"How to write and publish your own OUTRAGEOUSLY Profitable eBook in as little as 7 days" is a no-nonsense guide to essentials - finding out what to write about, how to kickstart process, how to market your masterpiece and how to sell it - automatically.

I have read 10-20 books on writing. This is most concise, lucid, thorough book I have read yet. I am not writing an ebook myself, though. I am writing a fiction novel (in Norwegian, so most of you won't be able to read it if it ever is published - if it doesn't become a huge success, that is! :). With all wheeling and dealing at my work, I felt like writing something for pure pleasure of creating (and tool below lets me concentrate on creating, not technology!).

That doesn't mean that 7 day ebook didn't help! No wonder considering authors. Joe Vitale is bestselling author of Hypnotic Writing, Advanced Hypnotic Writing, and Spiritual Marketing. Joe Edwards wrote Selling Your Home Alone and The TEN Dirty Little Secrets of Mortgage Financing - and both of them are making a very nice income.

Visit their website; see if it doesn't capture you (like it did me). They have a special offer on book: only $30, including some nice bonuses. Jump over to http://www.smartsoftware.org/7day/ this moment - if only to enjoy way these two authors use words to entice!

But you need a good tool to write with!

Quite often I come across simple software - easy to install, to use or to tweak. Less often I come across brilliant software, with brilliant execution, features or ideas. Simple, brilliant software is even rarer. The Journal is one such creature.

For some time, I've had a book in my head. I've been building characters, setting up scenes and creating images and dialogues.

I have started on books before. I always hit a point where I get more captivated with perfecting previous words, paragraphs and pages than I am with creating new words.

Sure, I know; writing teachers say Write without editing. Leave it all for rewrite. Still your inner critic. Well, I am not capable of that - when I scroll down Word-document, I spot flaws, errors and logical mistakes - and I must fix them. OCD, I guess.

Then I came across Journal (TJ). At 3 Mb, it is a fast download, and it is something I can guarantee will stick in my Programs-folder like jam-spots to a three year olds sweater.

Use in opt-in publications, or on Web sites, but please include resource box. If you could send a copy to me at email address: mailto:ab@digital-e.biz , I appreciate it. Many thanks. **

Summary: The key to success as a creative or for anyone, is multiple income streams.

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Multiple Income Streams: avoiding Starving Artist Syndrome

Copyright (c) 2002 by Angela Booth

If you're a creative, chances are high that if someone is making a buck from your talents, it's not you. We writers, artists and designers aren't good negotiators. We love our work, and we're happy that someone wants to pay us for it. It takes us a while to realize that while everyone else is doing nicely from our work, we're not.

The answer to Starving Artist Syndrome is: Multiple Income Streams.

How would that work? Some ideas ----

If you're a writer, you could:

* work on a novel (your primary work and source of income) as well as

* write articles for magazines and newsletters, and

* write a children's book, and

* write greeting card material.

If you're a Web designer, you could:

* develop Web sites (your primary source of income), and

* create logos and stationery for businesses, and

* create images for greeting cards, and

* host client Web sites.

If you're a photographer, you could:

* do advertising photography (primary income source), and

* take stock photos for image libraries, and

* take glamour shots at beauty salons, and

* take photos of homes for up-market realtors.

If you're thinking: "Yes, that's great, but won't I be spreading myself too thin?" answer is yes, if you try to do all of this at once. You develop your Multiple Income Streams over time. Estimate that it will take a year to get them all happening. What these Multiple Income Streams will do for you, when you get them moving, is smooth out your work and cash flow.