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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

It will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

It will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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Writing Fast, Collaboration, And Author Mindset With Daniel Willcocks

The Creative Penn

How can you write fast but also make your creative process sustainable for the long term? Dan Willcocks talks about his creative and business approach. Before we start, I will say that this is a big moment for me because I've been listening to you since I started my author journey in 2014. Joanna: Ah, 2014. It's freeing.

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The Mindset And Business Of Selling Books Direct With Russell Nohelty

The Creative Penn

How can you reframe the direct author business model to take advantage of creative possibilities for different kinds of products and long-term marketing? So I started my first creative business in 2004. Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. Russell: Sure. Russell: Sure.

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Transmedia And Self-Publishing Comics And Graphic Novels With Barry Nugent

The Creative Penn

How does a creative career develop over the long term and when do you need to take a step back to consider how to move forward? Please complete my Creative Penn Survey 2022 here (by 7 Oct). Barry: …just to try to sort of get him to take a copy. First of all, this creative team. What are the different types?

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Writing Nature Memoir With Merryn Glover

The Creative Penn

Because look, to be honest, this is the creative process, right? She put it away in a drawer for 30 years, and then eventually in 1977 when she was 84, she took it back out, reread it, and then she self-published it by paying for a print run of 3000 copies to Aberdeen University Press. Merryn: Well, she had given away a lot of copies.

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do. Arrow (1963-66).