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Designing and Publishing Your Own Crossword Puzzles

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

There are several programs on the Internet available to those wishing to design and publish their own crossword puzzles or word search puzzles. But once you put them together, how will you market them?

Custom Signs

Should you be considering the designing and publishing crossword puzzles on a consistent basis, coming up with a name or a logo for your puzzles will help people recognize the fact that they are yours; and set them apart from other people’s puzzles. Customizing puzzles for specific groups can assist you with this. You may even want to have custom made business cards to advertise your work and its Internet accessibility. Opening a merchant express account will be a necessary part of your set-up. Without it, business transactions will be difficult—if not impossible.

What’s In A Name?

It may not so much be the name that people remember but how it is presented. If your name or logo involves some type of clever crossword design, not only will it let people know exactly what it is you do but it may be memorable enough that people will look for it when searching for word puzzles or crossword puzzles to occupy their time.

Don’t forget that a merchant express account can help you bring your business into homes around the world.

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Put Your Puzzle Habit to Work

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

During the economic recession many people who are tired of taking out loans to pay bills turn to work from home opportunities to earn extra money for paying their bills. Millions of people will try and fail at the same online income opportunities that everyone else is doing while others will use their brains and start creating crossword puzzles then sell them for profit.

Why Puzzles?

In spite of the computer driven age that we live in the average crossword puzzle is still created by hand. Why? The average computer can’t create a puzzle that’s challenging, fun to solve and full of word clues and also words that are coherent. Thankfully the task of creating create crossword puzzles falls into the hands of hard working, intelligent entrepreneurs who have the gift of being able to create puzzles that anyone will love.

What Are Crossword Puzzles Worth?

Most major news publications pay an average of $50 or more for one submission. The newspapers that pay more for crossword submissions are publications like the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today. In these publications you can earn upwards of $200 for a weekly submission and $1,000 for a weekend submission.

Simple Steps to Creating a Crossword Puzzle

Create the crossword grid – This step is very easy to do. Just create a grid where all words will intersect. For this process you can use a computer based program to find words that intersect properly or any of the wise variety of resources online to help you create your crossword puzzles.
Create clues – Every word that you add to your crossword puzzle should have its own clue. Your clues can be easy to read or tricky just make sure that anyone can figure them out after a few moments of guessing.
Test the puzzle – Before submitting your puzzle to a newspaper make sure that it’s a fun puzzle and easy to figure out by letting a trusted friend or family member test it before you submit it. This step will help you to find any errors in your puzzle and insure that it’s the best quality puzzle that you can create.

Where to Submit Crossword Puzzles

To find the best places for submitting your crossword puzzles, search online for submission guidelines to the newspapers or publications that you want to submit to. Most major publications will require you to submit an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper with the clues written on the left side of the page with the answers on the right side of the page. Make sure that you supply sources for any words that are not easy to verify just so the crossword puzzle manager for the newspaper that you submit your puzzle to will be able to verify your puzzle before publishing it.

So before you file for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, try creating puzzles for a little extra cash. You’ll be glad you did.

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Using Puzzles to Stay Young

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Ever since the days of Ponce De Leon, people have sought the mythical fountain of youth, with their search usually proving to be fruitless. There are many variables to maintaining a youthful appearance (and demeanor). It has as much to do with what you put in your body as it does with what you dab on your skin. Diet and exercise are healthy habits that will help in this regard; smoking and being a night-owl are not.

Vim and Vigor

Beauty, as they say, may indeed only be skin deep, but the vigor and excitement that seems to fade with age are things that lie considerably deeper within us all. Maintaining your synapses and neurons is just as important to feeling as young as your aesthetician (or plastic surgeon) can make you look. There are no injectable substances which can reverse or delay the effect of aging on your brain – at least not yet – but there are methods which are readily available that can attain the desired effect.

Dodging Deterioration

Believe it or not, the same games and puzzles that intrigued us when we were children seem to hold the keys to staving off such maladies as dementia which are prevalent among the elderly. Stimulating the brain, forcing it go through the rigors of thinking and evaluating and performing equations, turns out to be a critical factor when it comes to avoiding the kind of mental degradation that is associated with aging.

Crossword puzzles, word searches, even jigsaw puzzles can jog important functions in the brain which can deteriorate without use – just like our muscles do. Other games, which stimulate hand-eye coordination and motor functions, are of tantamount importance. Had the puerile Ponce De Leon known any of this back in his time, he may well have saved himself an awful lot of time and trouble looking for a magic elixir of youth… Someone could have told him that it was all in his head.

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