Dyslexia - The Elephant in the Room

                                      
Medical science has confirmed that there are over ten million dyslexic children in our school systems and I believe it is important to understand what that means to those children, our society in general, the educational system, and those of us who are not dyslexic.
Before we can answer that question, it is important to understand what dyslexia is. Most sources characterize dyslexia as a "learning disability," meaning that a dyslexic individual's ability to learn how to read is somehow disabled. In reality this is just not the case. Dyslexics learn how to read every day; they just cannot learn to read in a system that makes incorrect assumptions about them. So then is it the child who is disabled, or is it the system?
In a medical sense dyslexia is a neuro-psychological condition in which an individual uses a different part of the brain to process information. This dyslexic profile carries with it some weaknesses in prerequisite skills that are needed before someone can learn to process information efficiently. These weaknesses may manifest themselves in phonics, memory, visual perception, motor integration, and other areas.

How A Good Book Description Helps Your Kindle Book Get Noticed Online

                                       

   
The ultimate goal of any book promotion by an Amazon Kindle author is to get the their's noticed by the reader. These days, readers browse through pages and pages and pages of online book results. Getting them to find yours and to buy yours is what you want to accomplish, and a good description is the first step toward selling more Kindle books.
And, in my experience, the best way to set the stage for more sales is to invest the time to create a better description. It simply cannot be left to chance.
A book description is simply a sales presentation in print. It must be filled with keywords and keyword phrases matched up to what readers are searching for, assembled in a way that leads the "Browser" all the way to the Buy Button, to become a "Buyer."

Your Author Online Platform. Social Networks, Blog Page Views, and Twitter Followers (Numbers Count)

                                                 
Online marketing and social networking go hand-in-hand. Content shareability and visitor engagement is what counts with search engines.
According to Chuck Sambuchino, in his book "Create Your Writer Platform," an author's platform and its 'reach' is an important factor when seeking an agent or publisher.
Take note that this is not after a book is published; it's when the author is looking for a contract.
Sambuchino advised that "the size of your desired book deal" is a factor in the size of your author online network realm. So, if you're seeking a big-time New York agent or publisher, with a hefty advance, you'll need to have a hefty social network in place and substantial traffic to your website.

How to Write Articles Faster

                                             
A successful freelance writer will have to write A LOT. While some of the content you write will require you to take your time, do research and do everything nice and slow, many articles will be all about turning them out FAST. The difference between typing an article at an average of 30 words per minute compared to 60 or even 90 words per minute can be huge.
To break it down to dollars & cents, if you are hired to write 10 articles at 500 words each for $15 per article (a low to mid-range price), it will take you about 17 minutes of typing per article at 30 words per minute. Bump that to 20 minutes per article to factor in things like saving, switching to a new article and all that. 20 minutes per article means you can write 3 of them per hour, so you're making $45 per hour. Not too bad. If you do the same math typing at 60 words per minute, you can complete each article in an average of 10-12 minutes, so you can burn through at least 5 articles per hour (or more) and make $75 per hour. Really fast writers can write at around 90 words per minute, and earn well over $100 per hour.

Article Writing - Some Simple Secrets To Creating Better Articles

                                                
With regards to writing articles, the task can seem daunting initially, but there are several things you can do to make yourself feel more confident in your writing. One of these things is to read ferociously. You can not become a good writer unless you are also a good reader. This will help you to tell the difference between good writing and bad. Even if you only read short magazine articles, it will help increase your scope.
The next thing to do if you would like to start creating articles, or if you are trying to improve and write better articles, is understand how to structure a piece of writing.
You have to always start off with a solid, interesting headline. This makes a good start and gets people to want to read more. Consider what it is which gets you to read a piece of writing. Usually, it is because its title promises that you will find something in there which is interesting, funny or informative. There is lots of information available online, to teach you about coming up with great catchy headlines.

Writing Articles - It Is No Secret What Your Readers Want

                                    
There is a simple trick to becoming aware of what your readers expect from you. All you need to do is to give some serious thought to what you want to get out of your own reading. When you make the effort to read a published article, just exactly what are you expecting?
Whatever the topic, subject or level of what you (or your readers) are reading, the answers will fall into a small number of categories. Keeping this in mind will help you stay on track, to providing a satisfactory reward to those who take the time and effort to read what you have produced.
I think we can agree that the motive for the great majority of readers is to obtain information which they want or need. This does not mean that as long as your writing contains such useful material, all will be well and everyone happy!
The more you read, the more you can accept that there appears to be an almost infinite number of ways in which facts, ideas and opinions can be presented.

Self-Publishing: Does Your Book Need a Foreword, Preface or Introduction?

                                              
Books have a basic structure that includes end papers (blank pages at the front), a title page, perhaps a dedication page,a foreword, preface, or introduction, a Table of Contents or list of chapters, an afterword or conclusion. If you've written a non-fiction book it also needs a bibliography, an index and, in some instances, footnotes.
The beginning of your book can be the difference between a sale or no sale. You only have a few seconds to get the reader's attention. Non-fiction books usually have a foreword, preface, or introduction. While these sections are similar, they are also different. Which one will you choose?
A foreword is written by someone else -- an expert in the field, another writer, a famous person, or official. It doesn't have to be long, but the foreword (often misspelled forward) does have to relate to the book and tell how it can help the reader.

A Writer's Encouraging Words - Use Failure to Motivate You

                                       
When was the last time you did what you really wanted to do? And when you tried, how often did you foul it up before you finally gave up on the idea? As you sat in the dark and sulked in your sorrow, trying to pacify your decision to quit, did you meticulously calculate the man-hours spent chasing your dream? The reality of it all is enough to send anyone into a deep depression. Maybe that's why Lawrence Block once said "If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass."
Sometimes I think of Michael Jordan or Walt Disney when failures knock me to my knees. Neither of these men had the natural ability to be successful at what they did. Walt Disney threw hundreds of drawings in the trash before one was a success(1). At one point, he was told his idea for a cartoon character wouldn't work because "a giant mouse on the screen would terrify women." Michael Jordan(2) had one obstacle after another. He lost almost 300 games, missed over 9,000 shots, and 26 times he was given the ball to take the game winning shot and MISSED.