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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars. are not eligible.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). Works that have previously appeared in magazines or in anthologies may be included. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars. are not eligible.

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Writing Fast, Collaboration, And Author Mindset With Daniel Willcocks

The Creative Penn

I suggested that we create an e-magazine, we each write a 1000-word short story once a month, create an e-magazine, and we can publish on Kindle because I knew how to do that. So when you're writing your prose not worried about swear words, you're not worried about sort of graphic material, it's just a place to play.

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Excellent Advice For Living With Kevin Kelly

The Creative Penn

Check it out for free or get 25% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna Kevin Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including The Inevitable , Cool Tools , and Vanishing Asia , as well as being a Technologist Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine and co-chair of the Long Now Foundation.

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Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

Susan Greene

Script for a 90-second promotional video for a company that sells fraud-prevention software. I used to think I was the only one who had doubts but I had a conversation once with another writer, someone who has published books and regularly writes for world-class magazines like Time and The Economist. She is certain she can’t do it.

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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.

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How to Make Your Content More Readable

Content Marketing Institute

Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. <a