Article Writing Basics

by Linda Gilden @LindaGilden

As a fulltime freelance writer, people are often surprised when I say I love to write articles. “Articles?” they say. “How did you learn to do that? Why do you want to write articles?”

When I hear that I am amazed. I cut my writing teeth on articles. They were shorter therefore my research took less time. I could write on many different subjects and learn about things I never knew existed. In fact, when I started out the idea of writing an entire book was overwhelming.

I Want to Be a Writer

by Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted

My first writers conference was . . . well . . . intimating. I attended alone. It was the days prior to GPS and maneuvering my way through the one-way streets of downtown Asheville was a little disorienting. Those were the days before Google maps and you had to do your best to follow poorly devised instructions on Rand McNally.

10 Beginner Blogging Mistakes to Avoid

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson
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Blogging can be a great way to build a platform and connect with our audience—if we do it right. 

Doing it wrong can often do more harm than good. 

Today I’m going to go over some beginner blogging mistakes we all need to avoid.

It's Release Day for ALONE

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Writing Education - A Never-Ending Story

Writing Education - A Never-Ending Story

By Bruce Brady @BDBrady007

Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life. You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail (Proverbs 19:20-21 NLT).

Writing is continuing education.

In research science and academia there’s a saying, publish or perish. May I be so bold as to coin a phrase? Learn or burn.

A Great Book For Writers - The Chunky Method Handbook

by Lynn H Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn

Any book with the words “Your step-by-step plan to WRITE THAT BOOK even when life gets in the way” in the title was guaranteed to grab my attention.

Because life *always* gets in the way.

Of course as a professional, I know what I’m supposed to do.

Write anyway.

I try to grab a few minutes to write in the middle of the day, but part of my brain says, “Why bother? You’ll barely get started before you have to stop.” So I try to write in the evening, but then my body says, “Are you kidding me? I need some sleep.”

Great American Novelist, Warren Adler, Looks at the Election

by Warren Adler @WarrenAdler

The true test of talent for a fiction writer is the ability to imagine pain, angst, despair, discouragement, frustration as well as joy, ecstasy, elation and pleasure. This is the power that runs the machine of character creation that lies at the very heart of storytelling.

    

As we fiction practitioners understand, craft can be learned, but without the innate power of the imagination the characters that power stories become merely stick figures in a charade bereft of emotional content, a pallid portrayal of clichés that offer the reader no window into the search for truth that is the bedrock motivation of the serious fiction writer.