<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d7f1ae66-735e-4b86-8fac-267e13558a44/3506B98A-90B7-46C4-BC13-7E3DB8BAC286/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html" href="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html" style="font-size: 11px;">hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html"><DIV>1. Don't be shy, say what you want to say. What people read between the lines of your polite camouflage may not be what you wanted them to get at all. Cultivate your ego. If you don't think you're worth reading, why would anyone else?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html"><DIV>3. No foreplay. Cut to the good stuff. I hate intros and explanations. Be confident that your material can stand alone without it.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html"><DIV>4. People have other things to do. Each sentence needs to re-grab their attention. Word choice is a matter of life and death for readership.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html"><DIV>5. Please everyone and no one. I have no idea what this means, but I live by it. I write for everyone but I'm not accountable to any of them for my true thoughts.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html"><DIV>6. Most importantly, please yourself. Writing is divine. If you don't know that, you may as well just stop writing and let those of us who live for it rule over the blogosphere.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hollywoodflakes.blogspot.com/2008/01/roar-awards-my-rules-for-writing.html">9. Expose yourself. Humiliate yourself. Be real. Create a bridge to your readers</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3506B98A-90B7-46C4-BC13-7E3DB8BAC286/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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