Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? That person had some help from another writer, a ghostwriter. . The works created by ghostwriters can be any type of published writing, including the following: journalism. Some romance publishers pay just $65 per story.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 29, 2022

If you’re a comedy writer, you’re in luck because we’ve got exactly what you’re looking for. If you’re a freelance writer or content writer with a knack for making those around you lose control of their bodily functions in a fit of laughter, then you’re going to love our list of comedy writing jobs.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Build Creative AND Business Skills. Or, you can see the business side of blogging and content marketing really clearly and lack the basics of the creative skills needed to run a sustainable business online. Within this staggering number, there are TONS of good writers waiting to help you produce amazing content. In the U.S.

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Make a Living Writing

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

No age restriction for this competition, and both published and unpublished work are accepted. All 12 entries in total will have their work published online. #3 Deadline: 28th February 2023 Prize: Two prizes of $1500 will be awarded for a poetry collection, and a book of fiction published in the previous year.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 10, 2023

What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are still found in the new form of generative AI search? If you join the community, you get an extra solo Q&A show monthly, as well as behind-the-scenes videos on AI and creative business, plus, discounts, early access, and more.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Publishing standards (“Titles are for nonfiction,” “Children’s books usually have titles,” “They vary from one novel to another,” “Author’s call”). While this is hardly definitive, it confirms that there is a choice, even within traditional publishing. A writer then can decide whether the trend works for them. Is There a Choice?

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

How can we build a creative life based on following our curiosity? With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. So I've pulled out some particular quotes for writers to explore further.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

If you want to grow your business, you need published content – and that means turning your idea into a written blog post. A process that leads you from initial idea to published post so easily that you’ll wonder how you could ever go off track. This gets your creativity flowing, and it lets you capture what’s on your mind.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

How can you reframe the direct author business model to take advantage of creative possibilities for different kinds of products and long-term marketing? But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So I started my first creative business in 2004. So welcome to the show, Russell.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 1, 2018

He’s an actor, a producer, a director, and a writer (phew!). His talk explored how thinking differently about creativity led him to form a new kind of collaborative production company. In his keynote presentation at Content Marketing World last year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt served as an in-person example of the “different kind of mind.”

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The Creative Penn

MAY 27, 2024

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Then I spent the next two years figuring out how to actually publish them.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How can you embrace book marketing as a creative part of your author business? Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And that's really how I got started, I made every mistake that we caution against in our books for writers. How can you effectively market your backlist over time?

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The Creative Penn

MAY 29, 2023

In the intro, writing and publishing across multiple genres [Ask ALLi ]; Pilgrimage and solo walking [Women Who Walk ]; My live webinars on using AI tools as an author ; Cowriting with ChatGPT: AI-Powered Storytelling by J. His latest book is The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments. John has courses for writers here.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 30, 2020

And, the rate at which great content is being produced and published on the web and across the media channels is expanding. Storytelling is the art of communicating your idea, message or event, by creatively weaving words, images, and sounds into a narrative. And today, Jeff Goins runs a successful online self-publishing business.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

Because actually, I never had it in my life plan to become a writer. And yet, as you said, it's actually the daily exercise of writing, finding readers, publishing. So my goal was never to sell 600,000 books or become an international bestseller or sign a publishing deal in Japan. Marc Reklau shares his tips in the interview.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’m inclined to agree with Sir Doyle that the creative mind is very much like an attic, but there is one thing I disagree with: Crowding our brain up with too much knowledge isn’t exactly the problem that most of us encounter. When we neglect the attic of our mind, all our creativity goes to waste. You’re not sure, though.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 19, 2021

You can add the members with different roles like owner, editor, admin, reader, and draft writer–each having the right to leave comments on articles and mention other co-workers. Other features include a Google Docs importer, content history and re-storing, publishing permissions, and access control.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

comes along with this post on bravery, and how being a writer is a perfectly good measure of it. But if you’re a writer – if you’re taking ideas out of your head and turning them into words – then you’re sure as hell brave. You’re inspired and encouraged and invigorated by your fellow writers.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

That theory about tortured writers? When you’re a problogger who owns a top ten blog for writers that’s all about writing and you write for a living to boot, the last thing you want to admit is that you can’t hack it. Had I lost my creativity? There are much better writers out there. I couldn’t write.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

True confession now: On my first draft, I don’t even try to be a good writer. So if you’re an AW (amateur writer, i.e., you don’t write for a living), you should be encouraged, because you can take the pressure off yourself when you sit down to write. Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. Write for volume.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

He’s also an unlikely candidate for a writer’s hero. If you’re trying to forge a niche for yourself as a writer, then you could definitely learn a few lessons from this scurvy pirate. As a writer, don’t settle for being merely good. Don’t sit on that novel for 10 years – send it out to publishers.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

Writing a fiction book makes you a better freelancer, and here’s why: You’ll be a much better writer. I believe that people who read a ton of books are better writers overall. How to get a publishing deal. Usually, writing a book isn’t quite enough to get a publishing contract.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 14, 2011

I got my first rejection letter as a freelance writer when I was 19 years old. I remember tearing open the letter from Random House expecting a contract of some kind and instead staring at a scrap of paper addresses to ‘Dear Author’ The publisher didn’t even want to spend money on a full sheet of paper on me.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

. “Nothing can be made to be of interest to the reader that was not first of vital concern to the writer.&# – John Gardner, The Art of Fiction. They shook your emotions because the writer cared. In fact, I’ve paid out money to study an MA in creative writing.) Have you ever read words that really grabbed you?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2012

In the first month of my creative writing Masters, both my tutors told me that I wrote too much from the head. If you’re a freelance writer, you might not have total control over what you write about – but you can choose to specialise in something that’s important to you. Have a gripping introduction to draw the reader in.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve known each other a few years and have exchanged many pleasantries as fellow writers and Canadians. It helped that I really enjoyed the process, as I’m sure most writers would. There is a craft to storytelling, and if you ignore it, you’ll have a hard time finding a publisher – or readers. Graham and I go way back.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2011

Take my own case in point: When I recently had a guest post published at Problogger, I got: Nearly 400 Tweets (more than I’ve gotten collectively in the last two years of blogging). It looks good on a writer’s/blogger’s resume. A slew of comments and Facebook mentions. Several new commentators and visitors to my own blog.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

This is a guest contribution from author and freelance writer Steff Green. The Guardian points to statistics showing the amount of blogs started by teens has halved since 2006, and massively declined among millennial. Image via Flickr user Spondle. What was once the mark of a high-quality blog now screams of incompetence.

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ProBlogger

JULY 23, 2019

Just the thrill of pressing, Publish.”. Blogs 3 to Present: Jeff wanted to make a living as a writer, but didn’t know how. . Based on his experiences as a writer and blogger, Jeff will be the keynote speaker at ProBlogger’s upcoming Evolve 2019 in Melbourne. You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) by Jeff Goins.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

Writers come in different flavors. There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), technical writers and… Fiction writers. Getting published is difficult. Even though only your mom and your writers’ group will ever read your fiction. Writing fiction is self-indulgence.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 2, 2010

Remember, the image is published on your blog: you don’t want stolen images there! Some authors may be unaware that they can’t publish their guest post elsewhere, so it’s best to make clear whether you only accept original content and whether you expect your blog to be its ultimate home. Michael´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. Some writing jobs are just dreary, like being a marketing writer at Shoelaces-R-Us. Enjoy – it’s a good one!

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

But for one reason or another I hit publish on that first blog post 12 years ago. The company was Wiley, which is a fairly big publisher, one of the biggest in the world. I can’t believe it that I’ve actually been publishing posts every day for 12 years, lead to a development of a voice and passions emerged.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

So when it hit me, I did – and here’s her post on how to be a better writer – fast. And I’ve been soaking up advice from sites like Copyblogger and Men with Pens as well as material from some other excellent writers in the blogosphere. Most writers aren’t brimming over with confidence, either.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

There’s a school of writing – call it writers’ boot camp – that tells you things like: You must write every day. Writers’ block is just laziness Now, there’s some truth in these bits of advice, otherwise we’d never listen to them. Well, if you’re a writer, you probably enjoy writing.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Written by James - 36 Comments It’s November, which means that if you’re a fiction writer, it’s National Novel Writing Month for you. The Unspoken Goal Shared By All Admit it or not, but pretty much everyone who begins the task of writing of a novel has the same ultimate objective in mind – to publish the damn thing. Read that again.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

ProBlogger Earnings Poll Results – April 2006. 15 Project Ideas to Spark Your Creativity. But in short, evergreen content is the type of content that is relevant today when you’re publishing it, and will still be relevant in a year or two years or even ten years’ time. Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? [7 Storytelling.

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