of training would a writer need to start a career as a freelance writer in interactive multimedia?

The two key ingredients are experience in the genre of interactive you want to work in, and solid writing skills. Solid writing skills is something I'll take as a given (if you don't have it, I can't tell you how to get it). Experience is easy to acquire. Go out there and use the products you want to create. If it's adventure games, play adventure games ravenously. If it's edutainment, then experience all of them out there.

One caveat: don't just check out the "hot" titles in a field. There's nothing worse than hearing a person rattle off the two or three best known entries in a field as their favorites, a sure sign that they haven't done their homework. (A side note: if I had a dime for every time I heard someone tell me they had an idea for a cross between "Doom" and "MYST" over the past few years, I'd be independently wealthy.)

For the older writer - 55+ - who has been rejected by ageism from the Hollywood screenwriting market, or for the novelist seeking a publisher, what does interactive multimedia offer?

I hate to say this, but in many of the interactive fields, ageism is even worse in interactive. In all of the "hot" areas like cutting-edge gaming and interactive fiction, there is a fairly strong perception that anyone over the age of 30 (!) doesn't "get it," and can't write this stuff.

The perception is that well-established linear writers simply can't think non-linearly as interactive often requires. However, I think that in the fields of reference, education, and entertainment, there may be much less of this attitude. Since my experience lies elsewhere,
however, I can't be sure.

How would a freelance writer of fiction or nonfiction who has been doing print writing for years begin to make the leap to get into writing interactive multimedia? Are there any jobs out there for writers who can't find work on daily newspapers because of the downsizing of daily newspapers?

If you're a newspaper writer, your best entree into interactive may be with the marketing department of an interactive company; there your skills are the most directly relevant. Once you're in, you can absorb the culture and experience, and try to branch out into other areas.

For general writers, the key is, as I've mentioned above, knowing the field. Know as much as you can about what has worked (and what has not) in your field, and know why things work or don't, in your opinion. Knowledgeable people in this field are rare, so preparing yourself is a great way to get that foot a little farther in the door.

What advice would you give to creative writers of all types to enter the new media?

Know the area you want to work in exhaustively. And try to know the other areas at least in passing. You never know where a good idea (or even a bad one) in one field will yield a great innovation in another.

Is there anything readers might want to know about the hidden markets in interactive multimedia? Can one work at home?

Working at home is a definite option in many cases. Interactive firms, being much more highly computerized in general, are a lot more comfortable with the concept of telecommuting or simply working off-site than many other industries.

Is it easier to sell to the interactive multimedia market than to try to find a print publisher for one's novel, screenplay, or how-to nonfiction book?

No. With respect to a book, you can create what is essentially the finished product. with respect to a screenplay, even though the script isn't the finished product, the accepted convention is that writers don't do anything more than a script. In interactive, however, the norm is to need to do a prototype or sample art in addition to a design document, so there is more to do to get an idea sold. Add to that the fact that many companies have more ideas than they can handle, and the market for new ideas is not as great as it once was.

What education is best for a freelance creative writer to get a foot in the door in the new media?

A background in computers, writing, game playing (if you're interested in the game market).

Can a writer educate himself at home and work at home, or must there be a college degree with a major in interactive multimedia to enter the occupation of writer in this field? In other words, will a B.A. in English get one in the door? What other job titles are there in interactive multimedia for writers? What else can they do in this field to find work? How long have writers been writing for interactive multimedia? Five years? Three years?

Absolutely not. For one thing, these college degrees are so new that there are few people in the market who will even have one. Second, this industry values credits and experience over degrees more than many other fields. The more technical your interest, however, the more likely that a degree will be necessary.

What's the future of multimedia for freelance creative writers?

I think that creative people will be the guiding force in moving interactive media into a new and mature mass-medium. Technology can only take you so far, and although we've been driven by it so far, it is becoming harder and harder to differentiate your product on technology alone. Soon, it will be impossible. The companies know this, but they are often caught between two cultures (technology driving product and content driving product); soon their minds will be made up for them.

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1,048 Powerful Words to Start your First Sentence of Your First Paragraph to Show Accomplishments in Your Work, Retirement, Studies, or Lifestyle

Copyright 2004 by Anne Hart

1. Abated
2. Abbreviated
3. Abided
4. Abjured
5. Abnegated
6. Abraded
7. Abridged
8. Abrogated
9. Abseiled
10. Absolved
11. Absorbed
12. Abstained
13. Abstracted
14. Abstracted
15. Abutted
16. Accelerated
17. Accelerated
18. Accented
19. Accepted
20. Acclaimed
21. Acclimatized
22. Accommodated
23. Accompanied
24. Accomplished
25. Accorded
26. Accounted
27. Accredited
28. Accrued
29. Accumulated
30. Accustomed
31. Achieved
32. Achieved
33. Acknowledged
34. Acquainted
35. Acquiesced
36. Acquired
37. Acquitted
38. Acted
39. Activated
40. Actualized
41. Actuated
42. Adapted
43. Added
44. Addressed
45. Adduced
46. Adhered
47. Adjoined
48. Adjourned
49. Adjudged
50. Adjudicated
51. Adjured
52. Adjusted
53. Ad-libbed
54. Administered
55. Admired
56. Admitted
57. Adopted
58. Adored
59. Adorned
60. Adumbrated
61. Advanced
62. Advertised
63. Advised
64. Advocated
65. Aerated
66. Affected
67. Affected
68. Affiliated
69. Affirmed
70. Affixed
71. Afforded
72. Agglutinated
73. Aggrandized
74. Agreed
75. Aided
76. Aligned
77. Allied
78. Allocated
79. Allocated
80. Allotted
81. Alternated
82. Amazed
83. Amended
84. Amplified
85. Amused
86. Analyzed
87. Anesthetized
88. Animated
89. Annotated
90. Announced
91. Answered
92. Anticipated
93. Antiqued
94. Appealed
95. Appeared
96. Appended
97. Appertained (to)
98. Applauded
99. Applied
100. Appliquéd
101. Appointed
102. Appraised
103. Apprised
104. Approached
105. Approved
106. Approximated
107. Arbitrated
108. Archived
109. Argued
110. Arose (from)
111. Arranged
112. Arrived
113. Articulated
114. Ascertained
115. Ascribed
116. Aspired
117. Assayed
118. Assembled
119. Asserted
120. Assessed
121. Assigned
122. Assimilated
123. Assisted
124. Associated
125. Assumed
126. Assured
127. Astonished
128. Astounded
129. Attached
130. Attained
131. Attempted
132. Attended
133. Attitudinized
134. Attributed
135. Attuned
136. Audio taped
137. Audiodidacted
138. Audited
139. Augmented
140. Authored
141. Authorized
142. Automated
143. Availed
144. Awarded
145. Backed
146. Banded
147. Banked
148. Bartered
149. Beaded
150. Became
151. Begot
152. Benchmarked
153. Benefited
154. Booked
155. Bought
156. Bought
157. Braided
158. Brailed
159. Branched
160. Branded
161. Brandished
162. Breaded
163. Bred
164. Broadcasted
165. Brought
166. Budgeted
167. Built
168. Built
169. Calculated
170. Calmed
171. Campaigned
172. Camped
173. Cantillated
174. Captivated
175. Carded
176. Cared
177. Carried
178. Carted
179. Carved
180. Catalogued
181. Catapulted
182. Centered
183. Chaired
184. Chaired
185. Changed
186. Channeled
187. Chanted
188. Characterized
189. Charged
190. Charted
191. Chartered
192. Cheered
193. Cherished
194. Chiseled
195. Chronicled
196. Cited
197. Civilized
198. Claimed
199. Clarified
200. Cleaned
201. Cleared
202. Clocked
203. Closed
204. Clued
205. Coached
206. Coded
207. Codified
208. Coifed
209. Collaborated
210. Collected
211. Colored
212. Comforted
213. Commanded
214. Commemorated
215. Commercialized
216. Commissioned
217. Communicated
218. Compared
219. Compensated
220. Competed
221. Compiled
222. Compiled
223. Completed
224. Completed
225. Complimented
226. Composed
227. Computed
228. Computerized
229. Conceived
230. Concentrated
231. Conceptualized
232. Conciliated
233. Concluded
234. Conducted
235. Conferenced
236. Configured
237. Congratulated
238. Congregated
239. Connected
240. Connoted
241. Conquered
242. Conserved
243. Considered
244. Constructed
245. Construed
246. Consulted
247. Consumed
248. Continued
249. Contracted
250. Contributed
251. Controlled
252. Converged
253. Conversed
254. Cooperated
255. Cooperated
256. Co-opted
257. Coordinated
258. Copyrighted
259. Copy wrote
260. Corded
261. Corrected
262. Correlated
263. Counseled
264. Counted
265. Countered
266. Courted
267. Created
268. Credited
269. Crewed
270. Critiqued
271. Crusaded
272. Cued
273. Cultured
274. Curtailed
275. Customized
276. Cut
277. Cycled
278. Dated
279. Davined (Cantillated ethnically)
280. Dealt
281. Debited
282. Debriefed
283. Debugged
284. Decentralized
285. Decided
286. Deciphered
287. Declaimed
288. Declared
289. Decoded
290. Decorated
291. Decreased
292. Dedicated
293. Deferred
294. Defined
295. Deflected
296. Deigned
297. Delegated
298. Deleted
299. Delighted
300. Delighted (in)
301. Delineated
302. Delivered
303. Demonstrated
304. Demurred
305. Demystified
306. Denominate
307. Denoted
308. Depicted
309. Deprogrammed
310. Deregulated
311. Derived
312. Described
313. Designed
314. Detailed
315. Detected
316. Determined
317. Detoured
318. Developed
319. Devised
320. Devolved
321. Devoted
322. Diagnosed
323. Dialogued
324. Diced
325. Dichotomized
326. Dictated
327. Differed
328. Digested
329. Digitized
330. Diluted
331. Dined
332. Directed
333. Disagreed
334. Disclosed
335. Discovered
336. Discussed
337. Dispatched
338. Dispersed
339. Displayed
340. Dissolved
341. Distributed
342. Dithered
343. Diversified
344. Divided
345. Divined
346. Divulged
347. Docked
348. Documented
349. Donated
350. Doused
351. Drafted
352. Drew
353. Drove
354. Earned
355. Edited
356. Editorialized
357. Educated
358. Effected
359. Effected
360. Effloresced
361. Eked out
362. Elaborated
363. Elasticized
364. Elbowed
365. Elected
366. Elegized
367. Elevated
368. Eliminated
369. Embroidered
370. Emended
371. Emote
372. Emphasized
373. Employed
374. Empowered
375. Encased
376. Encountered
377. Energized
378. Engaged
379. Engineered
380. Engraved
381. Enhanced
382. Enlarged
383. Enlightened
384. Enlisted
385. Enlivened
386. Enriched
387. Ensconced
388. Ensured
389. Entered
390. Entertained
391. Envisioned
392. Epigrammatized
393. Epitomized
394. Equalized
395. Erected
396. Eructed
397. Escorted
398. Established
399. Estimated
400. Etched
401. Etiolated
402. Eulogized
403. Euphemized
404. Evaluated
405. Evanesced
406. Evangelized
407. Evidenced
408. Evoked
409. Exacerbated
410. Exacted
411. Exalted
412. Examined
413. Excavated
414. Excelled
415. Exchanged
416. Exclaimed
417. Excoriated
418. Exculpated
419. Executed
420. Executed
421. Exemplified
422. Exercised
423. Exfoliated
424. Exhibited
425. Exhorted
426. Exonerated
427. Exorcized
428. Expanded
429. Expatiated
430. Expedited
431. Experienced
432. Explained
433. Explored
434. Exported
435. Exposed
436. Expressed
437. Extended
438. Extolled
439. Extrapolated
440. Extraverted
441. Facilitated
442. Farmed
443. Fascinated
444. Fastened
445. Faxed
446. Fed
447. Federalized
448. Felicitated
449. Ferreted
450. Fertilized
451. Fetched
452. Fictionalized
453. Filed
454. Filled
455. Filmed
456. Financed
457. Fired
458. Fitted
459. Fixed
460. Flattered
461. Flaunted
462. Flew
463. Flourished
464. Flowcharted
465. Fluctuated
466. Flummoxed
467. Followed
468. Forecasted
469. Formalized
470. Formatted
471. Formed
472. Formulated
473. Fortified
474. Forwarded
475. Found
476. Founded
477. Franchised
478. Fraternized
479. Freed
480. Froze
481. Fulfilled
482. Functioned
483. Functioned As
484. Furnished
485. Gained
486. Garnished
487. Gathered
488. Gave
489. Genealogized
490. Generated
491. Geneticized
492. Genuflected
493. Gesticulated
494. Gestured
495. Girded
496. Glorified
497. Gnosticized
498. Governed
499. Graded
500. Grafted
501. Granted
502. Graphed
503. Gratified
504. Greeted
505. Grew
506. Guaranteed
507. Guarded
508. Guided
509. Hafted
510. Hailed
511. Halted
512. Handled
513. Harbored
514. Harmonized
515. Harvested
516. Hastened
517. Head
518. Headed
519. Healed
520. Heaped
521. Heard
522. Heated
523. Helped
524. Hewed
525. Hired
526. Honored
527. Hoped
528. Hosted
529. Hugged
530. Humanized
531. Humored
532. Hustled
533. Hypnotized
534. Hypothesized
535. Identified
536. Ignited
537. Illustrated
538. Imagined
539. Immigrated
540. Implanted
541. Implemented
542. Implied
543. Imported
544. Imposed
545. Impressed
546. Improved
547. Incited
548. Included
549. Incorporated
550. Increased
551. Indexed
552. Indicated
553. Indicted
554. Indulged
555. Industrialized
556. Influenced
557. Informed
558. Initialized
559. Initiated
560. Inked
561. Inquired
562. Inspected
563. Inspired
564. Installed
565. Instituted
566. Instructed
567. Insured
568. Integrated
569. Interested
570. Interfaced
571. Internalized
572. Internationalized
573. Interpreted
574. Interviewed
575. Introduced
576. Intuited
577. Invented
578. Inventoried
579. Inverted
580. Invested
581. Investigated
582. Invigorated
583. Involved
584. Issued
585. Joined
586. Journalized
587. Journeyed
588. Judged
589. Juried
590. Justified
591. Juxtaposed
592. Keyboarded
593. Lamented
594. Laminated
595. Landed (in)
596. Landscaped
597. Launched
598. Leased
599. Lectured
600. Led
601. Left
602. Legalized
603. Legislated
604. Legitimized
605. Lessened
606. Lighted
607. Linked
608. Listened
609. Litigated
610. Loaded
611. Loaned
612. Lobbied
613. Localized
614. Looked
615. Lyricized
616. Magnetized
617. Mailed
618. Maintained
619. Managed
620. Manipulated
621. Manufactured
622. Marked
623. Marketed
624. Mastered
625. Measured
626. Mediated
627. Memorized
628. Mentored
629. Merchandised
630. Merged
631. Met
632. Microfiched
633. Micrographed
634. Migrated
635. Ministered
636. Modeled
637. Moderated
638. Modified
639. Molded
640. Monitored
641. Morphed
642. Mortgaged
643. Motivated
644. Moved
645. Multiplied
646. Multitasked
647. Narrated
648. Narrated
649. Navigated
650. Negotiated
651. Networked
652. Networked
653. Neutered
654. Neutralized
655. Normalized
656. Normed
657. Notaried
658. Notarized
659. Notated
660. Noted
661. Notified
662. Nourished
663. Nursed
664. Obtained
665. Officiated
666. Opened
667. Operated
668. Opined
669. Orated
670. Orchestrated
671. Ordered
672. Organized
673. Oriented
674. Originated
675. Outlaid
676. Outlined
677. Outnumbered
678. Outpaced
679. Outperformed
680. Outplayed
681. Outran
682. Outranked
683. Outshone
684. Outvoted
685. Outwitted
686. Overawed
687. Overcame
688. Overdid
689. Overheard
690. Oversaw
691. Overstepped
692. Overstretched
693. Overwhelmed
694. Overworked
695. Overwrote
696. Owed
697. Owned
698. Oxidized
699. Oxygenated
700. Paced
701. Packaged
702. Packed
703. Parented
704. Participated
705. Partnered (with)
706. Patented
707. Patterned
708. Perceived
709. Perfected
710. Performed
711. Persevered
712. Persisted
713. Personalized
714. Persuaded
715. Perused
716. Petitioned
717. Photocopied
718. Photographed
719. Piloted
720. Pinpointed
721. Pinpointed
722. Pitched
723. Placed
724. Planned
725. Planted
726. Played
727. Plotted
728. Pooled
729. Posed
730. Positioned
731. Posted
732. Practiced
733. Praised
734. Prayed
735. Predicted
736. Preempted
737. Prefaced
738. Preferred
739. Prepared
740. Presented
741. Presided
742. Pressed
743. Prevented
744. Probed
745. Proceeded (to)
746. Processed
747. Procreated
748. Procured
749. Produced
750. Professionalized
751. Programmed
752. Projected
753. Promoted
754. Promulgated
755. Proofread
756. Proposed
757. Proscribed
758. Prospered
759. Protected
760. Protested
761. Protracted
762. Proved
763. Provided
764. Publicized
765. Published
766. Published
767. Purchased
768. Pursued
769. Qualified
770. Quantified
771. Questioned
772. Queued
773. Quickened
774. Quilted
775. Raised
776. Ran
777. Ranged
778. Rated
779. Razed
780. Reached
781. Realized
782. Reaped
783. Reared
784. Rearranged
785. Reasoned
786. Recalled
787. Received
788. Recited
789. Recited
790. Reclaimed
791. Recognized
792. Recommended
793. Reconciled
794. Reconstructed
795. Recorded
796. Recouped
797. Recovered
798. Recreated
799. Recreated
800. Recruited
801. Rectified
802. Recycled
803. Redecorated
804. Redesigned
805. Re-Designed
806. Redistricted
807. Reduced
808. Reduced
809. Reenacted
810. Reentered
811. Re-Entered
812. Referenced
813. Refreshed
814. Registered
815. Regulated
816. Rehearsed
817. Rehired
818. Reimbursed
819. Reinforced
820. Rejoiced
821. Related
822. Released
823. Relinquished
824. Relocated
825. Remedied
826. Remembered
827. Reminisced
828. Remodeled
829. Renewed
830. Rented
831. Reoriented
832. Repaired
833. Replaced
834. Replenished
835. Replied
836. Reported
837. Reposed
838. Represented
839. Requested
840. Required
841. Requisitioned
842. Researched
843. Resequenced
844. Reshaped
845. Resized
846. Resolved
847. Resourced
848. Responded to
849. Responsible
850. Restored
851. Resulted
852. Resumed
853. Retailed
854. Retained
855. Retired
856. Retooled
857. Retorted
858. Retrained
859. Retrieved
860. Returned
861. Reunited
862. Revamped
863. Revealed
864. Reveled
865. Reviewed
866. Revised
867. Revived
868. Rewired
869. Roboticized
870. Robotized
871. Rolled
872. Rose
873. Rotated
874. Routed
875. Rushed
876. Sailed
877. Sampled
878. Sanitized
879. Saved
880. Sawed
881. Scanned
882. Scheduled
883. Scored
884. Screened
885. Scrimped
886. Sculptured
887. Secured
888. Selected
889. Selected
890. Sensed
891. Sequenced
892. Serialized
893. Served
894. Set objectives
895. Set up
896. Sewed
897. Shaped
898. Shared
899. Showed
900. Shredded
901. Signified
902. Simplified
903. Sized
904. Skilled
905. Socialized
906. Sold
907. Solicited
908. Solidified
909. Solved
910. Solved
911. Sorted
912. Sought
913. Spared
914. Sparked
915. Spayed
916. Specified
917. Speculated
918. Spiced
919. Spirited
920. Spoke
921. Sponsored
922. Spread
923. Stabilized
924. Staffed
925. Standardized
926. Starred
927. Stated
928. Stepped
929. Sterilized
930. Stimulated
931. Stored
932. Straightened
933. Streamlined
934. Strengthened
935. Stretched
936. Strolled
937. Strove
938. Structured
939. Styled
940. Styled
941. Subcontracted
942. Submitted
943. Succeeded
944. Summarized
945. Supervised
946. Supplied
947. Supported
948. Surfed
949. Surmised
950. Surveyed
951. Survived
952. Syndicated
953. Synthesized
954. Systematized
955. Tabulated
956. Tamped
957. Taught
958. Taxed
959. Teamed (up)
960. Telecommuted
961. Telemarketed
962. Telephoned
963. Televised
964. Terminated
965. Tested
966. Thwarted
967. Told
968. Tolled
969. Toughened
970. Toured
971. Traced
972. Tracked
973. Traded
974. Trained
975. Transacted
976. Transcribed
977. Transferred
978. Translated
979. Transmitted
980. Transported
981. Traveled
982. Treated
983. Trekked
984. Triumphed
985. Troubleshooted
986. Troubleshot
987. Trucked
988. Truncated
989. Trusted
990. Turned
991. Typed
992. Typeset
993. Ululated
994. Underscored
995. Understood
996. Undertook
997. Unified
998. United
999. Updated
1000. Upgraded
1001. Uplifted
1002. Used
1003. Utilized
1004. Validated
1005. Valued
1006. Varied
1007. Vaunted
1008. Venerated
1009. Ventured
1010. Verbalized
1011. Verified
1012. Videographed
1013. Videotaped
1014. Viewed
1015. Vindicated
1016. Visualized
1017. Vitalized
1018. Vocalized
1019. Voiced
1020. Volunteered
1021. Voted
1022. Vulcanized
1023. Waited
1024. Waived
1025. Watched
1026. Waved
1027. Weaned
1028. Weighed
1029. Weighted
1030. Welded
1031. Wholesaled
1032. Willed
1033. Wintered
1034. Withdrew
1035. Won
1036. Word processed
1037. Worked
1038. Wrote
1039. Wrought
1040. Xerographed
1041. X-Rayed
1042. Yearned
1043. Yielded
1044. Zapped
1045. Zeroed (in)
1046. Zipped
1047. Zoned
1048. Zoomed

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Monday, March 16, 2009

What Verbs Could You Use When Writing "He Said" or "She Explained"?

Word Play

By Anne Hart (http://annehart.tripod.com) email: documentaryreviews@live.com.
Which Verbs Can You Use to Show Behavior or Emotion When You Write Tag Lines Describing the Spoken or Written Word?

Tag lines describe the emotion felt and/or the behavior acted out when a person speaks or writes. For example, if you want to write a sentence that describes or shows a shy person, you might write, “He took a sudden interest in his sneakers.” The sentence denotes shyness, fear, or hesitation.

The meaning becomes different, perhaps becoming an act of scrutiny, evaluation, comparison, or sizing if you wrote, “She took a sudden interest in her customer’s orthopedic shoes.”

100 Ways to Describe Body Language With the Spoken or Written Word: Describing the Behavioral Side of He/She/They Said or Wrote Using a Line of Dialogue

Writing Tag Lines

Often writing is described as amateurish when the author gets tired of using “he said,” when writing a line of dialogue in creative nonfiction writing or writing fiction of any genre. At the same time readers also get tired of distinguishing between two characters speaking a line of dialogue in a story, biography, quote, or interview when the writer keeps noting “he said, she said, they said.” What can you use as an alternative in both nonfiction and fiction writing?

To get at the root of the issue, look for the action, the behavior inside the statement. You might write instead of he wrote or he said, the words, “he demurred.” One example of varied verb use in nonfiction writing could be a statement such as, “It will not do to assume that editorial jobs in music marketing can be handled only by college graduates that majored in music history and minored in journalism,” demurred ethnomusicologist, XYZ in “ABCDEF”, published 2009.

In the example above, the verb “to demur” used here in past tense as “demurred” means to object , to take exception, dissent, or to protest. It’s more refreshing rather than being more amateurish, to use “demurred” rather than write the more familiar word, wrote as in the following: “…wrote ethnomusicologist, XYZ (in the publication “ABCDEF” published in 2009. You also could have wrote instead of he demurred, “he wrote.” But “he wrote” would not have illustrated the behavior, attitude, or emotion behind the act of writing the quote you are using.

What other verbs could you have used instead of ‘demur’ (not to be confused with the adjective, demure-- which means reserved, modest, timorous, reticent, taciturn, bashful, coy, diffident, timid, quiet, or shy)? You could have used (as a verb in past tense) the following verbs: wrote, stated, reported, or noted.

Simply by using the verb, “demurred” you only have not implied that the specific author stated a certain quote from a book or article, you’ve also conveyed to the reader that by writing one specific sentence, that the author… took exception to, disputed, and protested the assumption “that… editorial jobs in music marketing can be handled only by college graduates that majored in music history and minored in journalism.” See how one sentence can be used to convey the behavior, emotion, and body language or gestures behind a quote or a line of dialogue in a book, story, script, or article of nonfiction or fiction?

The same type of tag lines that describe behavior can be used in writing text for print, for scripts written for narration in documentaries, or in text-based fiction or nonfiction whether you’re writing an article, story, book, or script. Tag lines are used to describe behavior and emotion.

Here are some possible verbs you can use in print text to describe how a particular quote should be interpreted regarding what emotion, behavior, or body language is implied when an author writes. Tag lines help you figure out the intent of the writer or another reader’s interpretation of what he or she thinks the author might have meant when one writer quotes another writer in a book, speech, or article. You can use either the present or past tense of the verb, depending upon the editorial style that works best in the piece you’re writing.

More Verbs You Can Use Instead of He or She Said or Wrote

Demur

Present Tense Past Tense

Contest Contested
Demur Demurred
Disapprove Disapproved
Dispute Disputed
Dissents Dissented
Expostulate Expostulated
Object Objected to
Protest Protested
Remonstrate Remonstrated
Take exception to Took exception to
Wrangle Wrangled

Say

Acknowledge Acknowledged
Add Added
Adduce Adduced
Advance Advanced
Affirm Affirmed
Allege Alleged
Announce Announced
Answer Answered
Articulate Articulated
Ascribe Ascribed
Asseverate Asseverated
Assign Assigned
Assume Assumed
Attest Attested
Attribute Attributed
Aver Averred
Avouch Avouched
Avow Avowed
Babble Babbled
Bark Barked
Bay Bayed
Bear witness Bore witness
Betray Betrayed
Breathe Breathed
Bring forward Brought forward
Bring to attention Brought to attention
Certify Certified
Cite Cited
Claim Claimed
Come out with Came out with
Communicate Communicated
Conjecture Conjectured
Convey Conveyed
Convince Convinced
Cry Cried
Declaim Declaimed
Declare Declared
Deliver Delivered
Depose Deposed
Detail Detailed
Dictate Dictated
Disclose Disclosed
Divulge Divulged
Estimate Estimated
Explain Explained
Express Expressed
Give evidence Gave evidence
Give one’s word Gave one’s word
Give the implication that Gave the implication that
Give the impression that Gave the impression that
Groan Groaned
Growl Growled
Hazard a guess Hazarded a guess
Heckle Heckled
Howl Howled
Hypothesize Hypothesized
Imagine Imagined
Impart Imparted
Imply Implied
Impute Imputed
Insinuate Insinuated
Introduce Introduced
Inveigle Inveigled
Journalize Journalized
Judge Judged
Let out Have let out
Make known Made known
Mention Mentioned
Mouth Mouthed
Name Named
Noise abroad Noised abroad
Offer Offered
Orate Orated
Phrase Phrased
Plead Pleaded
Pledge Pledged
Point out Pointed out
Predicate Predicated
Predict Predicted
Present Presented
Pretend Pretended
Profess Professed
Promise Promised
Pronounce Pronounced
Propose Proposed
Purport Purported
Put in words Placed in words
Put Put before
Ramble Rambled
Raspberry Raspberried
Recite Recited
Rehearse Rehearsed
Rejoin Rejoined
Remark Remarked
Render Rendered
Repeat Repeated
Reply Replied
Report Reported
Respond Responded
Retort Retorted
Reveal Revealed
Say Said
Shout Shouted
Shout Shouted
Speak Spoke
Speculate Speculated
Squeak Squeaked
State Stated
Sway Swayed
Talk Talked
Tease Teased
Tell Told
Testify Testified
Threaten Threatened
Utter Uttered
Vocalize Vocalized
Vote Voted
Vouch Vouched
Warrant Warranted
Whine Whined
Whisper Whispered
Yell Yelled

Wrote

Adapt Adapted
Author Authored
Authorize Authorized
Autograph Autographed
Cacograph Cacographed
Calligraph Calligraphed
Catalogue Catalogued
Chickenscratch Chickenscratched
Circumscribe Circumscribed
Commit online Committed online
Commit to paper Committed to paper
Communicate Communicated
Compose Composed
Contribute Contributed
Copy Copied/Copy-Edited
Correspond Corresponded
Correspond Corresponded
Dash off Dashed off
Digitize Digitized
Dirt-dealer Dirt-dealed
Draft Drafted
Dramatize Dramatized
Draw up Drew up
Drop a line Dropped a line
Drop a note Dropped a note
Edit Edited
Editorialize Editorialized
Email Emailed
Engross Engrossed
Epistolize Epistolized
Format Formatted
Gazateer Gazateered
Group Grouped
Handwrite Handwrote
Hawk Hawked
Index Indexed
Indite Indited
Ink Inked
Inscribe Inscribed
Ironize Ironized
Jot down Jotted down
Journalize Journalized
Justify Justified
Keyboard Keyboarded
Letter Lettered
List Listed
Lucubrate lucubrated
Lyricize Lyricized
Make a note of Made a note of
Mark Marked
Market Marketed
Mythmaker Mythmade
Newshawk Newshawked
Newshound Newshounded
Newsmonger Newsmongered
Note Noted
Organize Organized
Orthograph Orthographed
Outline Outlined
Pamphleteer Pamphleteered
Pamphletize Pamphletized
Paragraph Paragraphed/Paragraphist
Parodize Parodized (pertaining to parodist)
Pen Penned
Plan Planned
Plot Plotted
Poeticize Poeticized
Poetize Poetized
Potboil Potboiled
Prescribe Prescribed
Proofread Proofread
Publicize Publicized
Putting pen to paper Put pen to paper
Quill Quilled
Record Recorded
Record Recorded
Register Registered
Report Reported
Research Researched
Review Reviewed
Revise Revised
Rewrite Rewrote
Rhyme Rhymed
Satirize Satirized
Scandalize Scandalized
Scrabble Scrabbled
Scratch Scratched
Scrawl Scrawled
Scribble Scribbled
Script Scripted
Sell Sold
Sing Sang
Sling words Slung words
State Stated
Subscribe Subscribed
Trace Traced
Transcribe Transcribed
Type Typed
Versify Versified
Videorecord Videorecorded
Write down Wrote down
Write up Wrote up

(For more word possibilities, consult the book that I did for some of this research: The Synonym Finder, J.I. Rodale (over 1 million synonyms), Warner Books, NY.)
About the author of this article: Anne Hart has written 90 published paperback books currently in print listed at http://annehart.tripod.com and has taught creative writing since 1972 before retiring in 2004. She currently writes books and magazine articles and is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and Mensa.
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Resources for Raising Funds Through Creative Writing Strategies

101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers
By: Anne Hart

Table of Contents

101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds
A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

Chapters

1. How to Write and Develop Scripts for Computer and Board Games

2. Designing Success Story Newsletters as Anniversary or Event and
Celebration of Life Gift Books

3. How to Bind Your Own Current Events Research Book or Booklet by
Hand

4. Pop-Up Books for All Ages

5. Full 5 – 6 Week Course in Writing and Publishing Gift Books

6. 50 Strategies on How to Apply Writing to Memoirs and Life Story
Gift Books or Newsletters

7. Personal Histories & Autobiographies as Points of View within
Social Histories:

Write in the First Person

8. Personal History Time Capsules as Gift Books, Annual Newsletters
and DNA

Driven Genealogy Reports

9. Romantic Wedding and Anniversary Gift Books, DVDs or Newsletters

10. Newsletters or DVDs with Slogans, Logos, and
Branding

11. Directories and DVDs as Gift Books: Entertainment, Walking Tour
Guides,

Historic Neighborhoods, Galleries, Museums, and Dining

12. Gift Books, Discs, and Newsletters Documenting Media Tours for
Authors, Performers, and Speakers

13. News Clipping Collection on a "Theme Newsletter," Report, Disc,
or Niche Market Gift Book

14. Age-Related Hubs as Family History Newsletters, DVDs, Reports,
and Gift

Books

15. Conference or Reunion Newsletters, Discs, and Gift Books

16. Digital Scrap Booking, Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books from
Slide Shows

17. Dating History Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books

18. Celebrities' "Lessons Learned from Life" as Newsletters, Discs,
Reports, or Books

19. Mind-Body-Spirit Gift Video Newsletters, Reports, and Gift Books

20. Inspirational Video and Print Newsletters, CDs, DVDs, or Gift
Books

21. Self-Help Seminar and Convention Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or
Year Books

22. How to Make Great Video Extended Family Newsletters

23. How to Write a Course Syllabus

24. Publishing or Producing Materials for Reunions and Video
Conferences

25. Writing, Publishing, and Producing Video News Releases

Appendix A Newsletter Templates on the Web

Appendix B Multi-Ethnic Genealogy Web Sites

Appendix C General Genealogy Web sites

Appendix D Bibliography

Appendix E Use Haiku as Proverbs and Slogans for Inspiration

Appendix F 1,006 Action Verbs for Gift Book Writers and Publishers

Appendix G Template for a Handwritten Newsletter—Print or
Multimedia

Appendix H Expressive Arts in Creativity Research: Projects and
Assessments in

Imaginative Writing

Appendix I List of Anne Hart's 83+ published paperback books in
print

Index

***

Introduction

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book
about it." __ Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Benjamin Disraeli, novelist, debator, and prime minister in England
(elected to parliament), wrote many novels, including a
trilogy "Coningsby," "Sybil," and "Tancred." and The Life and Reign
of Charles I (1828). A nearly three-page listing of Disraeli's
quotations appear in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Cheers to Simplicity

Do you want to raise funds or solve problems for your
favorite cause by writing, publishing, or producing? Simplicity
sells. About keeping things simple, clear, and consistent, that's the
first thing I learned when I went to technical writing school to
learn to write computer manuals two decades ago after I tried to get
a real-world teaching job with a masters degree in creative writing--
fiction. We used to wear buttons saying "clarify and simplify." It
prevents logorrhea. It sure helped when I entered the field of
medical writing.

The following five details helped to sell my fiction (23 novels):
simplicity, commitment, consistency, universal values, and clarity.
If you write fiction, you write about what keeps families together,
puts bread on the table, and pulls its own weight. You write about
searching or brainstorming for answers, surprises, measurable
results, imagination, and solutions to problems close by instead of
looking for creativity enhancement, success, or the unexpected in all
those far away or exotic places. And yes, that illustrates simplicity
without talking down to the readers. Make the reader feel important.
Who does it best?

It's the people that write user-friendly books. The skills you learn
by writing computer manuals transfers to writing novels when people
can follow the simplicity and still feel good after reading your
book. Hooray for all writers who emphasize clarity through
simplicity. It sells.

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102 Fund-Raising "How-To" Career Development, Problem-Solving,
Practical Training, or Vocational Biography Pamphlets to Publish
Raising funds? How do you do it? Simply interview folks in these
occupations and write their brief vocational biographies. You can
hire freelance writers to write the biographical interviews
emphasizing what they do on their job, education/training, and
experience, target market, location, and expected income. Market your
publications at career development events and conferences and with
school libraries and career, human resources, or employment centers.

Your publishing effort can be pamphlets, glossy magazines, books, or
loose leaf vocational biographies that you market to schools, career
centers, and libraries. Advertise for people to interview that do
these types of work as their main form of income or as a part-time
business.

You can find them in various professional and trade associations
related to the industries or occupations. Publishing vocational
biographies can be in paperback or as a video news release on the
highlights of various vocations. One example could be a day in the
life of a book packager. Keep the vocational biography short and
focus on the highlights.

Pamphlets could run 45-100 pages. Here are some suggested vocations
that haven't been covered in depth too many times. You could focus on
the 50 vocations that will grow in the next decade or choose
vocations such as these below that emphasize hobbies and beyond as
vocations such as archivist leading to a possibly more secure job
with one's state.

1) American Studies Participant/Observer/Reporter

2) Adoptions Researcher

3) Anthropologist/Applied

4) Antiques and Paper Collectibles Dealer in Family
History/Postcards/Photos/Diaries

5) Archivist/State Employee

6) Area Studies Specialist

7) Attorney/Notary/Court Records Researcher

8) Banking historian

9) Biographer

10) Book author/article writer/columnist

11) Book Locator

12) Book Packager

13) Braille Transcriber/Genealogy Records

14) Career Consultant or Counselor

15) Clarifying Secrets in Memoirs Writing/Intergenerational
Writing/Publishing Specialist

16) Clergy

17) Collectibles Dealer

18) Computer Database Manager/Researcher/Designer

19) Conference and Seminar Event Planner

20) Conservator

21) Court Records Researcher/Historian

22) Diary Conservator

23) DNA-driven Genealogy Researcher

24) Documentarian

25) Estate Sales and Auction Directors

26) Ethnographer

27) Eulogy Writer

28) Family Conflicts Mediator

29) Family History Gift Basket Entrepreneur

30) Family History Internet Theater Producer

31) Family Newsletter Publisher/Designer

32) Family Recipe Publisher

33) Genealogist

34) Genealogy Camp Coordinator/Life Story Writing or History
Research Camp

35) Genealogy Club Events Coordinator

36) Genealogy Events and Trade Show Planner

37) Genealogy Software Designer

38) Genealogy Software Manufacturer's Representative

39) Genealogy/Family History Teacher—online or in person

40) Genetics Counselor

41) Geographic Area Genealogy Researcher

42) Gerontologist

43) Gift Book or Booklet Publisher/Writer/Designer

44) Gift Manufacturer—Family History Novelties, Collectibles,
Memorabilia

45) Greeting Card Writer/Personalize for Families

46) Handwriting and Documents Researcher

47) Historian

48) Historic Genealogy Society Administrator/Founder/Researcher

49) Historical Handwriting Analyst

50) Historical Society Coordinator/Founder/Administrator

51) Immigrant Ancestor Project Coordinator

52) Indexer/Genealogy Books, Records, and Web-based Databases

53) Intergenerational Interviewer

54) Internships Director for a University

55) Intimate Journeys Genealogical Walking Tours of Neighborhoods
Connecting Families

56) Journalist

57) Librarian

58) Library of Congress Employee

59) Linguist/early handwriting specialist/Languages

60) Locator of Descendants for Restoring and Returning Historic
Photos, Ephemera, and Memorabilia (found in antique shops, at estate
sales, and displayed in restaurants).

61) Matchmaker

62) Medical Historian

63) Memoirs Writing Educator

64) Museum Archivist

65) Music/Musician Genealogist

66) Native American/Indigenous Peoples History/Genealogy Researcher

67) Novelist/Playwright/Memoirs Writer

68) Oral Historian

69) Paper Sales/Marketing/Manufacturing (for conservation and
library or museum uses)

70) Personal Historian

71) Personalized Family History Greeting Card Design, Poems,
Illustration

72) Photographer

73) Probate, Wills, and Estate Paralegal or Attorney

74) Progenealogist

75) Public Historian

76) Public Servant/Government Employee

77) Public Speaker

78) Publicist/Public Relations Director

79) Publisher

80) Rabbinical Dynasty Genealogist

81) Radio or TV Genealogy Talk Show Host

82) Real Estate Historian (world-wide historical property ownership
research)

83) Records Administrator

84) Reunions Planner

85) Sales/Genealogy Products/Marketing Manager

86) Satellite/Internet Connections

87) Scholarship Researcher/Ethnic, Area, or Surname Scholarships

88) Skip Tracer (locate people who moved away)

89) Social History Researcher

90) Sociologist

91) Software Designer/Family History/Genealogy

92) Specialist in Finding Women's History-Related Documents (such as
maiden names)

93) Surname Group Administrator/Researcher

94) Teacher/Time Capsules and Social History

95) Time Capsules Craft

96) Transcriber

97) Translator

98) Travel Agent: Ethnic and Family Tours Specialist

99) Traveling Genealogist

100)Two-Line Tombstone Writer

101) Videographer

102) Walking Tour Guide-Extended Family and Reunion Walking Tours of
Ancestors' Neighborhoods around the World or Locally
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How to Use Writing, Music, Drama & Art Therapy Techniques for Healing

By Anne Hart

Excerpt from my paperback book titled: 30+ Brain-Exercising
Creativity Coach Businesses to Open: How to Use Writing, Music, Drama
& Art Therapy Techniques for Healing. Copyright © 2007 by Anne Hart.
ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-595-42710-9. To order
book, click on http://www.iuniverse.com. Click on Bookstore. Search
book by title.

Excerpt from my first chapter:

Table of Contents

Chapters

Introduction
1 Preserving Memories, Enhancing Creativity, and Healing by Writing
Memoirs-Text, Oral, Visual, Pop-Up Books, and Multimedia
2 Creative Writing Therapy Group Fiction Projects to Do
3 Creative Fiction Writing Therapy Projects for Playwriting &
Scriptwriting
4 How to Create Paperback 98-Page Pamphlets on Current Issues in the
News for Students/Researchers, Teachers, and Librarians
5 Writing, Publishing, and Selling Your Own Small Booklets or
Pamphlets
6 How to Format Your Book or Booklet Manuscript
7 Self Promotion and Plugging Products
8 Pre-Selling Your Book with a Web Hub before Publication
9 Getting a Strong and Visible Platform
10 Writing Drama or Memoirs as Time Capsules for Internet Video
Theater or Radio
11 Organizing Your Life Story Book as Dramatic Fiction
12 Writing and Expressive Arts Coaches as Creativity Motivators
13 Write about Peoples' Inner Payoffs and Moral Needs
14 Writing Biography and True Story
15 How Writing Salable Work is about Selling Solutions
16 Does Writing Your Life Story As A Novel Affect Your Memory?
17 Writing Life Stories or Current Issues as Romance Novels or
Romantic Stories
18 Using Odd and Even Chapters in Your Book or Biography
19 Music Therapies as Healing and Inspirational Tools in Creative
Writing Coaching
20 How to Write a Course Syllabus and Teach Online to Market Your
Books
21 Online Creativity-Enhancing Businesses for Writers as
Entrepreneurs to Start Media Tours
22 News Monitoring Service
23 Music Video Podcasts
24 Mind-Body-Spirit Businesses
25 Inspirational and Motivational Writing with Music for Relaxation
Business
26 Creative Writing Preference Assessments as Healing Tools
27 Writing Coaches and Creative Writing Therapists are "Tech
Support." Take the "Howling Wolf's Scribe" Creative Writing
Preference Classifier
28 How Slice-of-Life Vignettes, Essays, and Journaling Become Healing
Tools

Appendix

Bibliography

Index
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Chapter 1

Preserving Memories, Enhancing Creativity, and Healing by Writing
Memoirs-Text, Oral, Visual, Pop-Up Books, and Multimedia

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." Carol
Burnett (1936 - )

The purpose of using multimedia and mood-lifting, inspirational, or
meditative background music "to write by" in creative writing therapy
as a healing tool is to produce a hand-made, finely bound memoirs or
success-story gift book containing a DVD or CD placed in the inside
cover of the book in a plastic envelope attached to the cover that
enhances the text transcription or rendition of the paperback book.

The goal of creative writing therapy for memory enhancement is to
show how two or more people bring out the best in one another. It's a
time capsule of an individual's life—turning points, significant
events, and highlights.

What questions will you ask? How would you interview people for the
significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish,
and bind by hand exquisitely crafted personal gift books, memoirs, or
business success stories? The questions and interviewing techniques
in the next chapter will give you a healing tool that you can use for
yourself or with others in your work using creative writing therapy
to freshen memories by writing multi-media memoirs that emphasize
those turning points and events.

What's your opinion of creative writing therapy? Some colleges award
masters degrees in creative writing therapy, especially
bibliotherapy. It combines writing poetry (poetry therapy) fiction,
memoirs, journaling, and dramatic writing as part of an expressive
therapies masters program for those with a background in creative
writing, art, or drama.

What's A Creative Writing Therapist?

Creative writing therapy differs from bibliotherapy or poetry
therapy. Creative writing therapy emphasizes listening to oral or
personal history—either one's own or someone else's personal history
and then writing from inspiration using facts, significant events,
and turning points as highlights of an experience, issue, or life
story.

Bibliotherapy may focus more on either reading books, articles, or
poems and discussing the facts, experiences, or emotions in the
written word read. Bibliotherapy may emphasize reading and
discussion, whereas creative writing therapy emphasizes expressive
writing from behavior, emotions, or logic.

Bibliotherapists in the USA have a Federal Title classification for
this job description. In 1977, a Federal Title, classification 601,
was created for bibliotherapists to be hired. Poetry therapists
undertook 440 hours of the study of poetry therapy became eligible
for the newly created position, according to the National Association
for Poetry Therapy (NAPT). Check out the NAPT's Web site located
presently at http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.html
or write to:

Sheila Dietz, NAPT Administrator
525 SW 5th Street, Suite A
Des Moines, Iowa 50309-4501
Email: info@poetrytherapy.org
http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.html

The Association publishes a quarterly for Poetry Therapy
called the A.P.T. News. It's estimated that thousands of
professionals use poetry therapy. The requirements for a "trainee in
poetry therapy" include graduation from an accredited college with a
degree in the humanities or behavioral sciences.

Equivalent credit may be granted for combination of completed
college courses and experience in a recognized institution. There
should be evidence of concentration in poetry covering the primitive,
classical, post-renaissance, modern, and avant-garde writing. The
trainee must be accepted into a mental health program as a volunteer
or paid employee under professional supervision.

As a poetry therapist, you must not exaggerate your own importance in
the therapeutic team. Certification allows you to put a C.P.T.
(Certified Poetry Therapist) designation after your name. Training
programs in poetry therapy and bibliotherapy are offered through the
National Association for Poetry Therapy and through other private
schools.

There are several poetry therapy institutes. The New School for
Social Research in New York City offered training programs in poetry
therapy and bibliotherapy. One poetry therapist, Don Theye, has a
motto: "Observe, absorb, create, share." Check out the book titled: A
Seminar on Bibliotherapy: Proceedings by Dr. Franklin M. Berry, a
psychology professor. Research bibliotherapy-related books at the
Library School, University of Wisconsin, Helen White Hall, 600 N.
Park, Madison, WI, 53706. See the ERIC (Educational Research Web
Portal) ERIC # ED174226, Seminar on Bibliotherapy. Proceedings of
Sessions, June 21-23, 1978 in Madison, Wisconsin. The ERIC Web site
is at: _nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED1742
26&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b8011ce45>.

For guidelines to poetry therapy and book lists, write: J.B.
Lippincott, Co., East Washington Sq., Philadelphia, PA 19105. Of
interest are the pioneer books written in the sixties and seventies,
such as Poetry Therapy, by Dr. Jack J. Leedy (1969), and Poetry, the
Healer, Dr. Jack J. Leedy (1973). For the current newsletter, click
on the association's Web site at:
http://poetrytherapy.org/contact.html.

Publishing Your Creative Writing Therapy Book

Some people pay handsomely for one hand-bound, gilded, and elegant
gift book of lifetime or corporate events. You'd be surprised how
many people are satisfied to offer up to $10,000 (or more, depending
upon the publisher) to have only one copy of a hand-bound hardcover
book published about their event or life story.

What does it take to create and publish a memoirs gift book
commemorating a celebration of life, Bar Mitzvah, confirmation,
wedding, or true experience? What quality of personal book do you
want to make from scratch—writing, printing, and binding? As far as
printing and binding, you can make one finished book at a cost to you
of only $1.50-$4.50. What you charge a client depends on what it
costs you.

If you create and publish a custom gift book, you'd publish only one
copy of a hand bound, hardcover book. The tome would contain anywhere
from 60 to 100 photos. Text material would be based on phone or live
interviews. The interviews usually would run at least two hours or
more for one person (and about two hours spent per each interview).
The gift book would be about 80 to 120 published pages or slightly
more if necessary. Look at yourself as a designer, writer,
interviewer, and bookbinder.

You can even tailor a pop-up book creation (with the help of input
from engineers on how to fold paper). Or learn how to make your own
pop-up books. See the Joan Irvine Web site on making pop-up books at:
http://www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/books.html. Also check out
the How We Make Pop-Up Books Web site at:
http://www.hawcockbooks.co.uk/how.php.

What questions do you ask to help people respond calmly and openly at
an interview? Start with "What do you enjoy the most about this
particular time of life? What do you enjoy most about this event?
What do you enjoy most about this holiday? What do you enjoy most
about this experience? What thought, act, or feeling do you want to
emphasize in the gift book?

Serious Life Experiences

If the person is going to emphasize a war-related or military service
event, an ordeal, medical or survival details, or a factual report of
behaviors related to any other serious segment of a life story, you
could ask in addition to the details, what have you learned from this
experience?

How have you transcended the past and moved on? What have you learned
from other people's mistakes or choices? What have you learned from
your past choices, mistakes, decisions, or alternative solutions and
paths? For business case histories, ask your client to relate the
details step-by-step so readers can follow how your client arrived at
solutions to problems or achieved measurable results. A memoirs book
is like a public relations campaign. It's about image built on solid
detail and storytelling illustrated by visually-striking photography
(photojournalism).

Answer the individual's silence or long pauses (to gather thoughts)
by using action verbs such as, "Bring me up to date on your life
story, a special event, or your work. Tell me about your plans for
this book. Also let your client describe experiences in detail and
color. Ask interview questions such as the following: "What's your
favorite experience and why? Describe a special gift you have given.
What have you received that transformed your life? What lessons have
you learned from past mistakes? What holiday or event do you enjoy
the most?"

For further information on using action verbs, see my book titled,
801 Action Verbs for Communicators: Position Yourself First with
Action Verbs for Journalists, Speakers, Educators, Students, Resume-
Writers, Editors & Travelers. ISBN: 0-595-31911-4. Also check out my
Web site links at http://www.newswriting.net.

The interview questions should be given well ahead of the time of the
actual live or telephone interview. Meet with the person by phone
and/or in person before you arrange any interviews so you can learn
your client's expectations.

If your client wants to exceed the maximum number of words allowed,
that client would be charged usually a dollar for each extra word
included in the book above the maximum words allowed. (It varies with
different publishers, of course.)

There could be only a half-hour interview of each person when 100 or
more people have to be interviewed. Or such a valuable, well-crafted
book may be customized to fit an individual's special requirements.
Yes, people do very happily pay this much for having a gift book
crafted on them or their theme, and businesses doing this are doing
wonderfully well finding clients.

You can publish all by yourself at a price only you will determine as
you research the markets for gift books. You have a lot of choices
varying from print-on-demand software to handcrafted bindings.
You can hire a team of interviewers, writers, and publishers or put
to learning volunteer help from school projects and senior centers.
The outcome is all the same: recording, organizing, and publishing
peoples' true life stories or other events. And you can pay for books
that can be bound a whole variety of ways.

Act alone or work with a team of hired skilled people, volunteers
active in retirement, or students learning the publishing business.
However you manage your craft, every life story is worth a book. You
can open a business or enjoy a hobby publishing gift books.

How Age-Wise Writers & Graphic Designers Can Create Pop-Up Memoirs
Gift Books as Time Capsules or Multimedia Writing, Art & Music Therapy

Graphic designers and illustrators that also like to write can design
pop-up family newsletters, gift books, or time capsules as keepsakes.
You can start a business creating pop-up books for any age group and
digitize the book to a Web site, CD, DVD, or create it hands-on in
three dimensions as a paper hardcopy, or an electronic gift booklet.
If you need a workout session for your brain, try making pop up books
as gifts. It's like paper folding. You can teach senior citizens how
to make life story memoirs gift books and/or record with camcorder
and save on a DVD life story skits, plays, and pop-up books.

Here's how to make hands-on paper pop up books. It's like origami,
and great for helping your memory and mind stay younger. When the
book is done, you can use software such as PhotoShop to scan your
project to a Web site or disc.

That way the pop-up book can be sent around the world electronically
or sold through the mail or in gift shops as a hands-on paper book
full of surprises, humor, or as a family history newsletter. To
animate your book, use your favorite animation software for Web
sites.

For the paper copy, it's a right-hemisphere exercise in origami
recommended as a balancing exercise for writers who like to
illustrate for graphic design projects that showcase writing.

Pop-up books can be made for grown-ups, using color copies of almost
any item produced on heavy paper of photographs or other art.
Pop-ups for children also can include greeting cards to promote other
children's books or pop-ups in your story book can be rotating disks
or leaves set in the center of the book. Three-dimensional folded
paper glued into a book present the element of surprise. Make pop-up
keepsake albums or gift memoirs books.

Ideas for pop-ups include baby and wedding photos or miniature awards
and diplomas. Learn what questions to ask and how to interview people
for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write,
publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal gift books.
When you craft a book entirely by hand and bind it in fine materials
also by hand, being careful to use acid-free paper, you might also
wish to illustrate the book yourself.

Let's propose you're writing a children's pop-up book about a child
who is a relative. You're going to bind the book yourself, taking
lessons from the many courses in hand book-binding already on the
Internet. Here's how to illustrate the book.

If you write a children's book about your child or grandchild, try
illustrating your children's book yourself on silk, coarse linen, or
percale. You can even use a linen handkerchief or scarf. Frequently
your artwork is wrapped around a drum, that is always curved, and
illustration board won't wrap around a drum without bending and
cracking.

If you decide to publish a non-fiction children's book, which
will have less chance of losing in competition for entertainment
against the best-selling fiction books, focus on a how-to book giving
children of middle grades or their parents in picture books,
information to read to children or instruction for children in how to
build or do something they can't find quickly online or in a library,
such as how to build or make something that children cherish.

Illustrating on Fabric for Books

To illustrate on fabric, mount the fabric on illustration
board when you put your final drawing on fabric. Silk is preferred
for a final draft. The artwork gets scanned into a computer, but has
to roll around on a curved surface, a drum in order to be scanned to
make a children's book. That's how most publishers work. If you're
having the book privately printed, find out the size of the drum so
you can adjust or reduce the fabric before it gets scanned and the
size adjusted once more.

The top layer of the art that is to be scanned sometimes
is "set up" to be peeled off. Take a sheet of illustration board and
mount silk on it, or coarse linen. Sometimes illustration board is
too stiff when you cover it with fabric, and it won't peel right. So
use this method. Get a sheet of Mylar or matte plastic.

This is a type of film. Mount very fine white silk with water mixed
with acrylic matte medium. Scan it digitally to upload to the Web.
For the three-dimensional pop-up book copy or mock-up that is not
digitized, the best instruction I recommend is this method that I
learned from the writings of the late Barbara Cooney, author and
illustrator of more than 100 children's books and winner of the
Caldecott medals and the American Book Award.

Cooney loved to mount the fine white silk with water and
acrylic matte medium and then let it dry. The next step is to take a
roller and put on a layer of diluted acrylic gesso. Then let that dry.

Sand the surface using very fine garnet paper. Cooney liked
to repeat the second and third step until two to four layers of gesso
were built up. What you want to get is a flexible fabric full of your
illustration. Cooney described the result as an "egg-shell texture."
She used titanium white in her acrylic paintings. Your color will be
titanium white also.

Not many children's book writers know this technique of
painted on mounted silk when they illustrate children's books, and
publishers will be impressed with the professional technique, but in
case no publisher can be found, you have an illustration for your
children's book that will wrap around that drum, curving without
cracking. Keep on writing and illustrating.

If color is too expensive for your budget, stick to black and
white, and let the children color your book as they read or are read
to from the text. Keep the text about one paragraph per page for a
preschool book that will be read to children, and increase text for
older children or illustrated gift books. When you make only one or
two copies of a book that is entirely hand-made, you can do
everything yourself or bring your materials to a printer.

To make more copies, scan into your personal computer each step of
your book. Scan photos and art work at least at 300 dpi and large
enough, at least 6 by 9 inches. Save text documents, for example as a
Microsoft Word document. (Or use the equivalent in any other software
word processing application.) Text size usually is letter size, which
is 8 ½ by 11 inches. That way you can save your book to a CD or DVD
with one file for photos and another for text.

Additionally, you can save a copy of your entire book in another
file, organized with the text and photos interspersed the way you
want to lay out the entire manuscript. The CD or DVD can be brought
to most printers for additional copies of the book. Bind the book in
exquisite materials by hand using paper and covers that resist acid
and oxidation when the book is handed to the next generation.
Personal gift books also can be pop-up books for children or grown-
ups using themes of significant events and experiences that are meant
to me remembered and discussed.

Concrete Pop-Up Books

There are two kinds of pop-up books, concrete paper and glue
that you can fold with your hands and abstract pop-up shapes saved in
a computer file or on a disc. Let's begin with making a simple
concrete pop-up that is glued into a book. When the book is opened to
a particular page, the folded paper opens suddenly as if it is on
springs. A pop-up inserted in a memoirs gift book can be made from a
paper-cut illustration or drawing.

Supplies Needed for Simple Paper Pop-Ups

You'll need a template for scoring and cutting. You can make
a template by scoring art work. Or have a printer make the template
for you. If your printer isn't able to make a template, ask your
local university to recommend an engineering or art student who has
studied three dimensional art, origami, or making pop-ups.
A template may be made from a photograph that is reduced to the size
you want and copied on a color copier. The following are the items to
be assembled before beginning.

Template
Water colors or colorful inks
White glue that dries transparent
Paper clips
Straight edge or ruler

After you've made your illustration or had a photo color-
copied to heavy paper, use the round edge of a paper clip to score
little broken dots or lines so that the paper will fold along those
lines you have scored. Don't cut the scored lines. Only cut the solid
lines.

Templates are labeled with letters of the alphabet such as A, B, C,
and D. Usually templates follow a pattern such as beginning with A,
which is scored and folded back. Then you fold along the dotted
scored lines but not the solid lines. You'd follow through folding
scored sides C and D forward. Then you'd glue the back side of the
first panel to the back side of the second panel.

The panels would be numbered in linear order such as panel 1 and
panel 2. You'd follow step-by-step in the order of the numbers or
letters. Then you'd repeat for panels 3 and 4. So you'd begin
logically with number 1 and end with number 4. You'd start with
scored side A and end with scored side D. The folds would add up to a
four-sided square. If you had a picture that folded into a pop-up
with more or less sides, such as a triangle or an odd shape, you'd
follow the numbers on your template.

Before you start to make a pop-up, the first step would be to create
a template that you could score. The folds would be made on the
scored lines and not on the solid lines. Your last step would be to
glue your shape to the V fold so that your pop-up takes the shape you
want before you glue it into your memoirs book as a centerfold pop-up
or in some other spot. Before you begin, look at some instructional
books on making pop-ups. They're on the Web.

A pop-up photo of a couple dressed as bride and groom works well. The
photo would be brought to a color copier and printed out on the type
of paper that makes the best pop-ups. A history and virtual tour of
pop-up books is at the University of North Texas Web site:
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/introduction.htm.
Some pop-up books in the past contained revolving discs
called `volvelles.' You don't have to use photos. You can use art or
memorabilia to pop up, if the type of paper is suitable.

Use "turn up" or "lift the flap" mechanisms as pop-ups in your gift
book. The same pop-up copied can also be put in greeting cards to
promote your book. Separate leaves of paper cut to different sizes.
Each leaf would contain different information. The leaves can be
hinged together and attached to a page. This works great with
memorabilia.

The reader would be able to unfold multiple depths of a picture, such
as a photo cut-out wearing different costumes or clothing styles.
Examples would be the bridal gown, dressed for travel, at the beach,
or in ethnic traditional clothing.

Until the early 19th century, movable books were created for adults,
and not for children. One example would be learning anatomy at school
from different leaves showing bones or muscles. For further
information, see the following books:

Haining, Peter. Movable Books: An Illustrated History. London: New
English Library, 1979.
Koskelin, Susan. "The Evolution of Movable Books from the Late
Thirteenth Century to the Late Twentieth." Graduate school paper, U
of North Texas, 1996.
Lindberg, Sten G. "Mobiles in Books: Volvelles, Inserts, Pyramids,
Divinations, and Children's Games." Trans. Willian S. Mitchell. The
Private Library 3rd series 2.2 (1979) : 49-82.
Montanaro, Ann R. Pop-up and Movable Books: A Bibliography. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
What's the Best Way to Learn How to Make Pop-Up Books and Greeting
Cards?

Buy several pop-up books and make a list of how these books are
placed together. Then take them apart. An excellent book for
beginners is titled, The Elements of Pop-Up: A Pop-Up Book for
Aspiring Paper Engineers, by David A. Carter and James Diaz (Little
Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Div. NY
1999).

Use your camcorder to record yourself taking the book apart. It will
be easier to put them back together when you have a visual recording
of what the book looked like before and during each step of the way
as the book is taken apart. Making simple pop-ups for books and
greeting cards is easy to learn and helps develop the use of the
right hemisphere of your brain through practice.

Make a template or buy templates to make pop-up books from craft,
hobby, and book-binding supplies do-it-yourself stores. Several good
book binding supplies stores are online. Search your Internet engine,
for example Google at http://www.google.com with the key words "book
binding supplies."

A professor of bookbinding at the Escola d'Arts i Oficis in Barcelona
wrote an excellent how-to book titled, The Complete Book of
Bookbinding by Josep Cambras. The book provides precise, systematic
techniques with plenty of excellent illustrations. Other books
include the following:

• Hand Bookbinding: A Manual of Instruction by Aldren A. Watson
• The Craft of Bookbinding by Manly Banister
• More Making Books by Hand: Exploring Miniature Books,
Alternative Structures, and Found Objects by Peter Thomas
• The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History and
Techniques (British Library Guides) by P. J. M. Marks
• Book Arts: Beautiful Bindings for Handmade Books by Mary Kaye
Seckler

What's complicated about crafting pop-up books is making gift books
with moving parts. To learn how to do that, you need to talk to a
paper engineer or paper folding specialist. Or take a course in
making pop-up books with moving parts.

One excellent specialist in this field is paper engineer, Robert
Sabuda. See his Web site at: http://www.robertsabuda.com/. Click on
How to Make Pop-Ups at: http://www.robertsabuda.com/popupbib.html.
Pop-Up Tutorials Online and Books on Making Pop-Ups
Web-based step-by-step instruction, workshop information, and a
bibliography on making pop-up books are at the pop-up books author,
Joan Irving's site at: http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/.

Also other excellent bibliographies on making pop-up books include
the following: Johnson, Paul. Pop-up Paper Engineering. Cross-
curricular Activities in Design Technology, English and Art. The
Falmer Press, 1992.

Beginners may enjoy the following books: Aotsu, Yoku.
How to Make Pop-up Pictures! Dai-Nippon, 1993; Campbell, Jeanette R.
Pop-up Animals and More! Evan-Moor, 1989; Valenta, Barbara. Pop-O-
Mania. Dial Books. 1997.

Abstract Pop-Up Books

Play with Digital Pop-Up Cubes before You Fold Paper Pop-Ups

For digital pop-ups, try a pop-up cube that will appear on
your computer as you create stories that give the reader a choice to
move in several directions. This interactive choice is called writing
in branching narratives.

Picture a cube or a pop-up book that snaps into three dimensions by
extending the lines along the corner. Three-dimensional writing is in
circular time with branching narratives ending in leaf nodes like the
curving tree of life. Think of your story as a stack of cards—a
metaphor used by many authoring tools.

1. Take a deck of blank cards and divide it into thirds—one for
each part of your story. On each card, write a different beginning,
middle, or ending for each part of the story.
2. Shuffle the each pile of cards so the reader can choose
multiple pathways to interact within the story. Instead of linear
time, you now have a three-dimensional parallel structure that goes
back and forth like a time-travel novel.
3. Let the reader choose a different path, or return to the
beginning to start a different story.
The most important rule to remember when designing an interactive
story is that there are no rules. Start with a diagram and define the
widest categories. Then, refine the story diagram, getting more
specific as you go deeper into each story level.
Interactive writing uses metaphorical thinking to stimulate creative
response. The interactive writer becomes a master of flexibility and
a weaver of ideas, pictures, and sounds.

Practice Making Pop-Ups on Your Computer

Have a charming photo of a person in the book actually pop out in the
middle of the book or at a spot where that person's most important
experience is mentioned. Before you design and cut out any folding
pop-up art on paper, first make a verbal rather than a visual mock
pop-up in your computer. A verbal pop-up is abstract. It's all about
writing one page in three dimensions. You have to think in three
dimensions.

Your topic is "Writers wear many hats." Write in of branching
narratives. People who do this for a living are called non-linear
editors.

A single script may incorporate several frameworks, including
streaming audio narration, animation with voice-over, and montage.
Other often-used frameworks—including comedy and drama—can be applied
to new media presentations, as well.

The frameworks may vary from one category of facts or segment
of the story to the next. In a documentary-style biography, you might
include simple animation, backlit negatives, artwork, photos, or a
narration to bridge the transitions.

The completed project should flow like one piece of cloth with no
seams or hanging threads—like liquid, visual music. Using a varied
selection of frameworks will help keep the attention of the audience
and give the writer more options to set up a mighty conclusion. Be
sure the frameworks don't overpower the information with too vivid an
impact.

You want the readers to remember the life story highlights derived
from listener. Interactive gift books on computer discs (CDs or DVDs)
can be true life stories (or fiction). They use a parallel story
structure.

Readers can make several choices to change the events leading to
different outcomes at different times. You can adapt an event to an
interactive experience. This lets the audience enter feedback or
gives a choice of how the story moves or ends.

Writing in Caricature

Writing in caricature is the essence of great dialogue writing. No
one did it better than William Shakespeare, who was a master of
written dialogue in caricature.

As your audience experiences the script during its performance, your
writing will leap from two-dimensional text to the three-dimensional
world of your audience's imagination. As you write this way, fit your
dialogue into imaginary dialogue bubbles above the heads of your
characters.

Your reading and viewing audiences begin to vibrate with charisma.
The goal is to give each character the ability to influence, charm,
inspire, motivate, and help the audience feel important.

Using Humor

The more important you make the audience feel, the better chance
humor has of conveying a message of value. You may use carefully
chosen humor with serious topics to hold the attention of the
audience and to prevent the material from become too dry, abstract,
or technical. Humor works well when it reveals pitfalls to be
avoided. Your ability to make an audience laugh will increase the
marketability of your work.


Using Drama

Drama is one of the best frameworks to use. To incorporate drama into
a non-fiction memoirs gift book, include an experience with subplots
framed like those in one of the fiction genres such as romantic
comedy, adventure, mystery, or suspense.

Ask how the inner mechanisms work. Are facts readily available?
Or does the book allow the leading character or narrator to share
only one experience as an interlude of inserted drama? Show contrasts
in a memoirs book between the frameworks of dramatization, re-
enactments, and demonstration. Contrasts are what makes a personal
gift book of memoirs `alive' rather than `flat' in tone, texture, and
mood.

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be
enthusiasm." __ Bruce Barton

Gift Books for Everyone
Gift books present memoirs, family history, events, business
success stories, and commemorations. Gift books showcase celebrations
and rites of passage rituals with `action' photos or other graphics
along with text in a coffee-table style book, pamphlet, and/or
multimedia disc, usually inserted in an envelope pasted on the inside
cover.

Besides being more than a glorified scrap book or keepsake
album, the memoirs gift book is portable and can be published in a
size that easily can be mailed anywhere.

The memoirs gift books also can be digitized and placed on discs
such as DVDs or CDs, uploaded to Web sites as compressed MP4 files
(video podcasts), narrated for a public access or family-only video
if you interview the individual, or presented in a variety of formats
from paperback or hard cover books and pamphlets to multimedia slide
shows and short documentaries.

Author, Gore Vidal explained the differences between a
memoirs and an autobiography in his memoir titled, Palimpsest. Vidal
wrote, "A memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an
autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-
checked."

When you write another person's memoir, you'll have to do the type of
research that can be fact-checked. Verifiable facts in a memoir are
based on the words—either oral or written—from the person you are
interviewing to gather life experiences.

It is that individual's words that are recorded, edited, and written.
You may never find a way to prove the facts. An autobiography
includes a lot of material that does not depend solely upon memory.

For example, a person you interview might use poetic or colorful
words, moods, rhythms, and textures to create an `ambiance' such as
this fictional line recalling the economic depression of 1931: "The
sunlight shattered tongues of ice on the pond as the bread line wound
around the men selling apples in woven baskets."

Explore this possible line, "Before I left, a merchant said he'd
heard rumors that the village shaman sacrificed a llama to the rain
deity and burned its heart as an offering because I visited his
village to measure rainfall in the parched the Chilean desert that
year."

How would you like to show how the basic, fundamental, and universal
truths of human experience pull together in patterns, celebrations,
commemorations, business success stories, memoirs, family histories,
and rites of passage? If you want to start and operate a home-based
business online, on phone, or face-to-face writing and publishing
memoirs and gift books, here is your step-by-step guide to follow.
Get results and solve problems.

Help people celebrate significant experiences. Interview,
transcribe, organize, edit, write, and publish a personal memoirs or
business history book, booklet, or pamphlet. Or include with the book
a sleeve containing a CD or DVD disk on the inside back page. That
disk would contain the same material as the text portion of the book,
but as a narrated audio or video `book.'

When children grow, up they'd love to see great grandma on video,
hear her voice narrate her own life story's highlights, and discuss
the times and scenes from her past. The paperback or hard cover book
would contain the same material that easily can be read without
technology.

Here's how to start. Your first step is to offer potential clients
unique, individual, customized books or booklets. The type of books
you would write and publish would be memoirs and gift books. To
operate your business, you'd need to hire as independent contractors
interviewers to interview clients in a variety of cities nationally
or around the world.

In addition to writing the book, you'd also arrange any photos or
other graphics, publish the books, and send finished, bound copies of
the book or booklet to your clients. Your client would pay for a
fixed number of copies of this book, enough to be both affordable for
the client and profitable for you.

On the average, you'd write and publish about 25 books per year, with
the help of freelance writers or a team of writers working as
independent contracts on assignment.
The type of book you'd write mainly would emphasize personal stories.
They would be personal books that come out of journals and
celebrations, life stories, business histories, tributes, and
appreciation material. To begin, divide your categories into these
main topics:

Personal Celebration Books

Quincinera (Hispanic 15th birthday party)
Start of teenage years
End of teenage years
Reaching 21
Military Service
Life stories/memoirs
child's memories
Pregnancy Diary
Travel tips and memorabilia/Travel Guides
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebrations
Ethnic Rites of Passage
Confirmations
Ordinations
War experiences
Immigration stories—the journey and life in the new country
Bilingual life stories in family's original language with English
translation section of same information
Moving stories—relocation, new house.
Surviving an illness and healing journal
Diet success story "How I lost weight and kept it off."
Memoirs and photos at various stages of life—how a person changed
every seven years
High school journal
Religious experiences
Inspirational journey
Motivational testimony
Diaries
Wills/Testaments
Eulogies
Childbirth experience/Bringing home baby
Adoption stories/open adoptions
Leisure life
Retirement
Selling the large house and moving to smaller quarters
Transition to assisted living
Volunteer experiences: documenting acts of kindness

Relationship Books

Anniversaries
Adoptive child meets birth parents after decades
Dating history gift books
Engagements/Betrothals
Wedding stories
Wedding gifts and favors
Couple's life stories together
Family histories
Genealogies
DNA reports linking families
Commemorative Occasions
Friendships
Reunions
Divorce journal of details
Battered spouse detail and dates of incidents journal
Events book
Religious conversion explanations to children
Partnership unions
Pet's journey through Life
Dog weddings
New pets introduced to older pets in the household
Merging of families—man with three children marries woman with three
children
Extended family histories
Friends for 50+ years
Several couples buying one vacation home together

Gift Books

Children's letters
Lessons Learned from Life (celebrity interviews)
How to Make the Most of What You Have
Exercise or dance lessons
Scholarship(s) or Fellowships won
Haiku poems
Report cards from past generations
Original designs or writings preserved for future
generations/keepsake albums
Jokes (original, not copyrighted by anyone else other than your
client)
Personalized children's books—a story book bearing the name and
photos of each child. This can be a universal novelette, novel, or
story featuring the child.
Travel stories and events with details
School year books with a twist—customization and details
Valentine's Day for each year for many years or one specific event—
first Valentine's day before the wedding.
Bridal showers
Baby showers
Baby naming book or baby naming event
Building a house
Book of thank you notes for an event, gift, or celebration
Pet showers (new dog or cat shower)
Bar and Bat Mitzvah
Confirmation
Baptism
Conversion
Christmas gatherings over the decades
Recipes/cookbooks preserved from generation to generation (original)
Hanukah, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashanah memories and other holiday
gatherings
Ramadan
Holidays of feasting with family book with details gathered over many
decades as memoirs of events.
Birthdays
Weddings
Mother's Day
Father's Day
Children's Day
Grandparent's Day
Cousins' Books
Special Anniversaries
New Home/housewarming
New Boat/Yacht
First Apartment
College Graduation
Age-related celebrations
21st Birthday
100th Birthday gift book
Cruise memories

Bon Voyage

Welcoming newcomer books
Life stories of uncles and aunts as gifts to nieces and nephews or
cousins
Novel for children or other age groups and genres
Plays or skits and monologues based on real-life stories or memoirs
Poems
Songs with lyrics
Interviews
Letters collected
Change of Name
Passing driver's license exam and getting one's first car
Born Again Spiritual Theme
Marking each stage of life transition
Timeshare stories
Room mates/Sharing a household

Business Books

Grand openings

Success stories/case histories media book
Switching brands—why customers switched to your product
Promotions
Elections/Politicians in Office
News Clipping Collection on a Theme Gift Book
Authors' Media Tours Gift Books
Case histories
Entertainment/Music/Theatrical

Tour Guides/travel tips/restaurant guide

Opera
Dining and Restaurants for each city
Walking Tours/Guided Tours
Museums
Galleries
Outdoor Theme parks
Local museums
Campgrounds
State Fairs
National Weeks Celebrating a Theme
Mothers Day
Children's Day
Fathers Day
Grandparents Day
Clubs/national associations
Ethnic Themes
Historical neighborhoods/homes
Video/Virtual Reality theme parks
Volunteers' workbook of thanks and gratitude
Professional recognition, for example for dentists and doctors or
hospitals
Military recognition or Veterans tributes
Commemoration or thanks to staff tributes

Eulogies
Celebration of Life Theme Variations
Rites of Passage Rituals or Celebrations
Grand Openings
Graduations
Wedding chapel history/church history
Solving problems and getting results case histories
Branding
Retirement parties and retirement stories, tributes, or histories
Corporate roast with jokes and standup comedy routines
Appreciation book from clients, customers, employer, or employees
`Why' customers switched to your product book of step-by-step details
that potential clients follow to solve problems and get results.
Professional associations' events
Conventions
Public speaker's experiences
Inventory
Political views of family members
Campaigning
Public Relations
Video news releases with similar material in paperback print as text
Courses or other instruction, tips, and strategies or techniques (how-
to)
Employee's suggestions from suggestion box saved for many decades
Inventions
New license to practice a profession
First job
Contest or competition winner

Sports achievement

Award/Hall of Fame/Historical sites/Museums/Galleries
Activities after retirement
Motivational speakers
Instructional/Educational Gift Books
Literacy Tools and Photos
Restaurant Guides with Price Ranges
Fundraising
Non-profit agencies work overseas documented
Computer camp or drama camp experiences remembered
Author's creative salon with book reviews or poetry and photos
Writers visiting schools
Public Speakers e.g. genealogists/family historians/personal or oral
historians

Target Market

Look for turning points, unique significant events, and
highlights. Examples could be rites of passage and grand openings,
graduations, or the start or finish of major life events. Journals
and diaries may be turned into customized books. The major events
would pertain to individuals and businesses, schools and
organizations. Any situation that has a measurable life span, rite of
passage, celebration or ritual may be turned into a book of memoirs.

Clients would ask for a variety of different-sized books or
booklets and pamphlets. The length of the book as well as the number
of words and pages would differ. The emphasis is on details to share
or real-life stories. Each book would be sold as a gift. Customers
could order a set number of books.

You keep the master copy on disk and backed up in a disk drive or put
on a CD or DVD. You can offer the book in print, as a print-on-demand
book saved also in your computer and if you want to add voice
narration, also as an audio book and/or narrated video using photos,
images, video clips, and memorabilia recorded.

You could include DNA-driven genealogy reports, maps, graphics, and
interpretations in plain language. Back up any files for storage as
master copies. Relatives and friends may order additional copies.
If your client is of interest in the public arena, the book also
could sell as a published work. Make sure the book is copyrighted in
your name and that you have all the publishing rights to the work.
Your book would be based on interviews with your clients.

You would also use video and audio recording your clients and
transcribe the recordings as text. Anything rendered into text would
be readable when technology evolved to the point that the video and
audio records would not be able to be played if they were not
constantly transferred from one recording medium to the next
evolution of technology recording devices and players.
The reason the book is copyrighted by you as a business and not by
the client is that you're doing the writing and publishing. The
client is being interviewed by phone and recorded in audio and/or
video.

From this information, you are transcribing the life story or
business history. Then you are editing it for grammar and spelling.
You are organizing the book so that similar topics are grouped
together. Then you are changing the files of what you typed as a
document into a PDF file that will be transformed into a print-on-
demand book.

You are designing the cover that would be given free to the client
using either art or photos supplied by the client or your own graphic
designs. You can do this yourself or hire a graphic designer to
design all your book covers. This artist as an independent contractor
would work for a fee per book cover.

Or you could ask for art or photos saved at 300 dpi as a `tiff' file,
with CMYK color, for example using PhotoShop software. The books
could vary in size or stay a basic 6 by 9 inches. Art for the cover
would be saved on a CD and mailed to you as a 6 by 9 inch file saved
at 300 dpi as a `tiff' file.

For all this work, you'd charge a fee that would cover writing,
editing, and publishing. Production work includes designing the
cover, shipping and handling, and printing on demand several authors'
copies. The client would pay for as many copies as the individual
ordered.

Finally, you'd display the book's cover and marketing information on
a Web site for the client or save it to a CD and send to the client
so that the client has a copy of the book in paperback, on a CD, and
saved as a Web site on a CD. It's up to the client whether to upload
information about the book to a personal Web site.

You could host the Web site with the book information or
catalogue, or the book can be entirely private and sent only to the
client to distribute to family and friends or employees. Some books
would be private, such as a child's story. Parents wouldn't want
their child's name and image outside of the family.

Businesses touting success stories and histories may want a book or
pamphlet circulated among employees and prospective clients. How the
book is presented depends upon the client's needs and preferences.

Sharing meaning defines `communication.' What you are doing is
bringing to life family histories, life stories, journals, or
successful business experiences. Memoirs can be presented in print or
as audio and video recordings or all together.

For example, present the book in text on acid-free paper, then
include a pocket or flap envelope pasted to the inner cover of the
book or pamphlet containing a CD or DVD that has a video and/or audio
narration with graphics such as photos as memorabilia. This three-way
enhancement of a life story or business case history/success story
offers reading, viewing, and listening that can extend far into the
future for generations.

Interviews

Your minimum interview time with a client should be at least two
hours at a time. One person could be interviewed for just two hours,
or more if necessary at different appointments. Each book should
contain more than 65 photos and more than 85 pages. Identify each
photo with the name, the relationship, the date, location, and story
surrounding the photo.

Book size can be 6 by 9 inches or larger. A square book also is fine
as long as it is at least nine inches in length. Trade book size
usually is 6 by 9 inches, and personal books should look similar and
professionally crafted, bound, and printed with a clear, colorful
cover.

You can interview several people for up to 70 or more hours to obtain
all the details or as little as two hours to interview one person. If
you're charging a high-end fee, the client will want to spend a long
time with your interviewers getting the details expressed so that the
words and the people say what they mean and mean what they say. The
most important piece of paper to have at an interview is the one with
the list of questions, including questions built around the answers
to prior questions.

What the Client Expects for the Fee

Each client will pay you a flat fee. The fee is based on what
every item will cost you to provide. To that cost you'd add a markup
that's enough to earn you a profit, but not so high as to make a book
unaffordable by the average consumer. Most books will be unique
memoir books marking a special birthday or anniversary or preserving
the business history of a corporation or institution such as a
school, library, hospital or non-profit agency.

Cut the words down to bare bones. Use only what is necessary
because each word is precious. Photographs should be clear and
showcased as if they were in a digital scrapbook published print on
demand as text. The paperback book also can include a multimedia DVD
or CD in a sleeve pasted on the inside cover. Make sure the label is
colorful on the disk and the sleeve is transparent. Let clients view
the art.

The reason people hire you to write and publish a memoirs
book is to have a keepsake for years into the future and for new
generations. The book also is a time capsule and an ageless memory
that crystallizes love as a behavior.

For business-related memoirs books, you might look for
clients commemorating the opening of an institution or medical
offices, hospitals, dentists' offices, and non-profit agencies with a
cause. A business-related memoirs book of success stories, case
histories, and employees work histories consists of interviews that
emphasize ways to thank employees, board members, foundations, staff,
and volunteers for services.

Parents may want a book that showcases their child as a
character in a novel or focuses on the child's life story from birth
to a certain age such as 13, for example. Genealogists and family
historians look for memoirs books that contain life story details of
ancestors. Older adults also may want to get important factual
information on paper, including medical histories or explanations.
Birth mothers may want to send a book to a child put up for adoption
explaining why they put the child up for adoption.

Parents who have adopted several children might develop a book
explaining the adoption stories of each child they have adopted, from
what country, city, and any other information as to why they chose
that child. Many of your clients will ask for wedding books that
reflect the bride, groom, and relatives, ethnic backgrounds, beliefs,
or just the bride and groom and each person's interests. Your primary
focus in a wedding book is to capture positive memories.

Pet owners want their dog or cat's personality as part of the book.
Your clients also could be a zoo featuring all types of animals, an
equestrian ranch, a racetrack, or any other establishment or family
featuring a pet. Good leads for pet owners often are in the media.
Check out the various press and public relations clubs, animal food
manufacturers, and wholesalers of pet supplies.

Couples looking for Valentine's Day presents would enjoy a book that
a couple can read together each year on their anniversary or
Valentine's Day. Sports enthusiasts also like "hall of fame" type
treatment in a book on sports achievements or trophies won. A book
showcasing the sports history of a person who plays a lot of sports
could emphasize the details of each game along with dates, locations,
and events as well as sports statistics.

One of the best times to approach a potential client is when a couple
becomes betrothed. At the time of engagement, people are bubbly and
receptive to interviews. Ask the person what makes that individual
most comfortable in an interview, and keep the tape recorder or
camcorder out of site. You might try serving decaffeinated tea or
herb tea and encourage a relaxed atmosphere.

Focus on how each person met and grew fond of one another. Ask each
person how he or she fell in love. Include details the couple wants
to include in a book that could be read by their future children.
This is the type of book that will be shown to wedding guests.
Emphasize how many copies should be displayed on various tables for
the wedding guests to peruse and discuss.

For parents of a young child, that child's memories saved in a book
would include asking the child what makes him or her laugh. Include
positive dreams and ideas. What does the child think about or do most
of the time? Focus on a particular year in the child's life that's
most meaningful at the moment. Copies of the book for the
grandparents can provide happy memories as the child grows and
details of childhood memories are soon forgotten.

For a baby or bridal shower, the memoirs book becomes a gift book to
be kept on a coffee table. It's a gift that friends give. Interview
friends of the bride or pregnant co-worker and have each person say
something memorable and positive about the person that can be shown
to relatives and other friends.

Career history books can emphasize what one did in a long career such
as military service. The career history book also can be combined
with a retirement and leisure activities book or war stories.
Anniversary books are seen as gifts. They mark a special number such
as a 10th, 25th, or 50th anniversary. Photos and interviews form the
core of anniversary books. Business anniversaries also are part of
corporate history books.

Collect copies of photos and interview several family members,
friends, colleagues, co-workers, and employers. Gather positive
comments focusing on details and memories. You could emphasize
landmarks in the marriage, travels, or special times together.
Also include any events or memories of the couple before their
marriage when they first met, their engagement, and life together.
Significant turning points that are upbeat would be the primary
focus.

Family, friends, and the couple would be re-reading the anniversary
book at important times in their lives. Keep a video and audio CD or
DVD inside the back cover of the book.

Have the husband and wife each write and/or read a letter to each
other to be read far into the future, even when one member has passed
on. The letter can be a love letter marking the most meaningful
memories and saying any statement that each person wants to be
remembered by.

Have each person create a motto that represents that person and/or
his or her purpose or intent toward the partner. What would each
person want to say to the other to be remembered? An anniversary book
is moving. What can each person say to move the other to a new and
wonderful state of mind?

What Do You Charge?

Each person hiring you to write a memoirs book will be paying
you to reflect, reminisce, and celebrate shared or personal
experiences. Memoir books motivate and inspire captured audiences of
relatives and friends to share life story experiences. In the
business world, history of a company can also be a family business
story. For married couples or life-long partners, a memoirs book
emphasizes the positive events that form patterns. The book's purpose
is to celebrate a couple's `love.'

For individuals writing a memoir, personal reflection is
emphasized. With a child's story, the parents want to rekindle the
same emotions felt as they watched their child mature. Memory books
are gifts.

They can showcase an employee's work history and be given by an
employer as a retirement present. The outcome is a coffee-table type
book that's also an ageless time capsule combining colorful photos
and text.

With the addition of a DVD or CD in a transparent plastic sleeve
pasted on the inside cover of the book, when the reader has finished
the text and photos portion, a video and/or audio disk can be played
on most DVD and/or CD players or computers that can present a slide
show, narrated life story video or audio file. That multimedia
portion can emphasize a special event or turning point of an
individual or couple's life.

Before you set a price, produce one coffee-table memoirs book on
yourself or on one of your relatives and keep tabs of the time it
takes you. Each person works at a different rate. If you work on the
book 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, it will take at least four or
five work days or more to complete one book.

What would you like to get paid for one forty-hour workweek? How much
do your materials cost? Is the book affordable to most of your
potential clients? What type of client are you approaching?
Have you contacted wedding planners to let them know of your service
and fees? What you charge depends on how many pages your client wants
a book to be. Will it be a short booklet or pamphlet, or a novel-
sized memoirs book?

To develop both a money budget and time budget, you need to list all
the software and supplies you'll have to buy. How many independent
contractors will you retain? What will you pay each person? Can you
do all the graphics, writing, and software manipulation to create the
book by yourself? Would you limit yourself to one book and one client
at a time?

Training Required

If you're a digital scrap booker, you have most of the
skills. The skill you'll need to learn from there is how to turn a
PDF file into a print-on-demand paperback book.

The companies making the software can guide you to the tutorials.
There also are professional associations you can join and learn from
the members. Some national associations offer seminars, courses, or
conferences.

Can you bind the book? If not, how much can you afford to pay a
printer to bind your books? Until you've put a book together from
scratch, don't approach clients because you'll need sample books to
show. Your work of art is actually a print-on-demand paperback book
featuring many photos interlaced with text.

You'll have to oversee each stage of the process while keeping in
constant contact with your client. Each process will have to be
approved by your client.

It's important to get half payment up front before you begin to
interview any client. Setbacks could include the client going away
for extended periods of time while you're waiting for approval and
permission to move onto the next stage or phase of the interviewing,
recording, organizing, editing, revising, and re-writing process
before coordination between text and photos is begun. Only then can
you move onto the publishing process.

When the book is published, your client decides whether to make a
video or audio DVD or CD to include in the back of the book to accent
the text and photos. This recording process using video clips from
the life of the client takes more time and editing.

You don't have to offer a video or audio disk along with the book,
but it does enhance the book and makes it possible to put the book
and multimedia presentation on a disk to send to relatives. Since
many people don't like to read from a computer screen or watch a
video, the book in text form is necessary for preserving the keepsake
album feel of the memory book of text and photos.

Before you begin, you can have different budgets for a variety of
clients. Some will want the book as a video and/or audio disk
included in the paperback print on demand book. Others may only want
to pay for a paperback or hard cover book or a smaller pamphlet.
Once you've set up a time and money budget, explore with potential
clients what each person would most likely want in a coffee-table
memoirs book that can be passed around the friends and family at
gatherings. A book of this nature also appeals to houses of worship
and to public speakers that share inspirational or motivational
communication with a variety of audiences or clients.

What Items Do You Need to Compile Money and Time Budgets?

Before you can determine what to charge your client for a personal
memoirs book or business case history success story media kit, you'll
need the following basic items to start:

1 computer
1 printer
1 bookbinding machine
Telephone
Internet service
Web site
DVD discs
CD discs
DVD recording device or disk drive
DVD playing device
Interviewers in various states on call as independent contractors
Adobe PhotoShop software
Microsoft Word software or equivalent for book manuscript writing,
organizing, and editing
PDF software that turns Microsoft Word files into PDF files in a book
template
Printer or printing service that works with digital imaging if you
don't have the software yourself.
Print-on-demand publishing techniques
Scanner for photos

Tape recorder and player, digital audio recorder, or CD player…
Telephone pickup device for recorder interviews via phone
Camcorder for recording videos of life stories…Industrial quality
preferred, although a digital high 8 camcorder or DVD camcorder can
sometimes produce amateur-type personal history videos good enough in
quality and resolution to be sent to numerous TV stations as
freelance documentaries or news reporting.

FireWire 1394 cable to connect your camcorder to your computer
Software and hardware to capture video from your camcorder to your
computer hard disk drive and then to save the file as a video on a
DVD after editing

Software that edits video and audio files on your computer
Sound recording software such as Total Recorder
Microphone for your camcorder and for your computer

Your personal memoirs or business history book service will
operate similar to most print-on-demand book publishing companies,
but on a smaller scale. A client will pay you to write and publish a
memoirs or business history book containing photos and transcribed
interviews.

The client will send you the photos either saved as a 300 dpi .tiff
file on a CD or DVD or the client will email the original photos to
you. You'll need 6 by 9 inch photos for the book cover and 3 by 4
inch photos for the author's photo.

With original photos, you'll have to scan them into your
computer and save them at 300 dpi as `tiff' files using the CMYK
color setting in PhotoShop. Promptly return original photos to the
author. You can have a copy made for yourself to keep with your
master file.

Give the author a copy of your files pertaining to that author's
book. This master file will help the author make copies with other
printers if you should move or close the business. Keep a copy for
yourself as the author may lose or damage the copy and ask for
another.

Check out the InstaBook ™ Print on Demand Web site at:
http://www.instabook-corporation.com/. There you can find out that it
takes 23 steps the old fashioned way to publish a book. InstaBook ®
Corporation is the premier supplier of the technology required to
design, print and bind a book on demand anywhere on earth.

The InstaBook ™ allows you to utilize InstaBook ® Maker III equipment.
The problem you need to solve is to figure out your cost of
publishing per book. When you have a client who only wants a few
books, you need to solve the problem of mass-production versus price.
You'd use print on demand publishing.

For example, using the InstaBook ® Maker you don't need to print
thousands of books to get the benefits of high-volume pricing. Each
book you produce using InstaBook® Maker systems will have a cost per
unit similar to the costs per unit of a 10,000 run. If you had used
the old fashioned method of publishing that you might see in a 1980-
style print shop, you would need to print 10,000 copies of a book to
get the same price per unit.

That's why for clients paying you a flat fee to compile and publish
memoirs gift books, print on demand publishing is the way to go. No
book actually is printed until someone wants to buy the book. At that
time the book is printed and sent within 7-10 days to your client.
You charge the client the cost per book that it takes you to print
one copy and any charges for shipping and handling, such as the cost
of the box the book is packed in.

How many other charges do you have besides the labor of interviewing,
recording, transcribing, organizing, writing, and editing the book?
Make your time and money budgets by listing each step needed in the
process to produce a book.

Distribution costs and sales of the book are up to your client.
You're paid only to produce a few authors' copies for the person
ordering a personal memoirs book.

If employees of a company are made aware of a book on the business
history of a corporation, each employee of that company on a
voluntary basis can order the book from you, perhaps from a listing
on your client's company's Web site. If you're producing a family
history book, each relative and friend can order the book from you
directly. You publish the book print on demand and send each copy to
whoever orders the book.

You don't have to worry about getting into Books in Print, into the
big chain bookstores, or about paying a large distributor such as
Ingram. After all, you're not publishing a book for distribution
other than to your client and his or her family or to a corporation
and its employees.

Success Stories--Corporate

Success storybooks are one branch of the occupation of book packager.
You'd put together success stories of a company and create a book
targeted to the media. This type of book is called a media book.
You'd interview satisfied clients of a company, ask them why they
switched from one company's product to another company's product, and
then collect success stories for the perusal of select media.
Your interview questions would focus on what step-by-step procedure
was taken to solve a problem or achieve results.

Ask about benefits and advantages. An excellent example of a "media
book" is available to the press is titled, Media Guide on Food Safety
and Nutrition 2004-2006, published by the International Food
Information Council. See the council's Web site at: http://ific.org.
Why did they switch? Software is an excellent product to interview
satisfied customers about, emphasizing why they changed software and
what they liked about it.

This success story approach can be done with interviews about many
other types of products, from cars to pet food. Choose a product
that's individual enough. Some products have different labels or
distributors, but all come from the same manufacturer.
As a case history manager, you'd collect the success stories from
satisfied clients and record interviews by phone. Then you'd write a
series of news releases about one and a half pages in length.

Each success story would be put into a book to be presented to the
press as part of the company's public relations and marketing
communications department. The collection of success stories should
be consistent in length and presented in book form and/or
electronically to select media. It would be up to the public
relations director of the particular corporation to select which
media would get a copy of the "media book" that you'd publish for a
corporation.

To drum up business, contact the director of media relations, the
marketing communications manager and the public relations director of
each corporation that interest you. Then pitch to each corporation
that you would like to write a media book for select reporters based
on you being allowed to interview satisfied customers on why they
switched to a particular company's product.

Emphasize details and benefits. Most likely to hire outside
publishers and book packagers are new software firms that have public
relations departments used to hiring independent contractors. Have
some `mock' sample media books published already to show them your
work. You may focus on a particular niche such as mall grand openings.
You'll need a portfolio of your work as an interviewer, writer, and
publisher. Practice with text and imaging software. Then approach
potential clients. Have good samples to show.

If you need to use hired printers and interviewers, have your team
help you create some samples to show of your memoirs books, gift
books, or business case history success storybooks. You can work
entirely in text and photos or vary your output with video and audio
multimedia productions or slide presentations for business meetings
and conventions.

If you want to publish memoirs books, work with genealogists, family
history researchers, wedding or event planners, oral historians,
librarians, and publishers. Contact associations related to genealogy
or DNA-driven genealogy. Memoirs books can be combined with the
design of keepsake albums.

You also can branch into digital scrap booking using photo-imaging
software and text with other graphics to produce gift books.
Emphasize events, celebrations and commemorations for different
stages of life, graduations, and rites of passage if you want to work
with families or schools and hospitals instead of manufacturers.

E-Books (Electronic Gift Books)

Electronic book (E-book) readers let you take your favorite
books and magazines in digital form, usually saved as PDF files.
These types of books are lighter to carry than the average paperback
book. Most clients asking you to publish a memoirs book will not want
an E-book or electronic book.

In addition to a printed paperback or hard cover book, you might want
to put an electronic book on a CD or DVD. Then send it along with the
book for those who like to read electronic books (E-books) in
handheld devices.

To create an E-book, all you need to do with your written
book that says it's copyrighted in your name with the year, is save
it in digital format such as a Microsoft Word document cut and pasted
into Microsoft Front Page software (that creates files compatible
with Web sites).

You then save the document as a Web page. When you've finished
creating your Web page in Front Page software or used one of the free
Web site services online, you just upload or send your book to the
Web page. You can view it there or download it and save it on a disk
or in your computer.

Use your search engine to find which sites offer free Web
space for your book. Also you can contact an e-publisher online that
already provides a Web site to showcase the memoirs book. If you use
a print on demand publisher, the charge can range from 300 to 700
dollars to set up your book.

Some publishers also charge you a monthly or annual fee per book just
to host it on their Web site or keep it posted with major
distributors online. To avoid these types of costs, buy your own
print on demand equipment and publish one memoirs book at a time for
each client. If you have only a few clients at one time, you'd only
have to print a few copies for each client's circle of family and
friends.

You control how many clients you want to take at one time, like a
literary agent or event planner. If you are a wedding planner or
genealogist you might want to add a sideline of publishing memoirs
books. People who work with older adults also might have an interest
in interviewing and presenting life stories in life long learning
settings from senior centers to extended studies programs at
universities for active people in retirement.

Adult continuing education classes and gerontologists as well as
family historians may all have an interest in memoirs books. It's not
only for older adults, but for new parents documenting a child's
growth stages or teenagers marking the taking on of responsibility.
All these life stages can be incorporated into such a gift book.
E books are read with E-book readers.

These are usually free, downloadable software that enables a viewer
to read an E-book. Examples of E-book readers that are free and
available on the Web include Adobe Reader, which is free and
downloadable at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Microsoft E-
book reader is at the Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.asp.

Many popular and/or best-selling books also may contain formats that
can be read by E-book reader software. You can use the free E-book
readers online by downloading them or buy professional-type E-book
reading software such as eReader Pro for Palm Os. That Web site is
at: http://www.ereader.com/products/ereader/pro.

Some people use hand-held devices such as Pocket PC to read
electronic books. Other people prefer to listen to an audio book
instead of reading text on a computer screen or on a hand-held
device's small screen.

Audio gift books may be narrated and saved as MP3 files so that
people can buy the book to download on an iPod or other mobile
listening or viewing device. Or the audio book may be saved on a CD
or DVD or uploaded to the Web as an audio podcast which is an audio
file under compression.

The MP3 audio file takes up less bandwidth space online than other
types of audio files. There are numerous E-book publishers online,
but you can obtain E-book publishing software and circulate your own
gift books.

The most popular way to market a gift book is to have text and photos
that can be handed down to future generations as keepsakes and
heirlooms, as if they were scrap books combined with life stories you
can read for hours as you thumb through the pictures and the details
of the experiences in text as paperback or hardback books. Then slip
out a CD or DVD in a book's inside back cover and pop into your DVD
player. Suddenly, the life story, wedding, historic site, or other
event becomes a `movie.'

"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a
newspaper." __ Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel
Macon, January 12, 1819

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101 Uses & Goals of Multimedia Creative Writing Therapy with
Background Music: Why Use Creative Writing Therapy?

Highly recommended is the excellent handbook titled,
Biblio/Poetry Therapy: The Interactive Process: A Handbook, by Arleen
McCarty Hynes and Mary Hynes-Berry, North Star Press of St Cloud,
Inc., 1994. According to the book, Arleen Hynes,
O.S.B., "established the first hospital-based training program in
bibliotherapy in 1974 at St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC." (Dr. Mary
Hynes-Berry is a professional writer.)

The book is excellent for understanding how literature can be used as
a healing tool.
Now, my own premise is that music therapy also may be added to the
background with the use of creative writing therapy and biblio-poetry
therapy. In creative writing therapy, I would make full use of the
Internet for multimedia—music, visual imagery, and text so that sound
and words surround the images, engaging all the senses of virtual
reality.

For writers to use music and words as healing tools, reading and
viewing are done to inspire. Keep files organized and handy on all
your resources so that you know where everything is and can bring up
instantly what is needed. The following are 101 projects to start
using creative writing therapy with music therapy as background
inspiration.

1. Locate feelings and express feelings in words against a
background of music that enhances feelings related to the words.
2. Craft a story reflecting foresight, insight, and hindsight.
3. Reflect on the meaning of a particular experience or your
lifestyle.
4. Deepen your understanding of your self-perception.
5. Discover new parts of your self and others.
6. Celebration of Life reading, ceremony, or celebration.
7. Express your feelings and your logic.
8. Explore your relationships.
9. Understand where you came from and who you are or will be.
10. Express connections to a former time.
11. Plan the future.
12. Put in words what's important to you.
13. Use music and multimedia to visualize words for personal
growth.
14. Create dialogue using two empty chairs.
15. Write to achieve closure.
16. Put conflict to rest and forgive yourself.
17. Create a journal for self-exploration.
18. Use music as a healing tool along with words put to the
feeling the music creates.
19. Choreograph poetry to music.
20. Write salable books for any age group based on poems, song
lyrics, or significant events.
21. Create time capsules on discs, in text, and in multimedia
formats. Transcribe recordings of oral history.
22. Discuss your publicly allowed military service experiences.
23. Teach others all the lessons you've learned from living your
life.
24. Give travel tips to others about the places you've been to
and stayed at.
25. Write about how your animals changed your life.
26. Discuss what you learned from others about money or your work-
life.
27. How did you handle challenges?
28. Do believe in a life purpose or going with the flow—whever
life takes you as you float like flotsam in an eternal ocean of time?
29. What would you like from life?
30. Write about how you feel about your power of control.
31. How did music change your writing?
32. What family events do you want to share with others?
33. What events most changed your own life?
34. Do you have a purpose, goal, or objective?
35. What would you like to share with future generations reading
your work?
36. What would you put into a time capsule?
37. When did you first become aware of yourself?
38. What would you most like to understand about life?
39. Utilize music with Bibliotherapy classes for teaching mature
behavior and transcending past choices or mistakes for closure,
forgiveness, or simply moving on by resolving problems and getting
measurable results to put into a notebook, computer, or time capsule
40. Prison Writing Therapy groups, hospital, and institutional
settings provide an interactive process of combining reading,
writing, and music, even with graphic novels and cartoons
41. Writing with Mental Patients for Healing is an interactive
process
42. Writing for people with disabilities using developmental
bibliography
43. Writing for the Blind
44. Writing for Deaf using Sign Language (note how adjectives are
described in sign language)
45. Writing for Teachers of Poetry and Fiction
46. Music Therapy for Fiction Authors
47. Using prose collections from many cultures
48. Reading and writing women's life stories
49. Writing for survival
50. Writing about transforming, transcending, or closure
51. Writing to organize activities
52. Cleaning and sorting your life's turning points
53. Discussing Choices
54. Training Bibliotherapists
55. Obtaining training in poetry therapy
56. Using food writing to teach nutrition therapy
57. Discussing classic books moved into present times
58. Writing how music therapy is used to inspire fiction writing
59. Using writing skills to invent board games
60. Volunteering as a writer in institutional settings
61. Organizing writing groups in various houses of worship
62. Teaching writers how to critique without bringing attention
to how smart or right the critic is by finding subjective flaws in
other writers' manuscripts—being objective and tactful while being
logical
63. Treating other writers as you would like to be treated
64. Work with the effects of time on manuscripts and people
65. Writing about family life turning points
66. Write about how parents make the same mistakes their children
will
67. Write about joy and balancing happiness with nutrition
68. Before you write, think of "what would xyz do" and write
about that compared to what you would do.
69. Write about how to find someone's true character by watching
them drive or act toward people who can't promote their careers or
income
70. Write about how and why you care
71. Write about how to be kind when no one is looking
72. Create interactive games that use writing skills
73. Use metaphors to inspire writing
74. Write fiction using active verbs and fewer adjectives
75. Plan a meeting or party that's on a bus line so non-drivers
who write can attend.
76. Every writer has a story to offer that's worth a novel, play,
or skit
77. Write about how customers treat food servers in restaurants
78. Go undercover and write about your minimum-wage temporary jobs
79. Write about friends who keep in contact for a lifetime
80. Collect the writings that come out of school 50-year reunions
for inspiration
81. Write about the friends you can trust
82. Write about how people drive and how it relates to their
character
83. Explain how young people each have a voice of resilience and
write about what that voice is saying
84. Explore the lives of women immigrants and their writings. How
does their life stories compare with your own?
85. Would you rather write using breadth or depth in your
stories, books, or articles?
86. What cultures would you focus on to write about the rich
literature that shaped your own family's history?
87. How would you write about understanding your own mothers and
grandmothers?
88. What is the way of life you embrace? How would you write
about it?
89. As a writer, how do you understand the women and men who
brought you here?
90. Use biographical dictionaries to inspire you to write
creatively as a healing tool. What do the biographical dictionaries
say about women writers from a wide variety of cultures? How can you
use the various biographies in your own writing?
91. Explore the voices of female writers and compare them to male
writers in different time periods of your choice.
92. Form a diverse study group whose aim is to read original
works by a group of authors of your choice. Who has translated these
authors so you can read them? They can be women, immigrants,
teenagers, older adults, or any group at a stage of life or from a
particular group.
93. Study literature as a powerful political statement before you
write biography or fiction.
94. Explore women's lifestyles and men's comparative experiences
in villages around the world or in one area of your group's focus.
95. How did the perceptions of women as writers differ from those
of male counterparts?
96. Capture the spirit of matriarchal and patriarchal life in any
city of your choice at any time.
97. Write a time-travel adventure of any length
98. How would you begin to find out more about yourself, discover
who you are, based on your heritage, genealogy, or from reading
writers similar to yourself?
99. Illuminate the world of your ancestors, recent or in the
distant past by writing and reading their writings of their own life
experiences.
100. Make your writing accessible to the public by holding press
conferences as a writer's or book discussion group. Explore authors'
parties with the press invited.
101. Work with translators to get the writing of little known
authors readable in your own language. Then polish the writing of the
translators or learn from them how they polish the writing when one
language is translated into another. Make your writing an historical
document as well as a literary piece. Your life story has historical
value. Use time capsules, archival and/or oral history university
libraries, and heirloom keepsakes.


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101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

By: Anne Hart

 

Table of Contents

 

101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds

 

A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

 

Chapters

 

1. How to Write and Develop Scripts for Computer and Board Games

2. Designing Success Story Newsletters as Anniversary or Event and Celebration of Life Gift Books

3.  How to Bind Your Own Current Events Research Book or Booklet by Hand    

4.  Pop-Up Books for All Ages

5.  Full 5 – 6 Week Course in Writing and Publishing Gift Books

6.  50 Strategies on How to Apply Writing to Memoirs and Life Story Gift Books or Newsletters

7.  Personal Histories & Autobiographies as Points of View within Social Histories:

     Write in the First Person

 8.  Personal History Time Capsules as Gift Books, Annual Newsletters and DNA

      Driven Genealogy Reports

 9.  Romantic Wedding and Anniversary Gift Books, DVDs or Newsletters

10. Newsletters or DVDs with Slogans, Logos, and Branding                                        

11. Directories and DVDs as Gift Books: Entertainment, Walking Tour Guides,

      Historic Neighborhoods, Galleries, Museums, and Dining

12.  Gift Books, Discs, and Newsletters Documenting Media Tours for Authors,         Performers, and Speakers

13.  News Clipping Collection on a “Theme Newsletter,” Report, Disc, or Niche       Market Gift Book

14.  Age-Related Hubs as Family History Newsletters, DVDs, Reports, and Gift

       Books

15.  Conference or Reunion Newsletters, Discs, and Gift Books

16.  Digital Scrap Booking, Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books from Slide Shows

17.  Dating History Newsletters, DVDs, and Gift Books

18. Celebrities’ “Lessons Learned from Life” as Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or      Books

19. Mind-Body-Spirit Gift Video Newsletters, Reports, and Gift Books

20. Inspirational Video and Print Newsletters, CDs, DVDs, or Gift Books

 

21. Self-Help Seminar and Convention Newsletters, Discs, Reports, or Year Books

22. How to Make Great Video Extended Family Newsletters

23. How to Write a Course Syllabus

24. Publishing or Producing Materials for Reunions and Video Conferences

25. Writing, Publishing, and Producing Video News Releases

 

Appendix A    Newsletter Templates on the Web

Appendix B    Multi-Ethnic Genealogy Web Sites

Appendix C    General Genealogy Web sites

Appendix D     Bibliography

Appendix E     Use Haiku as Proverbs and Slogans for Inspiration

Appendix F     1,006 Action Verbs for Gift Book Writers and Publishers

Appendix G     Template for a Handwritten Newsletter—Print or Multimedia

Appendix H     Expressive Arts in Creativity Research: Projects and Assessments in

  Imaginative Writing

Appendix I       List of Anne Hart’s 83+ published paperback books in print

Index

 

 

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Introduction

 

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” __ Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

 

Benjamin Disraeli, novelist, debator, and prime minister in England (elected to parliament), wrote many novels, including a trilogy "Coningsby,” "Sybil," and "Tancred.” and The Life and Reign of Charles I (1828).  A nearly three-page listing of Disraeli’s quotations appear in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

 

Cheers to Simplicity

           

            Do you want to raise funds or solve problems for your favorite cause by writing, publishing, or producing? Simplicity sells. About keeping things simple, clear, and consistent, that's the first thing I learned when I went to technical writing school to learn to write computer manuals two decades ago after I tried to get a real-world teaching job with a masters degree in creative writing--fiction. We used to wear buttons saying "clarify and simplify." It prevents logorrhea. It sure helped when I entered the field of medical writing.

The following five details helped to sell my fiction (23 novels): simplicity, commitment, consistency, universal values, and clarity. If you write fiction, you write about what keeps families together, puts bread on the table, and pulls its own weight. You write about searching or brainstorming for answers, surprises, measurable results, imagination, and solutions to problems close by instead of looking for creativity enhancement, success, or the unexpected in all those far away or exotic places. And yes, that illustrates simplicity without talking down to the readers. Make the reader feel important. Who does it best?

It's the people that write user-friendly books. The skills you learn by writing computer manuals transfers to writing novels when people can follow the simplicity and still feel good after reading your book. Hooray for all writers who emphasize clarity through simplicity. It sells.

 

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102 Fund-Raising “How-To” Career Development, Problem-Solving, Practical Training, or Vocational Biography Pamphlets to Publish

 

Raising funds? How do you do it? Simply interview folks in these occupations and write their brief vocational biographies. You can hire freelance writers to write the biographical interviews emphasizing what they do on their job, education/training, and experience, target market, location, and expected income. Market your publications at career development events and conferences and with school libraries and career, human resources, or employment centers.

Your publishing effort can be pamphlets, glossy magazines, books, or loose leaf vocational biographies that you market to schools, career centers, and libraries. Advertise for people to interview that do these types of work as their main form of income or as a part-time business.

You can find them in various professional and trade associations related to the industries or occupations. Publishing vocational biographies can be in paperback or as a video news release on the highlights of various vocations. One example could be a day in the life of a book packager. Keep the vocational biography short and focus on the highlights.

Pamphlets could run 45-100 pages. Here are some suggested vocations that haven’t been covered in depth too many times. You could focus on the 50 vocations that will grow in the next decade or choose vocations such as these below that emphasize hobbies and beyond as vocations such as archivist leading to a possibly more secure job with one’s state.

 

 

1)      American Studies Participant/Observer/Reporter

2)      Adoptions Researcher

3)      Anthropologist/Applied

4)      Antiques and Paper Collectibles Dealer in Family History/Postcards/Photos/Diaries

5)      Archivist/State Employee

6)      Area Studies Specialist

7)      Attorney/Notary/Court Records Researcher

8)      Banking historian

9)      Biographer

10)  Book author/article writer/columnist

11)  Book Locator

12)  Book Packager

13)  Braille Transcriber/Genealogy Records

14)  Career Consultant or Counselor

15)  Clarifying Secrets in Memoirs Writing/Intergenerational Writing/Publishing Specialist

16)  Clergy

17)  Collectibles Dealer

18)  Computer Database Manager/Researcher/Designer

19)  Conference and Seminar Event Planner

20)  Conservator

21)  Court Records Researcher/Historian

22)  Diary Conservator

23)  DNA-driven Genealogy Researcher

24)  Documentarian

25)  Estate Sales and Auction Directors

26)  Ethnographer

27)  Eulogy Writer

28)  Family Conflicts Mediator

29)  Family History Gift Basket Entrepreneur

30)  Family History Internet Theater Producer

31)  Family Newsletter Publisher/Designer

32)  Family Recipe Publisher

33)  Genealogist

34)  Genealogy Camp Coordinator/Life Story Writing or History Research Camp

35)  Genealogy Club Events Coordinator

36)  Genealogy Events and Trade Show Planner

37)  Genealogy Software Designer

38)  Genealogy Software Manufacturer’s Representative

39)  Genealogy/Family History Teacher—online or in person

40)  Genetics Counselor

41)  Geographic Area Genealogy Researcher

42)  Gerontologist

43)  Gift Book or Booklet Publisher/Writer/Designer

44)  Gift Manufacturer—Family History Novelties, Collectibles, Memorabilia

45)  Greeting Card Writer/Personalize for Families

46)  Handwriting and Documents Researcher

47)  Historian

48)  Historic Genealogy Society Administrator/Founder/Researcher

49)  Historical Handwriting Analyst

50)  Historical Society Coordinator/Founder/Administrator

51)  Immigrant Ancestor Project Coordinator

52)  Indexer/Genealogy Books, Records, and Web-based Databases

53)  Intergenerational Interviewer

54)  Internships Director for a University

55)  Intimate Journeys Genealogical Walking Tours of Neighborhoods Connecting Families

56)  Journalist

57)  Librarian

58)  Library of Congress Employee

59)  Linguist/early handwriting specialist/Languages

60)  Locator of Descendants for Restoring and Returning Historic Photos, Ephemera, and Memorabilia (found in antique shops, at estate sales, and displayed in restaurants).

61)  Matchmaker

62)  Medical Historian

63)  Memoirs Writing Educator

64)  Museum Archivist

65)  Music/Musician Genealogist

66)  Native American/Indigenous Peoples History/Genealogy Researcher

67)  Novelist/Playwright/Memoirs Writer

68)  Oral Historian

69)  Paper Sales/Marketing/Manufacturing (for conservation and library or museum uses)

70)  Personal Historian

71)  Personalized Family History Greeting Card Design, Poems, Illustration

72)  Photographer

73)  Probate, Wills, and Estate Paralegal or Attorney

74)  Progenealogist

75)  Public Historian

76)  Public Servant/Government Employee

77)  Public Speaker

78)  Publicist/Public Relations Director

79)  Publisher

80)  Rabbinical Dynasty Genealogist

81)  Radio or TV Genealogy Talk Show Host

82)  Real Estate Historian (world-wide historical property ownership research)

83)  Records Administrator

84)  Reunions Planner

85)  Sales/Genealogy Products/Marketing Manager

86)  Satellite/Internet Connections

87)  Scholarship Researcher/Ethnic, Area, or Surname Scholarships

88)  Skip Tracer (locate people who moved away)

89)  Social History Researcher

90)  Sociologist

91)  Software Designer/Family History/Genealogy

92)  Specialist in Finding Women’s History-Related Documents (such as maiden names)

93)  Surname Group Administrator/Researcher

94)  Teacher/Time Capsules and Social History

95)  Time Capsules Craft

96)  Transcriber

97)  Translator

98)  Travel Agent: Ethnic and Family Tours Specialist

99)  Traveling Genealogist

100)Two-Line Tombstone Writer

101) Videographer

102) Walking Tour Guide-Extended Family and Reunion Walking Tours of Ancestors’ Neighborhoods around the World or Locally

 

 

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Chapter 1

 

How to Write and Develop Scripts for Computer and Board Games

 

This book explains the following strategies:

·         How to Publish for Home Schoolers and Parents

 

·         How to Earn a Practical Living Opening Home-based Publishing Businesses

 

·         Organizing, Designing, & Publishing Life Stories, Issues in the News, Current Events, and History Videos, Board/Computer Games, Scripts, Plays, and Books

      Raise funds and/or promote your favorite cause with practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses. Home schoolers, parents, teachers, students, and anyone interested in opening home-based publishing, writing, or video podcasting and video news release-producing businesses can enjoy these business start-ups or one-time projects. 

They are simple-to-organize home-based businesses or one-time projects that can be operated on a part-time or full-time basis online at home or on the road. These are projects or home-based businesses families can work on together. Run these projects or home-based businesses online. Or meet with people at events to raise funds or through tutoring and coaching sessions.

Practical projects for fund raising using writing and publishing or the skills of video production may include learning how to adapt a story, novel, news event, or script to as many platforms, formats and media as possible and to sell to multiple markets, either online, as a game or as interactive learning materials such as multimedia. Computer game scripts aren't only for computer games anymore.

They’re for learning to avoid pitfalls and blind spots that can derail careers early in the game. Publishing vocational biographies for fund-raising, public relations, or streaming video news releases on the Internet can be a family-run business for stay-at-home parents or home schoolers or a one-time project.

Many communications businesses or projects can be operated at home. Emphasize publishing or video production for the sake of fund-raising for your favorite causes. These projects or businesses can be started and operated on affordable budgets. One example would be video news release production. Another would be creating board games. One more would be writing and publishing loose leaf inserts of vocational biographies marketed to schools, libraries, career centers, trade and professional associations, and career development conferences.

Board games and computer game scripts are used in dramatizations for training and learning simulations and applied coursework in a variety of learning materials. These projects also may be used for ‘infotainment’ and ‘edutainment’ at all levels or for hobby businesses. The businesses are verbal-skills oriented. Scripts and training videos or multimedia projects are used for corporate training.

Web sites are interactive for executives, corporate assessments, and for Web sites viewed by children and young adults, seniors, trainers, and students. Here's how to write a computer game script that you can adapt to any type of simulation training or interactive learning as well as entertainment fiction or creative nonfiction.

The average computer screen interactive video or game has twice that amount to account for the camera directions, the director's directions (since you're the director and the writer on the computer as you are in animation). So to adapt your screenplay to the new media, separate the beginning, middle and ending exactly as you would cut off the beginning, middle, and ending of a short story or novel. In a screenplay, every scene forms a creative concept. In the industry, the executives try to separate the one-line high concept from the whole-story-based creative concept. 

A creative concept is a basic device that's used like an all-encompassing net to catch all the important events of the story. Think of your creative concept as a Native American dream catcher net full of feathers and beads woven into memories and facts of your story. Its one purpose is to grab the audience's attention and squeeze until it gives pleasure or emotional response, like fear.

Summarize the highlights into a single paragraph that tells the story. In a screenplay, it has been said and for the past two decades been written about that you divide your story into three acts. However, in adapting a script or story to the new interactive media, you don't divide it into three acts, and you don't divide it into six acts.

 You bring out eight octopus-sized tentacles or branches and you hang your computer game script or interactive book story on those eight branches. It has been said that at each new path, or what the screenplay books of the seventies used to call turning points, a new crisis happens that propels the action in forward. However, in the new media, each new crisis instead propels the action down another branching pathway, through another road, and into another narrative.

Again, the reader chooses when the action is supposed to branch and turn on its dime to move forward in not so much a new direction, but in the direction the reader says that it will move. The writer no longer chooses. Interactively, the reader chooses.
            If you need to write a premise and introduce your hero, in an interactive script you adapt your old media book by writing a summary of the end first and then working backwards to the first chapter or the first page.

Interactive learning materials, multimedia, and books for policy analysis as well as entertainment and learning are adapted by writing back starting with the end of the book, story, or script and shuffling the deck. The crisis that sets the story in motion is never limited to only one crisis, but eight, or four, or two, or some other even number. Let the reader choose the crisis the viewer wants to work with, and give more than one summary of each chapter. You adapt a script to the new media by working backwards from the end of the adventure.

Here are some problems to solve as you write your dramatizations for training scripts online or computer game scripts:

  • In a nonfiction interactive script, find your biggest weapon to slay the problem that has to be solved in the action of your nonfiction script. This cliffhanger approach is good when you're writing a how-to training video, film, or CD-ROM learning tool.
  • Create a high-stakes races to hook your cliffhanger on.
  • Find a new acronym for each 7-minute scene in your script and lay your cliffhanger on at the end of each 7-8 minute segment of a nonfiction script.
  • If you're looking for a cover-all that makes your script hang together, use the cliffhanger to make a connection between what's a household name in your script, the problem to be solved, and the method your narrator or main character uses in the dramatization to solve the problem and reach a conclusion.
  • Sell your cliffhangers to the interactive TV market targeting ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) technology. ADSL is high bandwidth Internet connectivity that you can use to bring your script to commercial quality video on the Web. Use videoconferencing as a means to transmit your scripts to a live audience interested in nonfiction - that is problem solving, skill training, test taking/preparation, and feedback at business meetings.
  • Use wireless paths to sell your cliffhangers, and use cliffhangers in training videos and videoconferencing. The phone companies are eager to get into the interactive TV business.
  • Write scripts about bandwidth itself for a technical audience as practice, using cliffhangers every 7-8 minutes as paths provided for the narrator to take new action and move the script faster until a problem is solved at the end and the skill is learned by the corporate employee or student watching your script.
  • Teach logical and action-oriented decision-making to prevent ‘flat’ writing. Have your script read before a live audience or through videoconferencing, and have your audience choose which cliffhangers to insert at each point. Use about 8 cliffhangers per instructional film script.
  • Cliffhangers can be used in nonfiction comic books or graphic instructional materials. Most comic books are 32 pages in length. Double that size to 64 pages and you come out with a script for a computer game lasting 22 minutes or more. You also get a graphic
    novel at that length or a booklet on how to perform a special skill.

The competing cliffhangers grow in volume as the story moves forward, even if it's a routine safety instructional film to train vehicle drivers. Test your cliffhangers' performance. Set up a Web site and get feedback from your cliffhangers from an audience. Try before you make your cliffhangers permanent.

You're teaching even if you're not writing anything instructional in the traditional sense. Propaganda films teach a lesson, too. You arrive at the emotional response of the audience through cliffhangers. Then you appeal to their thinking, logical side to insert the facts that come after the cliffhanger.

The narrator, the product, or the audience can become involved in the cliffhanger and solve the problem to get the answer. Use mazes when appropriate. Even mazes can become cliffhangers, and text mazes of logic are useful only when you are teaching the viewer to use test methods to solve problems.

Increase emotion, tension, and time pressure as cliffhangers progress in time and rapidly move forward in plot stemming from the decisions characters choose. Don’t force the audience to think through very complex puzzles, riddles, or clues when they are under the umbrella of intense emotion and time pressure. 

Most people view a script to have fun and learn by passive imprinting and associations rather than to be forced to solve problems while viewing a screen or even reading a script. Therefore, let the dramatized character solve the cliffhanger/problem. A cliffhanger is a substitute for a problem to be solved in a nonfiction script. In a fiction script, a cliffhanger is hidden problem to be solved and exposed suspense requiring emotional reactions to solve.

Five Steps to Dramatizing Interactive Personal Essays for the New Media

  1. Ask a specific question.
  2. Use the essay to answer the question.
  3. Write the question at the start of the essay and make your question interactive inserting many branches or possibilities each possibility narrowing down more and more to concentrate your reader's mind.
  4. Use the interactivity to ask the reader how does this paragraph help answer the question?
  5. Whenever the paragraph finishes answering the question begin a new branching narrative, pathway, or choice for the reader. It's time for a break of concentration and a shifting to a cliff-hanger. Even the brief personal essays in interactive media can have cliffhangers, even in nonfiction, autobiography, and other personal essays based on life experience. Many experiences can lead to a topic for writing in any media, such as how to receive email interviews.

Another fiction with a real-life practical use online topic you can make a script or article from is how to get terrific email interviews. Books can be written from lists such as a list fleshed out of what are the funniest things that happened to employers recruiting employees on the Internet, such as viruses that came with resumes.

Base your writing on interviews with dozens of human resources personnel that hire people from the Internet based on resumes and correspondence coming in my email and from Web page recruiting. If you don’t like to transcribe digital recordings of voices, use voice to text technology to transcribe your audio recordings.

Or ask writers to email you answers to questions you email to them, if they want to (or are able to) give you their time to actually write out an answer and email it to you. This gives the person you interview time to think and write exactly what the person wants you to put into your book or article. An emailed interview answering specific questions you ask by email allows the person interviewed to pause and think instead of talking off the top of her or her head and then calling you to change and revise comments as the recordings are transcribed over and over, making you do all the revisions.

A writer gets all interviews for a book from the Internet. I once wrote a book based on hundreds of interviews all gotten by email. I requested the interview by email and got the person on the other side to give me the interview by email only.

 Most of my interviews in the past were with famous and best selling authors and screenwriters, including interviews with big-name screenwriters who switched to writing for the new media (like Ken Goldstein, publisher/screenwriter of the Carmen San Diego series for Broderbund), and several other best selling interactive novel writers/publishers, and virtual press publishers.

You could write computer game scripts, design board games, animation scripts, essays, or write articles or books on how to get great interviews by email for any writer who is working on a book or a column. Your title could be: Secrets of Success in Email Interviewing. What's the funniest thing that happened to you on the Internet while writing your column or other creative writing?

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101+ Practical Ways to Raise Funds: A Step-by-Step Guide with Answers

By Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $23.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 406
ISBN: 0-595-48058-6
Published: Dec-2007
 

 
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Raise funds for your cause with practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses or projects for home schoolers, parents, teachers, students.
 
Book Description
 
Raise funds and/or promote your favorite cause. Develop original creativity enhancement products such as writing vocational biographies. Solve problems and publish measurable results. Design practical media projects that easily can be turned into home-based businesses or one-time projects.

 

Homeschoolers, parents, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, and workers interested in opening powerful, affordable-budget, trend-ready home-based publishing, writing, or video podcasting and video news release-production businesses and creative writing fundraising events will enjoy these unique applications to help you create your own board games, projects, businesses, publications, and events.

Sample business start-ups (or one-time project) categories include the following categories: description of business, income potential, best locale to operate the business, training required, general aptitude or experience, equipment needed, operating your business, target market, related opportunities, and additional information for resources.

Develop practical projects using the skills of video production, creative writing, book and pamphlet publishing, or newsletter design. These skills include adapting stories, novels, news events, or scripts and skits to numerous platforms, formats, and media types.

Inform others how to avoid pitfalls and blind spots that can derail careers early in the game. The campaigns are ideal for most promotional, business, or training situations.

 

Two Video/Audio Lectures on How to Decide the Alternatives When Publishing Your Writing

 


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