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Freelance Writing
- The Skills You Need to be a Freelance Writer
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- Formatting a short story for submission to a potential publisher
- How to write a query letter
- Avoiding Poetry Contest Scams
- Why they Rejected your Perfectly Good Submission
- What a freelancer should know before querying a magazine
- How to Talk About Yourself in a Query Letter
Writing Business
- Can you make money writing novels?
- How to Calculate Potential Book Profits
- Glossary of writing careers
- Average Salaries for Writers and Editors
- Reselling Articles
- How to Calculate Potential Book Profits
Education for Writers
- How to Choose a Major and Minor for a Career in Writing
- College majors for aspiring writers
- What major/degree is required to become a technical writer?
Building Characters
- Building characters through adversity
- Exploring characters through their possessions
- Creating a character biography
- Building Characters by Brainstorming
- Using interviewing to create fictional characters
- Using a normal day to define your character
- Building a character from multiple perspectives
- Basing characters on real people
- Twelve questions that will help you create your character
- Creating a role-playing character biography
- Character Bio Sheets
Novel Writing
- Developing an idea into a novel
- Mapping out your novel’s characters
- Creating a believable world
- Are Your Characters Well Spoken, or is it Just You?
- Building Better Novels Through Conflict
- How Good is Your Bad Guy?
- Plotting by Elimination
- What to Do Once the Crisis is Settled
- How Setting Influences Story
- Maintaining your Novel’s Pace-Time Continuum
- Questions you should ask yourself when you are describing things for a story
- Six quick ways to jump start a stalled novel
- Six Quick Tips for Writing Descriptions
- Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
- There is no right way to write a novel
- Deciding on a Narrative Voice
- How to Write a 50,000 Word Novel in a Month
Editing
- Starting the revision process again
- Finding someone to read your novel’s draft
- Editing your novel with an eye toward continuity
- Adding and revising scenes in your novel
- Creating a new roadmap for your novel
- Sample information guide for your novel
- Creating an information guide for your novel
- Editing your novel as you read it
- Creating a chronology for your novel
- Performing a light edit on your novel
- Reading through your draft
- Writing an Action Outline
Article and Essay Writing
- How to Create an Article or Blog Idea Log
- How to Send an Effective Press Release
- How to Write a How To Article
- Essay paper writing guide
- A List of Essay Writing Don’ts
- Eight Tips for Writing a Division Essay
General Writing
- Fifteen craft exercises for writers
- Improving your imagery
- Explaining the unreliable narrator
- Dialogue (Dialog) Exercises for Writers
- Developing your writing voice
- How to Express Yourself Through Writing
Usability
- Usability: Think in terms of scenarios
- Usability: Surfing for User Comments
- Usability: Brainstorming User Issues
- Usability: People really don’t like surprises
- Usability: Do you want the data or the conversion?
Humor
- 7 Easy Steps to a More Pretentious Poem
- Writing Your Way Out of a Wet Paper Sack
- 10 Ways to Annoy the Hell out of your Writers’ Group
Poetry Writing
- Poetry writing tips
- 7 Ways to Be the Victim of a Poetry Contest Scam
- Write poetry as often as you can
- The challenges of imagery in your poetry
- The poem is in the details
- Six Tips For Writing Poetry About Difficult Subjects
- Say what you want to say and let your readers decide what it means
- Read poetry if you write poetry
- Leave love out of your poem’s title
- Four things poets can learn from George Carlin
- Feel free to write a bad poem
- Don’t explain everything in your poem
- Don’t include any word with a single “A” in it, but do include at least one word with two “A”s in it
- Four Ways to Publish Your Poetry
Poetry Prompts
- Poetry prompts
- Write a poem about completing something
- Write the final line of your poem first, then figure out a way to get there
- Write a poem that includes one or more descriptions of sounds – 31p31d
- Use an inspiration tool
- Write the first draft of your poem in paragraph form and then change it into a free verse poem
- Write a poem that begins and ends with the same word
- Include a verb in every line of your poem – 31p31d
- Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning
- Break the rules – 31p31d
- Write a three stanza poem that shows a progression with each stanza
- Write a poem that begins a negative and ends with a positive – 31p31d
- Write a poem that has a variable line length rather than a set meter
- Include the words “formal” and “casual” at some point in your poem
- Write a poem using a random source – 31p31d
- Write a new poem an old subject – 31p31d
- Write a poem that follows the three rules of the imagists – 31p31d
- Write a poem that uses at least two different forms of repetition – 31p31d
- Write a poem that doesn’t use your standard process – 31p31d
- Write a poem using syllabic verse – 31p31d
- Write a poem in the first person that makes a definitive statement – 31p31d
- Write a poem with meter and without meter
- Write a poem using a specific meter
- Write an Elegy – 31p31d
- Write a list poem that uses a single line for each item on the list – 31p31d
- Meditate and then write a poem
- Write a Persona Poem – 31p31d
- Write in a new place – 31p31d
- Write a poem about something trending – 31p31d
- Write about changing your opinion – 31p31d
- Write a poem about something you gave away as a child – 31p31d