Opinion Worth

Having written since I was a kid, I’ve met many authors, writers and journalists along the way. While we don’t all fit the stereotype of the robed, sleepless, alcoholic writer hunched over a typewriter in the attic, we do have much in common. In addition to being the winners of spelling bees and hoarders of dictionaries and other books, we love words. We love to read them, hear them, speak them and write them. We love them to a fault.
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Okay, so you’re an aspiring author or a wannabe writer and you’re staring at the blank white page, wondering what to put on it. What would be the best thing to write about? What are publishers looking for? Hmm, tough question. I know, check out a few websites. Look at the home sites of well-known Traditional Publishers and see what they’re putting out at the moment. That’s easy. Here’s a few romantic novels, some spy stories, and a quirky new translation from the Spanish. Your head’s whirling, but you sleep on it and soon come up with an idea. You commit to paper, print out your creation and pop it in the post. Astonishingly, several months later, it comes back. Unwanted. Worse, there’s a little note stuffed inside the envelope. It reads, ‘This is not what we need at present’.
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It’s time to ask oneself, whether they have the right qualities and characteristics to make that Extra Income. Extra Income programs do need certain characteristics to run them successfully. You have to be cutout for it. No one else can do it for you, irrespective of qualities. You need an extra income, you work off for it. Simple.

There are an awful lot of people out there al around the globe looking to make that extra income, and money matters. A few checks and realities have to be brought to the fore before you get into the rigmarole. Read more… »