I recently had the opportunity to read Paul Miller’s debut book A Place to Belong In it he details his life between the ages of 8 and 14, so what

Most freelance writers spend hours each week hunting for writing jobs Unfortunately, this can lead to a very low income; you need to develop marketing skills so that editors and other buyers come to you

One of the most common challenges writers face is procrastination Since procrastination can destroy freelance writing careers, even before they begin, here are five tips which will help you to write more

The form of nonfiction easiest to misjudge—and so satisfying when it succeeds—is the memoir To write a good memoir, you must decide what’s not interesting and leave it out

If you're a writer, you need your own Web site because it means that your clients will come to you, rather than you having to continually hunt for writing jobs More and more, editors, agents and other clients who want to hire you for a specific project (or, in the case of editors and agents are looking for new books to commission for their lists) are searching the Web

Self confidence is an essential ingredient in building a wanna-be writer’s success Young writers have energy and enthusiasm and hopefully the ability to succeed in this challenging field

The Gallup pollsters tell us that 81% of mature adults long to write a book 14,000 Seniors and Boomers polled by Eons

Ebooks are an easy way to turn words and knowledge into money Ebooks sell well online and you can sell them offline too, by paying for a Print on Demand (POD) publisher to print your ebook in as many copies as you please

Everyone seems to want to succeed in their life And many get aboard the home business train

If you're still thinking of a blog as an "online journal" you're roughly four years out of date Blogs are a business tool, and blogging is essential for anyone who wants to make money, online or offline

All of your life imaginary ideas have been floating around in your mind and one day you decide to unleash that creativity and write a book What a wonderful thought

It was a shot heard round the publishing world in record time Once Writers Weekly's Angela Hoy, co-owner of Print-On-Demand services company BookLocker, got off the phone with an Amazon rep last month, she posted the warning that Amazon was issuing an ultimatum to POD and small press publishers: print through our on-demand service, BookSurge, or the "buy button" on their Amazon page will be turned off

An interview with Jerry D Simmons, regarding the far-reaching implications of Amazon's recent announcement that any small press or print-on-demand publisher doing business with them would need to print books through their publishing arm: BookSurge

In the last article we talked about whether to use an outline when you're starting to think about your newest story for middle graders and the best place to get ideas Now let's turn to that all important first chapter and believability

Part III of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series In the first two articles, we've explored how essential it is to have a theme to give your novel direction, and how to find those themes that will resonate with you You'd think that once you have a theme, you could just sit down and write your book about that, and you'd bring powerful emotions and passionate storytelling and compelling, page-turning action to your tale---but it just ain't so

Interested in creating your own writing business One of the fabulous new ways of making money freelance writing is via blogging

Faron Young was an anathema, he clocked over 80 Billboard hits, yet remains relatively unknown to all but an aging Country & Western fan base Diane Diekman has done an outstanding job of recreating the life and times of Faron Young

People love to be asked; whether it's for their permission, how they are feeling, about their families, getting invited to the event, and numerous other questions that could be asked about or of them Being asked is a feeling of empowerment

I have been around the internet for quite sometime — offering outsourced services and software products I see a lot of internet marketing techniques on how to get more traffic and attract more paying customers, but only one technique seemed to work for me considering my tight budget

The 80/20 rule applies to freelance writing as it does to everything else Twenty per cent of freelance writers are making double and triple what they made in their former day jobs, but eighty per cent languish in low-writing-income hell