Developing Plots in Fiction
Whatever your plot, it needs to catch and hold the reader's interest, which won't happen unless what is happening now is more interesting than what happened a few pages back. This is known in fiction as forward movement. More ...
Make Money Writing Fillers
Open any magazine, newspaper or webpage, and most likely you will come across a filler. A filler is a short item used to fill a space in a publication (or to fill time on the radio or television - keep in mind that a writer writes these fillers as well). More ...
Affect, Effect - What's the Difference?
For the vast majority of the time, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. If youaffect something, it produces an effect, just as a comes before e in the alphabet. The recession affected the company's profits. The effect was a 14 percent decrease in sales." More ...
How to Work Out Whether a Business Can Afford to Hire You
Can a business afford to hire you? This is a big question for beginning copywriters. It's vital that you get an answer to this question. If you don't, you can spend money and time working with someone who's not in a position to be able to afford your rates. More ...
Ghostwriting - Is it For You?
Like to gamble for a big payoff but have no cash? Ghostwriting is for the writer or editor with the right personality, professional skills and appetite for variety and adventure. But it's not for everyone. More ...
How to Market Yourself Successfully as a Writer
Marketing should be on top of your priorities after production of your writing. You need to adopt various strategies to get your name out there and display your prowess. Here are a few useful ways to promote yourself and achieve success. More ...
How Much You Should Charge for Freelance Writing
You don't want to price yourself out of the freelance writing market, but you want to get paid for the quality of your writing. So, what do you charge? This is a question that gets asked hundreds of times by new freelance writers. More ...
How to Create Your Own Book in Hours Instead of Months
You do not have to be a writer in order to create a book and put it up for sale on eBay, amazon or anywhere else that you may want to sell it. I am not talking here about getting someone else to sit and write your book for you. More ...
12 Web Sites that Pay for Writing
Advertisers have found that having a blogger write about their product or service is a much more effective way to advertise than posting ads. This has created a new opportunity for you to get paid for writing. This is a list of 12 places on the Web that pay you to write. More ...
Ten Reasons Why You Should Sell Information over the Internet
Creating and selling information products is the most risk-free way for anyone to develop an online business. Although the Web is a fast changing medium, there is one thing that will never be shaken: the Internet has an everlasting need for information. More ...
Write Articles for Suite101 and Earn a Passive Income
If you want to make money writing articles, Suite 101 can be a very rewarding endeavor. Suite 101 is perhaps one of the finest revenue sharing sites on the web. More ...
How to Self-Publish Using Print on Demand
The introduction of Print on Demand publishing sparked a bit of a revolution in the publishing industry. Writers no longer need to be at the mercy of editors and publishing houses, earning only tiny portions of the sales their hard work actually generates. More ...
Becoming an Online Word Compactor
Writing for online publication differs from writing for print. One difference is length; online pieces tend to be less than 1,000 words in length. Long text passages are difficult to read on-screen, so the key to writing successfully online
is to become a "word compactor". More ...
Top Five Ways to Make Money Writing Online
There are a lot of freelance writers nowadays who have been working full-time online. However, you have to know where to find these opportunities. Here are the top five ways to make money writing online. More ...
