Writing Resources

Promoting Your Online Writing Portfolio - The StoryMaster  Dear Writing Reader,One of the most popular questions from Authors on my site, Writing.  Com, is:  "How do I promote my Online Writing Portfolio outside of Writing.  Com?  "Here are my top five tips for increasing the amount of exposure to anyone's online Writing Portfolio:

How to Succeed as a Writer - Michele Pariza Wacek  As a professional copywriter, I'm often asked by aspiring copywriters what they need to do to succeed.  Most of their questions center around writing ability.  They want to know how to find out if they have the talent to succeed, or if there's a "test" they can take that will tell them if they're a good enough writer to actually get paid to write.

Creative Writing Technique: Visualization - Sarah Playle  Visualization is one of the best techniques to use when plotting a story.  It's like watching a movie in your mind, only the movie is your story.  You can see all the scenes and events playing out, from beginning to end.

Writing Effectively: A Two-Part Guide, Part 1 - Jan Kovarik  Everything we do involves communication—written, verbal, and nonverbal.  Today, due to the Internet and the World Wide Web, written communication is emerging as the primary format.  Writing effectively is now an essential skill.

How To Cultivate Greatness In Your Writing - Sophfronia Scott  There's a television commercial, I believe it's for E-trade, that talks about how nobody wants to be an ordinary.  ..  fill in the blank.  Supposedly we aspire to be better.  Nobody wants to be an ordinary athlete, nobody wants to be an ordinary investor.

How You Can Find Freelance Writing Employment - Niall Cinneide  How can you find writing jobs?  Do you have proven skills that can propel you in the right direction?  If so, then why are you looking for fresh vacancies?  The best tool to those who have employment histories is to look to the companies that you have already worked for.

Art of Essay Writing - Susan Kassel  I love essays!  I enjoy reading them, checking them, teaching my students how to generate them, but most of all I enjoy writing them!  You want to ask why.  I hope after reading my article you will understand.

Tight Lines, Writers! - Jenna Glatzer  “Tight lines” is a good luck wish among fishermen.  When you’ve hooked a fish, your line tightens up.  I was musing on this expression as my husband critiqued my lousy casting skills on our latest fishing expedition.

Steps to a Writing an Effective Press Releases - Diana Ennen  Want to get the most media attention and spotlight for your business?  Then the first place to start is with a GREAT press release.  Now I can almost see half of you leaving now, dreading the thought of having to write one of these.

Horror Movie Scripts - 10 Steps To Writing A Horror Screenplay - Henrik Holmberg  A horror movie has certain rules.  If you break too many the audience will be disappointed.  This is a very short, no fluff, blueprint of how to write a horror script.  1.  The Hook.

Custom Writing Services Market Overview - Serge Chepurko  In this article the author is going to carry out custom writing services market overview providing comprehensive survey of the market divided into the following categories:  market identification, market size, market segmentation, market growth speed, market customers, principles of operation, financial characteristics, regulations, and other categories.

How To Select a Great Topic For Your Book or Ebook Part 1 of 5 - Aaron Morganstern  It couldn't be easier to select a topic for an ebook.  People are hungry for information, and people are looking to the Internet to feed their hunger.  After you've read this chapter, you will feel confident enough to choose your own topic, or you can literally pull your ebook topic directly from this ebook and use it!

Two Styles of Mystery Writing: Cozy and Hard-boiled - Mary Arnold  Cozy novels do not have graphic violence, and little or no sexual content and abusive language.  Society is "viewed as orderly and controlled, and the crime is a failure of the society to function correctly" (Niebuhr 7).

How To Write Poetry - Steve Gillman  If you want to know how to write poetry, the first thing you have to do is write some.  It doesn't matter how it turns out.  Your own mistakes will become your teachers.  Your own writing will motivate you to greater creativity.

Writing the Denouement for Mystery Stories - Mary Arnold  I've read many mystery novels in which the writer left out the denouement, but, in my opinion, a mystery without one is seriously lacking.  Admittedly, I grew up reading Hercule Poirot, in which he always demanded to gather up all the suspects so he could demonstrate his brilliance in deducing the meaning of all the perplexing clues and fingering the murderer.