David Foard - Published Author

If you’ve done any investigation at all of Web marketing, you’ll know plenty of scams abound. Unfortunately, unscrupulous marketers feed on the hordes of innocent people who are looking for the means to improve their lives by making money online. It’s very sad, because millions of people probably spend money and lose a lot of time, only to chase down avenues with dead ends. Fortunately, methods abound for making money online with no money required. This will probably come as a revelation to those who have been ripped off by Web schemes!

But sometimes one person’s scam is another person’s good opportunity. A good example of this is the recent controversy over an web business-in-a-box, called site Build It. Some people think that one or more people have created… Continue reading Making Money on the Web by Writing

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Have you felt your heart pound with fear during horror movies? Did it make you nervous when the slasher was about to stab the lady in the shower? That’s how it feels when the writer is controlling you. You can also control your readers in the same method. You can learn to control their heartbeat and the rate at which they read.

Perhaps you wonder what a writer would even care about how fast the reader reads. It’s because you will want to jerk the reader into action scenes, but unending action scenes will mentally wear on them. The reader sorely needs slow scenes that deliver mental and emotional rest. This is when they will reassess the action scene you have just presented.

Let’s look at some samples… Continue reading Writing that Controls the Reader

Occasionally someone will quip that they cannot write due to a mysterious occurrence known as writer’s block.  Here we will try to decipher the true meaning of the term. I can’t go any further as i am experiencing a writer’s block.  You probably have said something like this before and I am sure you’ve heard other people say it too.  So many say so much about writer’s block? What is it?  Well the problem definitely isn’t medical or mental.  Often writer’s block is simply the inability to relax due to some fear or unresolved concern regarding a particular topic — a lack of confidence, perhaps. Writer’s block is often your bodies way of simply expressing fear or anxiety over your writing.~Writer’s block is frequently the body’s method of expressing fear… Continue reading How to Overcome Writer's Block

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Most creative writers are so eager to sell their work that they don’t stop to consider what rights they are selling. The word “Rights” is an indicator of how the publisher can use your work. “Rights” has nothing whatever to do with what you are paid or the copyright of your work.

Editors will usually buy First North American Serial Rights (FNASR). After the buyer publishes the story one time in North America, the author once again retains the rights to it. When you’re offering these rights, place “Offering First North American Serial Rights” in the top left hand corner of the document.

One Time Serial Rights – If you are offering the rights for simultaneous submissions, put “One Time Serial Rights” in the top, left corner. This… Continue reading Beware of Selling Your Rights

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As a creative writer, you must feel the mood you are writing about. As a creative writer, you must feel what you are writing if you want to reach your audience. And how are you supposed to do that? You can do it by experiencing the mood.

Let’s suppose you want to write a scene that displays anger. Maybe the story is about abuse, a mom and dad arguing, or sibling rivalry. Maybe it’s about a boyfriend breaking up with his girl because she was in bed with his brother. To write a scene like that, you have to be in the right mood. I mean get seriously furious.

Remember the thing that hurt you most in your life? Remember when you woke up mad at your… Continue reading Write Your Emotions