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...After several false starts, I hit on a formula that helped me through my first piece. The concept was simple: I came up with 10 different tips, each acting as the inspiration for a paragraph or two. Next, I added opening and closing paragraphs. The end product was my article, relatively pain free. I titled that first piece, "Ten Tips on Survival for Small Business."

For me, attaching a number to the title--such as "Eight Ways to ..."--helps organize the article in parts. Instead of being overwhelmed by the article as a whole, I concentrate on one tip or step at a time. Even if I don't come up with exactly eight ways to perform this or that, I inevitably derive six or four--enough to sketch out an article.

With much anticipation, I mailed my first manuscript to a publication, which sat on it for five months and then rejected it. I then mailed it to another magazine, The New Englander, which sat on it for four months. One day without advance notice, however, a package arrived. It was thick. My article, "Ten Tips on Survival for Small Business," had been published. It was the last article in the issue, yet it was glorious....

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