“When length is a problem, I’d rather cut out sections — entire thoughts — than chisel off the texture and color from the most important parts of the story. Cutting is hard and painful work, but I’d rather do it myself than leave it to someone who doesn’t know the story as well as I [...]
“Careers, like rockets, don’t always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.” - Gary Sinese
If you pay close attention to the words and inferences of some who use freelance writers you will see that freelancers must be superhuman.
The Top Ten Signs you Have Found a Perfect Freelance Writer
1) They are [...]
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” - J.C. Penney
Country recording artist Tim McGraw confided in an interview that there was a guy at a 7-11 that could sing him [...]
Those who venture into fiction writing often fall prey to certain avoidable, yet highly normal faux pau’s with their first book.
Many of these novels are grand experiments. Often chapters unfold without advance direction or character notebook, sometimes there is a multitude of point of view shifts and there is often a desire to try to [...]
Like most creative professions the question of a qualified success in writing is not easy to concentrate into one definitive answer.
Just as there are a multitude of writing styles, so too are there many examples of writing success.
Examples
1. “If I can just finish my first story, I will have success.”
2. “If I can just work [...]
Have you ever had anyone criticize your writing? Maybe they were just having a bad day. After all some people just can’t seem to say anything nice.
Not everyone is comfortable with criticism, but there may be times when it provides just what you need to move forward in your writing.
There is a man that’s been [...]
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie
Some of the special skills discussed in writing may have you feeling as if there is really no room for expressing your own personality in your [...]
“[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to [...]
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. - Hart Crane
Some of the best advice for writers in the 21st century comes from those who have seen their successes and offer advice from their own experience. Let’s draw [...]
There was a time when you needed to relocate if you wanted to become a successful writer. In essence you went where the work was.
The Internet has opened a whole new world for writers. The idea of telecommuting has become a welcome component to the mechanism of freelance.
Today you can sit in a kitchen in [...]