There are a lot of ways you can get paid to write online. In fact, some of the best ways to earn money on the net is by signing up with paid to write sites. These types of sites will not make you rich, but you will be able to earn a decent income writing articles from home with little to no experience. I have been writing using many different sites as a way to gain extra income. If you can read and write at a basic 8th grade level, then you can get paid to write online. Here are some sites that you might be interested in. Associated Content- I’m sure many of you have already heard of Associated Content. You can really write about what you want, but the main way to earn money with this site is through their ‘call for content’ section. If you have never been banned by them (such as your IP or email), then you should be able to view the good content for sale. This is a good way to get paid to write online. Some people are claiming AC is paying less, but you can still make a pretty decent amount of money on the web. I have literally made about $40 a day with them. They are really starting to cut down on the amount of offers they show to certain writers, so you probably will only be able to write about 5-10 articles per day, which is like $10-$20 per day. This isn’t the best income, but it beats nothing. Brighthub- This is a fairly new ‘paid to write site’, but the still offer good assignments. You pick what you like to write about and then you have to send them a short writing sample. If you are accepted, you will then start to receive writing assignments in your chosen category. I have not written for them, but I have heard you can get paid at least $10 per writing assignment. You also get $1 per back link you can produce for that article. This should be easy with all the social bookmarking sites. Either way, this is a good way to get paid to write online. Article Marketing- This isn’t a ‘paid to write’ site, but it is a very effective way to earn a little cash through your own offers. You can really get paid to write online when you promote your own product pages and links. It works like this; write about 10 articles. Then submit them to the top article directories that have the fastest article reviewable and publishing time. I don’t mess around with article directories that take more than 2 days to review an article. To get paid to write online, you need to choose the best directories that are worth your time and effort. Choose about 10 to submit to. After you have your top article directories, just blast those articles to all of them. Make sure to change the article’s title and anchor text with each article directory in order for Google to not de-index your articles for duplicate content. This is the secret many top Internet Marketers use to get paid to write online. Make sure to pick a product that is at least $49. This will make it worth your while. If you use this method everyday, you should be able to easily make about $50-$100 a day with article marketing. What you should know about how to get paid to write online is, (especially with article marketing), is that it takes times for this method to work. I say give it about 2-4 days before you start seeing results. So remember, if you don’t see traffic in one day or so, and then don’t worry. Just keep writing articles everyday and blasting it to those article directories. These are the best methods to get paid to write online and you should be making $50-$500 a day in no time. To learn how to quickly make $100-$2000 Today Writing articles online, visit Make Money Writing Articles Online

In The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald presents a study of wealth and ambition through the prism of pathetic characters for which one can find almost no socially redeeming values. What the novel portrays is the sordid story of small band of feeble characters engaged in cheating, adultery, deception, and debauchery. The lavish parties –Jazz-age style– that Jay Gatsby throws to recover Daisy Buchanan (his lost illusions and perfidious lover) are all but wild bacchanalians. When one thinks about of the rest of the nation, we can breathe a sigh of relief to see that the rest of Americans are engaged in productive enterprise, in rebuilding the nation after the waste of resources that was the First World War. The sordidness of the story applies, almost in its entirety, to that small band of marginal, misguided, and unsavory characters. It isn’t a book about the spiritual dismemberment of America (as many have interpreted the book to be) that came in 1927 with the Great Depression. Nick Carraway: Unreliable Narrator While in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Killers” we experience the objective voice of a disinterested narrator, in The Great Gatsby we are deceived by the relentless biases of Nick Carraway, a likable character –and narrator– who not only has an interesting story to tell, but also has an agenda. His agenda is a laundry list of things “to clean up,” events to smooth over, and a guilty consciousness to cleanse. In a similar vein as the Confessions penned by Augustine, Rousseau, and Ben Franklin, Nick exacerbates other people’s crimes and misdemeanors while obscuring and diminishing his own. From the outset of the narration, Nick Carraway makes it clear that the story he’s about to tell is a very personal story, and that he is going to be a protagonist. So, with these words: “In my younger and more vulnerable years…” he begins to tell the story about himself and about young people coming of age, people who at present are in the midst of finding their own identity, groping for goals and a more certain future. It is a generational story in which ambitious Dough Boys –having returned from fighting a world war– vie for position under the sun, vying for a spot not in the tedium of poverty or disenchantment, but for a share of splendor in wealth and love. Although Nick makes the calculated decision to come East to pursue a career in Wall Street, his heart moves him in a different direction; his heart is in literature, and he lets us know what his intentions are: “I was rather literary in college-one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News-and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well rounded man.’” (GG, 4). Having attended Yale University, he is justified in calling himself a ‘well rounded man’ who is fully equipped by experience, education, and talent to become a writer, a literary man. As he commences the narrative, he even indulges in the author’s pleasure of even knowing the title of his book: “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction.” He also engages in moments of meta-narration. When in the second book of Don Quijote the hero learns that he is the subject of spurious adventures by a spurious author, we can only enjoy the pleasures of meta-narration. Nick Carraway also engages himself in bits of meta-narration as when we read that he is reviewing his work as he progresses with the writing: “Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that he events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. On the contrary, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer, and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.” (GG, 56). Nick’s Agenda Indeed they were but mere casual events, yet very much intertwined with his own personal life. Though Nick presents the Gastby life as the main thread, his own autobiographical strands of data are weaved into the fabric of the story.While Meursault-Camus’ absurd-man narrator of The Stranger chooses a stark, hallucinatory jargon to depict his alienation from the world, Nick Carraway chooses a lyrical and often incantatory language to embellish the sordid world of a low-level American tragedy. Nick takes licenses and reports hearsay, a narrator’s sin that endangers his credibility. What is disgusting is that in the end, Nick doesn’t denounce his cousin Daisy, even though he’s privy to the knowledge that Daisy was the driver that fated night, and that Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson (Tom’s mistress). Was this really an accident? Or did Daisy actually run over Mrs. Wilson intentionally? We can only go by Gatsby’s recollection of the accident as he recounts it to Nick. That Daisy was driving and that she was maneuvering to pass a car coming the other way is clear. What follows is that Daisy first attempts avoid hitting Myrtle, but it is possible that as she recognizes Myrtle she changes her mind and runs over her. After all Myrtle Wilson has been a constant thorn in her flesh throughout the summer, causing her much pain, anxiety, and depression. While Nick tells us there was an inquest, he omits telling us that he didn’t testify, despite the fact that his truthful testimony would have implicated his cousin Daisy. Nick then is complicit in the cover up of a hit and run crime. Furthermore, the night of the accident when Nick plays peeping Tom, he observes Daisy and Tom in a conspiratorial tete-a-tete: “The weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale-and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.” (GG, 145). In Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, when Remedios the Beauty ascends to heaven, the reader accepts this fact because the woman in her simple mindedness never sees that her beauty hurts people; or even kills them. But when Nick Carraway paints Daisy as a southern beauty filled with charm and innocence, he scratches a discordant note, for her actions belie that. Is Nick Gay or Bi-? Nick has a fixation with noses and we see this under-text surface throughout the narration, and the only way to break the habit is by actually “breaking” it violently just as Tom Buchanan does when he breaks his mistress’s nose. In addition, Daisy compares Nick to a flower: “Nick, you remind me of a–of a rose, an absolute rose.” Is she implying Nick is a closeted gay? Well, Nick never pursues Jordan with the vigor of a male in heat. And there’s a scene in which another male removes his garments. During a get-together in New York, Nick meets Mr. McKee, a photographer: “Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man from the flat below. He had just shaved, for there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone (30).” Afterwards McKee takes Nick to his home where they spend the night. Nick later remembers: “I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear.” To confirm McKee’s gayness and by implication Nick’s, we see a phallic image as the elevator boy warns “hands off the lever.” To which McKee responds “I beg your pardon…I didn’t know I was touching it.” Was McKee touching the lever or the elevator boy? Early in the Twentieth Century, American literature had certain taboos that an author could only approach and conquer as the Jew conquered Jericho-around and around and with noise. The noise being the carefully selected word-codes and phallic imagery. Can anyone imagine a straight man obsessing about another man’s bit of dried lather? “Mr. McKee was asleep on a chair with his fists clenched in his lap, like a photograph of a man of action. Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remains of the spot of dried lather that had worried me all the afternoon.” (p.36) Nick Carraway, the narrator, never acknowledges that he is an amiable pimp. Nick rents his West Egg house with a male, “when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town, it sounded like a great idea. He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone.” (p3). Not only is Nick gay, but also bisexual: “I even had a short affair with a girl who lived in Jersey City and worked in the accounting department, but her brother began throwing mean looks in my direction, so when she went on her vacation in July I let it blow quietly away.” (p56). And as he meanders through midtown Manhattan, he fantasizes: “I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden street, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.” (p56). Notice Nick’s self-examination that carry the despairing musings of old maids, spinsters, and old bachelors: “I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade (p135).” As he looks down the lane of bachelorhood at this point in his life, Nick considers a life-presumably a sexual life with single men only: “The Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.” (p135). This is a poignant remark that confirms his loneliness and how he will comfort himself in his bachelorhood. Conclusion Nick Carraway presents himself as a simple, unassuming, and likeable character, who thrives in gaining the confidence of friends and strangers alike. Yet, there’s nothing simple about him. As his narrative progresses and we get to know him better, we conclude that he is a complex character with many facets. While many sides of his personality are interesting, the reader cannot help being seduced by the moralistic preponderance of his judgments. On the surface, Nick presents himself as the voice of measure, reason, and virtue, but as we scrutinize his deeper strata we find an array of wild emotions, impulses, desires, and irrationalities that border on an unstable, sexually confused life, as he himself acknowledges: “Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what’s founded on.” (GG, 2). Retired. Former investment banker, Columbia University-educated, Vietnam Vet (67-68). For the writing techniques I use, see Mary Duffy’s e-book: Sentence Openers. To read my book reviews of the Classics visit my blog: Writing To Live

The great thing about getting a tattoo is that you can absolutely get what ever your heart desires. Of course more people are a little more original than some people. So this leads me to inform everyone what are the most common tattoos that men and women get. It seems that women gravitate towards pretty things like the all famous butterfly, star or flower. The reason behind this is women seem to think that having something beautiful anywhere on their body will help add attraction to the overall appearance. I am happy to report that I do not fall into this category, neither of my tats are of a butterfly, star or a flower. Men on the other hand are a little bit more complex, their reasoning for getting certain tattoos all comes back to their masculinity. For example, a lot of men will get tattoos of some sort of animal. They think that the characteristic of the animal such as strength, courage, and power will be bestowed onto them now that they have them tattooed on their skin. The most common animal’s that men get tattooed on them are lions, tigers, dragons or snakes. Strangely enough I fall into this category. I have a tattoo of a lion’s head on my left shoulder. There is a personal reason for me getting this lion tattooed on me, but I also liked what the lion stood for, The King of the Jungle. I will admit that whenever I am feeling weak or down about something I will go to a mirror and look at my lion and remind myself that I am a strong women and I can get through whatever I’m going through. So if you are thinking about getting a tattoo and want to get something that most people don’t have then stay away from the butterfly, star, flower, lions, tigers, dragons and snakes. Of course if you want to get one of this then try to add you own twist to it so it will be a little bit more original. Your Tattoo Friend Ashley

I contribute to AssociatedContent.com (AC) and eHow on a pretty regular basis; I’ve posted a couple of articles to Helium. Regular readers of my blog and newsletter may wonder why I contribute to sites like this when I earn more from my SEO writing and other freelance writing gigs. Well, there are four reasons. One sitting in my inbox when I logged on this morning prompted this post. Why I Write for “Article Paying Sites” Like AC, eHow, Helium, etc. 1. Special Assignments: One morning when I logged on, there was an email from an editor at AC offering to pay $25 to write an article on How to Write a Small Business Plan. As I’ve written enough business plans in my life to do one in my sleep, this article will probably take 30-45 minutes to complete. While it may seem paltry to some, when you’re writing about what you know, it’s usually a breeze to knock out and it doesn’t take any research. For me, these are the best kinds of assignments. I’ve been writing for AC since April 2006. To date, I’ve submitted well over 500 articles. The bulk of them have been on the business of freelance writing. When I first started to submit, I submitted a lot of content I’d written as press releases from an old business I had. So, a lot of that content was business-focused, eg, How to Market Your Business Online. Over time, I’ve established myself as somewhat of a small business expert. And, this is probably why this special assignment came my way (I have no way of knowing how/why I was chosen for this assignment). The Direct Benefit for You: As large sites like AC build out, they hand out special assignments that pay more to proven contributors who write well (let’s not forget this part). 2. Residual Income: On AC, for example, they pay you $1.50 for every 1,000 page views. I usually earn anywhere from $20 to $40/month just from residual income on the articles I’ve submitted to AC. eHow has a similar program. A king’s ransom? Certainly not. But again, when looked at monthly, that’s another column I can add to my monthly income streams. The Direct Benefit for You: Over time, these little bits add up, especially when they’re little bits you don’t have to do anything for. I sometimes joke to myself that if Social Security isn’t around when I retire, I can count on my residual income from sites like AC to take up the slack. Exposure: Now, this is obvious, but I wanted to point out how it’s worked for me. Obviously, you’re exposed to a wide market when you contribute to heavily marketed sites like AC, eHow, etc. 3. Clients: I’ve been approached at least half a dozen times about work because someone came across one of my articles on AC or some other site. They would remark that they were impressed with my article (usually a business article) and wanted to know how much I would charge to write X for them. 4. Backend Sales (eg, ebooks): If you promote an affiliate program or write and publish ebooks, for examaple, the exposure is invaluable. I don’t exactly how many ebook sales I’ve made because of my articles on AC, eHow, etc., but I do know that in the last two years, I’ve gotten a pretty good flow of email from readers on those sites asking me questions. A few have written me directly, telling me that they bought my ebook and enjoy my articles on AC, et al. I have over 100 subscribers on AC, meaning that every time I publish an article there, there are over 100 readers who are so interested in my content that they’ve taken the time to subscribe (never underestimate what it means when someone subscribes to your newsletter, blog, etc.). This was a number I never used to pay attention to, until I looked up one day and saw that I had 84. I couldn’t believe it. I was humbled. NOTE: Most purchasers will not email to let you know how/when they came across your work; they’ll just buy. The Direct Benefit for You: This type of continuous exposure allows you to keep your name constantly in front of your target market. These are leads you don’t have to pay for, chase, beg or plead to - they’re easily accessible. So, the next time you wonder why so many so-called “successful” freelance writers contribute to sites like AC, et al, keep these reasons in mind. Overall, it’s just smart marketing - and it keeps those writing skills honed. About the Author:Yuwanda Black is a freelance SEO writer. She blogs at InkwellEditorial.blogspot.com and is the author of How to Make $250+/Day Writing Simple 500 Word Articles.

I will admit the title of this post is a little misleading, but that’s not really the point. The point of this post is there was a man several counties over from where I live found murdered in the woods with no identification on him. Police have search high and low for any leads to help identify this man. The only thing they had to go with were his three fairly unique tattoos that he has. So this just goes to show that your body art not only expresses you as a person but if can help your family members help find you if you are lost or missing. Sadly I haven’t heard anything else about this case but police are hoping that someone will recognize this mans tattoos and be able to help identify this man. So parents that have a problem with tattoos maybe you should take this as a lesson learned. If you were to allow your child to get a tattoo or more than one tattoo. And if for some unforsaken reason if they were to go missing you are armed with these identifiable marks on your child’s body to help the authorities to find them. So keep this in the back of your mind when your child approaches you about getting some ink on their body. You honestlynever know, that ink on their body could help you find them one day or help save their life. So all you tattoo haters out there, please keep this in your mind tattoos are not all evil they can actually help a family have closure on an unfortunate event. Your Tattoo Friend Ashley

The benefits of journal writing are fairly well established due to the long history of journal writing. From Anne Frank to Di Vinci, journal writing has proven itself. Benefits of Journal Writing When considering the benefits of journal writing, it is important to set a few parameters. First, there is no age limit to using journals. There are distinct benefits for children of all ages, but journal writing is equally valuable to adults. The reason for this is journal writing is an act of personal reflection. Whether it is a teenager reflecting on the social nightmare of high school or an overworked parent taking twenty minutes a night to write is irrelevant. The point is, all age groups benefit from stepping back from their life for a few moments and reflecting on things. Whether you recognize it or not, journal writing provides you with an anchor in your daily life. In the journal, you are free to write what you want without restrictions, to truly address the issues in your life without fear of criticism. Put another way, one of the benefits of journal writing is it acts as a self-help psychiatrist, but for MUCH cheaper! As you write in your journal over time, you’ll also start to ascertain a second benefit to doing so. This benefit is one of self-criticism. Inevitably, you’ll read through past entries and review your life. Doing so will lead you to self-reflection as well as thoughts on how you might act differently should certain situations rise again. Of equal importance, journal writing has health benefits. Before you click away from this article, consider a time in your life when you were extremely frustrated. Hopefully, you spoke to a friend to get things off your chest Didn’t you feel a lot better afterwards? Getting things off your chest helps relieve stress, one of the biggest killers in our modern society. Journal writing acts in much the same way since you are able to write your thoughts without fear of criticism. For more useful tips & hints, please browse for more information at our website:- .tracking-ad-pro.com There are other benefits to journal writing, but all boil down to one simple fact. Writing in a journal allows you to express yourself without being judged. With the lack of privacy in our modern, digital world, that is hardly a small benefit.

Around every corner you can find a story, a scheme or scam.  They are all over the news in every area, every field and often in unexpected places. These make perfect content for plots and twists in your story when you begin to write. One statement that I remember clearly is “truth is stranger than fiction” I don’t know who said it but it really does apply to the events that are going on around us. Occasionally you will hear a comment “the person who did the original planning of the scheme or scam didn’t think things through” because the plan was, in some cases, terribly flawed. The plan as it was being carried out had many areas that could have been done in a different way and gotten a much better result than the one that was the outcome. In crime scene investigation that is a good thing as it gives the investigators a much easier time to unravel the details and discover the truth about the situation. In other areas of life, it creates a huge waste of time and alot of frustration when things do not go well. Select a few events that would qualify for a scheme or scam and keep them in a file. You never know when you might need a good plot twist to spice up your story. Many television shows cover topics like miracles, amazing survival stories and in some cases reality shows that have audiences following stories that are hard for the mind to grasp as even possible that it happened. Some disasters give us the same feeling. Amongst the shock, surprise, heros, events, the way they unfolded and the way they ended are the stories that everyone has to share. What was your perspective, what did you see and hear and what did you think of the ending. All of these make good content for you to write about and also give you as an author a way to collect them and put them into your plots, twists and story events of your story line.

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For anyone seriously wanting to pursue a career in creative writing then a creative writing MFA is a fantastic stepping stone into the professional writing world. There are many paths you can take with an MFA in creative writing, and even if you decide not to work specifically as a creative writer, you can still benefit from the MFA in other literary or journalism careers. Many industries look favorably on a creative writing MFA as it evinces a thorough understanding of the English language, and an ability to write well. Businesses involving marketing and public relations need people who can write creatively and well. For people with the dream of being professional writers, the benefits of an MFA program in honing ones craft and skill are immense. You will graduate with a huge wealth of knowledge that will put you in a great position to kick-start your writing career, and you will likely make connections in the writing world. Your teachers will have had years of experience in the industry, and will be able to open the doors to potential employers and publishers. Your fellow students will also be helpful to you and you will build a network of friends and contacts that can be invaluable during your writing career. Learn more about the pros and cons of creative writing programs and paths to develop as a writer.

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