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Here is a re-cap of the last six weeks along with a surprise Week Seven Challenge for you!!

Wondering if it's time to ask your freelance clients for a raise? Check these telltale signs to see if the time is right to move up.

- Your most beautiful post
– Your most popular post
– Your most controversial post
– Your most helpful post
– A post whose success surprised you
– A post you feel didn’t get the attention it deserved
– The post that you are most proud of

In this article three freelancers share their "failure to success stories" and how they managed to change their perception of things for the better.

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It’s Editorial Calender check-in and check up time. May is the shift from spring to summer. From blossoming flowers to green leafed trees casting shade, the weather is changing, bringing warmer day...

"A letter should be regarded not merely as a medium for the communication of intelligence, but also as a work of art."

As a lover of old letters, I have a special soft spot for the lost art of letter-writing — an art robbed of romance and even basic courtesy in the age of rapid-fire, efficiency-obsessed, typed-with-one-thumb-on-a-tiny-keyboard communication. So I was utterly delighted to discover a rare and remarkable little book titled How To Write Letters (UK; public library; public domain) — a “manual of correspondence, showing the correct structure, composition, punctuation, formalities, and uses of the various kinds of Letters, Notes and Cards,” written in 1876 by J. Willis Westlake, an English Literature professor at the State Normal School in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

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Content curated by The Asian Writer from around the web on new perspectives and features on Asian literature. For academics, writers, and book lovers.

Welcome to the 31 Days Creativity Challenge! In August 2010 I dared my Blog readers to commit to at least 15 minutes of creativity a day. The results were amazing!! Our creativity levels exploded, we began looking at the world around us differently and we got so much accomplished!! 

Think there isn't any money in writing online? Here are my links to websites and blogs that pay $50 a post up to $1 a word and more.

At some point in every freelancer’s career there comes a time when you’re going to write a freelance pitch for a client’s project.

In this post I will show you how to earn passive income by writing tutorials about Web Design and Web Development, the hottest topics right now on the web!

Writers, take note: today is the last day to enter Flavorwire's first-ever short fiction contest. In honor of May's National Short Story Month, we're offering a prize of $500 for one outstanding sh...

Decoding is the ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Understanding these relationships gives children the ability to recognize familiar words quickly and to figure out words they haven't seen before. Although children may sometimes figure out some of these relationships on their own, most children benefit from explicit instruction in this area. Phonics is one approach to reading instruction that teaches students the principles of letter-sound relationships, how to sound out words, and exceptions to the principles.

We know that people make up false memories if prompted. But since our brain never stops being a jerk, we can also convert real memories into things we believe we imagined.