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You Can Become a Well-paid Professional Freelance Writer
I mean a “real” writer who gets paid by established publishers and magazines directly for the writing, with a byline and 3 and 4 digit checks that come regularly in the mail. This wonderful lifestyle is alive and attainable. I was an unknown, and started on a kitchen table on Saturdays, and worked my way up to full time cover stories in slick magazines, and ongoing book projects with various royalty publishers.Read more…4 Techniques for Getting to Know Your Characters
Anyone who writes fiction starts out with a general idea of who their characters are, their personalities, their likes and dislikes, who they’re going to fall in love with, and or who they are going to hate. Some of us begin our story by just writing, and listening to our characters talk to us about themselves. But what if you aren’t this type of writer?Read more…How Not To Get Published - How To Win the WWOTYA - 3, The Plan and the Plot
To target the wrong audience and to choose the wrong publishing house were children's games. To be known as the Worst Writer Of The Year requires more than that. We are now reaching the heart of the problem: not to get published depends also, maybe mostly, on the manuscript itself.Read more…Writing for Children and Teens: Should You Outline Your Story Before Writing?
Part of the writing process is experimenting. Writers differ on their opinions about outlining--some love it, some hate it, and some are mixed. The decision to outline is a personal one.Read more…Self-Publishing Tips for Formatting a Book
I’ve heard it said so many times, “I’ve always wanted to write a book, but I don t know where to start.” Well, it’s no more difficult than learning to play the piano, I tell you! Joking aside, here are some pointers that will help you get your rough draft book ready for the printer.Read more…The Sound of Your Book
In his Entertainment Weekly column Stephen King recently extolled the virtues of the audiobook. I agreed with his take, especially the stressing that most writing is, after all, about story-TELLING. But it's interesting to me how many writers go about their work without considering how their words will sound as spoken words.Read more…One Hundred Years of Solitude
This book was considered to be a masterpiece written by Nobel laureate – Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was first written in Spanish and then translated into English. This book is about 100 years of life of one family – Buendia.Read more…How to Create Stirring Headlines
Imagine a situation where you are driving to your workplace. You are going by your usual route. The roads are familiar to you, the areas you pass through are familiar to you, even the behavior of the traffic is known to you.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth): AntiHeroes and Moral Guidelines
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…The Freelance Writer's Thanksgiving Prayer
CLIENTSI’m thankful for clients.I’m thankful for clients – who pay.I’m thankful for clients – who pay on time.Read more…Mix One Part Mystery, One Part Action and How Many Parts Passion?
But just how many parts of each of these elements do you need in order for a novel to be considered Romantic Suspense and not just a mystery, thriller or romance?A balance of romance and mystery is key to creating a Romantic Suspense because readers of this subgenre expect two key things: 1) that there is some mystery that will need to be solved; and 2) that the protagonists will eventually fall in love. With today’s trends toward stronger, more independent heroines, expect that many Romantic Suspenses may also have a fair share of action as part of the mystery subplot.Read more…Encouraging the Elderly to Journal: It's Never Too Late
Well it’s been a while since I put out a Journaling Life newsletter, and I have to say it’s great to start back at it. I struggle at times with deciding what to write about each month because I don’t believe writing about fluff is very interesting to most people. I suppose a journaling web site should contain material that is helpful and interesting enough to keep people in the site for more than thirty seconds.Read more…How to Write What You Want & Sell What You Write
Skip Press! You may be wondering if you are allowed to skip ironing your pants today. That’s definitely an option—I wear wrinkled clothes and find them quite fashionable; however, Skip Press is a writer and a darn good one at that.Read more…Write a Book Now!
Everyone has a book to write. I’m sure you’ve heard that saying over and over again. I’m also sure that you have often thought that you couldn’t possibly get it done, even if you wanted to.Read more…Writers Block Technique - Getting Taken for a Ride
Sometimes writers block happens because you've gotten in a rut and the air has gotten stale. A good way to get your brain and the creative muse moving again is to get moving yourself. But you don't want to just put on your jacket and walk out the door.Read more…What Size Is That?
Often the question is asked, "How long should a novel be?" Also people want to know how many words or pages a novella should be, how many a novelette is, how many for a short story. I found varying lengths advised, but the main number of words are listed below, and a page contains approximately 250 words.Read more…The Life of the Body by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is one of the prominent American writers of the 20th century. He is well known by many works written in different periods of time but this paper would basically focus on one of his best short stories “The Life of the Body” that was published in “The Night in Question”. This short story is very impressive due to the reality of characters created by the author.Read more…Why You Should Take Part In A Writing Workshop
Before you should decide whether or not taking part in a writing workshop is right for you and your writing you should first understand just what a writing workshop is.A workshop is an educational format where an expert shares information on a focused topic over a short period of time. Some workshops are intended to be simply informative while others involve more hands-on activities.Read more…Stylistics
The language of the text belongs to the emotive prose.There are three types of word meaning that can be distinguished. From the given text such words as suspense, night, whiteness belong to the group of words of logical meaning.Read more…Writing Services On the Web: Turning Dreams into Reality
The Internet changed everything.It changed the ways that we process information, and it changed the ways that we communicate with each other — and meet each other. Name a human activity, and the Internet is there to serve it, support it, expand it.Read more…
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