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 ...
Tips to Ghostwrite as a Freelance Writer
If you decide to ghostwrite e-books and trade paperbacks for clients, consider the following: If a client hires you as a "work-for-hire" ghostwriter, then the client pays you for your work, and he owns all rights. Make sure: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Five Ways to Shine as a Professional Writer
With the growth of social media and marketing techniques like online article marketing, it seems that everyone is a writer of one sort or another. I've read articles that claim anyone can write. But those of us who write for a living know that it isn't as easy as it sounds. With this new realm of competition at our doorstep, I've created a list of ways that can set you apart from those who are merely dabbling in writing. More ...
How to Write Your Information Product
When writing your informtion product Keep these considerations in mind; avoid texting contractions and smiley faces. Keep paragraphs short and don't worry about white space. Use the proper language level. Write for the knowledge level of your audience. And decide if your tone will be conversational or technical. 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 Create Effective Calls to Action in Your Marketing
Calls to action should be included in almost every piece of marketing, whether focused at businesses or consumers. Calls to action guide the audience towards a real-world action. If there's one thing the copywriter wants the audience to read and internalise, it's the
call to action. More ...
What to do if Someone Violates Your Copyright
The best way to protect your writing is to make it obsolete and outdated by cranking out fresh new relevant material every day. The worst way to protect your writing is to threaten and intimidate a publisher, unless of course you consider your writing career to be over. 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 ...
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 ...
The Elements of a Good Picture Book
Because the number of words is relatively small, many writers consider a picture book an easy option. They are very wrong to do so. Picture book writing is one of the hardest and most competitive fields of all. So what are the elements of a good picture book? 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 ...
