I've added a new article to Constant-Content.com, where I sell all of my exclusive-use and single-use articles.  This new article, titled "Improve Your Gas Mileage With These Seven Tips" details how you, or anyone, can improve their vehicle's gas mileage with just a few simple changes--none of which require a mechanic or a screwdriver.  With today's rising gas costs, these kinds of tips are a hot topic.

The article is available at for either exclusive-use purchase or for full ownership purchase (which means you can put your name on it as the author).  In either case, you'll get exclusive rights to the article, which means no one else will be publishing it anywhere!  Full details and samples of the article's content are available at Constant-Content.com.

I've also got plenty of single-use and free reprint articles both here and over there for you to look at as well.  So if you're looking for a ready-to-go article, try these.

Thanks, --Aaron

Just a few updates.  I've added the link to Constant-Content on the "Contact Me" page.  I can't believe I orverlooked that, since I've been doing business there for years.  I sell a lot of one-time-use and exclusive articles and writings there.  Stuff you won't find here or anywhere else.  Go there by clicking here:  http://www.constant-content.com

In other news, my projects are moving along.  I haven't bid on any new projects in a week or so because my plate is so full.  I'm always willing to look at new projects, thoug, so if you have one you'd like me to bid on, please let me know.  You can email me directly or through the form on my Contact Me page here on the site. 

Of course, your comments, ideas, suggestions, and even your hate mail is apperciated. 

I look forward to hearing from you!

I guess this is the first official blog post for my site. 

Welcome to AaronTurpen.com and my new blog, in which I will talk about my writing, the projects I'm working on (as much as I can, given legal agreements), and updates to this website.  Let's start with updates, then a list of my current projects.

Site Updates  - I added a new article to the Free Reprint Articles area titled "The Fastest Way to Plummet Your Sales: Dry, Boring Content."  I wrote it after a discussion with a client about the content I was creating for him.  He wanted it to all be written in the third person, rather than first or second, even though it was blog post content.  He didn't tell me that up front, of course, so I wrote the content assuming first and second person would be what he'd want.  At any rate, I re-wrote it in the third person as he wanted, but wrote this article as well, since many people (especially professionals in the business and academic worlds) believe that first and second person is only good for personal letters and diaries. 

Current Projects - Here's a short list of the current projects I'm working on, along with what details I can give here without compromising client agreements and confidentiality:

• Vintage Article Rewrites is the title I've given this project.  Basically, I'm modernizing several old articles on various subjects.  Most of these articles are from the 1940s and 50s, though there are a few newer ones.  A handful were the work of the client's mother in the 1970s as well.  These will be used in print as well as online for a health and wellness magazine.  They're being ghost-written.
• Blog Post Articles on Loans is what I've titled this project.  I'm writing articles on various types of loans for a handful of blogs the client owns.  The articles are short, of course, and deal with loans on various things like RVs, cars, etc. 
  
• Top Secret is the title I've given this one, which is, well, top secret.  Suffice it to say, it's creative and will be a lot of fun once it's underway.  Currently, we're ironing out details on the presentation and logistics of the work, but the contract is started and will take over a month to complete.  
• Personal Blog for 50s is the name for this one, in which I'm writing a dozen or so blog entries, ghost-written, for someone who's in his late forties/early fifties and resides in California.  It's area-specific and fairly mundane in content, though building this character (he's fictional) has been fun.
• Get-Rich-Quick..Again is the name I've given this one, since it's yet another MLM get-rich-quick scheme that I'm writing sales letters for.  These are pretty common in the Internet copywriting world and are, more or less, the bread-and-butter for the blue collar writer.
• PC Book Rewrite is a project in which I'm slowly, but surely, updating and adding a couple of chapters to a book about PC security.  The book is a few years old and needs updates and the owner (for which I'm ghost-writing) is a technical guy, but not a writer - in his own words.  This project isn't in a hurry, so it's a nice thing I work on for a little bit each day to take my mind off other projects that I might be getting writer's block or disinterest in.
• Spin Doctor is the name I've given this one, since it's a basic article spin job.  Basically, I'm taking articles written by another author and "spinning" them  with simple markup codes so that a piece of software can randomize the article a bit and come out with new versions that are still coherent. 
  

Well, there you have it.  Post #1 to the blog!  I'll keep this updated with my thoughts and projects as they come along.  Hope you have fun reading it!

--Aaron