Writing Children's Stories
This is a complete synopsis of the endeavor of writing children's books, from picture books to nonfiction subjects. More ...
How to Catch the Writing Bug
If you earn income as a writer, or use writing as a marketing tool, you know how difficult it can be at times to write. I started writing for my website and newsletter a few years ago. Sometimes writing would be torture. Then one day I caught the writing bug. More ...
Writing for the Web
The first thing you need to understand is how users read on the web. Unlike reading a book, online readers scan, or skim, the page, looking for particular keywords relevant to the subject about which they are interested. More ...
Freelance Writing 101
Do you want to make a living as a writer? Perhaps it's a dream you?ve always dismissed as impossible. I'll let you into a secret. You can make your writing pay. More ...
25 Top Places to Publish Your Content and Market Your Business
If you're publishing your content in a only single place, you're missing out on a huge amount of exposure. You need to publish your contentt as widely as possible across a whole network of different content sites. Here's a list of 25 publishing platforms and content websites. More ...
Help - My Writing's Not Selling!
When you're a writer, you write and you market your work. That's it. It's exactly the same process for Stephen King as it is for Stephen Brand-New-Writer. You dig a hole and you keep digging until they bury you in it or you hit a gold mine. 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 ...
How I Learned to Make My Writing Pay, and You Can Do It Too
How come there's so much writing in the world, but most writers are poor? It's because writers are writing the stuff that makes other people rich. If you want to make money from your writing, you need to write the words that sell. In other words, you need to become a copywriter. More ...
Children's Book Publishers and Young Readers - How to Wow Them With Your Story
Let's face it, some kids just don't like to read. Publishers are looking for books that will appeal to reluctant readers. There are eight qualities possessed by great books for reluctant readers. If you work at least three of the elements listed in this article into your book, it will be loved even by kids to whom reading is a chore. More ...
Secrets of a Six-Figure Freelance Copywriter
I have been a freelance copywriter for almost twenty years now, and for the last ten years I have made over $100,000 a year. Sometimes maybe a shade less, but often a great deal more. Can you do the same? You probably can... Here is the biggest secret of all... 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 ...
How to Prepare To Teach a Course
When teaching a course, having clear objectives for your course will help you know exactly what to teach, and will help your students realize what they should be learning. More ...
How to Write for a Global Audience
Today, there is a greater chance of your work being read by someone on a different continent, especially if you write online. It's predicted that by 2011, there will be 1.5 billion people globally with Internet access, be aware of terminology and cultural differences. More ...
The Importance of Bulleted Lists in Writing for the Web
Reading large paragraphs of text on a computer screen can be very straining on a persons eyes. For that reason, professional Web writers keep their paragraphs short and use other techniques, like white space and sub-titles to break up the monotony. Another device that can be used to break up large blocks of text are bulleted lists. More ...
