So it might be intimidating, for example, to ask your best friend to edit your novel.
We're asking you to e-mail us with that first line from your novel that's been in the drawer all these years.
How do you retrieve your prized novel or your business records if the cloud fails?
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If you've strolled through a bookstore, maybe while avoiding work on your great American novel, and walked into the section on writing, you can be forgiven if you never go back to your laptop.
As any author knows, the best way to enrage your publisher and offend your critics is to write a novel that differs wildly from your previous ones.
If your business idea is novel, leverage the expertise of other entrepreneurs and business owners within the same genre as your offering.
Just because you have an idea and a word processor doesn't mean that your idea should become a novel.
How much of your own experience entered the novel?
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After you lose 20 pounds, get in shape, polish up your high-school French, and write that novel, you may get around to pursuing some self-help regimen that will eliminate this flaw from your personality.
Indeed, these days a cynical young playwright might say that if you want to see your work on stage, write the novel first.
Whether you like your economics beautiful, like the 2011 Novel Laureates, or messy, like John Maynard Keynes, you don't get far without reliable statistics.
Now, competitors can do their best to circumvent your invention by tweaking your idea just enough to gain a novel twist, advancing it or finding a nonequivalent alternative.
Of course, if your ambition is to write the Great American Novel, I wish you luck.
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"I loved the film, getting to know David O Russell has been great, but as a novelist and as a former English teacher who loves literature, part of the fun of reading a novel is creating that world in your mind, " says Quick.
"It's exciting but novel to be able to fight crime from your smartphone, " says Hinch.
When your iOS device is facing the wall, its camera monitors the field, using computer vision algorithms to detect your laser shots in real time, finally discovering a novel use for laser points that doesn't involve annoying rock bands or cats.
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Backing up your personal PC to external media might still be a novel concept for some, but any IT manager fresh out of school can tell you that regularly backing up mission-critical servers -- and storing those backups in multiple physical locations -- isn't merely important, it's practically non-negotiable, and it only becomes that much more critical before undertaking hardware maintenance.
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One novel feature of Wrapp is the ability to give your friends not only paid gift cards, but also free gift cards.
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Another is The Night of the Living Dead Pixels, a graphic novel (shown above) that allows you to choose your path, with terminal pages featuring QR codes that trigger videos on your smartphone.
ClearPlaydeveloped a novel technology that edits movies for content as they play on your home DVD player.
New items respond to the flames in novel ways, unlocking new combos and products, and you move your way to the end.
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"The ability to talk to your pet from a distance on the pet's own cellular phone is definitely novel, " he said.
Armed with this advice you may now go away and write the great epic novel of the 21st century, or at the very least stop boring your mates at parties.
Then again, how many of your neighbors have the attention span to make it through an 1, 100-page novel replete with 90-page philosophy screeds?
And I was wondering if your guest had any advice for writers on, you know, muddling through the middle of a novel.
One novel twist in all of this is that T-Mobile will offer to purchase back your phone if you don't want to keep it.
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