WritingThoughts

Headline after headline proclaims the sad news–writing skills are deteriorating. Blame the texting. Blame social media. Blame the schools. Blame whoever or whatever you want–it doesn’t really matter. The facts are the same. The sad truth is that if you can’t write well you’ll have fewer opportunities in life. Communication skills are key to success.

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By Leslie A. Joy While technology has made finding writing work and publishing your own material easier than ever, it comes with its own set of problems. Namely–distractions.

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A few weeks ago, we discussed how to get the most out of social media and why it may not be working for you. If you’re trying to get started with social media marketing, you may be wondering what tool to choose. Is there a “best” social media marketing tool for freelance writers?

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The other day I had an interesting discussion with several of my Twitter friends. During the course of the discussion one of them made a comment that Twitter was not sending enough work their way. Afterwards, I thought about the comment and realized that some writers may not really understand how to find work through […]

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By Leslie A. Joy If you’re a writer, you tend to collect information. If you’re niche writer, you tend to collect information that you KNOW you’re going to use a few times. The collecting part is easy—it’s how to organize those collections that’s hard.

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They are at it again – those misguided individuals who claim that they can write a quality 500-word article in five minutes. Most experienced writers realize this claim is ridiculous, so normally I wouldn’t even mention it except for one sad fact: a few unfortunate companies have been taken in by the so-called writers who […]

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Shh! Don’t tell anyone. . . I play favorites. I didn’t start out to do it, but that’s just that way that it has worked out. You see, I try to visit as many different blogs about freelancing and about writing as I can. I’ve shared many of those visits with you, and I have […]

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Is your writing timeless? By timeless I mean, will your content be meaningful to readers ten or twenty years from now? An example of writing that is already losing its meaningfulness would be an article about how to program a VCR. Or going back even further, a magazine article about how to operate an eight-track […]

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Do you ever struggle to figure out what to write or blog about? Have you ever wrestled with the infamous writer’s block? Do the best ideas for articles and blog posts seem to come at the most inconvenient times? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then know that you’re not alone. Other […]

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I’ve had a curiousity about self-publishing for a time now. Actually, I think that most writers are curious about it. When the opportunity came up to review a copy of Peter Bowerman‘s new book, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher (affiliate link, I receive a small fee for each book purchased), I jumped on it. I confess that […]

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