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Friday, June 26th, 2009

fish and turtle rock?

fish and turtle rock?

I have been reading Doug’s work for a long time. He gives generously and sells a lot too. I felt like sharing this lesson with you to both introduce you to Doug and because of the multiple links to help you explore article writing further. Enjoy.

To your success with PLR…

Doug Champigny,
PLR Master.
http://Becoming-A-PLR-Pro.com PS - For ongoing sources of great PLR at low rates, check
out http://EasyArticlesPro.com and http://NichePLR.com

See you next lesson! DC.

Hi, Mary!

Welcome to Lesson Two of your PLR Masters E-Course.
Today we’ll take a quick look at the types of PLR available
online, before starting to delve into using each type of
resource.

PLR Articles: By far the most common form of PLR products
online right now are articles with PLR. They’re easy for
writers to knock off, and they can provide the same articles
to a number of people in very short order. Sites like our
http://www.EasyArticlesPro.com make it even easier, by
providing 25 articles per niche and including the PLR
headers to match that niche…

PLR E-Books: Almost as common are e-books with PLR. But
you have to be careful - some have been around a long time
and thousands of people already have PLR to them. On the
other side of the coin, if you’re doing substantial
rewriting of your PLR products, the age of the original
material doesn’t matter if the content is still relevant.

PLR Audios: Less common but increasingly offered are
audios with PLR - usually audio formats of articles or
e-books. When accompanying a written product, audio
versions are a great way to provide added value. On their
own they make a great product too, as long as you know
how to process them correctly (covered in Lessons 14-18).

PLR Videos: This is a fairly new area, and will evolve
into the most powerful form of PLR once IMers learn how
to handle them effectively. Don’t scrimp here - take the
time to try different programs til you know how to edit
these into great products and powerful tools for your
biz - again, we’ll cover these in depth in future lessons.

PLR Websites: While fairly rare, sites like our own
http://www.NichePLR.com provide you with sites already
laid out, optimized for Adsense, ClickBank & Amazon, and
ready for you to use as-is or with easy changes. PLR
sites are an easy way to boost your online profile, and
build more one-way links back to your main site/blog.

PLR Source Code: This is the most limited, and usually
toughest to process, of all the types of PLR. While most
programmers creating programs with PLR make it fairly
easy to change the header or opening screen, it’s still
going to look like the same program unless you can find
a good programmer who can make alterations to the actual
source code for you. Unless you’re a programmer, this is
the one type of PLR where it’s usually best to get the
transferable rights, so you can simply pass the product
along with the PLR rights intact.

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Suggested Resources:
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For general information on the various types PLR, the
same two resources I mentioned last time are still the
ones you want to check out:

E-Book: Becoming A PLR Pro
http://www.becomingaplrpro.com

Videos: PLR For Newbies
http://training4newbies.com/videos/plr-for-newbies.htm

Adventures Through Time: Thoreau, Walking, Paul Penton

Friday, June 26th, 2009
journeys call us to return; walking always  photo by Mary MacIntyre

journeys call us to return; walking always photo by Mary MacIntyre

Paul Penton appreciates history,good writing, and earning a dollar times 10 to the third. Wealth Wisdom. I mention Paul as he just sent me an ebook which I want to share with you. See link. The videos fall short of the power in Henry David Thoreau’s words. They are good teasers so go download the book. REad and think.

You can also visit Paul Penton by using the first part of that link.

Mary, we’re approaching the end of the wisdom series, here’s ‘Walking’

http://www.mymillionairebuddy.com/ebooks/wk77-walking/wk-77-thoreau.zip

Crnr Greville & Perth
Prahran
Victoria 3181
Australia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD9Gl8IxlQM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_ThoreauJust a bit more background:
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)[1] was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and “Yankee” love of practical detail.[2] He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.[3]

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist anarchist.[4] Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government – “I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”[5] – the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”[5]

Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Return to Concord: 1837-1841
3 Civil disobedience and the Walden years: 1845–1849
4 Later years: 1851-1862
5 Death
6 Beliefs
7 Influence
8 Critique
9 Works
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links

[edit] Early life and education
He was born David Henry Thoreau[6] in Concord, Massachusetts, to John Thoreau (a pencil maker) and Cynthia Dunbar. His paternal grandfather was of French origin and was born in Jersey.[7] His maternal grandfather, Asa Dunbar, was known for leading Harvard’s 1766 student “Butter Rebellion”,[8] the first recorded student protest in the United States.[9] David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become “Henry David” until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change.[10] He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr., and a younger sister, Sophia.[11] Thoreau’s birthplace still exists on Virginia Road in Concord and is currently the focus of preservation efforts. The house is original, but it now stands about 100 yards away from its first site.

Portrait of Thoreau from 1854.Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau’s aunt both wrote that “Thoreau” is pronounced like the word “thorough”, whose standard American pronunciation rhymes with “furrow”.[12] In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called “my most prominent feature.”[13] Of his face, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: “[Thoreau] is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty.”[14] Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive. However, Louisa May Alcott reportedly mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau’s facial hair “will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man’s virtue in perpetuity.”[15]

Thoreau studied at Harvard

Friday: Featured Book/Site: The Writer’s Market

Friday, July 11th, 2008


I went for it and spent the $29.99 plus tax for the big 2008 edition of The Writer’s Market. I should have bought it when it first came out, but I wasn’t quite ready to commit myself at that point. Now I’ve got it and 2008 is half over.

So the question then: Is it worth it?

I bought the book thinking that it got me a free subscription to WritersMarket.com. Turns out, you only get that if you get the Deluxe Edition for some $50.00. I hadn’t purchased the Deluxe Edition, so I still had to spring for the WritersMarket.com subscription: $29.99 for the year or $3.99 by the month.

Right now I’m just on a by-the-month basis with the WritersMarket website. I want to try it out and see if it’s worthwhile. I don’t mind paying the $30 if it will generate good information, more than is available in the book.

I love having the actual book, a hard copy of all these resources and possibilities. The articles at the front of the book are great and, in my opinion, worth the money. They include three informative pieces on “The Basics” and a Query Letter Clinic (which was kind of obvious, I thought). The really helpful pieces, I think, are the five “Personal Views” articles/interviews and the six “Beyond the Basics” pieces. One of them includes a huge chart of freelance price comparisons. Another covers how to use your old material and ideas to create new, sellable material.

It’s a big book, with the listings in sections you expect: Book Publishers, Consumer Magazines, Trade Journals, and Contests, as well as Literary Agents, Canadian Book Publishers, Small Presses, Newspapers, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and a section on Greeting Cards.

Many of the magazines are online; however, you won’t find all the Writer’s Guidelines available on their websites. That’s when having the big book is good, and having a subscription to the site is even better.

If you’re only going to get one, go for the site subscription. It’s regularly updated with new/edited listings (today: 74 listings changed in the last 7 days), a Market Watch column, and resources like an Agent Q&A (you can submit questions) and Expert Advice (articles from experts to help you get published). If you’re not sure, try it for a month. Right now they’re offering 30 days free, but I think you have to sign up for a full year to take advantage of that offer.

Both the book and a year’s subscription to the site are kind of a hefty investment for a struggling freelancer; I understand that. But there’s something important and confidence-boosting to take yourself seriously enough to get the tools you need. You might not need these particular tools, but I’ve found them helpful. Worth the price. And hey, in 2009 when the new edition comes out, I can use this one to hold down all my drafts and acceptance letters…

Make it a good day.

Image Credits: GETA.80 at Flickr.

Friday: Featured Blogs for 20 June 2008

Friday, June 20th, 2008

These Are Worth Your Time

  • Book Reviews for Real People is one of my favorites. Jim and Maria Duncan write quick, insightful, funny reviews on the books they’ve read. Recent titles include “The Year of Living Biblically” (A.J. Jacobs), “The Evolution of Useful Things” (Henry Petroski), and the most recent is “The Angel on the Roof” (Russell Banks). The posts are kind of sporadic as far as timing goes, but I always go see what’s there when a new post goes up.
  • Creative Writing Contests is a blog you should know about if you’re a writer. Updated often, with helpful categories and pertinent information about manywriting contests. It’s definitely worth adding to your reader so you know when a new contest opens up. Also, if you’ve not checked out the site before, scroll through the recent archives for contests you might be interested in.
  • Liz Strauss at Successful Blog is my most recent add to my Google Reader. I haven’t had a chance to read through the archives yet, but I will be spending some time there. Her “Successful Series” alone will take me a while. The information here is amazing, timely, and helpful. Go read something. You’ll learn.

And as always,

make it a good day.

Reading

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Read Monday’s article on 5 Tips for a Better Writing Week and tweak it to apply to your weekend, especially if you’re one of those who works full-time and must squeeze writing into the edges.

Tuesday’s article was about How to Build a Successful Freelance Foundation; if you haven’t already, read it! Writing is a business and a craft. Being a well-organized and prepared business person will help you be a better writer. So start getting your foundation in place this weekend.

Wednesday’s article, How to Become a Prolific Writer, states my definition of success. What is yours?

Thursday was Part 2 of How to Be a Prolific Writer: I theorized and proposed a freelance writing experiment of sorts.
Here are some other writing experiments:

Finally, since today is, according to my little freelance time experiment, the day I get to search for jobs, here are a few sites to check out for your own job-hunting:

Have a great weekend!

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