Long Ridge Writers Group - Writing for Adults

<body onload="FP_preloadImgs(/*url*/'images/button26.jpg', /*url*/'images/button25.jpg', /*url*/'images/button29.jpg', /*url*/'images/button28.jpg')"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <img border="0" src="images/Full-Story-header.gif" width="500" height="213"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/Breaking-into-Print.gif" width="350" height="73"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="400"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText" align="center"> <font face="Georgia" color="#808080"> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic">We begin by pairing you with a professional writer or editor who develops a teaching plan for you that meets your needs and objectives. As your personal mentor, he or she works with you from your first assignment until the day you finish the program. The result is that we help you to achieve your personal writing goals more fully than any other writing program.</span></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50"> <p align="right"><b><font face="Verdana"><br>  Topics</font></b></td> <td valign="top" width="20">  </td> <td width="350"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="425" bgcolor="#FFFFDF" cellspacing="15" height="263"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="#welcome"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id22" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id22',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Welcome to Long Ridge Writers Group</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="#promise"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id7" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id7',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Our promise to you</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="#wonderful world"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id38" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id38',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> The wonderful world of writing</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="#writing"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id30" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id30',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Writing: part-time or full-time career?</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="how_we_teach.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id10" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id10',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> How we teach</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"> <a href="how_we_teach.htm#how you learn"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id11" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id11',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> How you learn</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="how_we_teach.htm#you learn"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id12" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id12',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> You learn from your own private instructor</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="success.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id47" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id47',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Your instructor closely supports your progress</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="success.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id41" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id41',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> This program prepares you for success</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2">      <a href="success.htm#part 1"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id42" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id42',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Part 1: Writing for your reader</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2">      <a href="success.htm#part 2"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id33" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id33',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Part 2: Finding your niche</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2">      <a href="success.htm#part 3"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id34" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id34',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Part 3: Writing for publication</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2">      <a href="success.htm#part 3"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id48" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id48',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Part 3: Writing for editors and publishers</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="getting_published.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id19" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id19',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Getting your writing published</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="instructors.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id35" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id35',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Our exceptional instructors</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="new_way.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id46" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id46',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> A "new" way of learning</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="aptitude.htm"> <span style="text-decoration: none" id="id49" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id49',1,'style.textDecoration','underline')"> Your next step: complete our Writing Test</span></a></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td width="170">  </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><a name="welcome"></a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5" color="#000080">Welcome to Long Ridge Writers Group</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p style="margin-left: 3px; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><i>Breaking into Print </i>is a home study writing program developed by a group of our writers and editors whose expert teaching and coaching over the last 20 years has produced thousands of published writers. It combines both basic forms of creative writing: articles and short stories. Virtually every piece of writing that you admire was created with elements of these same basic forms.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="387"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="380" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom: 0"><b> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><br> Flexibility is key</font></b></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">In developing this program, we were guided by the need for a highly flexible course of instruction for today</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s aspiring writers. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">The program we developed allows you to progress on <i>your</i> own schedule: You set the pace and your personal instructor fits his or her schedule to yours.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">This one-on-one pairing of a student with a skillful mentor offers you a quality and intensity of training in writing and in marketing your writing that is unsurpassed by any college or university.</font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700">A customized program</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">The objective of this flexible program embracing both fiction and nonfiction is to help you discover your greatest potential as a writer. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">For this reason, <i>Breaking into Print</i> is necessarily a customized training program, specifically designed to meet the goals and aspirations each student has, or will develop, as he or she progresses. Personalized training of this quality is clearly beyond the capacity of a single teacher in a classroom full of students.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">But in <i>Breaking into Print</i>, you</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">re the only student in your instructor</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s </font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">“</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">classroom</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">”;</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> you</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">re given the undivided time you need to develop your skills. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Your instructor will guide you, give you the opportunity to write in many different forms, and help you find the fiction genre or nonfiction category that</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s right for <i>you</i>.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td width="103" valign="top" align="center"> <p align="center"> <img border="1" src="images/Ellery-Queen.gif" width="70" height="111"></p> <p align="center"> <img border="1" src="images/True-Romance.gif" width="100" height="130"></p> <p align="center"> <img border="1" src="images/Asimov's.gif" width="70" height="110"></p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="images/True-Story.gif" width="99" height="130" style="border: 1px solid #000000"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="490" colspan="2"> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top:0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700"> <br> </font><span style="font-weight: 700"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Designed for you</font></span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Once you find that fiction or nonfiction niche, your instructor will focus on its special editorial requirements and design your program to meet your particular needs and the writing goals that you set for yourself. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">With the help of this customized training program and the steady guidance of your instructor, you</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">ll produce at least two manuscripts that are suitable to submit to editors of your choice by the time you've completed <i>Breaking into Print</i>.</font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">While you</span><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">re learning to write for a particular market, your instructor will teach you the most effective techniques to market your finished work to editors and publishers. You</span><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">ll learn the who, when, where, and how of breaking into print.</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <a name="promise"></a></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5" color="#000080"> Our promise to you</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">The advantages of learning how to </font> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">master both fiction and nonfiction writing in the same program, rather than studying each one separately, go far beyond the savings in time and money.</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td width="381"> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b> <a name="Learn_fiction_and_nonfiction_together">Learn fiction and nonfiction <i>together</i></a></b><br> By alternating your assignments in fiction and nonfiction techniques, followed by alternate assignments of short stories and articles, <i>Breaking into Print</i> offers you clear insight into the possibilities that both forms hold for you.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">This unique method of intertwining instruction also shows clearly how certain techniques of one form of writing can be used to enhance the strength, interest, and readability of the other. </font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">You</span><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">ll learn fiction techniques and borrow certain nonfiction techniques to make your short stories solid and grounded. You</span><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">ll learn nonfiction techniques and learn how to use key fiction techniques to make your articles dramatic and compelling.</span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>Fiction? Nonfiction? Or <i>both!</i></b></font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">An additional advantage of combined instruction is its value in giving you the best possible basis for choosing to focus on mystery, science fiction, humor, or any one of 19 genres in fiction; or travel, religion, crafts and hobbies, or any of the 73 categories in nonfiction. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Yet, you may prefer to continue your training in fiction/nonfiction combined rather than specializing in a specific genre or category. </font> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">The choice is entirely yours. The availability of these choices underscores the flexibility of <i>Breaking into Print</i>.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>Flexibility and versatility</b><br> </font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">In terms of marketing versatility, you</span><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt">ll have many more opportunities to break into print than those who take courses in short story or article writing alone. </span></font></td> <td valign="top"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="100"> <tr> <td> <img border="0" src="images/Health.gif" width="92" height="120" style="border: 1px solid #000000"></td> </tr> </table> <p> <img border="1" src="images/Psychology.gif" width="100" height="131"></p> <p> <img border="1" src="images/Family-Circle.gif" width="100" height="128"></p> <p><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> <img border="1" src="images/Better-Homes.gif" width="100" height="132"></font></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">You</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">ll also be ready to handle both story and article assignments long before those who learn to write only fiction or nonfiction.</font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">Whatever your personal or professional writing goals may be, <i>Breaking into Print</i> will give you the basic elements of all good contemporary writing</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">plus advanced training in fiction, nonfiction, or any genre in either of these major forms you choose</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">plus the marketing skills that will help you to succeed.<br>  </span><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="left"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b>Our promise to you</b></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Whatever your writing goal may be, by the time you finish our program, you will complete two manuscripts suitable to submit to editors. You</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">ll also write a character sketch, plans for six stories and articles, and eight complete manuscripts.</font><p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">We are also committed to your satisfaction.</font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <a name="our guarantee"></a></p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="450" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFDF"> <tr> <td> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700"> GUARANTEE</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Georgia"> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700">If you are not satisfied that you</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-weight:700">’</span><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700">ve become a better writer and learned how to market your writing to editors and publishers by the time you</span></font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; font-weight:700">’</span><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: 700">ve completed our program, you can obtain a full refund.</span></font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="325"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><font color="#808080"> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">“</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2">The process of discovering the writer within you is just that</font></font><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #808080"><font size="2">—</font></span><font color="#808080"><font face="Verdana" size="2">a process. As you change and grow, your writing will change and grow. And that</font><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">’</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2">s what makes the writing experience so challenging and rewarding.</font><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">”</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><br> </font></font><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #808080"> <font size="2">—</font></span><font color="#808080"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Karen O</font><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">’</font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2">Connor, Instructor</font></font></i></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><a name="wonderful world"></a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5" color="#000080"> The wonderful world of writing </font></b></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Have you ever longed for the independence, the lifestyle, the satisfaction, and the rewards that can come from being a writer? </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Is writing your way of </font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia"> “</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">making a statement,</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">”</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> of giving voice to your special ideas or values? Or is writing your way of giving a gift to the world</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">and yourself?</font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">Whatever your special reasons for wanting to write and wanting to see your work published, you must start with the aptitude, professional training, and desire it takes to succeed.</span><p> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> <b>Draw from your everyday life</b><br> Once you take up writing, you may find that it</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">s your most natural form of expression. You can begin at any age, and you don</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">t need to have a college degree. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">You don</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">t need arcane knowledge or extraordinary experiences. You can draw upon your everyday life and interests for the ideas that may inspire successful stories and articles. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">You can pursue writing anywhere, anytime. Many writers have learned their craft at home</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">free from the rigidity of a classroom schedule</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">where writing time can be adjusted around other daily activities. </font> </p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">What <i>is</i> required is determination, patience, and the willingness to work at developing your aptitude with the support of a trusted instructor.</span><p><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> <b>Your stories and articles speak for themselves</b><br> As a writer, your stories and articles speak for themselves. You</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">ll find men and women of every age and from every walk of life who are published authors, and their work is as diverse as life itself! </font> </p> <p><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Apart from the monetary rewards or prestige you may earn as a published author, the creative act of writing also adds a deeply felt sense of fulfillment. </font> <p><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">If you have the desire and the aptitude to write, we can offer you a trustworthy mentor to show you how to write for publication and how to find your writing niche, along with a superb program of training to help you learn how to market your writing.</font></td> <td> <img border="0" src="images/glamour.gif" width="87" height="120" style="border: 1px solid #000000"><p> <img border="0" src="images/Grit.gif" width="90" height="101" style="border: 1px solid #000000"></p> <p> <img border="1" src="images/Games.gif" width="90" height="124"></p> <p> <img border="1" src="images/Harvard.gif" width="90" height="116"></p> <p> <img border="1" src="images/Gardening-How-to.gif" width="90" height="121"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><a name="writing"></a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="550"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><b><font face="Georgia" size="5" color="#000080"> Writing: part-time or full-time career?</font></b></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="500"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">As a trained freelance writer, you can keep your present job and supplement your income by selling articles and stories to hundreds of possible markets. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">If you become successful as a part-time writer, you may want to devote your full time to writing</font><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia; color: black">—</span><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">as a freelancer, or on the staff of a publishing company or any of hundreds of other kinds of companies and organizations. </font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">As even the most casual reader knows, there are simply never enough well-trained writers to go around; consequently, there are better opportunities and more meaningful rewards for those with professional training and the desire to succeed.</span><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"> <b>Your declaration of independence</b><br> For a freelance writer, there is no such thing as a dreary daily commute, punching a time clock, enduring office aggravations, layoffs, and pink slips. </font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">Of course, a writer has his or her own challenges: You work by yourself much of the time, and you must be resourceful to succeed. On the other hand, you write in the comfort of your own home. </font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">You work on your own projects or on those you select or accept from publishers, editors, or other clients. You enjoy the prestige, personal recognition, and respect accorded a professional.</span><p align="left"><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt"><b> The benefits of a successful writing career</b><br> For a handful of best-selling authors, continuing royalties provide income that most writers only dream about. But even for celebrated authors, financial rewards are only part of the benefits of a successful writing career.</font></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">One of the most important reasons for writing is the sheer enjoyment of it! Every time you face a blank sheet of paper, you</font><font SIZE="4"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">’</span></font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 11.5pt">re challenged. </font></p> <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Georgia">We prepare you to meet the challenge of writing by giving you thorough training from a professional instructor in the fiction or nonfiction genre that fits your goals and aspirations.</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="325"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><font color="#808080"> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">“There's no great mystery about learning how to write. It’s a process of hard work and a lot of practice. 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