Freelance Writing Careers
You've probably read the stories about writers who are working from home and making six-figure salaries, and wondered, "Why can't that be me? I'm here to tell you that it's possible for anyone to build a very successful freelance writing career and earn a six-figure salary, while never leaving home. More ...
Four Traits Of Successful Children's Book Writers
There's a difference between wanting to see your name on a book, and wanting a career as a children's book author. Anyone with a few bucks can publish their own story. The career mentality, however, is more complex. Check out some common characteristics. More ...
Making Money at Home Writing Articles
This article is going to focus on making money writing articles. If you are looking for ways to make money online or at home you have probably read about article writing online. There numerous ways for you to make money writing articles from home. More ...
Six Ways to Break Into Food Writing
Publishers post guidelines for writers that require published clips to be sent with query letters. Writers cannot get published clips unless they've been published. Here are six ways to conquer that old Catch 22 and break into food writing. More ...
Freelance Journalism Explained
If you want to be a freelance journalist, you'll need to be spending much time hunting down stories, traveling, and writing under short deadlines. If you enjoy that, and if you're interested in some of the best opportunities for personal creativity, then freelance journalism may be for you. More ...
What Magazine Editors Want From Freelance Writers
What editors most want to find in queries are good article ideas from writers who have an appealing edge over other writers. Contrary to what most beginning freelancers think, that edge need not be writing talent. More ...
How to Be a Succesful Freelance Writer
It may come as a surprise to you, but thousands of people all over the world are looking for freelance writers to fill their web sites with quality content. And they're willing to pay well, for the right person. 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 ...
How to Create a Believable RPG (Role Playing Game) World
In the design of a role-playing game there is a significant challenge in creating a believable world for player characters to interact in. Time periods, religions, history, and other minutiae may be different. More ...
How to Write a Fantasy Story
A fantasy is a story in which the plot often involves magic and the theme and the setting are in the medieval or European Middle Ages times. Sometimes the plot also involves mythical creatures or talking animals, and witches or sorcerers. Writing your own fantasy story is an incredibly rewarding process. More ...
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 ...
Are You a Terrible Writer?
Adam Kosloff, who has written 31,000+ original web pages since 2003, says you don't need to have perfect writing and grammar to pump out web pages, blog posts, eBooks, emails, etc, effortlessly and rapidly. More ...
Article Writing Errors
This is the number one mistake that writers make. Don't talk about what you are going
to write, don't discuss your articles before writing them, and don't spend endless
hours trying to find people to purchase your articles. Just write. 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 ...
