Nutrition Journalism: Articles by Anne Hart

 

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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
  •  
 
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

 

 

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

  • Also available as:
     
  • 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

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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
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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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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

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