Breaking the Rejection Cycle By Robin E. Shirley
When I began my freelance writing career, I was sure that my first article was my ticket to the big time. I sent it off to a women’s magazine.
Knowing When to Break or Bend the Rules By Carol R. Cool
Attending my first Christian writers’ conference five years ago, I heard all sorts of rules: Always send an SASE. Write what you know. Study several issues of a magazine before querying. Query the little publications first. Write for free to get clips. Nurture your contacts. Anyone willing to work hard can be a writer.
How to Deal With Online Media Pirates By Alicia Karen Elkins
This article is available for free distribution/reprint as a public service from the author. Read below for details. If you publish much work, chances are good that your work has appeared online without your permission. Recouping your losses is an aggravating and lengthy procedure, but it can be executed successfully. Here is the procedure for […]
Browse, Uncover and Write By Sue Sundwall
I am a part time small business owner and a part time freelance writer. If I had to choose between the two, I’d choose the later, but that’s not quite an option. Yet. I’ve been seriously putting my ink scratches to paper for almost a year now and have been amazed at my own success. My aim was supplementary income, but being paid to write can be addictive and enormously satisfying.
Hard Lessons By Susan Eileen Walker
I never thought I was a stupid person, or even particularly naive, until I started learning the hard way that trusting the wrong people in the publishing business can be heartbreaking as well as expensive. I hope someone will learn from my humiliation. My first lesson came when a literary agent called and gushed about […]
Cat’s Furball Leads to Very Impressive Resume By Felice Prager
Before I had kids, I was a public school English teacher for about a decade. I spent my days teaching grammar, spelling, composition, and literature to students in grades ranging from middle school to high school. There were times that the decade felt more like a millennium, but it was who I was and what I did. When my first child was born, I hung up my pointer and whip, and became a full-time parent, only occasionally wondering about the outside world filled with other people’s children.
Short Articles For Fun And Profit… By Behlor Santi
Flip through the latest edition of Writer’s Market, and read what editors want: “Break in by writing short pieces…” “Break in with our department articles…” “Break in with short news articles about our industry…” These days, more editors expect beginning writers to submit short Articles – newsbreaks, book reviews, short humor, anything under 500 or […]
WRITING IS HEREDITARY By Suzy Feine
The first children’s book I ever wrote was published. My second submission consisted of an article about my pregnancy. It was purchased and published in the Better Homes & Garden’s New Baby Book. Still, I had serious doubts about quitting my full-time career to become a writer.
How to Novelize Your Life Story or Family History By Pauline Reckentin
Many people say to me, ‘My life would make a fascinating book.’ I always encourage those people to put pen to paper! Stop for a moment and think about the soaps you watch on TV. These are families to whom things are always happening – tragedies, romances and other amazing developments, all within the course […]
Success Means Managing Myself By Lisa B. Samalonis
Although the love of writing as been with me since I was a child, the meaning of success has changed through the years. Early victories included a story in the school newspaper or finishing a draft of my novel , written in girlie scrawl in a blue line, black marble hard cover notebook. Later, it meant degrees in journalism, a job as a magazine editor, and traveling abroad for work.