Writing Resources

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.

Deadlines Can Be A Writer's Best Friend - Bonnie Boots  I click the "send" button on my e-mail and my article is instantly transmitted to a magazine.  Minutes later, I have a reply from the editor.  It reads "Snappy writing and five days before deadline!

How To Write Great Movie Reviews For Your Entertainment Website - Tamika Johnson  If you have an entertainment website then you’re always looking for fresh, new, fun and interesting material to keep your readers coming back for more.  Movie reviews are a great way to do that.

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.

Writing A Book - Tips From An Author: Tip 1 - www.GetPlotted.com  Any good work of fiction has a basic set of components.  Without these various elements, your book will be unsatisfying, or worse, unreadable.  Many new authors make the mistake of copying or 'aping' an existing writer's style, or a popular genre - this can result in formulaic or cliched stories that probably won't be easy to sell to agents and publishers.

Are Writing Exercises Effective? - Lana Hampton  It was reported that the great American author Sinclair Lewis was once asked to give a lecture on writing to a group of college students:  "Looking out at this gathering," he said to the assembled students, "makes me want to know how many of you really and truly wish to become writers?

Copywriting Makeover: Know Where Your Customers Are In The Buying Process Part 2 of 2 - Karon Thackston  In part one of this article series, I introduced a client of mine (AEwebworks) who suffered from some copywriting traumas.  The basic diagnosis was a lack of synergy within the copy, ineffective use of testimonials, a lack of focus on the target customer’s buying process, and the inability of the current copy to support the search engine goals of AEwebworks.

Inside Elance: Thirteen Writers Explain Why Elance Works for Them - Shelley Wake  Browsing through the writing projects at Elance, one thing stands out.  It’s the “Recent Earnings” figures listed with each bidder’s name.  These aren’t fake figures – these figures show what real writers have been able to earn and they range from $1000 to $60,000.

Copywriting Tone: 5 Reasons Honesty Beats Puffery Any Day - Adam Barone  It never fails.  Every conversation I have with a potential or ongoing copywriting client at some point turns to the topic of tone.  "We want our copy to be edgy.  " "I think a light-hearted copy tone would work best.

What Maks Fiction Special - Rebecca Guevara  I was in a brisk discussion about whether a woman ‘would’ or ‘would not’ leave her wayward husband when a man interrupted and said, “But he’s not real!  It’s fiction!  ” It was time to end the talk before I began my ten minute soliloquy that would have sent everyone in the kitchen for one too many drinks before going home.

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.

How To Put The Power Of YOU In Your Web Writing - Bruce Carlson  One of the most important words in the vocabularyof a Web writer is the simple little three-letter word"you".  Many Web writers fail to understand the importanceof this little word, and for that reason they don'tattract an audience of hungry readers.

How To Select a Great Topic For Your Book or Ebook Part 2 of 5 - Aaron Morganstern  There are groups of people who are willing to buy nonfiction ebooks:  hobbyists.  At any given time, these people are looking for ways to spend their money on their hobbies.  Their passion is your financial gain.

How To Write A Compelling Display Ad To Sell Whatever You Want - Craig Garber  How come you're seeing certain ads over-and-over again?  Why are they working.  and why do some display ads deserve tobe nothing more than bird cage lining.  Since we've been discussing sales copy "voices" lately, I'lllet you in on a little secret about display advoices.

Setting Your Fees as a Freelance Writer or Copywriter. - Susanna K. Hutcheson  Probably the most common and frustrating problem any freelance writer has is setting his or her fees.  If you're too high, you cut yourself out of a lot of good business.  If you're too low, you get far too much work and you can't do the client a really good job because he hasn't paid you enough for your time.