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40 Free Writing Contests: Legitimate Competitions With Cash Prizes

The Write Life

With thousands of dollars in cash prizes and numerous opportunities to secure a publishing contract, you’re sure to find the right free writing contest for your work. (If This boutique publishing firm offers cash prizes and promotional packages to winning authors. Deadlines: Quarterly on March 31, June 30 and September 30.

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What Is a Ghostwriter?

Grammarly

Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? The works created by ghostwriters can be any type of published writing, including the following: journalism. literary prose. academic and medical papers. Some romance publishers pay just $65 per story.

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Using Sudowrite For Writing Fiction With Amit Gupta

The Creative Penn

So we found that as you get better working with it, it can write more and more of the prose for you, in your voice and style. So maybe you're someone who uses very punchy dialogue or very short declarative sentences, or whatever it is, it will suss that out from what you gave it, and then it will use that as it writes prose.

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Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

Susan Greene

Send a guest post to your favorite blog and ask if they’ll publish it. When I was 9-years-old, I sent in a poem I wrote about the Archies (don’t judge) and won second prize, $3, making it my first paid writing job and first time being published. Draft an article for your church’s monthly newsletter.

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How to Write a Blog Post in 2024: The Ultimate Guide

Smart Blogger

Editor’s Note: A word of caution: No matter how eloquent your words… No matter how powerful your prose… If your introduction doesn’t satisfy search intent, readers will click the “back” button and never return. As though you didn’t bother to proofread it before hitting publish. What’s search intent?

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

Yet some brands are working with top comics creators and publishers such as Marvel Comics. 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. Buddy, you can come back now. We work with them to get them up to speed pretty quickly.

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8 Rules for the Startup Marketer (or Anyone Who Wants to Think Like One)

Content Marketing Institute

Here’s one: This example comes from a situation in which a market researcher checked LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator and qualified all the leads that came in to a medical research organization Vishal was working for, answering questions like these: Who are they? What are their characteristics? What companies do they come from?