Writing Resources

We have collected writing resources such as articles and information products from the Internet and members' contributions.  The resources are arranged in the following categories of writing:
Writing Books Writing eBooks Writing Articles
Marketing Your Writings Copywriting Writing Tips
Writing Screenplays Your Writings

Selected Articles & Stories....

Top 3 Rules for Writing Effective Copy - Ladan Lashkari  One thing all successful Internet marketers have in common is that they're good copywriters.  If you want to have a profitable online business, you need to know how to write a copy that motivates people to buy your product.
Writing Help - Jack Thompson  Whether you are working for a small business, large corporation, or are a student, there are numerous sources that you can turn to for help with writing.  Businesses need to be able to effectively communicate with their customers, their employees and their potential customers.
Article Writing & Promotion...Your Fast Track To Sales & Profits. - Thom Reece  Writing articles, and promoting them for publication, is one of the most productive long-term promotional tactics available.  Well researched and written articles.  ..  which provide valuable, useable information, are highly sought after by newsletter publishers, magazines, ezines, etc.
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #2 - www.GetPlotted.com  Writing a three act story - dealing with the middle act.  In the second or middle act, you get to expand the story past the initial 'inciting incident', and develop the characters and their various drives and needs.
Writing A Book - Tips From An Author #6 - www.GetPlotted.com  The Basics of Plot.  Although you will obviously be familiar with the concept of 'plot', most people don't actually think in a plot-like fashion.  As you write a book, the logical, compelling step-by-step sequence that makes up a good plot almost always starts life as a single good idea plus a jumble of images and thoughts without any coherent structure.
Are You Achieving Your Writing Goals? - Mridu Khullar  At the start of this new year, like at the start of every other new year, I came across dozens of articles about the importance of setting achievable goals, challenging myself to do new things and fixing measurable standards and working towards them.
Seven Secrets Of Highly Creative Writers - Steven Barnes  The Lifewriting™ approach to your writing career demands a relatively high creative output.  It isn’t designed to coddle people who nurse a single story for years before sending it out.  But students often protest that they simply don’t come up with many good ideas, and that the ideas they do generate are appropriate for novels.
Screenwriting Tips from a Screenplay Contest Judge - Gordy Hoffman  After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script continue to emerge.  Here is a general overview of these persistent issues.
Travel Writer Jobs, What Are They And How To Find Them - Niall Cinneide  Travel writing jobs are few and far between.  Getting into this field is hard to do and requires a lot of training and experience.  But, there are many benefits to them.  There are many individuals who would love to get employment opportunities in this field.
Eight Ways To Write Better Instantly - Rix Quinn  Is it possible to improve your writing instantly?  The answer, happily, is “yes.  ”While researching a book on famous speeches and essays, I found eight easily correctable mistakes writers often make.
Wake Up Your Writing Spirit - Shelley Wake  The Blogfest 2005 Writing Contest has only been running for two weeks and already the results are overwhelming.  And not because we’re getting far more entries than we expected.  It’s because along with entries, we’re also getting heartfelt messages from writers all over the world.
10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Book Endorsements - Gregory A. Kompes  Endorsements, sometimes called "Blurbs," are wonderful and often witty comments about your book provided by respected authors, journalists, entertainers, and industry experts connected to your topic.
What SEO Copywriting Is… and Isn't - Karon Thackston  I've been frustrated lately.  It seems people just don't get it.  There's lots of talk about SEO copywriting these days, but hardly any of it is on target.  The majority of the conversations, posts and articles I've seen deal with topics like keyword density, allowable limits, over optimization and such.
Word Frequency Analysis as a means to improve writing quality - John Tello  In the old times of Windows 1.  0 back in the 1980’s there was a tool called Word Frequency that came with the MS Word distribution package.  As someone who uses English as a second language I used it heavily, because it helped me to improve my vocabulary and to correct misspellings beyond the capacity of the available spelling checkers.
Tips To Help You To Write With Success - Dana Goldberg  Writing is something that everyone can enjoy!  Writing is freeing and fun and exciting, if you really let your imagination go writing can take you to places that you have never been before.

 
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