• Achieving Success in Journalistic News Writing - One of the chief characteristics of journalistic writing is timeliness and relevance. It has little time to talk about the past, except in comparison with the present. NEW! Go to Article |

• Freelance Writing Advice: Writing Descriptive Articles for Editors - One of the most in-demand areas of freelance writing is supplying editors with descriptive articles. If a writer with good writing skills is attentive, discriminative, and has a "flair" for topical articles, he or she has the characteristics for producing such work. NEW! Go to Article |

• Freelance Writing for Pet Magazines - You can find a magazine for almost every pet and every pet passion out there. Do you love cats and own a few? Magazines like Cat Fancy or Cat & Kitten will be a great market for you. Are you a horse fanatic? You could write for Equus. Do you know anything about sled dogs? How about writing for Mush? NEW! Go to Article |

• The Art of Writing Effectively: Style, Passion and Story Building - Professional writers write effectively by reason of their individuality. You can strive to become their equal—not by imitating them—but by developing your own individuality. NEW! Go to Article |

• A Freelance Writer's Point of View on Unfair Publishing and Payment Practices - At a recent writer's meeting, I participated in a discussion group about the relations between editors and unknown freelance writers. A retired editor on the panel, who had served as managing editor of a large city news magazine, explained things from his perspective. Go to Article |

• Brevity is the Soul of Wit in Writing Poetry and Short Stories - "Brevity is the soul of wit," and the same may be said of literature—especially of verse and short story. Go to Article |

• Creative Writing: Method and Mood, Sanity and Insanity - Labor adds value to the rarest gem. But it cannot create the gem! Writers produce the best literary work when under the subtle influence of the "mood." You can improve your writing skills by observing its "method." Go to Article |

• English Grammar Rules: And I Want to Write, But I Don't Know How Yet! - Every writer and speaker does not want their sentences to lose its force. A writer should always seek clearness, distinctness, simplicity; and if he adds to these elements the quality of movement—of connectedness—he strengthens his thoughts. Go to Article |

• Freelance Writing: Writing for Automotive Trade Journals - Editors of technical journals gratefully invite freelance writers to write tech-related articles for their educated readers. For the past two years I have been marketing articles to automobile publications. Go to Article |

• Hopeful Freelancing: Write Because You Have Something to Say - To such hopeful writers, do not write expecting early fame and do not write merely for money. Write because you have something that somebody really wants to read. Go to Article |

• Information, Not Genius, Will Get Your Writing Published - The value of information is more important than the value of intellect if you want to write for consumer magazines. Most young writers start out with the intention of impressing the world with their genius. Herein lies the mistake. I can illustrate my point by giving the lesson which taught me to write of the everyday occurrences of life. Go to Article |

• Landing a Writing Gig at a Big Newspaper - When I wanted to break into newspaper work as a stringer or part-time journalist to supplement my income, I applied to a big city paper—The Boston Globe. In a brief interview with its editorial manager, he shared some wisdom which should interest any general writer whose mind trends in the same direction. Go to Article |

• My Editor Says I Must Be Funny to Write - My first book was an accident. Germinated by the merest flash of an idea; thought over, developed and amplified unconsciously. I hardly ever sat down to write, that something— a sentence, a thought, an incident—concerning my book did not push its way into my mind. Go to Article |

• Narrative Prose: The Elements of Description and Narration - All art is selective in its action. Here again we can observe that principle. A writer chooses the most characteristic features to describe a battle, a landscape, or a mental agony. He must avoid enumeration of detail... Go to Article |

• On Being a Freelance Writer: Rejections of the Sinful Kind - It is not the acme of editorial discourtesy to return a manuscript or reject a submission without a word- either printed, typed, or emailed. It seems to say: "Your story, poem, or novel pretty much sucks." Go to Article |

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