writing career advice

How to Write to Length By Darlene Franklin

Published on October 10, 2019 writing career advice, writing tips

Being able to quickly and effectively adjust the length of your articles will help you sell more of your work!

NICE TRY, FELLA! The FUNNIEST Fake Book Proposal We’ve Ever Seen!

Published on October 10, 2019 amazon, createspace complaints, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing career advice

Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…

Can I Turn Interviews I Wrote For A Publication Into A Book?

Published on October 10, 2019 author, copyrights, legal, write that book, writing career advice, writing tips

Can I turn interviews into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?

How I Used a Networking Conference to Land a Four-Figure Writing Gig! – Jonathan Rebby John

Published on October 3, 2019 diversify your writing income, Networking, promoting your writing, writing career advice

In this piece, I explain how I used the power of upfront, face-to-face communication (the kind that many of us have forgotten) to land a four-figure gig at a networking conference.

“I can’t remember my tax number and my publisher won’t give it to me! What can I do?”

Published on October 3, 2019 legal, writing career advice

“It’s my number and, of course, I gave it to them, after receiving it from the IRS. But, they have steadfastly refused to tell me what the number is…”

Laid Off From A Newspaper After 22 Years!! How a Job Loss Led to More Paid Writing Opportunities By Jack Smiles

Published on October 3, 2019 diversify your writing income, writing career advice

I could have let the loss of my 22-year career devastate me. But, there are SO many avenues in the writing profession.

The EXACT Moment I Knew I Wanted to Be a Writer…

Published on September 26, 2019 writing career advice

I am often asked by readers, and even friends, when and why I decided to become a writer. It came very early to me! You can read exactly what happened here…

Wouldn’t You LOVE to Get Paid to Write for WritersWeekly? We’ve added a new column!

Published on September 26, 2019 diversify your writing income, Paying Markets for Writers, promoting your writing, specialty markets for writing, writing career advice, writing tips

We are stirring things up here at WritersWeekly! Whoo hoo!! 1. The Success Story column has been replaced by our new Marketing Secrets column. Have you found a unique way to promote your freelance writing business or your book? We’d love to hear about it! See details by clicking on our guidelines link below. We […]