For a welcome change to the usual festival programmes, why not visit the County Kerry town of Listowel, the literary capital of Ireland, during Listowel Writers Week, held this year from 28th of May to the 1st of June?
Ghost writing is popularly known as freelancing where an individual writes an article on anonymous basis for an individual or an organization. Well, in the age of Internet, ghost writing is a burgeoning profession such as content writing or content management where a writer undertakes content management for an organization and helps in writing business [...]
Recycled Paper Greetings is a greating card company that is looking for writers and illustrators.
I'm not sure about the pay scale, but here's all the info as far as what they are looking for and how to submit work~
"Recycled Paper Greeting cards are all created by freelance artists - one of them could be you! Every year, RPG adds 3,000 new cards to its product line. Do you have a clever
Working for different companies is a kind of choice for many people. In the scope of globalization, it is sometimes very difficult to maintain a stable work for longer periods of time. However, because of the increased number of opportunities in the international scale, many people are now able to enjoy working without even leaving [...]
Many people have hobby to write informative articles or short satires. There are many people who have no name, fame, and reputation. Their writing can bring no name, fame and reputation. They help many publications to publish their articles in magazines and books. There are many people who adopt this as a part time job. [...]
Writing an article is an easy job if taken with full interest. You don’t require searching on the keywords for long and typing for hours to write an article. Now you have far better option than that and it is none other than ghost writers. Ghost writers are clearly known as the main and secret [...]
Profit with articles even if your English isnt perfect.
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AppApeal is looking for freelance writers to write application reviews. AppApeal has gathered a collection of web base applications that are available online. The applications are being categories into blogging, photo, email, feed reader, game, travel, video, music, bookmarking and many more. With so many web base applications out there, finding the best and right [...]
Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler said in a 2005 New Yorker story ''The Parachute Artist': "To research a big guidebook, you need some people who live in the country, but you also need some parachute artists, someone who can drop into a place and quickly assimilate, who can write about anywhere.” The skills and tricks of a parachute artist are one of the secrets of travel writing. In much of the
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The home is probably the most relaxing place for any person who has been working for quite a while. A place with comfortable atmosphere is sure enough to provide a good way to end a day. However, did you now that there is now a concept of work at home online jobs? Yes, fewer people [...]
The writers strike ended two months ago. But many in Hollywood remain on the brink. Across Los Angeles, many crew members who work behind the scenes and on the sets of television shows and movies are still quaking from the temblor of the 100-day writers strike that shut down scripted TV production. Popular: 2 hours 40 minutes ago source: (www.latimes.com)
May 1 | Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State:
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With György Dragomán, Hasan Elahi, Asli Erdogan, Péter Esterházy, Chenjerai Hove, Irakli Kakabadze, Jenny Marketou, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Prose, and Ingo Schulze"
Can’t focus…can’t write…want to write…what to write…so much happening where to start…
Ok - lets start here…
1. Just read an article about a woman in Austria who had been held prisoner by her father for 24 years and fathered his 7 children. She had been held captive since she was 11. What?
2. Hilla the Hun wants to [...]
Ghostwriting can be said to be a great way of having a reliable, good income and also enjoy doing what one likes best. If you can write well, then you can be a ghostwriter for many of the well know publications published all over the world. It also includes content writing for websites. It is [...]
A professional writer who writes stories, books, reports or articles, which are officially credited to another person, is known as a ghost writer. Most top-class executives, political leaders, celebrities etc hire ghost-writers to edit or draft their autobiographies, since they may not be too proficient in writing on their own. In certain instances, ghost writers [...]
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Wandering over at the Consumerist today, there's an article on Certigy deciding if K-Mart will accept your check. Now, while the article itself was pretty interesting, the TRUELY interesting part was the discussion in the comments about writing checks altogether. Here's a small selection of some of the more interesting comments I [...]
This is an ad post guys. We are in need of Filipino Writers for our website, We offers custom essay writing for students all over the world.To qualify for this position, you must know of course how to write essays, thesis, term papers and dissertations. You also need to have knowledge about citation formats like MLA, APA and Harvard style. Must know how to be professional as we want to meet the expectations of our clients and it is a must that we meet the deadline given by the client.If you are interested, please send me an email to jaesten (at) gmail (dot) com. If you can, please attach a sample of your work. If you qualifies, then we will discuss how much is the offer. It is a per page basis. And mostly of our clients order a minimum of 5 pages.This is a good income source for students
Here's a spot for my ego, eh? If only I could come up with something reflective of my inner being . . . Eckert Tolle is deflating my drive to draw eyes. Reality TV is deflating my sex drive. I wonder how good sex with Brett Michaels could possibly be - there in his kick-ass tour bus with band members and VIPs like paid onlookers . . . And, see? I get cornered into this shit and feel like I have to explain myself (I blame my teenage daughters). I don't even feel justified in describing my day. I can only call it "good." Okay, it felt more like "damn good." There's a little description. This is why I should write poetry. Memoir turns pointless.I wonder if I can turn the trip to Carbondale into a poem? But then it would have to be too chronological. An exploding tire, the guy on t
Rant Mode:Sa dinarami-rami ng task o sacrifice na pwedeng ipagawa sa housemates, could you imagine na ipinakalbo nito ang mga male housemates! at hindi lang basta ipakalbo dahil binaboy pa ang mga hitsura nito take a look at these:Para saan sa 100 na batang na libreng tutuliin? WTF! 100 lang bababuyin niyo na ang hitsura ng mga housemates! Remember hindi kami nanonood para makita ang mga walang kwenta niyong mga weekly task o kung ano mang mga activities ang maisipan niyo, We're watching PBB Teen Edition Plus because of the housemates, HOUSEMATES lang! tapos ngayon kakalbuhin niyo?? Wala na bang kayong ibang maisip? napakababaw naman nito para sa isang sacrifice!Iniba niyo na nga ang format ng Big Brother sa Philippines eh, nagiging Star Circle Quest na 'to! tapos ganyan papangitin niyo pa
During the British period the Educated Indians had an ardent zeal for English literature as well as language. They love to read English literature and their keen knowledge in the English language helped them in English writings. That is why we got a strong history of English writings by Indians authors of different branches in [...]
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This is the first in a series of posts on the top secrets of travel writers, partly inspired by The Traveler’s Notebook’s Top 5 Secrets Travel Writers Won’t Tell You, however, my posts won’t be devoted to the perks of the job but rather the stuff travel writers don’t tell you and the things we don’t always write about, and why. Let’s start with hidden gems. We've all seen stories like 'The Hidden
Story By: Jonathan McCall - source of post: can't run away from it forever." And for some the chase ended Tuesday as Caddo Parish Sheriffs Deputies went looking for hot check writers with outstanding warrants. Mike Middleton and David Bartlett with the Sheriff's office, work together on finding the bad check writers. They say plenty of warrants are out there for people with bad checks, because catching them is no easy task. "You may go 6 months before you finally catch somebody." "A lot of the time we have older addresses and they give ficticious addresses." As we rode with deputies, they knocked on door, after door, after door, looking for wanted hot check writers without much luck until we found 26 year old Dionne Dorsey who did not want to talk about her arrest for a charge of issuing
What could be better than the news of a 9-0 spin off? Hearing that talented Veronica Mars boss Rob Thomas would be the main man behind the new edition, of course! But sadly, inside sources are now saying... ...
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After a less than mediocre return of the NBC hit “The Office” former fans of the show picketed the Writer’s Guild offices demanding the writers go back on strike.
“Seriously, I mean, what the fuck was that episode?” said angry fan Matt Warner. “I TIVO’d that shit and for what? Halfway through I started weeping uncontrolably — and [...]
After a less than mediocre return of the NBC hit “The Office” former fans of the show picketed the Writer’s Guild offices demanding the writers go back on strike.
“Seriously, I mean, what the fuck was that episode?” said angry fan Matt Warner. “I TIVO’d that shit and for what? Halfway through I started weeping uncontrolably [...]
Okay, okay, they didn’t ruin my entire life, just one portion of it. Although I’ve only briefly mentioned my Big Brother obsession in passing prior to this point, I apparently now have yet another reason to detest labor unions and striking workers: Big Brother 9: ‘Til Death Do We Part.
I’d largely avoided Big [...]
Okay, okay, they didn’t ruin my entire life, just one portion of it. Although I’ve only briefly mentioned my Big Brother obsession in passing prior to this point, I apparently now have yet another reason to detest labor unions and striking workers: Big Brother 9: ‘Til Death Do We Part.
I’d largely avoided Big [...]
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My dog is a natural, white with black spots, pretty in polka dots…
came across this site about women with dogs… dogsforwomen.com
and several books about women with dogs…
Shaggy Muses, a book about the dogs that inspired famous women writer such as Virginia Woolf, Emily Bronte
A [...]
Many of you are familiar with Seeking Alpha articles–mostly because SA’s founder David Jackson did a great job getting his content onto Yahoo! Finance–it ain’t due to the quality of work! It’s more because the financial media circus is all about more content.
Breaking news, earnings, scandals…bleh blah blah, all the most active stocks must be [...]
Having a form of employment in the field of writing can be a good experience. This could equate a greater time for yourself and your family since you can work according to your preferred pace and the amount of work will be determined by you. If you are interested to become an online writer for [...]
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I came across a very interesting Firefox plugin called Zemanta. The plugin comes into action only when you visit one of the supported platforms, e.g., WordPress, as an author. For instance, when I loaded up this blog’s page to write this article, I noticed Zemanta visible on the right sidebar. It not only claims to [...]
In todays world, writers have a plethora of utilities and resources available to help you gain a strong foothold on their potential markets. Being an aspiring writer, I currently use all of the services listed, and find them to really help me to improve as a writer, and a business man.1. Helium.comHelium is an ingenius writing comunity, capable of helping to stimulate the creative juices of anyone interested in writing. Essentially, you browse through the list of topics available. There is an endless amount of topics available, and if you don't find anything that interests you, you can start a topic of your liking. When you choose a topic and then you are included into a pool of other people who will be rated by the other writiers in the community against other articles in your categor
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died
There is just so much to do in Little Rock this weekend - that's a good thing.
Don't forget to take the kids (and the adult kids) to the Arkansas Literary Festival in Downtown Little Rock April 4th through the 6th.
Here's a list of the authors for children and young adults that I'm hoping to check out:
Jacques Couvillon The Chicken Dance (fiction, ages 9+)
Suzette Haden Elgin The Art of
Very serendipitously, I just came upon a post at GalleyCat that mentions how during and interview:"Wall Street Journal, Robert Hughes comes right out and asks [Jhumpa Lapiri], "Have you everthought of writing about non-Indians?" To which her answer is, actually, "Idon't think that way when I'm writing stories. I just write from the point ofview of some individual, trying to form a character who happens to be thosethings."Wow, no way, seriously? I'm offended and I wasn't there and don't even have nothing to do with it.This question would never come up if the author wasn't a person of color and a woman at that.Can you imagine - asking any of the "DWEM" who they wrote for? Of course not - because by default they wrote for everyone, while any one else - woman or other minority - write for 'the
Live streaming video from this month's Whidbey Island Writers Association open house. We expect to have storytelling and other 'open mic' type activities, plus you can eavesdrop. Red-hot, live streaming video, from Rockhoppers Coffeehouse and Folk Art Gallery.
Jill Johnson shared a nice story, heres the recording:
Write on, Whidbey Island!
Jack Speigel Memorial took place during the 2008 Easter Congress in Southend, England. Eight players (7 GM, 1 IM) competed in a round robin tournament, and at least five of them can be recognized as established and popular writers of chess books.
The England's youngest Grandmaster David Howell won...
Writing is simply one hobby that many people enjoy doing. For most of the time, this type of activity provides a person some ways to express his feelings and discuss his personal experiences towards life. But because of the good conditions today of the technology, many of the writers are not engaged in a business [...]
Jerry Bruckheimer's reboot of The Lone Ranger may have just received its golden ticket - screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. We've covered this project before, back in May of last year, but since then its been all quiet on the western front. Confirmed officially today is that Elliott and Rossio are in final negotiations to write the script for the live-action big-screen adaptation of the classic 1930s radio show. Besides writing Shrek, The Mark of Zorro, and Godzilla (two of which were also reboots) together, Elliott and Rossio were the duo that brought us all three of the Pirates of the Caribbean adventures. But are they capable of repeating that success? The Lone Ranger is essentially a very risky and troubled project. In a day and age where westerns continue to flop no mat
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has announced the 13 winners of its first-ever essay contest on Helium!The winners hail from all around the globe, including a Canadian mother of two, who talks about child labor in Congo; a California writer, remembering her Vietnam veteran brother who died from the effects of Agent Orange; and a counselor and adjunct professor from Colorado, who wrote on Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Read all the winning essays on the Pulitzer Contest Overview page .And read Pulitzer Center's article about all the winners; see what inspired them and what they learned while writing.But don't be left out – The Global Issues/Citizen Voices Essay Contest No. 2 has just launched. Your deadline is April 22!More Citizen Journalism Awards at HeliumThe time has come to rethink
The Office is my all time choice tv show at the moment and I was so unhappy when it was temporarily cancelled due to the writer’s strike. I agree that everyone wants more money but what about what the viewers crave? Anyway, I heard the strike is over and the writers are returning [...]
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Syracuse, New York indie band Ra Ra Riot, have made impressive traction within the indie rock/pop world during the past year, thanks largely to a widely-acclaimed debut EP, 'blogger buzz' and opening for groups like the Editors, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Bow Wow Wow. Ra Ra Riot lives up to their name delivering unabashed chamber indie pop performed with exuberance, the fine-tuned mix of guitars and drums with violins and cellos and a frantic, but jubilant, stage performance.In fact, the band caught the attention of many attendees, other musicians, bloggers and mainstream press at the 2008 South by Southwest Conference in Austin earlier this month.And what is even more admirable is that Ra Ra Riot was able to continue on after the tragic loss of their drummer, John Pike
You've got a brilliant idea for an article, but your research is pulling up only scant information. What do you do? Dive into the Deep Web!
The Deep Web, or Silent Web as it's sometimes called, is a hidden resource that every writer should know about. Whether you want information for an article, for an historical novel or even for a play or film script, the Deep Web may find it for you when
The Library’s closed and you need some facts to finish your article and you need them NOW! It’s time to search the Deep Web.
The Deep Web, or Silent Web as it’s sometimes called, is a hidden resource that every writer should know about. It could well be the answer when you want to track down [...]
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Whether we write songs, poetry, articles, essays or prose, we are all writers.
We all experience the highs and lows of writing in exactly the same way. We feel elated when we finish something and we feel frustrasted when we don’t.
Writers of all disciplines have a lot to learn from each other.
I want to introduce to [...]
Virtuousreality.com, my online magazine for middle and high school girls is hosting a writing contest for aspiring writers (of all ages!). From time to time, we feature articles from guest writers and in return offer a byline to the guest writer's homepage or blog. If you have a message for teen girls, this is a great way to expose your message to a subscriber base of over 6000 teen girls (on our mailing list alone) who receive email updates to the site every other week. Here are the basics:* Articles must be 450-700 words in length.* Article topics must be relevant and center around a verse or passage of scripture.* Articles should be turned in clean...no rough drafts, please.* Articles must be submitted prior to midnight on March 25th.We will announce three winners who will each receive
What shows did we miss out on?Actually, I'm thinking the Writers Strike did us all a huge favor in one way. It filtered out all the garbage that may have been given the green light had times not been so tough. So we were saved from having to endure ad after ad screaming, "Watch this new lame show! Watch it or you'll never fit in! It's horrible, and a waste of time, and you'll probably be stupider for watching it, but watch it anyway!!"On the other hand, there is one type of show that has notoriously defied the entire world of writers. That's right -- a reality show. I was afraid and dismayed during the writers strike, thinking that television would be taken over by "real" crudity. "Hey, sex sells." "Hey, violence sells." "Hey, awkward situations sell." Hey, the dumbing down of Am
There was an interesting article on Peter Roget, creator of the thesaurus, in The Times' Books section yesterday. I took a little exception at the following though:At its worst, [a thesaurus] is a crutch, for crossword enthusiasts, students desperate to imply a little learning in an essay crisis, headline writers, nervous after-dinner speakers and, yes, journalists.Headline writers and journalists? All the headline writers I've ever met have been journalists. Perhaps Ben Macintyre, who is the author of this piece, means 'headline writers and other journalists'.In the same way, it bugs me when people (including some of my colleagues) refer to 'production staff and journalists'. Sub editors and designers can be journalists too!Wikipedia agrees with me on this.
Since we were talking about Islam in Saudi Arabia in the last article I thought I would pass this along too!
RIYADH, March 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this...
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I know, that's what I said too. Yes sir, It seems that the Pro-Hillary people over at DailyKOS are not happy with the Blog's Pro-Obama Coverage. Quote: This is an open letter to the progressive Blogosphere... I’ve been posting at DailyKos for nearly 4 years now and started writing diaries in support of Hillary Clinton back in June of last year. Over the past few months I’ve noticed that things have become progressively more abusive toward my candidate and her supporters. I’ve put up with the abuse and anger because I’ve always believed in what our on-line community has tried to accomplish in this world. No more. DailyKos is not the site it once was thanks to the abusive nature of certain members of our community. I’ve
I graduated! Yes, one of important milestones of my life. Struggled little for the first job, very difficult for just out of college freshers to get a job but I could grab one. Spent 5-6 years with same company and never looked outside may be for reasons like already seen growth and good pay package. [...]
Is it even possible? A movie drought? In the games industry it’s quite common. Development cycles of 2 years are normal. So during the holidays there’s a flush of good games and in the new year there can be a drought for a couple of months.
To The Writers of Songs:
Hey. I’d just like to start off saying, congratulations. You do for a living what high school students everywhere fill whole notebooks with in hopes that their “deep” and “inspired” lyrics will one day make them rich, or at least cool. This, as you probably know, never works, [...]
Write Songs Like The Pros With This Powerful And Proven Technique By: Ron Balagot For many years, professional/top writers (writers in general...and not just songwriters) have been using a powerful and proven technique that separates them from beginners.And now, I'd like to share this secret technique with you.If you consistently apply the following 3 steps, you'll notice a big improvement in your songwriting:1. Gather as much information about your song idea as possible.Once you've come up with an idea for your song, write down (or type) all related information.For example: Song Type (ex. love song, inspirational song, up-tempo, etc.) Song's Title Your objective (what you wish to accomplish with the song) The message you are trying to bring across to your listeners Emotion you are tryin
Student Fitness has grown since it’s inception a few months ago and, realistically, it should no longer be a one man show. There is more demand for the niche content we offer here at Student Fitness than I am able to supply. I have been busy, I’m not going to lie, I have alot of other [...]
I don’t know the meaning of writer’s block and why, because I’m not writing for the world, but for me and my passion for storytelling. What I write, I want to loan to the world to read, but when it comes down to it, why do we write?
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The Hollywood writers are out in full force writing articles in the media and news using all possible sources to tell their side of the story. They want more money, well, I suppose that goes for about 95% of the people in our society, this is nothing new. Unfortunately, by them demanding more money and [...]
When we click on a URL, we expect to see a website that provides us information about the company or person and some more related details. And of course, the presence of impressive logos and pictures will add to the pleasure of browsing through that particular site.
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Technical writers jobs are few and far between, this type of work is well paying most of the time, but also highly involved and specialized. Most writers are usually adept at adapting to job requirements. When you think most technical writers jobs typically involve writing an instruction manual on a newly released product, you will [...]
If you want to make a full time living from your writing, then you need to learn how to market. There are some very easy, and free, techniques you can use to market your writing online, like blogs, articles, and search engines.
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Hmmmm - this is a tough one.
Ok - let me start off by saying that I have begun reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, which is also this month’s Oprah book. Also, Oprah and the author have begun discussing it live on the Internet Monday nights. As I read and study this [...]
Writing is one passion that cannot be considered to be a good paying job. Apparently, most people do not delegate this kind of work to be a significant option that can support the daily expenses of a person. However, due to the migration of companies towards electronic business, you can now expect to have an [...]
Some people are not really satisfied with the kind of jobs they have. In most cases, they will tend to look for alternatives which are more inclined to a less demanding and less stressful kind of work. In this case, an online job may just be the best option for them since this kind of [...]
These are the worse movies I’ve seen in a long time. Seriously, this is bad, I hated these movies so much that I won’t even put my usual amazon link with anchor text. I did however place trailers, which are 100 times better than these pieces of trash. What are some of the worst movies [...]
Writer's Block. This is the monster capping the fount whence exist the worlds that we materialize unto paper, and I have had my share of wrestling with this monster. Fortunately, for me, though I have countless times been to hell and back with depression due to frustration with the monster, I never fixated upon the idea that writing was not for me. On the contrary, the personal battles I fought all the more convinced me that writing self-professed "genius" work during the witching hours is absolutely worth it after all the arm-twisting, eye-poking hardships courtesy of this monster we call the Writer's Block. Moreover, to aid fellow comrades-in-ink, I have listed below techniques that I have used so far and have personally proven effective in getting the fount flowing again. 1. Talk ab
Virus writers are creating malware that is specially designed to infect users in a specific countryThe program is nasty. It deletes pictures and movies from your hard drive and then it teases you: "Even though Mr. Kaneko was found guilty, you are still using Winny. I really hate such people," taunts an animated woman on your screen.Welcome to the age of localized malware.Over the past two years virus writers have increasingly targeted their malicious programs to users in different regions of the globe, creating programs that are specially designed to infect users in countries like Japan, Brazil, China or Germany.Take the taunting Trojan, which goes after users of the Winny file-sharing program. (Winny creator Isamu Kaneko was convicted of abetting copyright violations in late 2006) Winny i
The entertainment world employs ghostwriters to pen personality biographies. Ghost writers are hired to work in business, academic circles, compose blogs, and on the web. The agent of celebrities advises the celebrities to pass their diary in the shape of a biography. Many famous writers have written their autobiographies but the huge number of famous [...]
The entertainment world employs ghostwriters to pen personality biographies. Ghost writers are hired to work in business, academic circles, compose blogs, and on the web. The agent of celebrities advises the celebrities to pass their diary in the shape of a biography. Many famous writers have written their autobiographies but the huge number of famous [...]
These might seem like no-brainers, but you'd be surprised how many people don't have or do something of these things. I've learned the hard way, which is probably not the best way. Regardless, there are things that writers really should have, whether it be a product or a feature turned on in a program, or whatever. So, the following list is a bunch of stuff you should be doing. Some of them do overlap, but they are options for you to think about:Extra ComputerIf you have two computers, keep a copy of all your writing on each one. This gives you that lovely buffer.MS Word Auto-saveTurn on your auto-save to every minute. For slower computers this can be a problem, but what happens when you've just written 500 words and your computer suddenly shuts off? Well, sometimes the recovery fea
If there is one thing almost all freelance writers have in common, it is that their productivity varies from day to day. Some days are great, targets are achieved, projects are completed and there were no problems. Other days, writers find themselves procrastinating.
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For those of you that are looking for freelance writing I though I would give you a head up on a site that is NO good, called The Writing Realm. A month ago I signed up and submitted an article. The Writing Realm is a site where you can submit articles and individuals can purchase them. Well, this is what happened. As of today I still haven’t been able to find my article. Every time I open the site it shows the same articles and that I’m still logged in which I’m not. I click on my account and nothing is there but my user name. In the forum there are only a handful of posts and the newest one is dated 12 weeks ago asking if this site is still working, no replies. I send several emails asking about there site and where my article went over 3 weeks ago and as of today I have never he
For those of you that are looking for freelance writing I though I would give you a head up on a site that is NO good, called The Writing Realm. A month ago I signed up and submitted an article. The Writing Realm is a site where you can submit articles and individuals can purchase them. Well, this is what happened. As of today I still haven’t been able to find my article. Every time I open the site it shows the same articles and that I’m still logged in which I’m not. I click on my account and nothing is there but my user name. In the forum there are only a handful of posts and the newest one is dated 12 weeks ago asking if this site is still working, no replies. I send several emails asking about there site and where my article went over 3 weeks ago and as of today I have never he
Writers, DVD, and Residuals One can say that the recent writer’s strike ended. It all started with the VHS residuals. The writers only receive 0.3% for the first million of the reportable gross, and 0.36% thereafter. When the DVD became the standard format, the percentage writers...
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One of the most fascinating things about the Internet is that it has become a vast compendium of knowledge for just about everything imaginable. For writers it is both a magical device and a curse. On the one hand a writer can find anything he or she needs (of course, when I say writer I mean anyone who thinks of themselves as a writer), but on the other hand it can become a distraction. While Google is certainly the most accurate and valuable search engine ever created, it isn't perfect and sometimes it can take a while to find things.And then, sometimes the Internet is a distraction that makes you happy. In come podcasts, one of the most interesting Internet creations I've come across aside from the slue of random flash games that seem to have absolutely no point other than to draw y
Current high school seniors, college undergraduates, and graduate level students who have a strong interest inpursuing a career in the "do-ityourself' market as a writer or journalist are eligible to apply, regardless of declared major.Contact National Association of Home and Workshop Writers, c/o Frank Brugmeier Company, 7501 Woodstream Terrace, North Syracuse, NY 13212-1921; 315-4580291.
If you are looking to break into freelancing a great way to start is by getting you name out there. One of the best ways to do this is to write for sites that market your work for you. One site that I really encourage people to check out is called Constant Content.
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There are many blogs written by striking WGA writers such as United Hollywood and LateShowWritersonStrike.com. You can find more blogs in this writers strike resource list. But what about all those character blogs that were written by WGA members? They have gone dark and they will stay that way as long as the WGA writers who wrote them remain on strike. A Wired post has comments from an entertainment attorney who says WGA members are prohibited from blogging on these fictional blogs. Read More...
The Hollywood Writers Guild strike that ended last week has been the longest strike in 20 years with the participation of 10,500 writers on the first day itself boosting the cause. The bone of contention for the writers has been copyrights and royalties from movies and TV programming distribution on the Internet, of which they were not a part of. The agreement that lead to the end of the strike reportedly confers a flat fee of $US1,200 for content that is streamed online for the first two years. This will be followed by a two percent pay of the distributor’s gross in the third year including a fee for downloading web content. The Internet is literally a cesspool of information. Individuals can access nearly anything and everything on the Internet if they but possess the means and
If you are having trouble writing there are a few things you can do to help overcome the dreaded "writers block". First take a few deep breaths, don't think of it as your business is going to go down the tubes, just remember that if you take your time and write something worth wild then the readers will come. Don't write just to get something on your post, blog or website. Remember this is your business and you are the one that needs to make it look professional. Take a walk, this may help clear your head and get those creative juices flowing. Still having trouble on what to write, start at the end and end at the start, like Jeapordy. Give the answer and think of the question... Don't forget that you are the boss, and this IS your business, you will be the one to make it what it will becom
