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  Watch Top Gear Tonight on BBC America! Maybe I’m on it!

  3650 readersHey guys!  Tune into BBC America tonight at 9pm ET/ 8pm Central / 6pm PST for the new season of Top Gear to see if my MyFirstCar video will be shown!!  My fingers are crossed! Here is info on the … Continue reading →

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  Could Your Relationship Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

  1579 readersTo promote her Living with the Dead series, author Jesse Petersen has developed an online quiz for readers. The quiz asks readers to consider a significant issue: Can Your Relationship Weather a Zombie Apocalypse? Take the quiz off to find out. Our post about a dating site for lovers is sure to generate plenty of

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  The Blogging Habit

  1499 readersBlogging is a powerful writing habit to develop. With time, repetition and regular practice you’ll find that: Your creative mind generates new material, day after day, week after week New ideas for posts will pop, unbid, into your mind, asking to be written up and shared You notice words, images, resources, ideas that you can use as quarry for

• ‘I’d need to have a brain injury before I write for children’

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  NaNoWriMo Tip #1: Read 30 Tips from Last Year

  5532 readersToday is the first day of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), as thousands of writers around the world try to write a 50,000-word manuscript in one month. To help the GalleyCat readers taking this challenge, we will be offering one piece of NaNoWriMo advice every day for the rest of the month. Last year’s participants counted

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  NaNoWriMo Tip #30: Share Your Final Sentence

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  Does Speech Recognition Software Really Work?

  2721 readersOne of my favorite posts from around the web last week came from our own Associate Editor Jon Morrow. He recorded a 20-minute video post for Problogger about how he works with speech recognition software to do all of his blogging. I do an awful lot of writing every week, and I’ve been thinking about trying

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  Outline Your Way to A Better Article

  2169 readersAll great works start with good foundations and articles are no different. An outline is a great tool to give your article solid support and using one has many benefits: Faster Writing Many writers think taking the time to write an outline adds one more time consuming step to the writing process. The truth is, having an

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  8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read

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