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Flogometer 1036 for Harlene—are you compelled to turn the page?

by Ray Rhamey Source link Please, please visit my Kickstarter page for my new game, FlipIt. It goes Scrabble one better in terms of challenge and fun. Even if you can’t support it, please pass the link on to friends and family. Thanks for your help. Submissions sought. Get fresh eyes on your opening page.s

How to Become a Well-Paid Freelance Writer (A Proven Blueprint)

by Nick Darlington Source link Are you finding it difficult to become a well-paid freelance writer? With all the information online about how to become a freelance writer it can be difficult deciding what to implement and what to ignore. Fortunately, when I started my writing career I found a simple blueprint that I followeds

Where To Begin With The Novels Of Me, Chuck Wendig?

by terribleminds Source link It is the time of the Non-Denominational Holiday-Neutral Joy-Shrub, and as such, we often engage in the Festivity of Capitalist Mirth-Sharing, where we buy Objects of Delight for the people we both love and tolerate. And so it is the time of the year where I get tweets and emails from folkss

How I Made my WordPress Site Secure with https:

by John Soares Source link Google notified me repeatedly that my self-hosted WordPress websites weren’t secure, that they didn’t have the coveted “https:,” and that I should take care of it pronto. I’m no WordPress expert, just a freelance writer and product creator who runs blogs. So I dread these sorts of things and puts

Comic: The Gift

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The Hardest Thing to do as a Writer (But You CAN Master It!)

by Bryan Hutchinson Source link 2007, at the age of 37, I finally published my first book. I started writing when I was 12 and it took me 25 years to finally finish and publish a book. That’s a long time. I was ecstatic to complete my lifelong dream, but I still felt like as

Briarpatch magazine Calls for Nonfiction Stories and Submissions – Pays up to $225/article

by Brian Scott Source link Briarpatch magazine (est. 1973) has an open reading period to review stories and essays for the May/June 2018 issue. The bimonthly magazine covers politics and culture with a grassroots, social… ***

A Self-published Cookbook Author Gets Her Own Magazine

by diannejacob Source link Melissa Joulwan has always done things her own way. Now she gets her own magazine! She started a blog, built a following, wrote three award-winning self-published cookbooks, and recently, moved to Prague with Dave, her husband and photographer. I’ve written about her success as a self-published cookbook author: 5 Things Is

The Fan-Fiction Impulse

by JW Source link I really just loved to read. Falling in love with a particular book, or particular authors, or in some cases a particular illustrator. And eventually, fairly young, getting to a place where I wanted to try it myself. I think it’s very much the fan-fiction impulse, that feeling of like, “Is

How to Develop a Beneficial Writing Process

by Melissa Donovan Source link Find out how a writing process makes your writing better. Today I’d like to share a few excerpts from my book 10 Core Practices for Better Writing. These excerpts are from “Chapter Six: Process,” which examines methods, strategies, and other approaches to developing and fine-tuning a writing process that workss