Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), Writing fiction is self-indulgence. Writing fiction is self-indulgence. Getting published is difficult. It’s hard to write good fiction. Even though writing a short story takes a week of hard graft. Sadly, there is.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

One solution that many probloggers tout as the answer is to write an ebook. The underrated solution: publish your own digital flipbook. They’re also a great way to wow business clients with your portfolio. When she’s not doing that, she’s writing poetry or editing her first novel. Digital flipbooks are interactive ebooks.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

She’s perky, she’s a go-getter, and she’s all over the place in the blogosphere writing some great advice. She told me that my writing style had really improved over the past couple of years. Something similar has happened with my fiction writing. There are no clear measures of writing ability.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Using the materials as a guide, write down everything that might need to go in this project. Write it down. When not to publish a memoir Reply Mary E. You have such a fun writing style, no wonder people want you to ghost write. Little ebooks. But we also get requests for huge ebooks – upwards of 50 pages.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

If your writing ever starts to feel like a daily grind, it’s time to STOP. I’m not saying that you should stop writing for good. You’d lose a crucial part of your life (and your income, if your writing forms all or part of your paid work). When you sit down to write, do you feel excited?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails: People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had. While it started slow with just a new job every few days – since 2006 we’ve had well over 10,000 jobs listed! How to Apply for a Blogging Job.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

If you want to make a career of writing, should you look for a full-time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer? I know plenty of people who prefer having a writing job working for one company. Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of employee and freelance writing. I know writing looks easy.

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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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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails: People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had. While it started slow with just a new job every few days – since 2006 we’ve had well over 10,000 jobs listed! How to Apply for a Blogging Job.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

And you can become visible by getting involved in your professional community, attending trade association meetings, entering industry contests and award shows, writing articles, giving speeches, publishing an informative blog , generating news about your business, and staying in touch with former clients. That’s bunk.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

WiseMapping You can create free mind maps with this application from anywhere and publish them to share with others. He spends a lot of his time either editing or writing posts on the CartridgeSave blog about print advertising, design and the arts. When it comes down to it I still love writing my initial thoughts and ideas on paper.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Each day this week, I’m going to write about how you can get more money, better clients and the work you really love to do – all it takes is the magic words, and you’ll be enjoying a freelance business that really rocks. You could write new copy to draw readers in closer and get them hiring you more.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That’s part of the problem with blogging – you write, you post, people read your work for a couple of days, and then it gets buried in the archives. The posts I write that combine personal experience, a story, some expertise and action tips that you can take away are always my favourite. Oh, and this one about a camera.

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

Write words that grab – and hold – their eyes on your page. We write the words that get you noticed – and get you the sales. It is important to write good copy on our pages it’s attracts people and people will share the work to others. Don’t wait until they just happen to notice you. Get people to pay attention.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

The writing life doesn’t come off as requiring courage. Here’s why: Climbing Mountains Every piece you write – whether a blog post, a short story, an ebook, or a technical manual – is a mountain. You write a hundred words, five hundred, a thousand. You write more and more and more. Probably not.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 2, 2010

The only way to ensure the publishers pay appropriate prices is if they come to expect that that is the industry standard. Made progress tonight on the design spec… Want to write for us? Reply pamela wilson ( @writesmartpam ) March 3, 2010 at 3:48 pm This has even bigger implications in that it helps set industry standards.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

Writing: The Great Dust-Mop of the Creative Mind Every writer, particularly professional fiction writers, will tell you that in order to get to the truly genius stuff, you have to write pages upon pages of complete and utter garbage. Stephen King doesn’t write much crap anymore. So let’s do a little spring-cleaning, shall we?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 29, 2010

His advice is perfect for those who write and submit guest posts around the web – use it wisely, young Jedis, and always for the power of good. Days elapse, but there’s no sign of your published piece. It probably depends (at least in part) on who you’re writing for. Write the email and then trash it.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I couldn’t write. I could write. I tried writing the mid-sections first, thinking I’d work on the intro after, but that didn’t help. I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. I couldn’t write easily, and it felt like a dirty little secret. Not blog posts, though.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Most of us don’t write out information like, “Hi, I’ve died,&# while we’re here and able, but perhaps we should. Write something up, just in case. Write down a master list somewhere of all the links to important sites and the usernames and passwords to them. So go ahead.

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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. Like, this novel-writing stuff is really, really hard. Because your publishing dream (again, very much like being a parent) is a serious and worthy goal. And that’s the problem with NaNoWriMo.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Thomas was one of those people, and he wanted to write for the introverts amongst you. Freelance writing requires you to take responsibility for yourself in a way that other jobs don’t. And you went the whole week without an ounce of inspiration to fuel your writing. The result was some pretty good advice. to recharge.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. When I say ‘don’t write’, I mean you should stop writing and start listening to what you’ve written. I know you’ve seen this writing tip before. Great idea.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

So many, in fact, that I decided to write a post about it. That way, you’ll have a much better chance of us thinking you actually can write or design. Check out these: Our very own eguide, Write for the Web , lets you learn how to start your own freelance writing business so you can start pitching for those gigs – and win them.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

I always write about my whole package -and people seem to crave it. And I don’t need to hold on to each post, waiting for absolute perfection before publishing. I guess I wanted to know that the human being being the writing believed in herself enough to disclose her identity. Here’s to our imperfections !

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I think writing copy is a little like being a lawyer. You have to rely on your client to give you the information you need and write on faith. Now, if you know something is a lie, you have to make a personal decision about whether you want to write the copy. James: Do you ever feel guilty writing sales copy? Dean: No.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

And yet, the writing advice is still good for other things — just not targeted enough at me to pay for. The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

I was having a conversation with Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs on Twitter , and I smirked at her comment. We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. It’s the reason why we put in effort to write worthy posts that each take an hour or two to create. “We get to retire?

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

I’d like to know what motivated you to write this one. Yesterday I went on a blog writing binge (an inspired Sunday), and one I banked to release later centred around the phrase “Clarity must come before action&#. Then you must own an idea, brand it, publish it in book form, and hold sway in front of many audiences.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

James and I do the same kind of writing, and our male clients have been absolutely thrilled with the copy that both of us have written. Rather than just blindly believe what other people say about someone, do your research: Dig through James’ writings over the years and see if you can find concrete examples of this blatant sexism.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

The next time you get an email that seems to be a thinly veiled jab – or even an outright insult – to you or your work, take a deep breath, wait a bit, and write back a quick email that asks if you can discuss this either via online chat or over the phone the next day. So take a lesson from my experience. Be friendly.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Unless of course you LIKE writing for free, just to spread your ideas around. I think you deserve credit for writing the reality, that sometimes people ignore. I love blogging and writing, but it is time consuming and can set up the expectation that the useful info is all free all the time.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Hope is Fading Fast” Obama T-shirt Reply Dean Rieck ( @DeanRieck ) November 25, 2009 at 9:50 am I used to work in the publishing industry and would put in 48-hour days. Made progress tonight on the design spec… Want to write for us? I know I have to stop this. poch´s last blog. I’m not kidding. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

You might have a degree in archaeology and now you write code for a living. Or you got your degree in comparative religion and now you write a blog about snow sports. I have to know why writing in little paragraphs is easier on readers’ brains than big ones. Years later, I run an editing and writing business.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2010

Get targeted keywords, using phrases a searcher might look, and write a great description into your meta data. Write better copy for it. Why are you here writing, and if the reader does navigate around, why should that reader stay? From the moment I contacted you to the moment the post was published you were great to work with.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2010

To focus on success itself is like focusing on how many books you’ll sell instead of what story you’d write. And another one is lurking… write books to showcase my learning and experience and expertise. Made progress tonight on the design spec… Want to write for us? It’s 4:35 am and I’m still up.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

With writing, it’s not just about raw talent. I could never be one of those because I quit a secure teaching position loaded w/benefits to do the thing I love most: writing. Writing Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid: 5 Things Your Teacher Was Right About Reply Kelly November 18, 2009 at 10:57 am Friar, That is totally true.

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