Still So, most gym equipment purchased “over the counter” and on late night TV appears to have one thing in common. They seem to be fragile and do not seem constructed for the long term.
Archive for April, 2009
Avoid over the Counter Gym Equipment
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Become A Freelance Writer And Get Out Of Debt Like I Did
Sunday, April 19th, 2009The day I made a decision to become a freelance writer on the web, I was heavily in debt and had no idea how the bills were going to be paid.
Although I had a lot of previous experience as an offline publisher, I had no idea of how to get things done online or how [...]
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Songwriters – Capture Your Song Ideas At All Costs
Saturday, April 18th, 2009I often get questions on how I capture ideas for songs. This is a fair question, as I am sure all of us have lost ideas – ideas we swore we would remember the next morning.
Like fisherman, we are always afraid the ‘one that got away’ was probably going to be our biggest (hit). Sound [...]
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Speaking for Free — Volunteering as a Speakers’ Bureau Member
Saturday, April 18th, 2009When I first aspired to becoming a professional speaker, I was willing to speak free for anyone, anytime and anywhere. One way I was sure that I would gain experience and exposure was to join several Speakers’ Bureaus of local organizations.
I became a member of several and the pros were and are:
Practice. The best way [...]
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Hair Drug Testing
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Drug screen has become a frequent phenomenon across the world. Numerous societies do drug exams on newly hired people or active employees to reassure a drug-free environment at workplace.
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Should Article Writers Fear Upcoming Duplicate Content Filters Employed by Search Engines?
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009With the spreading of the knowledge that more and more large websites are employing “duplicate content filters” to look for content which appears multiple times on the internet, article writers and marketers are wrongfully panicking. If my article appears “too many” times or “multiple” times on the internet, I’ll be “blacklisted” and my work could [...]
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Storytelling and the Hero’s Journey: Multiple Heroes / Syriana (2005)
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters….
The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.
Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.
The Hero’s Journey:
a) Attempts to [...]
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Formats for Writing Life Narratives
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Q and A.
Best choice when subject is very verbal or there are two or more people being
interviewed or taped at the same time. All repetitive statements, umms, ahhs and blatant
incorrect grammar are edited out. Natural patterns of speech, coloquolisms and favorite sayings
are left in.
JHW. When you started your business in 1934, how did you finance [...]
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Writing New Ideas
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Someone once commented that there were no new ideas to write, that all that could be done was a recombination of the words and phrases for a deeper, more personal expression of meaning. They have completely missed the point and purpose to ‘writing’.
One writes, not to refine old ideas, but to express personal, heart-felt [...]
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Writing Is Not Life-threatening
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Some writers complain that writing is arduous work requiring long hours and little pay, which is often true especially for freelance fiction writers. Today, everyone wants to be a writer and with word processors and computers it is easy to put thoughts down, but it is not always effortless to be published unless one self-publishes [...]
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