• 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 |

• How to Arouse Desire in Your Fiction Story - Whatever arouses desire in real life also arouses the same things in the world of fiction. Music, as Schopenhauer has shown, is a perfect analogy to life and, therefore, has a lesson for the writer. Go to Article |

• How to Condense Your Thoughts and Words to Write Better Articles - We often find it difficult to leave precious words out of our story. Nevertheless, if we desire to be writers, we must learn to harden our hearts and edit our writing judiciously. Go to Article |

• How to Write a Better True Story: A Simple Technique in Unity - The action that a writer reveals in his story is only a small part of the action that really took place. His selection shows his skill; almost any event makes a good story if the writer tells the proper parts of it. Go to Article |

• How to Write a Great Story of Fiction - As one who writes fiction, you wield the power to make your characters do and say what you want them to do and say, and to create positive and negative situations for them. Go to Article |

• How to Write a Marketable Article Based on Hobbies and Human Interest - Everyone experiences or has experienced strong emotional feelings; therefore, almost any event that appeals to the reader's emotions is an excellent subject to aim for in your writing. Go to Article |

• How to Write a Marketable Article Based on Timely Events - The first requirement of writing marketable articles is that you must choose a timely topic that creates a lot of interest. No matter how well you write the article, its subject must zero in on the publication's readership. 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 |

• Non-Fiction Writing: How to Generate Interest in Your True Story - The point or moral of a true story is important. The writer, because he is dealing with real life, cannot construct action and episodes to bring out a moral, as the fiction writer can. 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 |

• Poetry Writing - a Minor Art of Seriousness - Poetry writing will always be a minor art, which the public holds in minor esteem. The rise and decline of the creative writer nowadays is usually something like this: He begins with verse—writes poetry, juvenile versicles, and humorous, preferably dialect, entering into the realms of rhyme. Go to Article |

• Practice Makes Perfect: Hints for Young Writers - As an unused muscle becomes smaller for lack of exercise, the faculty of expressing thoughts also diminishes if you do not exercise it regularly. Write a little each day, and at the end of a year you will do better work than at the beginning. Go to Article |

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