Find Your Writing Niche
NFPW is Pro Communicators
September 9, 2014NFPW is Pro Communicators NFPW, National Federation of Press Women, was founded in 1937 and has galloped into the 21st century accepting everyone in the field of communicati ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Take Pictures to go with the Story
September 2, 2014Editors may ask writers to submit pictures with their stories, so there are a few pointers beginning writers should remember. 1)Get a “real” camera. Sure, cell phones can take clear pictu ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Enter my Contest
August 26, 2014Many people avoid entering contests for fear of not winning. Bury that attitude for several reasons: 1)You learn to write on deadline. 2)You learn to follow instructions. 3)It can motivate you t ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Captions, The lifeblood of Pictures
August 19, 2014A picture is worth a 1,000 words, but the purpose of the caption is to clarify the scene. I try to make the caption as short as possible, which can be a challenge. Things to remember when writi ...
North Carolina Press Club moves forward
August 5, 2014North Carolina Press Club reconstructed its Web site and has a new look at www.ncpressclub.com. It also developed a Facebook page at ...
Blog Tag: The Writing Life
June 24, 2014My thanks to Joan Leotta for inviting me to participate in this blog tag. Joan is a story performer and a versatile writer with published works and awards in a variety of genres: essays, feature ...
Find your Writing Niche: Thank you, Great Britain
June 17, 2014This spring my husband and I spent three weeks in Europe and visited seven countries. We didn’t worry about a language barrier because the rest of the world speaks English. I own several forei ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Summer and Writing
June 10, 2014The warm weather helps us relax, and it’s easier to let writing slide during these months. Instead of putting off that novel or feature story until fall, use the summer to motivate yourself to g ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Take pictures of people and places
June 3, 2014I often have to take pictures of the people I interview, so I carry my camera with me to every story I cover. Sometimes the publication sends its own photographer. Not a problem. But I still need ...
Find Your Writing Niche: WordPress and Pat Haggerty
May 27, 2014WordPress makes sense when Patrick "Pat" Haggerty explains it. This teacher/workshop leader knows the details, understands the nuances and helps students problem-solve. He starts from the b ...