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Greeting Card Writing Jobs: 7 Companies That Pay Freelancers

Make a Living Writing

What they’re looking for: According to their submission guidelines, the company is looking for 50-300-word works of “contemporary prose or poetry…that reflects the thoughts and feelings people today want to communicate to one another, but don’t always know how to put into words.” ” 5. .

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Is It a Book? 5 Ways to Test Your Nonfiction Book Idea

Jane Friedman

Finding your spot on the shelf is a matter of finding that sweet spot between “proof of concept” (books like yours that have done well) and “white space” (how your book will be different). As she puts it, “I was applying the craft of what I had mastered in advertising, but toward very different things.” Is there room for it?

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do. In 1923, U.K.

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How Printing Innovations (and More) Created an Enduring Class Divide in Books

Jane Friedman

Our concept of intellectual property was centuries in the future. By 1650, American printers were churning out advertising handbills and pamphlets galore, but few full-length books. Beadle’s advertising proclaimed. “A Others railed that penny dreadfuls debased prose, corrupted youth, and caused crime. Printers did.

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15+ Diction Examples for Any Voice and Style (Formal & Informal)

Smart Blogger

Ready to add some interest and flair to your prose? Now, with abstract diction, you can use metaphors and other figures of speech to present concepts that may be difficult to understand. To illustrate this, let’s look at the concept of love. Looking for diction examples to inspire your next writing project?

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Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

Susan Greene

Copywriters write advertising and marketing copy, such as websites, brochures, ads, blog posts and more. I’m continually searching for new approaches, new trends, new concepts. My first job after college was with an advertising agency. I’d start from scratch in coming up with concepts, subheads and layout. Susan Greene.

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A Practical Look at Turning Your Blog into a Functioning Business

ProBlogger

One concept new bloggers often struggle with is the idea that their blog can’t be everything to everyone. In other words, people want content that’s constructive and applicable to their lives, not vague prose that lacks purpose. Advertising. The point is that you can’t cultivate a thriving blog without having some support.

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