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Sometimes It IS About the Research

Jane Friedman

During the Civil War, she volunteered at a local hospital, which took in hundreds of United States soldiers wounded at Gettysburg and elsewhere. She attended womens rights conventions with her mother as early as 1854, and in her thirties and beyond she devoted herself to the woman suffrage movement.

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How to Write a Well-Balanced, Meaningful Sentence

Enchanting Marketing

In the ward of one MSF field hospital, you might find wounded civilians alongside injured soldiers from opposing sides. And from the charity MSF / Doctors Without Borders : In a conflict situation, we don’t take sides. We go where people’s medical needs are greatest. Hostilities and weapons have to be left at the gate.

Writing 284
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To maximize your freelance income, find the gap.

Nick Ursborne

As an example, a small group of software companies develop programs for the hospitality industry. You don’t want to have to compete with other freelancers for every job that comes up. What is “the gap”? It’s where there is high demand and low supply. They need copywriters to help them create their promotional materials.

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When a publisher might not do as good a job as a self-publishing author

The Idea Logical Company

Chapter 11: Managing the Hospital Experience. Chapter 6: Must You Lose Your Dignity. Chapter 7: Distrust and Suspicion. Chapter 8: Selecting and Managing Your Doctor. Chapter 9: Time Warp. Chapter 10: To Share or Not to Share. Chapter 12: How Friends and Family Treat the Patient. Chapter 13: Coping with Big Bad Bureaucracies.

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How to Write Beautifully (Hint: It’s Not Just About Style)

Enchanting Marketing

Raphael’s and Yale-New Haven Hospitals after they’d delivered their babies; people said they literally dreamed of it, a fairy food that tasted like nothing else. Women called for it from St. The more I read, the more I realize how good writers pay attention.

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New Release Spotlight: Kristy Cambron

Rachelle Gardner

With the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital, but when she learns of a deadly sickness sweeping through the quarantine wards—a fake disease known as Syndrome K—she risks everything to rescue Jewish Italians from the deadly clutches of the Holocaust.

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Turn Fact Into Fiction—Without Hurting Someone or Getting Sued

Jane Friedman

Someone works at Mass General Hospital? Make up a name of a hospital. Change everything about the person, from their name to their height to the size of their shoes. If they live in a walk-up, make it an elevator building. Brown hair? No, no, it’s now red. It’s fiction, you can do that.