OK, so you’ve got a manuscript completed and ready to market. Now comes the hard part. Managing your submissions.
Formerly writers had to do research on potential representation, prepare the manuscript for submission, print it out and ship it. Then the organized writer would set up a submission tracking routine — or perhaps [...]
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How many times have you heard the recommendation that serious writers should maintain a blog or a personal website. I’m guessing many of you are already actively engaged. This post is especially for you, with some information that may help you improve your blogging experience.
FREE BLOG EDITORS
Most bloggers probably just use the internal [...]
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I JUST FINISHED watching the season premier of the new reality show on CBS following the Super Bowl [Yea, Saints!] — Undercover Boss, I think it’s called. I was looking forward to it, after a sneak peek offered a few days ago on Oprah. The show stirred thoughts about the responsibilitiy of writers [...]
This blog is now over three years old. Our goal has been to become one of the major resource centers on the internet for writers. Our new design now emphasizes the mass of information we have compiled and makes it all more accessible to our readers. We hope that you will subscribe for our email [...]
I am delighted to learn that this blog has been included in 30 Finest Creative Writing Blogs of 2009, an annual list by Online Colleges and Universities, a database for students. You may wish to check the annotated list, as you may find a valuable resource there. Just scroll down to the article.
MIND MAPPING
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One way of increasing your productivity while writing is to create a conducive environment. That goes beyond the physical setting of your computer room. Writers can create a setting right within one’s computer in two ways: hide away all the distractions a computer presents, and create a restful aural ambience.
Lifehacker, one of the [...]
Like a true geek, I followed the Apple event today via the minute-by-minute live blogging from Gizmodo. It was complete with photos, including shots of the graphics shown on-screen to the audience. At first, the “secret device” looked like a bigger iPod, built for the “A” crowd, hence its name ipAd, rather than the ipOd [...]
There are two things I do first thing in the morning: I check my GTD agenda to get my bearings — and I check icurrent to read the news I’m interested in. News aggregators are not new, of course. I’ve tried a number of them. But nothing matches the new service for breaking information most [...]
In my three years of blogging, I do not remember another month with so much important breaking news for writers. First there was the Consumer Electronics Show with its flood of e-book readers. More recently it’s been a series of free and discounted software offers for writers. And now there’s InkPop and 100 tools for [...]
Well, the parade of free and discounted software for writers continues. History Explorer, an especially important software for writers, will be discounted 70-percent this Friday — available for only $5.99 — via Bits du Jour. I’ve been using this software for over a year and consider it indispensible. Download it today for a [...]
Jimmy White, one of this blog’s readers, has just passed along to me advance notice of a free giveaway of AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter, a software that can be very useful to writers. He picked up the rare advance notice about this giveaway from Online PR News [by the way, that's a service that [...]
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Yes, newspapers are laying off staff and even shutting down right and left. But, in case you haven’t noticed, the internet, which has helped kill off newspapers, is spawning a new opportunity: the HyperLocal News Website. It’s yet another example of big do-it-all enterprises giving way to niche players. Writers take note! There’s [...]
