Write SMART: How to Create Terrific Writing Goals - And Achieve Them!

Open up your favorite calendar and circle today's date.Why? Because no matter what day it is, you've been given a wonderful gift: a bright and shiny year ahead to make your writing dreams come true.What are your writing goals for the coming year? If you don't have any, this is... Read More

7 Devastating Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Writing engaging articles and energizing ad copy takes more than just typing out what you want to say. By correcting these major mistakes, your copy will soar to newfound heights. While there are many common mistakes made by copywriters, seven in particular are deadly. Mistake One: Don't take... Read More

Get Noticed! Eight Tips to Catching an Editors Eye

The first five pages of a novel are critical.Editors make quick judgments. They don't like to admit it, but they do. Somewhere an editor is sitting in an airless room staring at a pile of manuscripts hoping to strike gold, but doubtful. She wants to get through the toppling pile... Read More

A Writers Tools

William Faulkner, the great Mississippi writer, said, "The tools I need for work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."Every writer needs certain tools to accomplish the task of being a writer. For some, it is a simple assortment of equipment, basically paper and a writing instrument--a pencil or... Read More

14 Tips On Writing The Short-Short Story

The short-short story has been likened by some as being closer to writing a poem than a story. And that makes sense-every word has to be packed with power; every line has to move the story along.The Writing For Success short story competition requires you to write a very short... Read More

Top Ten Reasons Its Great To Be A Writer

10 - You will always have a job. As long as people want to read, other people like us need to write. And people will always want to read, right?9 - Every day is different. If you're a freelance writer who can work from home, you still have deadlines to... Read More

Writers Who Consistently Cut The Mustard Do So Because...

Have you ever wondered why certain writers are able to churn out seemingly endless streams of published bestsellers while thousands upon thousands of others suffer an endless stream of rejection slips?Sure, you can get lucky first time out, once in a blue moon.I did. But that was a long shot... Read More

The Writing Club

Typically when falling asleep in bed at night great thoughts enter the mind, long stringed and meaningful sentences trip over each other to receive attention at the front of the brain alongside all the brilliant findings, results, meanings that speak volumes and hard hitting phrases that are just the ticket... Read More

You Can Be An Author

"You should write a book." For years, I had been hearing this comment. Writing an entire book seemed completely overwhelming, and so, for a long time, I contented myself with writing short articles. One day, inspiration for an article hit me and, as I started writing, paragraphs began flowing out... Read More

Know Your Editing Choices

Each author has special editing needs. To save yourself time and money, look at the choices below and decide which kind of editing suits your needs.Line editing.Use this final professional edit after you have already revised your work three times.Your first revision excludes all redundancies, reducing your copy by one-third.In... Read More

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Publication Road

The journey to having my first novel for children published... Read More

Have You Completed A Character Questionnaire?

Creative Writing Tips ?Complete a character questionnaire for each of... Read More

Self-Examination

Self-examination sheds light on a writers motives, goals, and aspirations,... Read More

How To Become a Freelance Grant Writer

What is a freelance grant writer? These individuals have a... Read More

Advice for New Writers

With the advent of email communications in the workplace, it's... Read More

Who Said That? Making Dialogue Crystal Clear

Recently, I was hunting for a book that would simply... Read More

Write SMART: How to Create Terrific Writing Goals - And Achieve Them!

Open up your favorite calendar and circle today's date.Why? Because... Read More

Revving Up Your Writing Productivity

Productivity begins by recognizing and valuing your brilliance, time, and... Read More

Which Comes First - Short Story Or Novel?

A writer writes. Bet you've heard that one... Read More

Editing for Perfection ? The Personal Statement

This article contains a short guide on how to edit... Read More

7 Secrets For Beating Writers Block

Most people can easily identify with the dreaded "writer's block".... Read More

How Three Publishing Myths Kill the Author

Agents and publishing houses have their best interests at heart,... Read More

Amazing Ways Writing Articles Can Improve Your Business

How to get a lot of traffic to your website... Read More

How to Multiply Your Freelance Writing Work

You can turn your $200 fee to write a press... Read More

How To Write Your Way To A Fortune

We've all seen those ads that grab our attention and... Read More

Six Tips for Submitting Fiction - if you want it to get published

You can learn a lot about what it takes to... Read More

The Self-indulgent Writier

A writer can never be self indulgent whether writing fiction,... Read More

The Importance of Writing Clearly for Business

Creating written documents reveals so much about you and your... Read More

To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob

"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my... Read More

Discover the Writer Hiding Inside You

Has the thought run across you mind that you might... Read More

New Year Resolutions for Writers - The Best Kind to Make and How to Keep Them

On the first day of a bright and shiny new... Read More

2nd Installment on Autobiography

ESSAY 2Andre Malraux once said that what interested him in... Read More

Nonfiction Idea Generators

The hardest part of nonfiction writing is finding a subject... Read More

Vary Your Writing Style and Win Readers

First drafts are for getting down the ideas. Anna Jacobs... Read More

Publish It Now! No Matter What It Is

Do you want to publish something? An article, a non-fiction... Read More

When I Grow Up

I've just come back to work after nine glorious, sun-drenched... Read More

Screenwriting ? The Lone Wolf Story Structure Template

Story Structure Templates are the fastest way to write screenplays.... Read More

The Writing Game

There are a lot of tapes and books and CD... Read More

Conflict - How To Keep Your Readers Turning Pages

Some writers are just too kind.They hate to put their... Read More

Hey Cient, this is Me! Find Your Writing Voice and Sell Yourself

In a crowded market, clients will be seeking personality as... Read More

Nobody Likes A Rambler

We all know people who ramble. They include every boring... Read More

Writing Query Letters that Count -- Close the Deal with Your First Letter!

Your query letter can be a deal maker or a... Read More

Personal Journaling - Strategies To Make It Easy

Recently I was watching the Oprah show and it was... Read More