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Valentines Heads-Up

January 27th 2009 22:12
Mr Deeds
Schlubs In Lub

Who can forget the Hallmark card the eponymous hero comes up with in Mr Deeds? Well, now is perhaps the time for you to show that you, too, can write icky, sickly, honey-covered prose: Valentine's Day is approaching fast.

With this momentous occasion - which, as you've probably gathered by now, I think is an over-commercialised bag of poop - comes the undeniable opportunity for freelance writers to make a few extra bucks. From now until the 14 February, there will be millions of hopeless romantics (and other hopeless people) desperately searching the web for a blast of lurve. As content producers, now is the time to write, not later: remember it'll take time to get stuff published and seen, for word of mouth to bring the Pulitzer people running.

Helium hasn't posted any special content requests for the day, though they have many titles that are appropriate if you are of the bodice-ripping ilk (or just feeling warm and fuzzy).

Associated Content, on the other hand, has two Calls For (written) Content up at the moment, as well as a couple of audio ones. They're both for Valentine's Day poems, but one has a limitation of a maximum of twenty words. Now that's quite hard to do unless you happen to be good at writing haikus!

So get your best poet hat on and head on over. With bonus cash and promotion on their special V-Day pages (presumably the front page on the day itself) up for grabs, it's a great opportunity to earn some money and some publicity.

Oh and yes: I entered my 20-worder, but didn't use the word 'schlub'.
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Love, Sex and Romance

January 25th 2009 21:41
Kiss
Hard to handle.

Virtually any writer you speak to will say that there's at least one subject with which they struggle. Some can't do romance, others can't handle clever chit-chat. Some avoid humour, while others have difficulty with descriptive text. Me? I have my biggest trouble with sex and romance. In creative writing, I mean.

Battles, I can handle. Combat, conversations, humour, descriptions, travel, fantasy and science fiction, different time periods and even, on occasion, some poetic prose - all of these I can deal with. But romance and sweaty, between the sheets stuff is where I get stuck. It always comes out sounding like something a ten year-old would write or, even worse, like something off a daytime soap - contrived and pathetic.

But then I figure that there are plenty of books and films without a love interest that are perfectly good, so it's not as if I have to be the next Danielle Steel or Jilly Cooper to get published eventually. I just avoid those situations as best I can and stick to what I know. It often leaves me feeling as though I've missed an opportunity to widen the scope of a story, though.

So how about you? Do you work around the things you don't write very well, or do you bite the bullet and try to do it anyway? Inquisitive minds want to know.
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Traffic <> Money

January 24th 2009 14:19
Queues

When people talk about earning money online, one of the most common aspects is ad revenue. AdSense, Kontera and a bunch of other services provide keyword-generated ads and our visitors click them to generate a few cents. That's the theory.

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Thank Heaven For Hot Spots

January 23rd 2009 18:26
Making Money Online

Well, so much for my Internet connection being reliable. It's been down for ages now, so I've resorted to jumping onto a nearby hot spot instead - that's one o' them thar wifi places with an insecure connection available to all and sundry. Thankfully, it's just in range of my house!

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Fan Fiction

January 16th 2009 18:26
Fan fiction fans
Hey, ladies: I write fan fics. Wanna come up and read my drafts?


I was off trawling around a few blogs today, just kind of killing a bit of time and seeing if I might happen upon something interesting, when I was suddenly reminded of a fan fiction story I wrote years ago. How? Let me explain


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Unorganisedness

January 15th 2009 11:48
Mystery Men
Mr Disorganized was late for the photo.


My Internet connection went down a couple of days ago. Being a geek, this is a major hit on my lifestyle: no email, no blogging, no writing online, no bank info, nothing. I live and breathe online most of the time, so when it goes away I'm reduced to a useless, quivering mass of cold custard


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Out Of Control

January 13th 2009 02:50
The Incredible Hulk
Don't make me write. You wouldn't like me when I write.


It's big. it's uncontrollable. It's grown out of all proportion


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Too Many Ideas

January 11th 2009 14:13
Reefer Madness
It's the bugs in my head that make me crazy


Ten hours' sleep and my head's full of ideas. Just a day or two ago I was struggling and now they're everywhere, crawling around like little inspiration bugs. There goes one now, his little cockroach legs tapping out an article title in Morse code. Grab him


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State of the Onion

January 10th 2009 21:17
Sleepless in Seattle
No, I don't look like Tom Hanks (or Meg Ryan)


After almost a week of virtually no sleep, a sick cat, a recovering partner and more money troubles than the American car industry (all of which you can read about on my other blog if you really want to), I'm starting to get back on track


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"I can smell your ink!"


Writing With The Senses.

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