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The Authors Life: 14 Hints on Creating a Career Plan
Author: Dara Girard
1. Remember publication is a business; writing is an art. Get those confused at your peril. Treat publication as you would any enterprise--as a professional. Meet deadlines, learn about the industry, and grow in your craft...
Uncommon Advice for Beginning Novelists
Author: Dara Girard
1) Convince yourself you want to do something else. If you don't succeed, proceed to number 2....
Ten Ways to Get Cheap (and Free) Magazine Samples
Author: Pamela White
1 - Join a reading or writing group. Ask members to bring in theiralready-read magazines and have an exchange. Do the same with interestgroups you belong to or know about - playgroups (parenting, home, cooking, family mags), business networking groups (entrepreneurs, home business, finances magazines), church (religious, devotional periodicals)...
Groundbreaking Work
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Every writer knows that the urge to write is not always present. As a result, the dedicated writer writes anyway. Professional writers face the task without think too much about the actual activity...
Writing Is Not Life-threatening
Author: Charles O. Goulet
Some writers complain that writing is arduous work requiring long hours and little pay, which is often true especially for freelance fiction writers. Today, everyone wants to be a writer and with word processors and computers it is easy to put thoughts down, but it is not always effortless to be published unless one self-publishes or uses a vanity press...
A Writers Life
Author: Aaron Paul Lazar
Ever wonder what an author's life is like? What that breathing, sweating, hungry, weary, bona fide guy does when he's not at the keyboard? How does his "day job" affect his writing? When he's mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, or babysitting grandchildren - what goes through his mind? ...
Making Money from Freelance Writing
Author: Amber McNaught
Making Money from Freelance Writing. It's the question that every aspiring freelancer eventually finds themselves asking: is it really possible to make money from this? The kind of money that lets you keep a roof over your head and feed your kids occasionally, that is?..
10 Best Writers Who Ever Lived
Author: Catherine Franz
Compiling a list of the history's ten best writers is like skating on a heated swimming pool. Just when you get started, you find yourself in hot water...
Five Tips to Find More Time for Your Writing Life
Author: Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D.
When I asked new ezine subscribers, "What is your Number One writing question?" the answer came back loud and clear: "Time!"...
Becoming A Successful Author: The Price!
Author: Kevin Hart
So you want to be a successful author? You want to be up there withBrown, Archer, King, but what price are you prepared to pay? You might be lucky and your first book could be an overnight success but the chances are you'll be hacking it for years before success knocks...
Write For Yourself First
Author: Roy E. Klienwachter
It would be very selfless or noble of me to tell you that I have created my web site only to help you and the rest of humanity. The reason for me spending so much time and energy into my writing and this site is selfish. And I must remind myself of that from time to time, especially when I move into a down period and I am asking myself "why."...
Why I Write
Author: Vena McGrath
I started writing as a way of keeping safe memories of a particularly adventurous 3 years of my life when I became totally addicted to the world of online chat rooms and met a number of 'gentlemen' for real that I met in fantasyland online...
The Writers Identity: Exploring the Writer Within
Author: Lisa Collazo
Les Edgerton writes in his book, Finding Your Voice, that the best way to find your voice is to write autobiographically. "Writers will never find a powerful, evocative voice until they learn to be bone-deep honest with themselves, open and vulnerable...
Hero's Journey - The First Threshold
Author: Kal Bishop
Beyond three and four act story structure, lies the Hero's Journey. The Hero's Journey is the most usable story structure consisting of at least 106 stages and the template for successful contemporary stories, from Star Wars to Al Pacino Scarface to The Incredibles to War of the Worlds to The Dirty Dozen to Midnight Cowboy.The Hero's Journey is a valuable template because:...
When I Grow Up
Author: Aaron Paul Lazar
I've just come back to work after nine glorious, sun-drenched days at home. This year, vacation was the week of July 4th. We stayed home instead of dashing off to a cottage on a lake. Aside from saving a few thousand bucks, I had plans! Amazing plans! Projects galore, and the gumption to tackle every one of them!..
Starting a Freelance Writing Career (or How I Sifted Through the Muck and Found My Way)
Author: Michele R. Acosta
So, the decision is final. I am a writer. Actually, I have always been a person who writes, but I have never applied the term to myself in a professional sense...
Passionate About Writing?
Author: Timothy Trimble
I'm a writing fool! 2 book proposals, 1 user's guide, a business technology analysis paper, and a FileMaker Pro 7 application! Can you say, "RedBull?" Actually, my preferred energy drink of choice is Monster. But I'll save my energy drinks discussion for another time...
Why Manners Maketh the Freelance Writer
Author: Amber McNaught
Lately I've been noticing an odd trend amongst the freelance writers who contact us every week: rudeness...
How NOT to Get a Freelance Writing Job
Author: Amber McNaught
In the business of freelance writing, it's not enough to be good at writing. You also have to be good at finding work - and selling yourself when you do. Persuading a new client to let you write for them, rather than one of the hundreds of other writers out there, can be an art in itself. Here's how not to do it?..
Freelance Feast or Famine?
Author: Amber McNaught
Sometimes a freelance writing career can feel very much like "feast or famine". At the very beginning, it's almost all famine. You spend more time looking for freelance writing jobs than you spend actually writing, and, quite apart from being utterly demoralizing,
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