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		<title>Technorati Verification</title>
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		<title>The importance of being earnest&#8230;</title>
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Earnest means &#8220;serious in intention, purpose, or effort&#8221;. It means serious in the pursuit of one&#8217;s goals. One of the qualities all successful writers have in common is the earnest desire to write. It is a quality that every writer, who wants to become successful, should acquire.
Like any other creative profession, writing too is 90 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Writer?</title>
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Are you a writer or are you one who thinks you are a writer. According to Random House Dictionary a writer is  a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., esp. as an occupation or profession. 
A person does not need a published book or article to be a writer. And one does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Constant Art of Being a Writer</title>
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“The most difficult part of being a writer is living the life. There are no guarantees that you will be a success, and, if you are, there are no guarantees that you will continue to succeed. But you keep on working. You have no choice: it’s as if being a writer is encoded in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writer&#8217;s Idea Book</title>
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Jack Heffron, the author of this book, is a freelance writer, editor, actor, and teacher. In this book he has created a resource that will help writers to jump start their writing by developing ideas from the more than 400 prompts. 
According to the author writing is an act of hope, courage, joy and celebration. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1.3 The People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this section we will see the people who collaborate to bring the book from idea to print. The major players are the author or authors, publisher, acquisitions editor, the technical experts who review the proposal, the technical reviewer, the copy-editor, the typesetter, the illustrator, the proofreader, the indexer, the printer, the marketing and sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1.2 The Book Publishing Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this section we will see an overview of the book publishing process. A successful book project starts as an idea and ends as a printed book. There are different processes that the idea will have to go through before it becomes a book. Along the way, many ideas will fall apart or fail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26 Golden Rules for Writing Well</title>
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Don&#8217;t abbrev. 
Check to see if you any words out. 
Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 
About sentence fragments. 
When dangling, don&#8217;t use participles. 
Don&#8217;t use no double negatives. 
Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. 
Just between you and I, case is important. 
Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. 
Don&#8217;t use commas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1.1 Brooks, Humphrey, Weinberg, Davis, and McConnel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What have Frederick Brooks, Watts Humphrey, Gerald Weinberg, Alan Davis, and Steve McConnell, in common? They are all authors of bestselling books that have transformed the software profession.
Brooks is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1. Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Writing a Book is a book about writing books, more specifically writing technical books. This book is for all professional who are writing or planning to write a book. Writing a technical book, a book on a topic that you are an expert, might sound easy; but it is not. There are many hurdles [...]]]></description>
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