Your Own Life Has Deep Meaning

Insurance:– There are two parties to a contract of insurance one is insurer. The other is the insured or assured. Insurer in consideration of premium agrees to make good the loss suffered by the insured against a specific risk .He agrees to compensate the insured or his Beneficiaries on the happening of a specified event such as an accident or death.

Policy:- The document laying down the terms of the contract of insurance is called policy. But a policy is not the contract itself. It is only the proof of the contract.

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Getting published, preparing manuscripts, getting the style right, margins set, blah, blah, blah ...

Don't sweat any of these details. The IDEA is the thing. For any bloggers/writers here, I would suggest an autobiographical approach to non-fiction. That is, make an accounting of your own life's experiences, just jot down a brief outline, and then start to seriosuly look at what has happened to you. You will then discover that a certain part of that bio summary sort of jumps out at you. Then you start the journey toward an actual manuscript.

Let me give you an example. Let's say you have experimented with drugs; perscription, street, whatever, or you know of people who do (if you write about your own experiences, do it in second person and give that "person" a pseudonym so you can, for the time being, mask your own participation in case someone you don't want to find out facts on you rummages through your notes).

Let's say you've focused on marijuana as a topic because you've had the most diverse experiences with it and you can refute "common knowledge" and argue for or against its use, sale, medical benefits, legalization, etc.

Then you do a few searches on the topic for material that amplifies YOUR THESIS, not somebody else's. This is where writers trip up. They don't stick with their idea; they get swayed by others and then it is no longer your idea. Add only research, quotes (cite all sources) that will make your position stronger.

Add anecdotes from whatever source you can grab: MySpace.com is a hell of a source. Copyrights are gray in cyberspace and quoting people from online sources is fair game. Just keep a copy (electronic or paper) of where you got the material, and just give credit in your story or stories.

Then, before long, a bigger picture emerges on your topic (and if it's something you're really enthusiastic about, then it ceases to become work and becomes more a part of your mind), and you can start touting your "expertise" everywhere you can.

"Getting published" is a strange term these days. Decades ago, it meant a physical book on the shelf. Now, it can mean almost anything. You are "published" right now just because your blogs appear on this site. Start from the body of work you have already produced and let it spread out from that central point; when readers start to trace you back, they will end up generating many thousands of Google references, and then you might neven start hearing from online publishers about your material.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. What is a good topic for you all out there? That is where I sense a weakness. I like the many posts on the logistics of getting published. It's cool to read these; but it applies to but a few folks. Get a topic, something you really like (anything, makeup, shampoo, cats, dogs, tobacco, martinis, cruise ships, bongs, whatever) and have at it.

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