Find Your Writing Niche
Find Your Writing Niche: Set Goals for 2015
January 6, 2015At the end of each year, I look back and assess my writing accomplishments. Then I look forward and set the goals for the New Year. I didn’t reach all the goals I had set for myse ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Investigative Journalism
December 16, 2014One of the aberrations of the recent cover story in “Rolling Stone” magazine, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” is the lack of confirming information. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas, Women’s Fiction Writers Association
December 9, 2014I have another Holiday gift suggestion: membership in Women’s Fiction Writers Association. This online group has the subtitle: For aspiring, debut and multi-published authors, which truly ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas
November 18, 2014People will be asking you for gift suggestions now, and here is one for writers, especially beginning writers: membership in a writers’ group. The groups mentioned below aren’t strictly ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Politics
November 11, 2014I was asked to write the newsletter for my town when I lived in Illinois, and I accepted because it was an opportunity to hone my writing skills and get published. It wasn’t my favorite freelanc ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Teens and writing
October 21, 2014Writers are inquisitive sorts. They are always eavesdropping on people at the next table, reading obscure texts or nuzzling to unearth a fascinating tidbit. In effect, they are looking for the n ...
Find Your Writing Niche: “Dear Lucky Agent” Contest
October 14, 2014So many contests, so little time! Here’s a contest that is ideal for those who have a completed novel in the women’s fiction genre, and there are plenty of you out there. The contact info ...
Find Your Writing Niche: 5 steps to starting a blog
October 7, 2014Writers want to write—all the time. Beginning writers can start with a blog. Step 1: Choose a topic Write 25 things you are interested in doing, e.g., traveling, swimming, jogging, se ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Get published: Volunteer your services
September 30, 2014Beginning writers have a built-in way to hone their writing skills: volunteer their services in any number of ways: Write press releases for nonprofits. Post book reviews on Goodreads an ...
Cut, cut, cut to get published
September 16, 2014Beginning writers often say they couldn’t possibly cut one word from their story, novel or nonfiction piece. Not true. NOTE: Every story whether fiction or nonfiction, be it a novel, histo ...