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		<title>Writing With Bad Language (Do’s and Don’ts)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three types of bad language in writing: bad grammar, over-use of jargon and confusing terms, and expletives.  Today I&#8217;m going to talk about the latter two.  Starting with jargon and what I like to refer to as &#8220;five dollar words and phrases.&#8221; Over-Using $5 Words Like most writers, I read a lot.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Self-Editing Tips for Professionalism in Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked about proofreading and self-editing before, which I consider The Most Vital, Yet Boring Skill Good Writing Requires.  It&#8217;s essential, though, to going from an amateur with a lot of hopes and dreams to being considered a professional who&#8217;s considered to be such by his or her peers and publishers. In that last article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Professional Writing to Get Into Creative Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing as a Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most professional writing is not creative (fiction) writing, but instead is usually fact-based journalism, commentary, copy writing, and so forth.  While there are some similarities between how the two professions work, they&#8217;re very different from one another.  Most of my experience is in professional writing and though I have published a few fictional pieces in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Effective Business Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing as a Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you realize it or not, business letters likely make up a large portion of your writing.  Especially if you&#8217;re a freelance writer or business owner.  Many of your emails are probably business letters, as are your proposal cover letters, your project bids, and much of your other correspondence when communicating business-to-business. Effective business letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Use Article Marketing to Promote Your Professional Writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Your Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aaronturpen.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are basically three general perceptions on the concept of article marketing in general, which apply to you whether you&#8217;re using it as a strategy to promote a business or a writing career.  These three thoughts are: It stinks and is a total waste of time and will only earn you a bad name. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Vital, Yet Boring Skill Good Writing Requires</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is one skill, above all others, that is the most important and vital skill every good writer needs.  For most of us, it&#8217;s also the most boring of tasks and the hardest to force ourselves to accomplish readily.  That skill is proofreading. Proofreading (also called &#8220;proofing&#8221;) is a very necessary process and great writers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing as Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[therapeutic writing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aaronturpen.com/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I don&#8217;t write to empty my mind, I go mad.&#8221; -Lord Byron Today, I&#8217;m going to step away from the business aspects of professional writing and look instead at another aspect of putting words to paper: as a theraputic. Many writers, especially of personal journals and fiction, are tortured souls with a lot to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bidding on Writing Jobs – a How-To Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Writing Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing as a Business]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aaronturpen.com/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve been offered the opportunity or have been contacted about writing something for someone on a for-hire basis.  No doubt, you found my information in Finding Writing Work to be highly essential and powerful in your search for writing jobs. Now that you&#8217;ve been offered a job or are looking at a project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing for the Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Basics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a couple of people approach me with questions about how writing for the Web differs from writing for print.  The difference boils down to one thing: how people read online versus with paper and ink in their hands. Print publications, such as magazines and even some newspapers, often have their writers create two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Associated Press Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing Basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[associated press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing style]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I began this blog, I wrote a sort of overview of the various types of writing and the differences between them.  One of those I mentioned was the Associated Press (AP) style.  It gets its name, of course, from the AP and is the basic presentation most journalistic writing uses. Whole university courses are [...]]]></description>
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