3. Develop your own ezine on your favorite topic. Once summer begins to wane and people head back indoors, many of them will return to their computers in search of information. Now is perfect time to plan an ezine, create your first few issues and begin to solicit subscriber sign ups. Not sure how to generate income with an ezine? Here's a step-by-step guide to show you how: http:/ inyurl.com/ixi .

4. Or maybe you prefer to write and sell books on your favorite topics instead, rather than maintain a regular ezine schedule. Again, sales for information products rise dramatically once days grow short and nights grow long. Will you have yours ready by then? You can, if you start *today*. Although very best guide for creating and selling your own ebooks is undoubtedly Ken Evoy's "Make Your Knowledge Sell!" (http://myks.sitesell.com/writeangles.html), you can also find information you need, inexpensively, in "Your Guide to Ebook Publishing Success" (http:/ inyurl.com/ixt).

These are simply just a few of ways that resourceful writers can get a head start on holiday season. For although it's true that very last thing on most people's mind in July is Christmas, you can have your writing product or service ready for them when they do.

6. Have you checked and cross-referenced your facts amongst your various sources.

7. Have you decided on length of article? Have you checked length is suitable for publication you are sending it to?

Tip: Do not waste editors time by sending a 2000 word article to a publication that requires articles between 500-750 words. 8. Will you use quotes in your article? Quotes and antcedotes bring a story to life. Are quotes from a reliable source and have you double checked that quotes used are acurately recorded?

9. Do you have a good lead, middle and ending?

10. Have you proofread and edited your article to achieve best possible version through re-writing your drafts to arrive at your final version?

Have you made all corrections and necessary changes, have you checked spelling (this includes people and place names) grammar, punctuation etc?

11. If feature is to be visual - have you provided appropriate photographs, art work, line drawings, or other graphic illustrations to compliment your feature?

This increases payment amount you can expect to receive especially if you are a feature photojournalist or travel feature writer who can offer original photographic perspectives of your subject topic.

Finally...

12. Have you included everything in your envelope before sending your article to publisher (including photos properly packaged) or, if magazine or newspaper excepts online submissions have you given everything a final check before hitting send button?