All Entries Tagged With: "writers"
Hello, My Name is Mark …
I’ve written quite a number of posts bemoaning the poor writing skills possessed by many who claim the name of “writer”. It’s pretty easy to do that when you’re not pointing the finger directly at one particular person. The last post by George, though, highlighted the problems faced when this issue does indeed become very [...]
Switched to Overload
Regular readers will know that I had an interview with a journalist some years back that screwed (or certainly hastened the demise of) my career as a novelist. I will never know if my third novel would have been published without his hammer-blow sound-bite that destroyed my relationship with Hodder & Stoughton. Perhaps it just [...]
Respected Sir
For the freelance writer, the internet is a blessing. For the freelance writer, the internet is a curse. These sounds like the sort of essay titles you would be asked to “Discuss” in an English exam at school (or probably at post-graduate level nowadays, since 21 year-olds today are about as bright as the 14 [...]
Free Speech?
I might get in trouble with this one. Freedom of speech. How truly free is it? As writers, we shouldn’t be afraid to speak our minds. Of course none of us decent people want to read inflammatory remarks in print from racists and other assorted sickos – and there are laws to stop such things [...]
The Oil Tanker Approach to Novel-Writing
It can be enormously difficult finding the time to write when it’s “just a hobby”. Your nearest and dearest may not understand your desire to lock yourself away and make things up about fictional characters instead of spending quality time with real-life people. Sometimes it’s not easy finding the time to write even when it’s [...]
Finger on the Trigger
Anyone who sits down to write for hours on end because they cannot break from their beloved creative writing project, or because they have a client deadline to meet, will be painfully aware of the exquisite agony that comes from maintaining certain positions for too long. Working on a laptop can create different issues to [...]
The Writer’s Voice
By Mark Pepper Kermit the Frog has a very distinctive voice. So does Miss Piggy, Fozzy Bear, Gonzo and the rest of the Muppet crew. Personally, I wouldn’t want to sound like any of them. (I may have Gonzo’s nose, but that’s a different matter.) It’s possible to alter your speaking voice to a certain [...]
Why ’so many ’sodding apo’strophe’s?
By Mark Pepper One of these days, I will walk into a burger bar and start a conversation thus: “Good evening, might I enquire as to whether you are the proprietor of this fine establishment?” “Yeah, what can I get you?” “We shall come to that – first things first. I have been perusing your menu [...]
The Doer of Deeds
By Mark Pepper Well, everyone, it’s 2010, so a Happy New Year to you all. I trust you’ve made some powerful resolutions and you are now looking forward to a prosperous year ahead. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change just because the clock hands have ticked over into another year. If you are expecting 2010 [...]
How To Find The Right Freelance Websites
Finding good freelance websites can sometimes be as difficult as trying to find a needle in a haystack. The problem with these websites is many of them feature repeat writing job offers, meaning you get the same stuff over and over again. But many new writers who just start out in the industry are thinking [...]
Fast Track Your Article Writing Time
As writers, many of you probably write articles on a daily basis. Whether these articles are for article submission sites, clients, blog posts or your own niche site, you don’t need to spend hours writing them. The hardest part for seasoned writers in my eyes is the tedious aspect of writing about the same subject. [...]
Writer’s Tool Week
This coming week will be a writer‘s tool week. Since I have become involved as a freelance writer I have come across some really cool tools for writers. Become A Better Writer With White Smoke Research Wizard Pro – Offering Easier Research My Moleskine Hack Write Distraction Free With Q10 While some of them will [...]
Setting Your Rates – Freelance Writing Guide
It’s time for another installment of my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers. Setting rates is perhaps the most puzzling of all aspects to a new freelance writer, because of all the conflicting messages presented on the Internet. In one corner you’ll see the $3 for 400 word article jobs advertised and in another you [...]
Strategic Ways to Freelancing Success
Starting off as a freelance writer is the easiest part of the whole deal. Anybody can pick up a virtual pen and announce to the world that they are in business. All we have to do is make an announcement and we are in business. … or so they thought and wondered why the clients [...]
Do You Have Membership to The Writers Gym?
Are you a member of the writers gym? If you are, then you know too well how to tone your writers muscles. Writers muscles are like a body builders biceps. We build them actively using our brain and using it often. Writers who struggle with their flow of writing and their grammar need a membership [...]
Keep Control of Your Freelance Writing Jobs
Freelance writing jobs are the bread and butter of frrelance writers all around the world. Without freelance writing job opportunities, freelance writers wouldn’t earn any money.
9 More Freelance Writing Job Websites
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13 Best Freelance Writing Job Websites
Find the 13 best freelance writing resources online to start earning money as a freelance writer
