Opportunities For Writers
How to Find Writing Jobs Online
Along with other keywords and phrases, I set up a Google alert to notify me whenever the term “writing jobs” appears on line. Invariably, besides returning links to legitimate job sites, I see people in online forums asking about how to get writing Read More →
How to Start and Grow a Ghost Writing Business
I really enjoy reading and posting to Twitter. Besides using it to pass along writing job links, share inspirational quotes, exchange quick hellos with other writers and bemoan the pervasiveness of dangling modifiers in business writing, I’ve been Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryWriteSuccess Resources
Free Teleclass for Writers: How to Use Twitter to Attract Writing Clients
Announcing…our very first teleclass at the International Association of Professional Ghost Writers, “How to Use Twitter to Get Writing Clients.” While the class was developed for ghost writers, all writers are welcome to attend. Twitter is Read More →
Speaker for Your Writers’ Event
Invite Patricia Fry, 35-year veteran writer, publishing organization leader and the author of 31 books to speak to your writers’ group or at your conference. See partial list of topics here: http://www.matilijapress.com/contactus.html. Bio here: Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategorySetting Your Sites
“Find an Expert” and “People Search” Sites
“Find an Expert” Sites: Here you’ll find people available for interviews on pretty much any topic you can imagine list themselves on these. HARO (Help a reporter Out) http://helpareporter.com/ ProfNet https://profnet.prnewswire.com/ Ask Read More →
Calendar Sites
I thought it was about time that I started beefing up the WriteSuccess “Setting Your Sites” section with some useful links for writers. These two calendar sites track and post everything from religious and secular holidays to special days, Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryMonday Miscellany
Monday Miscellany for March 8, 2010
Hello: It’s another banner week for writing contest announcements! I hope you are enjoying the new format of this column. Be sure to scroll down to the “Multiple Categories” section this week too for additional opportunities. Good luck to Read More →
Monday Miscellany for March 1, 2010
Hello: I have a number of writing contest listings to share with you again this week. To make this column more user friendly, I will group the contests by writing category from now on. When applicable, I’ll include a “Multiple Categories” Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryFrom My Desk To Yours
Off and on over the years, I’ve tried. I’ve tried to give up on the idea of writing for a living, on writing much of anything at all for anyone other than myself. But it was like trying to turn my back on a lover whom I longingly ached for, but who wasn’t always there for me when I needed him most…yet who would suddenly come back into my life when I least expected him, and totally reclaim me. “You can’t really make a living as a Read More →
Have you ever felt as though you’ve lost your writing passion? You know, that once upon a time feeling when the words just flowed, your nerve endings crackled and you lost track of time while writing? Sometimes, when faced with a writing to do list that includes posting to the WriteSuccess blog, writing an article for the Invisible Ink (the newsletter for the International Association of Professional Ghost Writers), and freelance assignments Read More →
It’s January 2, 2010, and I am sitting down to write for the first time in this new year, this new decade. Actually, that’s not entirely true—I wrote journal entries both yesterday and today. So I guess I can say that this is the first time I’ve sat down to write for someone besides myself since last year. I almost didn’t get any words written just now. Sitting at my PC, I find that it’s so easy to click on an Internet browser and Read More →
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