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How To Overcome The Lyric Writing Hurdles That Are Keeping You Behind
The lyric writing side of songwriting is known to create an enormous number of problems for some folks. No matter how hard they try, they ... Click to Read More
How to Pitch a Story
How to Pitch a Story
Ever wonder why we refer to convincing an editor a story is worthy by “pitching a story?” I have. I’... Click to Read More
How To Promote A Book
Nowadays it’s no longer a matter of whether or not an author should promote his or her book, but how aggressively one should ... Click to Read More
How to Start and Sustain a Career as a Freelance Writer
Have you wondered how you can make a career writing books or articles for various publications? Or are you seeking a viable second income opportunity ... Click to Read More
How To Stay Fit While Writing
Day after day, writers tend to sit for hours writing that novel or story, and over time, this can become a potential problem. Their metabolism ... Click to Read More
How To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob
"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured.
"Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom. "Put 'author' ... Click to Read More
How to Write a Holiday Tale that Isn’t a Turkey
When we write stories, with the purpose of sharing them with others, we enter into an agreement where we allow our reader to see a ... Click to Read More
How To Write A Solution-Savvy Sales Letter to To Get Clients
Too many sales letters are shaped into paper airplanes and flown into trash cans because freelancers write sales letters that sell their services. These freelancers ... Click to Read More
How to Write Bad Poetry
So you’ve decided to crown yourself with a title that a million other people (just like you (yes, just like you!)) give themselves every ... Click to Read More
How To Write for the Web
The Scanning Reader
Writing for the Web is different than writing for print. The differences are slight but significant. First, people don’t really read ... Click to Read More
How to Write Funny -- It's All About Timing
My Dad has this old joke that goes, "What's the most important thing about humor?" After a short pause, he interjects, "TIMING!"I've rolled my ... Click to Read More
How to Write Words Worth a Thousand Pictures
Our Image-Driven Society
We live in a new image-driven society. It can be hard on writers unless they learn to connect with today’... Click to Read More
I'm Just The Writer
Writers are often are greatly surprised or disappointed by how their work is changed when it is adapted for the big screen. When Irwin Shaw's ... Click to Read More
If The Viewpoint Character Is A Secondary Character, Have You Established Who He is?
Creative Writing Tips –
I have said above that if a secondary character tells the story of the main character, then the spotlight should be kept ... Click to Read More
Imagine The Imagination
Imagine a three hundred page book was in the author’s mind before it was poured out onto the pages of the book.
Imagine all ... Click to Read More
Immaterial Gain
Among some of us who deem ourselves spiritual, the use of the word "spiritual" causes blushing and anxiety. What a pale word it is in ... Click to Read More
Impulse Writing for Better Ad Headings
Writing headlines for your ads is the most important part of your online presence. When posting your ad to classified sites, directories, message boards, newsgroups ... Click to Read More
Increase Freelance Sales With an Online Resume!
Freelancing is a competitive business, especially in today’s fast-paced, e-focused world.
Often there are hundreds of writers competing for the same, limited ... Click to Read More
Incredibly Bad Articles Will Kill Your Credibility
I've noticed a disturbing trend recently of articles suggesting that people write articles to send traffic to their websites, and enhance their credibility. In theory,... Click to Read More
Inspiring the Poet in You!
Poems. Just the mention of them makes me smile. Why? Simple. I delight in writing and reading poetry.Some tend to think that to be ... Click to Read More
Interviewing an Author: Don't Be Left Speechless
Edited by Jenny Wilson
Joyce Carol Oates. Langston Hughes. Anne Sexton. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nikki Giovanni. The names of authors (dead and alive) can go ... Click to Read More
Interview with Suspense Author Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams is the author of thirteen novels, including "The Tutor," (Ballantine Books) "A Perfect Crime," (Ballantine Books), "The Fan" (Fawcett Books), and most recently,... Click to Read More
Is Now the Time for a Play about the War in Iraq?
Everone knows that comedy is mostly about timing. If you hit upon the right nerve (is a funny bone a nerve?) at the right time ... Click to Read More
Is Someone Plagiarizing Your Work?
About two weeks ago I received an article submission that immediately attracted my attention. The title was identical to the title of an article I ... Click to Read More
Is The Theme Reinforced In The Ending?
Creative Writing Tips –
By now you should have an idea that your theme has to reach its conclusion just as your story does. But our ... Click to Read More
Is The Theme Running Throughout The Story?
Creative Writing Tips –
It’s no use coming up with a theme and not using it. Short stories are about a character or characters and ... Click to Read More
Is Your Title Compelling?
Short Story Writing Tips:
Your title is your selling tool. It’s the first thing readers will scan and contemplate whether to read your story.... Click to Read More
It's All About YOU!
The Hottest Word on the Web
Did you know marketing people and copywriters are developing a science about writing for readers in this new medium ... Click to Read More
It's Time To Start That "Swipe" File
Just as great fiction is an art, so is great copywriting. Beneath the art, however, there's a foundation of basic knowledge and skills. The craft ... Click to Read More
I Am Biodegradable. My Writing Is Not.
My dad was wrong. I just discovered that I am good for nuthin' after all. In fact I've been good for nuthin' all along. I ... Click to Read More
Just Write an Email
How did you sell your last product? Imagine that I am a newbie writing you an e-mail after reading your ebook. How would you ... Click to Read More
Keys to Characterisation
Far too many inexperienced writers create flat, stereotypical characters: the brave fireman, the damsel in distress, the strict schoolmistress. The best characters are those who ... Click to Read More
Kick-Start your Juices
Listen, consider this scenario. You have a deadline to honour. Time is pressing, tighter and tighter. You are hoping to come up with some topic ... Click to Read More
Killer Press Kits - Press Kits That Demand Attention
So,m you've had your book published or you've gone the self-published route, but what do you do now?
You contact a newspaper, radio ... Click to Read More
Knock-Out Writer's Block: Listening To Your Inner Voice
When I was young, I used to talk to myself. Long, drawn out, one-sided conversations. I didn’t have an imaginary friend, I just ... Click to Read More
Know Money to Make Money
The experts are always telling us that getting paid for what you know is one of the most effective, least time-intensive ways to make ... Click to Read More
Learning to Question your Elephant Child: Who, What, Where, When and Why
Having problems writing? I don't know why. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll writes up to five columns a week. After all, if he can ... Click to Read More
Learn About Love From Poet Rumi
Learn about love by reading poetry by a long dead poet named Rumi. No need to look for ancient texts hidden in caves...Search the ... Click to Read More
Learn to Write Like a Pro
Many writers write for the experience. Others dream of having a number one best seller. Both are wonderful reasons for writing. What many fail to ... Click to Read More
Made in Heaven
Consumed by my loss, I didn't notice the hardness of the pew where I sat. I was at the funeral of my dearest friend - my ... Click to Read More
Other Writing Resources
Quote of the Week
Garth Nix:
For all my longer works (i.e the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
(For more writerly quotes, see... New Non-Fiction
Here are the latest non-fiction submissions that made it through the selection process:
Rambling by Willy K. Constant movement, I cannot sit still, the blank screen stares back at me, taunting... 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,... Quote of the Week
Alan Lightman: A good novel gets under our skin, provokes us and haunts us long after the first reading, because we never fully understand the characters.
For more writerly quotes, see... 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...
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