When planning your guest-posting or freelance-writing strategy, you already know to start by creating a list of blogs to pitch. You’ve read their guidelines and brainstormed great article ideas for each one. What’s next: do you query the editors with short outlines...
You might be ready to publish your book, but how do you decide whether to self-publish or pursue traditional publishing? It’s not necessarily an easy choice for authors to make. To help you decide which path is right for you and your book, I created...
You’ve heard all the lines. When you tell someone you’re a freelance writer, they smile and say, “That must be great. You can work from anywhere!” You usually end up answering questions about whether you work in your pajamas and slippers. But when you don’t have your...
I was a child writer. As early as first or second grade, I spent most of my free time filling up notebooks with story ideas and character sketches. Somewhere in my closet are several picture book manuscripts I wrote during grade school. On my hard drive is a...
Have you heard of Stephan J. Harper’s interactive iBook Venice Under Glass? If you have, it’s likely that you’ve heard more about the author than the book itself. After a not-so-stellar review of his book at TidBITS, an Apple news website, Harper went on a commenting...
While there’s still time to make progress on your writing goals in 2014 (65 days!), for many, January will mean outlining priorities and kickstarting progress. That’s where our 100 Best Websites for Writers list comes in. We first published this list in early 2014,...
If you still have doubts about whether you should be writing every day, it’s time to kick them to the curb. Writer after established writer gives the same advice: to build your writing skills, you need to stretch them on a daily basis. Stephen King says you should...
We review ebooks, courses and tools for writers, so you can make good decisions about how to invest in your writing career. Course: Find Your Freelance Writing Niches: Make More Money for Less Work About the creator: John Soares has been a full-time freelance writer...
Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique and methods used in film and TV are so familiar to us, we process them comfortably. To some degree, we now expect these elements to appear in the novels we read — if...
What’s your big writing goal? We’re not talking about small, easily achievable, “write-a-blog-post”-type tasks from your to-do list. We mean a big goal — the one that exhilarates, energizes and even scares you a little bit. It’s the goal that seems almost...
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