Writing Prompt 120 What do you think is the real purpose of having a military presence in foreign countries? After 9/11, the United States began aggressively seeking to put into effect anti-terrorism measures in other countries by regularly deploying troops, most recently in Afghanistan. News agencies often report these efforts as a war. If the people in the United States…
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Many writers are counting down the days. In fact, they have just 21 left until October ends and they take the challenge. No, they won’t be writing novels in November, although many aspiring and published fiction writers do. They will be writing all types of nonfiction during National Nonfiction Writing Month (NaNonFiWriMo), best know as the Write Nonfiction in November…
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Writing Prompt 119 Do you feel it is it fair to include social security benefits as part of the debt-ceiling debate? If you have been following the news, chances are good you’ve heard about the government entering its second week of shut down. One of the things holding back the federal government in resuming operations is an inability to agree…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. An integral part of your business plan involves considering how you actually will help your book succeed—what you will do to promote it once published. That’s what a promotion plan details and what you must produce as…
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Writing Prompt 118 Which is better for the U.S. economy, raising the debt ceiling or paying off debt? Explain your answer. President Barrack Obama is adding a monkey wrench into the already complicated issue of the federal government shutdown. He believes that one of the solutions could be to increase the limit of money that the United States Treasury can…
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