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7 Steps to Success for Chick Lit Writers and Authors

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Dec 3, 2009, 6:00 am
The ‘chick lit’ market is growing quickly as more and more young women find that they can relate to the characters in these books. These books address concepts that all women face in some ...
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The Writing Secrets of Ayn Rand

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Dec 2, 2009, 6:00 am
Okay, the headline is a bit misleading. The five-step writing process Ayn Rand followed isn’t exactly a secret. Let’s remember that in addition to her legendary, mammoth novels The Fountainhead a...
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Do You Really Need Peer Reviews of Your Book Manuscript?

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Dec 1, 2009, 6:00 am
You’ve noodled through your book concept, created an outline to make your ideas flow, and filled in your outline with detail. You’ve accomplished a lot. Pat yourself on the back and dance the snoo...
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Word Usage – Words and Phrases to Avoid When Writing

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 30, 2009, 6:00 am
If you’re writing for a non-discerning audience, you can probably get away with a couple of grammar errors. When you’re trying to craft your piece to make an impression, however, you’d want to s...
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3 Writing Tips that Almost Guarantees Article Marketing Success

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Nov 28, 2009, 4:03 pm
Like a skilled fisherman, your articles have the power to reel in customers when combined with an aggressive article marketing campaign. Here are three tips for writing articles that haul in clients w...
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Writing Prompt by Bella McPherson

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 10, 2009, 8:21 pm
A writer is only as good as her ideas. That is why it’s frustrating when writers run out of inspiration. In fact, most put down their pens for weeks at a time due to disappointment. Writing prom...
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Subsidy Publishing Versus Self-publishing: a Clarification

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 10, 2009, 8:12 pm
Subsidy Publishing There is a lot of confusion lately regarding the definition of “self-publishing.” Many authors think they have self-published, when in fact they have not. Subsidy Publishers ...
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How to Tame an Out-OF-Control Writing Project in 20 Steps

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 10, 2009, 7:53 pm
A writer friend of mine recently had a dilemma about a novel she has been working on for quite awhile. She’d written close to 700 pages of material and felt the story was bogged down but had some gr...
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Five Steps to Writing a Difficult Scene in Fiction

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 10, 2009, 7:32 pm
Have you ever been writing a story and come up against a scene and been at a loss as to what to write or how to handle the specifics of a scene? Whether you are a detailed plotter or someone who likes...
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Researching The Setting For Your Novel

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Nov 10, 2009, 7:07 pm
Picking the setting of a novel is obviously a critical step. Writing a classic detective novel set in a tiny town in Siberia is going to be a struggle. That being said, picking the setting is only a s...
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What to Do When You Must Close Your Small Business

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Nov 1, 2009, 11:04 pm
People close a small business for many reasons. Some do so for personal reasons such as wanting to retire or having a baby. Others are forced out of business due to a violation of the law. But the maj...
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5 Tips For Writing a Book Announcement News Release That Will Get Used by the Press

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 31, 2009, 1:11 am
A book announcement press release helps us tell the world our new book is available for purchase. It’s often sent to the media with a copy and included in the book’s press kit. It’s ...
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Effective Publicity – Three Things You Should Know

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 31, 2009, 12:42 am
Part one in the series Radio and TV Interviews and advice Effective publicity begins before the interview. You’ve got a terrific product, you’ve hired a publicist and you’ve been bo...
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7 Relaxing Tips For Stress Relief

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 30, 2009, 11:16 pm
... free and will help provide you with stress relief at any time: Greenair Earth Friendly Aromatherapy Reed Diffusers. Fill your home with the beautiful scent of Lavender, Jasmine or Lemongrass. A...
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The Bloody History of Pirate Flags

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 23, 2009, 6:49 pm
If you were thinking that Pirate Flags are just something made up for the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean‘ movies, or are just a figment of the imagination, you would be very much mistaken! Pira...
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Should You Register Your Written Work? It's Your Masterpiece!

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 23, 2009, 6:21 pm
So, there you are. Your article or book is complete and you are proud of your hard work. You look at your computer screen and get ready to print. Your work is excellent! But as you look at your work ...
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Hero Archetypes – Where Does Your Hero Fit?

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 23, 2009, 5:54 pm
I’m chasing heroes. You heard me right. I’m chasing heroes. (Yes, I’m married, and my husband’s fine with it). Who doesn’t love a bad boy, or need a professor now and t...
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Why Most Commercial Publishers Are About to Become Extinct Like the Dinosaurs

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Oct 23, 2009, 5:24 pm
I truly have nothing against commercial publishers. In fact, up until just recently, all my books and articles were published by commercial publishers. I appreciate all the acquisitions editors that I...
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The Hunt is On – Finding Your Target Market Online

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Oct 1, 2009, 7:00 am
This is a follow up article to Sniper Scope – Increase Sales by Defining Your Target Market which describes what a target market is and how to identify the people most likely to be attracted to your...
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Sniper Scope – Increase Sales by Defining Your Target Market

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Sep 29, 2009, 7:54 am
I made the same mistake that a lot of first time internet business owners make. We think we want everyone to be our customer. In reality, we only want the people who can benefit from our products, who...
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Hello World - Six Months Later

Arwen Taylor posted an article on Arwen Taylor - Sep 28, 2009, 12:05 am
A lot has happened since I last posted. The biggest change has been in my location. I am now living in Florida, though I’m not sure I’m going to stay here. I moved here to help out a family member...
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Loss Leader Marketing – How to Use this Retail Marketing Strategy in Your Internet Business

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Sep 21, 2009, 7:00 am
Loss Leader Marketing is a marketing strategy that retail stores have been using for decades. If you open the Sunday paper and take a good look at the advertising mailers, you’ll come across quite a...
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Six Places to Find Content for Your Niche Website

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Sep 16, 2009, 7:00 am
Niche websites can be a lucrative source of income. Tap into the right market and you could easily make hundred dollars a month in ad revenue and affiliate commissions. Picking a topic, however, is on...
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8 Ways to Promote Your Internet Business in the Real World

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Sep 14, 2009, 7:00 am
In our quest to generate traffic to our websites, we will tap into as many online sources that we can find. Since our internet business resides in the virtual world, it is natural for us to turn to pr...
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How to Protect and Secure Your EBook

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Sep 12, 2009, 4:47 am
Okay, so you’ve written an outstanding ebook and you are now anxious to start selling it across the web. Before you leap into action, however, have you taken precautions to protect your ebook fr...
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How to Self Publish a Book For Free

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Sep 12, 2009, 4:43 am
It’s every writer’s dream to be a published author; to sit and write books and have them published and selling all over the world. How great would it be to be able to write as many books a...
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Avoiding Plot Conveniences When Writing Crime and Mystery Novels

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Sep 12, 2009, 4:30 am
Have you ever reached the end of a gripping crime or mystery novel and found yourself exclaiming, ‘Huh? How did that happen?’ You’ve just identified a trap that some authors fall in...
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Writer Styles – Find Out What Kind of Writer You Are and Make Writing Fun!

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Sep 12, 2009, 4:21 am
How much do you enjoy writing? If writing is not enjoyable, yet you feel you have a message you need to get out there–perhaps even a book–read on. There’s no one “right way...
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Grammar Help – The Intuitive Approach To Verbs

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Sep 12, 2009, 4:09 am
An intuitive approach to grammar: Finding verbs In “Grammar Help From Editor’s Sidebar: How to Intuitively Understand Subject and Object,” we looked at how every native speaker of En...
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The Tendency to Procrastinate: The Bad Habit that Steals Success from Internet Business Owners

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Sep 6, 2009, 10:00 am
It’s normal to have fluctuations in your productivity. Some days you’ll rip through that to-do list like a hot knife through butter and some days even the turtles are moving faster than you. What�...
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Why Competing on Price is a Dangerous Internet Business Strategy

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Aug 31, 2009, 1:23 pm
A mistake I see a lot of internet business owners making, myself included, is to implement a business strategy based on price competition. In this soft economy, we think the best way to get people to ...
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Romance and The Hero

Arwen Taylor posted an article on The Plot Cafe Fiction Community - Aug 27, 2009, 2:36 pm
What makes a man romantic in romance writing? His looks? His qualities? How he engages the world? In a nutshell, all of the above. Traditionally, there are two types of romantic men - the “alph...
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Out of Town

Arwen Taylor posted an article on Arwen Taylor - Jul 30, 2009, 5:15 pm
Due to a family emergency, I will be out of town indefinitely. So if you email me and I don’t answer it’s not because I’m ignoring you, I’m preoccupied with other things. Sorry...
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Everything I know about Entrepreneurship I learned from Spongebob Squarepants

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Jul 25, 2009, 10:07 am
Now I know what you’re thinking. What does Spongebob Squarepants have to do with entrepreneurship? More importantly, what’s a grown woman like me doing watching kid’s cartoons? Let’s just say ...
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7 Website Statistics You Should Track

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Feb 27, 2009, 10:08 pm
The majority of bloggers track how many people visit their blog each day which is a nice number to know if you are only interested in the quantity of traffic your blog gets. For those of you intereste...
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How to Protect Your Online Reputation

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Feb 24, 2009, 7:30 am
Shannon Cherry, over at Startup Spark, did a short post about name squatting and more specifically the current practice of registering company names on the popular networking site Twitter. It seems th...
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For Newbs: All About Web Hosting

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Feb 22, 2009, 12:14 pm
When it comes to web hosting you have several options with the main two being shared hosting and dedicated. Shared hosting is called that because, similar to a college dormitory, you share server spa...
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Pagerank is Dead. Long Live…Something Else.

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Jan 7, 2009, 10:28 pm
Some time ago on my personal blog I wrote about how everyone needed to stop being slaves to Pagerank and instead focus on creating a quality experience for their users. At the time I wrote that post, ...
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How to Move From Blogger to WordPress

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Dec 31, 2008, 7:50 pm
Many first time bloggers start out with a free blog from Google’s Blogger service. But somewhere along the way, they decide that a third party hosted blog is just not cutting for them and decide to ...
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How to Import Your Posts From Blogger to WordPress

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Dec 31, 2008, 7:49 pm
So you’ve been using Google’s Blogger and have decided that maybe it’s time you got your own place on net. Or you have thought about moving for awhile but just haven’t gotten around to it beca...
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How To Install WordPress

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Dec 31, 2008, 6:08 pm
WordPress is notorious for being simple and easy to install which contributed greatly to its popularity amongst bloggers. While the install itself takes only five minutes (literally) there are a coupl...
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How To Get Your Website Indexed With the Search Engines

Arwen Taylor posted an article on myBrandme Internet Business Boutique - Dec 27, 2008, 5:37 am
Search engines are the librarians of the internet world. Every day they send out their interns, called Robots, into cyberspace to forage for information. Each piece of information that is returned to ...
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About Me

I am a professional writer and internet entrepreneur. As a modern day Renaissance woman, I combine my thirst for knowledge and my passion for writing to produce articles that educate, entertain and gets results.

If you want magnetic content that attracts your clientele to you, contact me via my website- myBrandme Internet Business Boutique http://www.mybrandme.com.

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