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7 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Want to Be a Successful Freelance Writer

by Ciaran Gilligan Source link Everybody thinks they want the life of a freelance writer – you can be your own boss, set your own hours, and work whenever and however you want. Sounds great, right? So if that’s the case, why aren’t more people doing it? Well actually..they are. Freelance writers are getting as

Racheline Maltese: Queerness In Tremontaine

by terribleminds Source link I was a teenager in New York City in the 1980s. My parents were artists, and I was queer. Which meant that, by the time I was 15 years old, almost everything in my world – from school reading assignments to dinner conversations — was about AIDS. AIDS and my bisexualitys

Comic: The Writer and Santa

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Get the Reader to Care

by JW Source link Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist’s literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy—it’s always an attempt to get the reader to cares

The Powerful Reason You Should Tell Your Story

by Ruthanne Reid Source link Today’s post is going to be a little different. Instead of focusing on the mechanics of writing, I’m going to dive into something more important: you need to tell your story. Here’s why. Your Story Matters For a lot of us, this has been a rough year, a tiring year,s

New Indie Book Release: It Must’ve Been the Mistletoe (L. P. Dover)

by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: It Must’ve Been the Mistletoe – L.P. Dover Contemporary (Holiday) Romance (247 Pages – December 2017) It Must’ve Been the Mistletoe a heartwarming story with a bit of… Take a second to help us out on Patreon. Every bit helps!

How to Improve Your Confidence and Conquer the World (or at Least Your To-Do List)

by Sonia Simone Source link “That idea is stupid. Your headline sucks. Your headlines always suck. Everyone else on the planet is better at this than you are. No one will ever want to read this trash. I wonder if Starbucks is hiring.” – That crappy inner voice in our heads In the late springs

Why Writing for Exposure is (Mostly) a Scam

by Anne Wayman Source link Ever been tempted by a writing for exposure writing gig? Most of us have, particularly in the beginning of our writing careers. What what is writing for exposure? The idea behind writing for exposure isn’t inherently a bad one. The basic thought is that writers can benefit if their writings

The importance of place for writers and our characters

by Carol Despeaux Fawcett Source link In honor of my poetry book, The Dragon & The Dragonfly, coming out next week, I wanted to share a poem from the book. I wrote this poem last year as I was trying to find my footing after my husband died in 2015. It’s a poem about findings

Karen Doesn’t Think I’m Taking Care of Myself by Daniel Uncapher

by Chicago Literati Source link Karen never gets a soft drink when we go out to dinner unless it’s a special occasion and […] Take a second to help us out on Patreon. Every bit helps!