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Format Each eBook Chapter Before you Write It
Do you have a problem creating a focus in your chapters? Does your writing slip around, leaving a muddy path to the gold--your unique,... Click to Read More
Four Easy Ways to Get a Book Written (Especially If You Don't Like to Write)
Becoming an author is probably a lot easier than you think. It’s time to get that book out of your head and onto the ... Click to Read More
Freelance Writing: A Career From Anywhere
An island in the Mediterranean. A beach in Africa. The east coast of New Zealand. What do all these locations have in common? A recent ... Click to Read More
Freelance Writing Markets, Poetry Markets - Highly Paid -v- Unpaid
Amazing as it may sound, there is a real shortage of good writers and poets. Try telling that to the thousands of writers and poets ... Click to Read More
From Idea to Published Book ... How to Self-Publish the Easy Way!
I've been involved in publishing for over a decade now as an author, editor, and project manager; however, it wasn't until just a few years ... Click to Read More
Get An Attitude About Your Writing
(This excerpt is taken from my new writing workshop Writing To Sell In the Internet Age.)
Writer John Clausen, in his excellent book about freelance ... Click to Read More
Giving Yourself the Right to Write
"But I've only been on the Internet 3 months! How can I write an article?” That was my reaction back in 1999 when I began ... Click to Read More
Good Writing
Good writing is like sex. Two people are involved – the writer and the reader. Bad sex usually satisfies only one person, most preferably, the writer ... Click to Read More
Gut Check: Quitting Your Full-time Job for Your Freelance Career
It's 6:00 p.m. You're dead tired, but instead of an early night, you go to your "second job" — your freelance business.
Between writing ... Click to Read More
Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire?
Creative Writing Tips –Complete a character questionnaire for each of your main characters or even secondary characters that play a vital role in your story.... Click to Read More
Have You Plotted Your Story Before Writing It?
Creative Writing Tips –The writer, who doesn’t have the time to plot, always finds the time to rewrite. Sound familiar? I’ve been guilty ... Click to Read More
Have You Settled On First Choice When Choosing A Title?
Short Story Writing Tips -
We’ve established what a title should be and we’ve also established your title is your selling tool. So if ... Click to Read More
Have You Tested Your Plot?
Creative Writing Tips –
Our plotting stage is our testing area.
Everything in the plot should be tested for its effectiveness before we put in into ... Click to Read More
Have You Tested Your Theme Against Your Plot?
Creative Writing Tips –
How we usually begin the preparation stage in the writing process is…
We think of an idea for a story
We think ... Click to Read More
Home Business Writing Made Simple
Have you ever written a letter to a friend? Ever written an outline for any project you were about to start? What about a shopping ... Click to Read More
Hooks, Lines & Sinkers
Hands up if the title to this article made you think that you'd strayed into a fishing feature?
Perhaps you didn't quite go that far,... Click to Read More
How Are You Plotting?
Creative Writing Tips –
Writing is a creative process and how every writer chooses to create, is individual to them. Likewise, with plotting, every writer plots ... Click to Read More
How Can a White Paper Support Sales and Marketing?
A white paper supports PR, marketing and sales because it works for all levels of decision makers. Engineers and executives may not be too impressed ... Click to Read More
How Does Santa Make Out His List? (humor)
I’ll let you in on a secret: I know Santa Claus. And I received a letter from him with his Christmas list.
“Dear Kristin,... Click to Read More
How eBooks Can Be Very Valuable
EBooks have a number of benefits over the traditional book. These include the following:
Cheaper to create
Quicker to create
Easier to target a wide ... Click to Read More
How Ghost Writing Articles And Booklets Can Earn You Big Money!
Do you want to make $5000, $10,000 or more every month as a freelancer? Does your current published materials earn you that much or ... Click to Read More
How I Became a Syndicated Columnist -- And You Can Too!
Real Estate has "Location, location, location," and writing has "Clips, clips, clips."When people ask me how I became a syndicated columnist, I usually say,... Click to Read More
How The First Earth Day Came About
Today, April 22, people across the world will be observing Earth Day registering their concern about deteriorating state of environment and pronouncing resolve to arrest ... Click to Read More
How To Break Into Print Publishing
The big question. Do you submit directly to the publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you? Based on anecdotal ... Click to Read More
How to Break the Cycle of Postponing Your Dreams
Do you have a dream, but keep postponing it because you feel trapped by the responsibilities of life? Want to be a writer, work from ... Click to Read More
How To Build A Successful Freelance Editorial Career
In the current job market, many editorial freelancers have turned to freelance work as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding ... Click to Read More
How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 1)
In the current job market, many editorial workers have turned to freelancing as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding how ... Click to Read More
How to Build A Success Freelance Career (Part 2)
Part 1 of this article discussed the experience you need to successfully build a freelance career. Here, I will outline other necessities.
EQUIPMENT: Working from ... Click to Read More
How to Catch the Writing Bug
If you earn income as a writer, or use writing as a marketing tool, you know how difficult it can be at times to write.... Click to Read More
How to Come Up with Fresh Story Ideas
How to Come Up with Fresh Story Ideas When Your Well has Been Tapped Dry
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages,... Click to Read More
How to Create Incredible Characters Easily
Creating incredible characters can be easy if you know of a few simple rules:
Each character should have his own voice. If your character is ... Click to Read More
How to Create Stories that Sizzle
How to Start Your Story with a Bang
The purpose of creating a story is to create a world that will draw the reader away ... Click to Read More
How to Discover your Primary Market
Whether you market online or offline, you already know the shot-gun approach to marketing brings few results. You will sell more products and services ... Click to Read More
How to Find Ideas for Articles & Speeches
Do you have problems finding ideas for articles and speeches?
I know have had at times, and others tell me the same thing. At my ... Click to Read More
How to Get Started on Writing Killer Articles
I once wrote an article in which I offered the following tip on how to speak eloquently in public: Talk about something that you’re ... Click to Read More
How to Get Your Book Reviewed
Imagine your book at the top of the Best Sellers List of the New York Times. Most authors do. The question is, "How do I ... Click to Read More
How to Have an Effective Reading Group
Writing leads to reading. Therefore, it’s only fair to supply my readers with sufficient information on creating an effective reading group, since the last ... Click to Read More
How to Have an Effective Writing Group
The works you’ve written are numerous, ranging from short stories to even the novel, hidden in a storage bin (under the bed) collecting dust.... Click to Read More
How to Market Yourself Successfully as a Writer
To ensure a steady flow of work and income, a writer should promote himself constantly. Not everyone knows you are a writer and the competition ... Click to Read More
How to Multiply Your Freelance Writing Work
You can turn your $200 fee to write a press release into $2,000 to carry out an entire PR campaign simply by convincing clients ... Click to Read More
Other Writing Resources
New Poetry
Here are all the latest successful submissions from the poetry slush file:
Attempt to Write by kat.
Po-po by beks.
Graveyard Shift by D. L. Packer.
Trees by three-letters-long.
Bitter-Sweet Winter by Miss Bluesky.
The Bounds... Quote of the Week
Mary Gentle: . . . it matters that I get it right. That a sword weighs this much, and cuts like that, even if it's being handled by a... New Fiction
At last the latest fiction from the slush file:
Omen by Karissa M.Every other Saturday, a group of thirty or so 15, 16 and 17 year-olds convened in the Anglican Church... Quote of the Week
Joyce Carol Oates:
The practicing writer, the writer-at-work, the writer immersed in his or her project, is not an entity at all, let alone a person, but a curious melange... Here they are, the last of the submissions to the Unnamed Abstract Challenge
Here they are, the last of the submissions to the Unnamed Abstract Challenge:
My Charge, fiction by Counterfission.
Beyond the Storm, fiction by Emma L.
This Is a Poem, poetry by Joel Stein.
Longing,...
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