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Often times close friends of mine ask me, “where do you get the inspiration to write songs?” or they will tell me that when they write, it just doesn’t feel or sound right to them. In the early stages of my songwriting, I was at that point but by following these steps, I was able to improve my song writing over the course of time. I wanted to share with you my personal experience in hopes that you might be able to improve like I did. Step one- Maintain An Open Mind The ability to have an open mind can be perceived in many ways, and you might ask how this involves with song writing. The answer is, without having an open mind you will lose the ability to adapt and follow along to things you aren’t normally used to. Wether you player guitar and sing, write lyrics, or arrange songs having an open mind will allow room for improvement. In simpler terms, this means allow yourself to listen to music you wouldn’t normally listen to, and be open to other peoples ideas. Step Two- Know what your intentions for writing are Usually, you are learning to play, or are writing songs for some sort of reason. Wether it be for taking lessons to pass the time, or writing to express thought and emotion to other people. Make sure you know what you want before you begin writing. With a clear vision, comes a clear song writing process. Step Three- Persistence and Practice Now that you have an open mind, and a clear vision what do you do? The third step in this guide is probably the most fundamental. Without practice, there is no room for improvement. You have to sharpen your skills, and learn through experience. Practice, practice, practice. Just like you may have heard a sports coach tell you in the past; “practice like you play”. Learn good practice habits if you want to improve and keep it consistent. Step Four- Play with other musicians A problem I used to run into when it came to my song writing was always playing by myself, in doing that I began to develop a certain style that I found hard to get out of. However, when I started playing together with other groups of musicians you begin to adapt to other peoples playing style, which in turn can create a lot of personal growth in your songwriting after time. I can’t stress this enough, jam! Dylan Roberts writes songs and gives advice on different aspects of music. Do you want advice on anything musically? Check out his blog for more tips and tricks!

Twitter. Yet another Social Networking WEB 2.0 tool for you to use to promote your blog or website. I just finished a YouTube video that told how to make comments on Twitter as well as add a side widget to watch comments that others are making. Both ideas are really good advice. Here’s how to use Twitter to promote your blog by writing articles. Assuming that you have already written your article (my favorite method is bum marketing) and posted your article to your blog or website in this article we look at what to do with it next. *** SETUP TWITTER *** If you are going to use Twitter.com you need to set it up. This includes creating an account, completing your profile and setting up all the settings to your preferences. Be sure to include a relevant picture to your campaign purposes. My own personal Twitter handle is SEOGuy2. If you are interested in topics related to Internet Marketing I encourage you to join my community. *** ARTICLE DIRECTORIES *** With your article in hand and twitter profile setup it’s time to “feed the bird”. I personally use EzineArticles.com for this part of the process. Which means the next step is for you to create an account with Ezine Articles. Many people make the mistake of creating an account, adding it to their automated article submission tool & considering it a job well done. In my opinion it is a job half done. I’m not against automated article submission services to be sure, but they do tend to encourage people to miss the greater advantages of article directories like Ezine Articles. *** CREATE A PROFILE *** Are you aware that many article directories allow you to create a profile on their service? It’s true. But Ezine Articles does one better than that, which is why I their article directory is in my top 10 list. Okay, with your account created navigate to your personal bio under the profile manager. Here you are able to add your URL’s to various areas including Twitter. Here’s the best part. “If you have a Twitter account, we can automatically update your status when your articles are approved.” Which means that as you write and the articles are posted on EzineArticles they are automatically posted to Twitter at the exact same time. I call that a 2 for one process which is easy to setup. I also call it the best how to use twitter to promote your blog or website process that I know of. Like I said, there are others. But this is the best as it is a completely hands free process that is available for all to use. Guy Siverson (AKA SEOGuy) - If you liked this article read 5 Best Twitter Marketing Ideas SEO-and-beyond.com/A-Art-Dir/Tit1/Using-Blogs-And-Forums-Correctly/5-Best-Twitter-Marketing-Ideas.htm. - Partner of ViralMarketing4u.com

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he war in Afghanistan, and the debate over how to best fight it, is understandably at the center of attention in the White House these days. As the world’s leading power, the United States carries the burden of responsibility to oppose genuine threats to world peace. As an advisor to Haris Silajdzic, the Chairman and Muslim representative in the three-member presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I would like to remind our American friends that the burden of leadership extends not only to decisions about war, but also to decisions about peace. If I may be so bold, I have four words for President Obama, and for the American people: Please, don’t forget Bosnia. Like Afghanistan, Bosnia was once the site of a war that gathered the world’s attention. In the early 1990s, Bosnia teetered on the brink of extinction, under Serbian assault. The European Union was passive and dithered. While ethnic cleansing took place in Srebrenica, the most terrible ethnic massacre on European soil since World War II, Europe did nothing. Only after the United States took action to intervene was it possible to negotiate a peace in the Dayton Accord. Today, Bosnia is again under threat. The agreement that promised us peace is in serious jeopardy, as a breakdown in cooperation accelerates. If that continues, the authority of the Bosnian state will be so badly undercut and weakened that it will essentially dissolve. That would leave our people in separatist conclaves. It will extinguish any hope for democratic development. It will feed nationalist rivalry. It could lead us back to war. We Bosnians are trying hard to reverse this trend. But European negotiators in Sarajevo are undercutting key parts of the Dayton agreement. That agreement was intended to create a transitional period between war and normal statehood. The country was divided into two ethnic-based entities, the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation, and the clear intent of Dayton was to increase and improve linking the two through common institutions of government. The long-term goal was to build a society of cooperation and tolerance. We have two overriding objections to the European position. One, they want to separate our state property into the two entities. That would move us in exactly the wrong direction. I must observe that this step was precisely the ’solution’ sought by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic during the Dayton negotiations, and it was rejected because it was obvious that doing so would weaken the state and strengthen the separate entities. Two, the European proposal endorses the preservation of “entity voting,” a provision in the Dayton agreement allowing a Serb minority of twenty-two percent to veto almost anything in the parliament. This veto, already invoked by the Serbs countless times, has made it extremely difficult for Bosnia to pass essential legislation. It has arrested progress, and has left us deadlocked on many issues. We must move past it. We now look to the United States for help. Like many others around the world, we admire President Obama’s commitment to finding new solutions to old problems. Vice President Joe Biden championed the removal of Milosevic and has expressed clear support for democratic reform in our country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when she was First Lady, was also a vocal supporter of intervention by the Clinton Administration to stop the slaughter in Bosnia. And yet, so far, the American position is to support European proposals. This is disappointing, to say the least. We need a comprehensive approach to normalizing the Bosnian state and stabilizing the region, not an acquiescing to Serb demands. Why are the Europeans acting in a misconceived way? They have fallen for a politically lazy, and dangerously naive view: that appeasing the Serb entity will make Bosnian Serbs less likely to try to leave Bosnia and become part of a Greater Serbia. But any student of history can tell you what appeasement really does. It emboldens. It does not pacify. And in this context, that is very dangerous. The Dayton Accord was a shining example of American leadership, when insightful and intelligent diplomacy forced bitter combatants to accept compromises for the common good of us all, and allow a peaceful environment for our children to live without war and senseless violence. No peace agreement is meaningful without the discipline of follow-thru. I urge the Obama administration to be true to American ideals, even in a corner of the world that no longer holds the spotlight. Bring power to bear, where it can do the most good. Don’t allow things to deteriorate, to the brink of violence. Please. Don’t forget Bosnia. Sanela Diana Jenkins, a Bosnian native, is an unofficial advisor to Haris Silajdzic, the Chairman and Muslim representative in the three-member presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sanela is in charge of multiple philanthropic endeavors including the Sanela Diana Jenkins Foundation and the International Justice Clinic at UCLA.

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"How much should I charge for my freelance writing services?" I hear this question all the time. Unfortunately, while there’s a lot of information out there on setting freelance writing fees, much of it is incomplete. There’s no magic answer - no one can give you a set dollar amount to charge for a specific freelance writing service. At best, when people try, they’re only offering a guide - something to take into consideration based on surveys of what other writers are earning. These writers may or may not be in the same boat as you professionally. Rather than hoping someone can tell you what to charge for your writing services, you instead need to think about the process of setting rates - it’s possible for every freelancer to set the right rates early on, and it doesn’t have to be difficult. The Biggest Mistake in Setting Freelance Writing Fees One common thing I hear people telling new writers is that they have to price their services low in the beginning, and slowly increase their rates. That’s not even close to the truth. While it can work for some writers, there are two problems with this strategy: Most writers who try to make a drastic pricing change will fail. This is because they’ve invested huge amounts of time targeting a certain market, and they can’t handle the transition (which amounts to completely starting over in many cases). Pricing too low early on puts the writer’s freelance career in jeopardy, and unnecessarily so. Pricing low with the expectation of increasing rates later will never, I repeat never, provide the best return on investment (ROI) for the time invested. You need to have basic business smarts to run as successful a freelance career as possible, and underpricing services (as opposed to products, which can be mass-produced) is never smart business. Never market a service-oriented business solely, or primarily, on price. 3 Things to Consider When Setting Freelance Writing Rates Now that you know you should never randomly choose a low rate to begin with, how do you go about determining your minimum freelance writing fees? It’s easy - figure out the minimum hourly rate you need to bill clients in order to get by (or reach your goals), and base other rates (per project, per word, per page, etc.) on the average amount of time certain types of projects take you to complete. Use the following formula: Hourly Rate = Yearly Salary Goal / Weeks Worked / Hours Worked Per Week The trick is determining the right values to plug into your formula. Be sure to take these things into consideration: Your yearly salary as a freelancer is not equivalent to the same yearly salary as a full-time employee for someone else! This is because you have a much higher cost to an employer than just your end salary, and as a freelancer, you have to cover all of those costs independently (basic work expenses, the employer’s portion of certain taxes, the employer’s retirement contribution or health insurance contribution, etc.). So, for example, if you earn $50,000 for an employer, your cost to them (and therefore what you need to earn freelancing to be in an equivalent situation) might be closer to $70,000 per year. Consider all personal and business expenses, plus any savings or "extras" you want available, when setting a realistic income goal - this is a common mistake made (writers set their goals too low, only to learn the hard way that they’re not earning enough for a similar lifestyle). All personal and business expenses have to be accounted for. You will not be able to base rates on working 52 weeks per year, 40 hours per week! No one is likely to work every week without a break (and even if you think you can, you should never set yourself up for burnout early on). Factor in time for vacations, holidays, potential sick time or personal days. When I set my rates, I like to base it on 45 working weeks. Adjust it to your own needs. As for 40 hours per week, you have to understand that working hours are not the same as billable hours. In the beginning, if you’re properly handling marketing and administrative tasks, it’s not uncommon to have only around half of your working hours as billable hours - meaning you would use 20 hours per week in your formula rather than 40. You need to account for slow times. In freelancing, you’ll have ups and downs - busy times and slow times. That means it’s very likely you’ll have times during the year where you can’t fill every billable hour at your necessary freelance writing rates. To account for this, I suggest adding at least 10% to either your income goal or minimum hourly rate calculated. Once you know the minimum hourly rate you need to charge as a freelance writer, you can use that to determine other rate structures, or you can decide to set a goal even higher than that minimum - the idea is to charge at a level your credentials, skills, and experience support, while never dipping below the minimum you need to earn to make a successful go of freelancing. Jennifer Mattern is a freelance business writer / Web content writer, blogger, and author of the Web Writer’s Guide to Launching a Successful Freelance Web Writing Career e-book. Find out more at WebWritersGuide or AllFreelanceWriting.com.

When you are looking for custom writing services there are a couple of things to look out for. Since there are multiple professional writing services on the Internet, you will soon come to realize that many of these services are not so professional. Web content is very important to any webmaster and business owner. Here are a couple of things to look out for when searching for the right content writing services: Does The Quality Match The Cost? Most of the time, many content buyers are more interested in how many articles they can buy for the least amount of money. This is the worst mistake you could ever make. A $1 article will not include important keywords and will more than likely be full of “fluff”. Many webmasters who pay for cheap articles are shocked to find their content full of spelling and grammar errors. The fact of the matter is, “You get what you pay for”. Now in days, to get a really decent article for your website, it could cost anything from $10-$50 per article depending on the topic and length of the article. Content is very important to the success of any website. The more content a website has, the more traffic you will receive. What Is Their Turn-Around Time? One important thing about custom writing services is their turn around time. How long will it take before that article lands into your hands? Many writing services can get an article back in less than 1-3 days. This is because they may have a team of writers who are able to handle such demands. Also, you want to make sure you will not have any problems if you order articles in bulk. Many website owners purchase multiple articles in so they won’t have to keep re-ordering articles. Do They Offer Discounts? A good professional writing service will offer discounts for returning clients. This is to keep the relationship between the client and the business owner. Some business owners of writing firms or writing services will offer the buyer of the articles $20 off or more on a future purchase. This can save you a lot of money, especially if you will be making bulk orders. What is Their Expertise? Some content writing services do not have an expertise or just write all types of articles. This is fine, but it is best to look at their writing samples of the particular type of writing you may need. For example; if you need SEO writing services, it is best to find a writing samples somewhere on teh website with SEO content. Some writing services offer all types of writing, but they do not provide a writing sample for each type of writing. You want to make sure the content writing services is not out just to get money without specializing in a certain niche. Do They Offer Edits? When you buy articles online, you must make sure you can get free edits. Free edits means you can ask for the article to be re-written or edited for spelling or grammar errors (this can also be done for formatting requests). To avoid this, it is important to be a specific as possible when making orders for content. Some writing services do not provide editing services, which can really be a problem. Gizelle Fashion Content is the top writing agency on the web. To request custom articles or e-books, visit Content Writing Services

I had to take a shot at making movies, but the extent of my entertainment background had been producing commercial videos and reality programs. At the time I had one other friend that was serious about making movies. I asked her if she had any advice she could share with me to get started on writing a script. She told me to read Aristotle’s Poetics, Syd Field’s Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434, and a host of other books by successful movie people that I devoured religiously. I was a regular at screenwriting workshops, took a few screenwriting classes, and felt very much a screenwriter despite not having wrote one movie script. It’s like a boxer that always trains, but never gets in the ring to see what they can do. In theory I knew what to do, but in reality I was just another unproven aspiring screenwriter trying to make it. I was addicted to scanning the industry trades trying to predict the next big trend in Hollywood, I read newspapers looking for great story ideas, and watched movies in the hopes of coming up with the next “insert popular movie” meets “insert popular movie” or something like “it’s just like Titanic, but it happens in space aboard a shuttle”. Then it finally happened, I found my blockbuster story idea! There was an article years back in Variety or The Hollywood Reporter that said buddy movies were hot again. The buddy movie formula made lots of money for studios. Look at the success of the Rush Hour franchise. There it was sitting in front me, I would write a high concept buddy flick with action, smart one liners, and snappy dialogue. After absorbing tons of information my mind was clogged with three act structures, plot points, paradigms, story arch, and writing detailed biographies for characters. Writing a script was much more involved than just sitting at your computer typing fade in, writing out scenes, then typing fade out. But I was motivated to a write a script that was high concept and SELLABLE. Oh yeah, I had dreams of pitching my script to a Hollywood studio. Fame and fortune were coming my way as soon as I had a finished script to actually pitch. I pored over all the notes I had on how to write a script. It took me a long year to finally finish my first full length movie script. Looking back I can see I spent way too much time going over how to write a script instead of just writing one. I was holding on too tight to what I learned and not letting the story flow naturally. Then I had a simple enough breakthrough. By stepping back from the process I could see that I was not being realistic in what I wanted to accomplish in the movie business. The chances of an unknown screenwriter selling a script to Hollywood for big money is slim. It does happen, but the odds are against it. More scripts are written than movies released. I’ve met a lot people that want to make movies, but it never happens because they write scripts that can’t be made on a indie film budget. My friend that turned me on to what books to read has written numerous scripts since then. Unfortunately, she’s still waiting on Hollywood to call. She hasn’t had one of her scripts made into a movie yet. They remain only words on a page. If you’re like me you do not want to wait on a call from Hollywood that might never happen. I was inspired to make movies by watching film noir classics like Little Caesar, Public Enemy, and Angels With Dirty Faces on cable. Then I got into watching urban dramas like Goodfellas, Menace II Society, and King Of New York. I had invested a year of my life writing a buddy movie that followed the Hollywood formula instead of going with that I wanted to do. Producing urban crime films that featured corrupt and cynical characters in stories with strong subject matters that had bite. I also realized I was using what I learned about writing a script as some kind of creative crutch. I was always second guessing what I was writing. Then I would go back to make sure I was following all the rules. It was like having a yoke around my neck. Don’t get me wrong. Syd Field and Lew Hunter are true masters of screenwriting, but they’re not going to write my script for me. When this came into focus I decided I was going to write the script that told the story I really wanted to share with movie viewers. It was no longer about seeking fame or fortune in the movie business anymore. It was about writing a script that could be produced on a small budget. I wrote the scripts for Consignment and In With Thieves based on being produced on smaller indie budgets. A major help was knowing coproducer/editor Tim Beachum would be handling most of the post production in his studio. There would be no clock running on editing burning dollars I could not afford. We were pulling our resources to make these movies happen at the indie level. The money raised would dictate what I would write into the shooting script. These movies are now being distributed on direct-to-video all over the world. I knew I wasn’t making Hollywood movies, but I was living my dream of seeing scripts I wrote really being made and distributed. It’s a rush to see words that you put on a page come to life with actors. That’s one serious rush I hope all aspiring screenwriters can experience sooner than later. There are many different paths to get to the same place. If you’re an aspiring screenwriter remember there is no bad stigma in writing a script that gets made on a indie film budget. More than a few times I’ve heard filmmakers say they would need at least a million to produce their movie right. They are looking at making movies with a Hollywood attitude. Most of the time that leads to never making a single movie. Film financing falls through and deals go south for different reasons all the time. This happened to Slice of Americana Films this year. For me I have what I like to call a mid-level indie script titled “Stash Spot” that was written with for a 250K budget. A chunk of that was going to pay for the asking rates on known talent committed to the project. I wrote myself into a corner by having so much gunplay, but it’s a brutal action story. I could only pull off cheating the action scenes so much. A Hungarian executive producer signed on and released money to option the script. Six months later the option on the script was not renewed and all rights to the script came back. The reason for the split was simple. His cash flow was running low. My best advice is to write two different types of scripts. The first should be movie scripts written with a independent budget in mind. The style of scripts you have a realistic chance of finding money to actually make. Keep locations and cast size to a minimum. Don’t write elements into your script you can’t deliver. Keep it as close to home as possible. If you can use your own residence as a location and production office that’s the way to go. Always try to write in locations that are close together to cut down on travel time. Don’t fall in love with any one scene or bit of dialogue you’ve written. Later on you might try to hold onto to it when there just isn’t enough money or time to shoot really it. I’ve learned by getting knocked around making movies there is a certain special craft to writing scripts with a smaller budget in mind. You’re not as free to write what you want. When I wrote the script for In With Thieves I wanted to have a scene where a character was lit on fire alive. I had to let it go because of cost. Why bother writing a scene that the budget could not afford? The second type of script goes back to making a studio backed movie. There’s no reason a talented screenwriter can’t write a smaller budget indie movie and still turn out a Hollywood blockbuster. When you sit down to write a script geared toward a Hollywood studio you can leave budget restrictions behind. Your creativity does not have to be limited by any indie budget. When you’re done you can pitch it to Hollywood agents or enter screenwriting contests to get it sold. It’s happened for other screenwriters, it can happen for you. If you’re driven and don’t want to be stuck waiting for Hollywood to call there are steps to take. Write scripts that are indie filmmaker friendly. It could turn out one of these indie films get the attention of a connected Hollywood producer. Next thing you know you’re writing and making movies in the studio system. Think about that for minute. That’s a nice thought. Learn more about making movies by reading “The First Movie Is The Toughest: A Filmmaker’s Story Of How It Was Done” available on paperback or PDF.

The architecture of a city isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when we think about particular holiday destinations in the UK. Stunning architecture, or acknowledgement of possessing such facilities, tends to be left to the more esteemed European cities, like Athens or Rome. However, the fact remains that many of the UK’s cities are built on some of the most exquisite sites you will ever see, with breathtaking buildings breaking up city skylines, glorious churches adorning quiet downtown streets and magnificent monuments that need to be seen to be believed. One such unsuspecting city is the Yorkshire-located Leeds. Leeds is very much an up and coming British city that has seen some of the fastest growth in the country in the last few years. What many people don’t think about when considering Leeds, however, is its fascinating past and the incredible architecture that can still be viewed all across the city today. Most of Leeds’ architectural style is dominated by the Victorian era: intricately designed buildings, often enjoying a Gothic twist, that beg to be explored aesthetically rather than simply passed by. However, in the city centre you’ll also find plenty of cross-era buildings, ranging from the well-preserved Cistercian monastery ruin, Kirkstall Abbey, to a plethora of the latest in modern architectural design. Taking a walk through Leeds is like travelling through the ages. Although Leeds has little remaining of its previous medieval structure, you can find examples at Adel’s Church of St John the Baptist, a brilliantly preserved church dating back to 1150, where it was the main village church for a community that was only a tiny fraction of what the city possesses today. From there, you’ll find Leeds’ development through Tudor times - though, again, not much evidence of this period, particularly as Leeds soon after began exploring its options as an industrial town, a decision that saw the city explode quickly into a commercial success, with businesses and industries appearing throughout the rapidly-expanding city and pulling a mass of wealth into the hands of its inhabitants. Through the Victorian period and to the present day, you won’t need to search as hard to find examples of architecture dating to previous periods and, of course, work from more recent times is abundant as Leeds strives to remain a modern city. Despite this, however, there are plenty of architectural gems to discover from your stay in one of the many Leeds hotels - so if you’re a fan of seeing a city’s development through the ages through the shape of its buildings, why Leeds could be a worthwhile visit.

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