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• The Query Letter All Writers Want to Write…

  August 23rd, 2005 | Tags: Writing
  

  But Don’t Have the “Squareballs” to Do So by Steve Kayser One particular day, after receiving a rejection letter (the first among many that I’ve never acknowledged) I got a little ticked. I mean, c’mon, I just spent three months banging out 120 pages of the best screenplay America has never seen. A classic. A beaut. It has the heart [...]

• Writer and Writing Resources

  August 22nd, 2005 | Tags: Writing
  

  Better and more updated list of free tools and sites for writers. This lists resources related to writing and for writers around the Web. It’s a growing list, so check back again to see new ones added. Though you can find most of these sites through your favorite search engine, it doesn’t provide you with a [...]

• He or She Annoys Me

  August 22nd, 2005 | Tags: Writing
  

  When you’re typing a paragraph and refer to a single person, what do you do when you need to mention “he,” “she,” “hers,” or “his?” Many people use “theirs.” That is wrong, wrong, wrong. Some use “he or she,” which is almost as annoying as “theirs.” My approach is to pick one and stick with it. [...]

• Unusual Spam

  August 20th, 2005 |
  

  Hank Stroll, the head guy at InternetVIZ, sent me this email he received. I think it’s funny because it asks you to stop by next weekend for brunch and coffee. Sure, Hank from Minnesota, can just take his super fast airplane like it’s a walk down to the nearest coffee shop. It’s a waste to distribute [...]

• Designs Revealing Gender

  August 19th, 2005 | Tags: web design
  

  Do you think personal Web sites give a hint as to its designer’s gender? Does this site look like a male or female designed it? Never mind the lack of talent. Interllectual.com poses this question. I use orange and blue. I’m female. Meryl is a girl’s name! Zeldman used orange in his earlier designs. [...]

• Marketing Challenge: Direct Mail Marketing

  August 18th, 2005 | Tags: Marketing
  

  Responses haven’t been up to par with the latest . A reader needs help with ensuring high response rates with direct mail marketing. You can submit a question of your own. Hey, who can turn down free advice?

• Buzzmarketing

  August 18th, 2005 | Tags: Books, Business, Reviews
  

  .1984. What do you think of when you see that year? What if I add the term “Apple?” For me, the famous Orwellian Super Bowl commercial comes to mind. Do you even remember who won the Super Bowl that year? Or even who played in it? Super Bowl commercials had yet to become the subject of water cooler [...]

• The First Mile

  August 17th, 2005 | Tags: pc, Reviews, software
  

  Zork. Remember it? I think I hear a mixture of, “What the hey?” and “Oh, yeah! Wow, that brings back memories.” For the former group, Zork was a text-based adventure game from INFOCOM — one of the the first interactive computer games. It resembles the Choose Your Own Adventure books only instead of flipping pages, [...]

• Blogging Since Dawn of Time

  August 17th, 2005 | Tags: Links
  

  I love it when someone gets creative and mixes two things as If Bloggers Had Been Around Throughout History mixes history (pre-blogging days - The horror! The horror!) with blogging. Mena is a creative one! It’s like I have a big wall up between my thoughts and the part of my brain where the creativity [...]

• One Who Loves… or Lover of…

  August 16th, 2005 | Tags: Writing
  

  I could not recall the word for lover of books, then I figured there had to be a list of such words. Of course, there is… this is the Internet. Word List: Definitions of Words for Love, Fondness and Preference has a nice long list. I declare myself the following: logophile bibliophile School started last week, so I have [...]

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