Fantasy is, perhaps, the genre most associated with the untamed imagination. It’s that place of no boundaries, a generic construct out of which you can create
Creating Target Market Profiles Focuses Your Copywriting
One client sells a car-care product. They told us that their target customer was a guy in his mid-twenties who loved his car. The overall picture of who we were writing to, however, really didn’t click until we got down to the nitty-gritty and developed a complete profile.
Creative Writing For Analytical Minds
We mean that people with the right kind of minds and the right interests can write interesting poems, stories and plays.
Crime Fiction – Ten Cliches to Avoid
Crime fiction is big business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed so much that they have become genre cliches and everybody knows what to expect next. Here are ten cliches you should try to avoid
10 Snazzy Ways to Cure Writer’s Block
Writer’s block is a legitimate illness afflicting all pens at some point of time or the other. A writer should ideally be in control of the situation and never let THE BLOCK get to him.
Develop a Killer Plot
Some writers fly by the seat of their pants, not knowing where they are going or how they will get there, whereas, other writers would never dream of writing a story or a novel without some initial planning
Seven Suggestions To Develop a Superb Writing Style
Every writer eventually develops her own unique style of writing. As you struggle to create your own voice, while focusing on the required standards, you may want to consider the following tips for improving your style and establishing a professional formula for success.
Different Types of Journalism
Investigative journalism aims to uncover the truth about a particular subject, person, or event. While investigative journalism is based on the basic principle underlying all journalism-verification
Do You Want to Become a Journalist? Follow these rules…
Many people who desire to write professionally usually look toward journalism as a way to launch a respectable writing career. They envision themselves going to exotic locales to cover stories or winning a Pulitzer prize. While these things do happen to journalists, it takes a long time to build credibility before any news organization will send you on any interesting assignments.
Fill’er Up – Earn More Writing Food Fillers
Fillers can be quizzes, humorous tidbits, sweet remembrances, or announcements of new products, recipes or restaurants
Freelance Writing – Effective Tips For Writing a Bid Proposal
You can start your freelance work by registering with Freelance job providing websites such as Elance, Odesk, GetaFreelancer etc. Sign up, make your profile and there you are, ready to bid
Elance Vs ODesk Review – A Freelancer’s Perspective
As a freelancer, there are numerous sites to choose from on which you can bid on projects. Two popular sites today are Elance and oDesk. From the homepage, you might think that these two sites are pretty similar. After all, they both state that there’s guaranteed work with guaranteed payment.
Top 10 Myths About Entering Screenplay Competitions Demystified
We all wonder what really happens when we put our script out there to be judged in a competition. And then we wonder: what if we could just understand the process a little better to make my entry stand out from the heaps of other submissions
Estimating a Writing Project – How Long Will it Take?
Assume you have to distill a 5- to 10-page report or article into a succinct piece with a couple of links. You are fairly familiar with the content. (Note: Sometimes being too familiar with it is a killer because you have a harder time figuring out what to leave out!) It might take about 2 hours to figure out your main points
Business Writing – Discover 6 Challenging Steps to Excel at Business Writing
In this type of writing, there are so many factors that you need to take into consideration just to get your message across
Write to Excite, Delight and Entice
When you do your business writing, consider incorporating the principle of Excite, Delight and Entice. What this means is that you emotionalize your writing
Extreme Branding in Fiction
There is nothing better than a good biography and there is nothing worse than a book which poses as biography, has a smattering of truth in it and then sells itself as fact – pseudobiography, usually with conversation.
How to Avoid the ‘Fatal Coincidence’ When Writing a Screenplay
There are a large number of pitfalls you can make as a screenwriter, but few are as glaring and as easy to avoid as the: Fatal Coincidence
100 Days of Poetry: How to Use the Power of Poetry to Enhance Your Writing and Life
I decided that I wanted to expand and enhance my writing – and my life — by including more poetry in what I write and in how I live. To make this happen, I decided to read and write poetry every day for 100 days
Associated Content – The Key to Starting a Freelance Writing Career
You don’t have to be an excellent writer to begin a career as a freelancer. You can be a terrible writer and still make a nice living as a freelance writer.
Attention Women Authors! Get Your Articles Noticed by Magazine Editors
Women writers will find there are many opportunities for magazine writers. There are magazines on most any topic you can think of.
Want to work in TV News? Embrace Backpack Journalism
If you’re falling asleep each night to dreams of TV news stardom, you need to pick up the skills involved with ‘Backpack Journalism’.
The Basics of Ghostwriting and Finding a Ghostwriter
In most cases, ghostwriters are hired by people who have neither the time nor the ability to write their own book or novella.
3 Steps to Becoming a Successful Freelance Writer
Have you ever wondered what it is that makes everyone so successful in the freelance writing business? Here are 3 secrets.
7 Tips to Become a Better Business Writer
Every sentence you put down on paper (or on a computer screen) identifies who you are and/or what your business offers. Here are 7 tips to improve your writing.
Become a Freelance Writer and Get Paid for Every Article You Write!
You can make several thousand dollars each month by becoming a freelance writer. Of course, you won’t make that in your first month alone, but with practice, you can work up to that point.
Become an Article Content Writer Via Magazine & Internet Services
Magazines that do not follow the staff system depend largely or entirely on contributors. Every editor daily receives many manuscripts submitted by writers on their own initiative. From these he selects the material best adapted to his publication.
9 Tips To Become an Expert Proofreader
Want to get paid to proofread? By following these tips, you can transform yourself into the expert proofreader you’ve always dreamed of becoming!
6 Steps To Becoming A Powerful & Persuasive Writer
Do you have a favourite writer – someone whose books you love to read? And when you buy their books do you sit spell-bound while you mentally absorb page after page of their writing
Beginning Screenwriting – Commit and Start Writing!
A lot of people have a desire to write but just don’t know where to begin. There are often unhelpful thoughts, ideas and feelings that plague us when we want to start a new regime
11 Blog Post Topics For Fitness Copywriters
Below are some general blog post ideas that you can write from. Remember to research and include facts and stats in your blog posts. Weave in your own personality and give good, plain information that adds value. A knowledgeable fitness copywriter stays on top of current trends.
Blogging and Freelance Writing – Viable Work at Home Income Sources
There is more of a demand for writers on the Internet today than there ever was. Many home workers are making a nice income for themselves just from writing, whether it be blogging or freelance writing in general.
Book Copy Editors – You Also Have to Be Manuscript Ghost Writers, Rewriters and Proof Readers
The book author is the person who hires you to do the book manuscript writing; sometimes they help you write, and sometimes they don’t.
Freelance Writing – Top 10 Tips to Boost Your Income Today
Want to boost your freelance writing income? As the saying goes, if you do what you always do, you’ll get what you always get.
Six Tips to Help You Break Into the Children’s Magazine Markets With Your Non-Fiction For Kids!
It’s no secret that one of the best ways to break into the children’s magazine markets is with nonfiction. So follow these 6 tips to have the best chance of acceptance with your short articles for children
Breaking Into International Magazines is Not That Easy!
Any aspiring writer, who hails from a country other than US or Canada, who wishes to become a freelancer and contribute articles to Suite101, is invariably rejected citing the reasons
Breaking Into Sports Journalism
The Internet has opened up incredible opportunities for wannabe sports reporters and journalists. Choose a topic, sport, or team that you are a passionate about and start a blog; it is a great way of beginning your reporting career.
Writing For Profit – Breaking Into the Magazine World Can Break Out Some Serious Cash
Never send a magazine a complete unsolicited article; most editors simply do not have enough time to wade through them and there is also the possibility they may publish it thinking it is from a prepaid source.
Bring Emotion Into Your Description to Grab Your Reader
Description is what writers use to colour in the basic elements of a story. It gives the reader a mental picture which they can carry that with them as the tale unfolds.
Budgeting With Freelance Pay
Freelancers have to be amazing money people. There is never any way to guarantee that the money they are suppose to earn each month will be in the bank during that month.
Freelance Writing – The Importance of Building a Professional Writing Portfolio
As a freelance writer, part of your job is to sell your services. After all, if you really want to be a full-time freelance writer you need be paid. No money means no job. Starving artists are not freelancers. There is a difference.
Getting it write: The ten most common business writing mistakes and how to avoid them
How many business documents do UK companies produce each week? Think about the countless emails; the proposals for clients; the reports for management
Can You Earn a Living As a Freelance Writer?
If you could have any career you wanted, what would it be? Think for a moment and don’t worry how you would achieve it. Just Imagine a magic wand being waved and immediately, you have that new occupation
Career Switch From Journalism to Public Relations – Research, Communication Skills Transfer Smoothly
Characterizing journalists as rigidly objective and solitary doesn’t describe professionals accustomed to flexibility, point-of-view narratives and teamwork. While balanced fairness is the goal, journalism requires subjective decisions
7 Reasons Why New Copywriters Should Start With Catalog Copywriting
One of the fastest and easiest ways to break into freelance copywriting is with catalog copywriting.
Challenges of Travel Writing: Sharing My Experiences
As a passionate writer myself, I discover the pleasure of travel writing relatively later in my writing career. In comparison with other projects I was involved – as diplomatic journalism, such as – the challenge of putting in writing my very own travel experiences
Writing Fiction – Character Creation – 10 Questions to Ask Your Characters
You’re building a character. His name is Eric Cruz. You’ve established his age, his family history, his looks, his profession.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SECRETS – 7 STEPS TO DEVELOPING REAL PEOPLE WHO BRING YOUR FICTION TO LIFE
Creating convincing characters that are believable takes time and discipline. Creating dynamically real individuals without imposing your own thoughts and impressions upon them is not easy to do
5 Design Techniques to Create Marketing Masterpieces
In today’s market, your customers and clients are influenced more than ever by the visual presentation of your marketing pieces. Learn design techniques here.
News Writing with a Soft Touch: The Way Ahead for Newspapers
News writing habits have been changing since the dawn of the Internet age. Journalists must adapt, especially those who have spent their lives in newspapers.
Organic Writing – The Garden Within
Who you are as a writer has grown from your life experiences, your passions, your soil. You are fertilizing and weed pulling in your mind’s garden.
How to Partner with your Competition to Increase Freelancing Revenue
Freelance writing is an unstable occupation sometimes. We already have to struggle with dividing our time between marketing our skills
How to Pitch Your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood
Have a completed script or story idea you’d like to pitch? The best method is by calling the producers production office.
Crafting the Perfect Pitch – Query Letters that Kill
If you are reading this then you are either looking for information on how to write a query letter, or your curiosity has been exited by the heading.
3 Reasons Freelance Writers are Underpaid, and What to Do About It
If you’re a freelance writer, then you are probably dismayed by the rates offered nowadays – especially for web content. Here’s how to fix that.
How to Write a Riveting Romance – Anima/Animus Archetype – Part 2
Every archetype has a positive and a negative side. As we saw in the Three-Dimensional Villains article, the villain is the negative aspect of the shadow, while creativity is the positive.
Screenwriting with Impact: 6 Tips for Vastly Improving Your Scripts
The screenplay you’ve pounded out on your trusty word processor is finished at last! Here are 6 ways you can improve it immediately.
The Seven Secrets of Successful Freelance Writers
Think you’ve got what it takes to become a freelance writer? Before you get started, perhaps I could share some secrets with you…
The Bible: The Source of all Copywriting Secrets
Simply put, every copywriting strategy can be found FIRST in the Bible. Think that’s a strong statement? See the proof inside.
The Crossroads Between the Arts of Writing and Traveling
In Alain de Botton’s book, The Art of Travel, he distinguishes between the anticipation and recollection of travel versus the reality of actually traveling.
The Freelance Writer’s A-Z Glossary for Success
Here’s a list of 26 ways, from A-Z, you can improve your freelance writing game, earn more money, and achieve success. Read more inside.
The Joy of Journaling: How to Get Started
Don’t be surprised if during your next visit, your doctor hands you a prescription for a journal with instructions to write a minimum of 30 minutes a day!
5 Steps to Take if your Clients Don’t Pay
Didn’t get paid? Since you probably don’t have an attorney on retainer, you must seek alternative methods for collecting payment. Here are 5 to use.
Where, Oh Where, Has My Creativity Gone? 5 Steps to Bring it Back
Creativity is the key to every writer’s craft. Without it, we are nothing more than people sitting at desks with paper and pencil, or blank computer screen.
Word Frequency Analysis: A Method to Improve Your Writing
A word frequency analysis is a tool with several uses, that can help you improve as a writer, and help you to edit your pieces for clarity and richness.
6 Effective Tips to Improve Copy on your Company’s Blog
This article provides tips to write effective, attention-arresting blog copy and shows how you can develop reader and customer loyalty.
Nonfiction with Passion: Four Steps to Emotionally Charge Your Article
Breathing life into a nonfiction article is tough, especially if it doesn’t include a character or an emotional storyline. Here are 4 methods to manage it.
5 Tips for Writing a Good Narrative Essay
Writing a narrative essay is an essential talent for field research. It presents your experience and allows audiences to draw their own conclusions.
Two Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue
Writers expend a great deal of creative energy developing a story line and limning well-balanced prose with evocative sentences. Here are two helpful tips.
Writing for Teen Magazines: What You Need to Know
If you want to get published in the teenage market, you have to be familiar with the slang that kids these days use. This, among other helpful tips.
Travel Magazines: 10 Tips for Getting Published
Writing articles for travel magazines is a great way to get your articles published, earn some extra cash and become known as a travel writer.
The Columnist – A Newspaper’s Greatest Asset
Throughout the world people show tremendous loyalty to newspaper columnists and find they identify with them rather than the newspaper itself. They turn the pages of their favourite read to see their take on things.
A Powerful Journaling Tool – The Unsent Letter
Putting our thoughts on paper can be a powerful experience – especially so with a journaling tool called Unsent Letters. Read more inside.
A Quick Guide to Manuscript Format
Writing a manuscript? If conflicting advice on format has left you confused, the following tips should help clarify the issues.
10 Advantages to Writing Nonfiction
I love to write nonfiction, especially about writing, travel, word games, and, oh heck, so many other interests. Here’s why.
The Anatomy of a Proposal – Presenting the Solution
When writing a business proposal Executive Summary we suggest the following flow to the structure of this part of your sales document.
Are You Good Enough to Be a Freelance Writer?
If you’ve ever wondered if you’re good enough to be a freelance writer, here are two ways to tell.
Are you missing the mark with your queries and cover letters?
If you want to be a busy working freelance writer, you can’t continually miss the mark with your queries. Here are some tips for hitting the target.
8 Tips for Budding and Wannabe Movie Critics
So you want to be a movie critic — who doesn’t? It’s a fun job to have. But first, you should consider actually being good at criticism.
Being Creative: The Right-Brain/Left-Brain Myth, and Achieving Flow
The wonderful state in which words just flow from our fingers is caused by certain kinds of brain activation–which means there’s nothing mystical about it.
How to Write a Perfect Cover/Query Letter
The recipe for creating the perfect cover/query letter is simple: give editors and agents what they want, no more and no less. Read how inside.
How to Create Riveting Romance in Fiction: The Anima/Animus Archetype
This basic human need for romantic, sexual, and marital connections is reflected in Carl Jung’s anima/animus archetype.
A Simple Creative Writing Solution: Think Backwards
Here is a neat little trick I have employed all my life in resolving problems, in realizing goals, and finally as a tool for crafting fiction. I call it reverse plotting but it is in effect the act of thinking backwards to arrive at solutions.
Freelance Writers: Don’t Waste Your Time with Query Letters
Virtually everything ever written about freelance writing and getting published says that you need to write query letters. It’s a waste of time, nowadays.
5 Steps to Getting Started in Erotica Writing
Ever thought about writing erotica, but don’t know where to begin? Here are a few tips to help get you started on the road to writing bedroom fiction.
Truth or Lies? How to Approach Truth and Healing Ethically as a Memoir Writer
As a memoir teacher, I find that people are very worried about the ethical issues involved in memoir writing. Here’s how to think about truth and lies.
6 Continents, 6 Monsters, and 6 Ways to Make a Truly Demonic Horror Story
Horror writing takes many forms. Here are 6 monsters from 6 different continents that you can use to add terror to your horror story.
10 Free or Cheap Ways to Market Your Writing Business
These 10 strategies cost nothing, or close to it. They’ll save you money, and put money in your bank account, too!
Improve Document Searches with Great Technical Writing
People use the words that they know when they speak, write, or search. It’s folly to try to force the Reader to use the writer’s terminology.
How New Authors Can Keep Their Manuscripts Coherent
In the world of publishing, many manuscripts make it to the editor’s desk, simply because they are badly disorganized and downright incoherent.
How to Co-Write a Memoir in 5 Steps, and Why
Chances are, the subjects of many intense stories don’t realize the potency of their tales. So what to do? You co-write their memoirs.
How to Recognize and Monetize Your Expertise and Passion
Thousands of people have harnessed the unbelievable power of their writing talents to not only enrich others, but literally enrich themselves financially.
How to Write a Love Scene
The most critical lesson in writing a love scene is that it is similar to making love in the real world: when done well, it is messy, chaotic and somewhat animalistic.
How to Write an Authentic Martial Arts Scene
Most fight scenes rely heavily upon the vague, and somewhat inaccurate, public perceptions of how martial artists would use their skills in a real fight.
How to Write a Murder Mystery
An author must first and foremost always tell a compelling story, involving, to one extent or another, recognizable three-dimensional characters.
Tag, You’re It! (Or, How To Write Slogans)
Taglines summarize in a very few words the essence of the thing they are promoting. They communicate a good, positive feeling or relationship to the product.
How Writing For Radio Can Help You Become a Better Writer
If you combine good writing skills with the persuasive selling tactics found in radio copywriting, you’ll be that much more ahead of your competition.
A Day in the Life of a Copywriter
This article discusses 10 daily rituals involved with running a freelance website copywriting or advertising copywriting business (other than writing).
7 Ways to Increase Your Writing Range and Raise Your Income
Here are seven strategies you can use to increase your writing range and boost your income potential in the process.
10 Lessons That Star Trek Can Teach You About Writing
Star Trek has a lot to teach about writing. We’ve taken 10 lessons you can learn from the crew of the Starship Enterprise.