CREATIVE WRITING

• Write to Excite, Delight and Entice by Suzi Elton - When you do your business writing, consider incorporating the principle of Excite, Delight and Entice. What this means is that you emotionalize your writing in such way that your readers cannot only picture themselves living a more satisfactory life, but can feel the excitement and satisfaction they would have. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Feature Stories With Heart by Shannon Philpott - Feature stories have heart. Feature stories have warmth. Most of all, feature stories force a writer/reporter to evaluate the human side of a community - beyond the facts, beyond the opinions - to find the spirit of the story. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• How to Blast Your Way Through Big Writing Projects by Akweli Parker - It's a day before deadline and everything seems more interesting than that whopper report you're supposed to be finishing. The yawning kitten video on YouTube. The Get Rich on the Internet online sales pitches. Folding laundry. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Make Metaphors Work For You by Marlene Caroselli - It's been said that he who speaks well, fights well. From a business-writing perspective, your "fights" are typically attempts to persuade or influence others. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

FREELANCE WRITING

• Comedy Writing - I'm Funny You Just Lack a Sense of Humor by Chip Tudor - In humor writing, the first person that has to think something is funny is you. If you don't think what you've written is funny, probably no one else will either. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Are You Sure You Are a Writer? by Dr. Gary S. Goodman - As I see it, very few people "write" for a living. If they're novelists, they're entertainers. They entertain, for a living. Most novels are read for pure enjoyment, for pleasure. Readers don't purchase words, per se, or seek to make a donation to needy, deserving, authors. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Self-Editing - A Challenge That's Worth the Time and Effort by Helen Wilkie - This is the first in a series of three articles about editing your own writing. Too many written messages are sent out without the writer even reading them carefully, much less editing them. That's a big mistake, because good editing improves even the best writing. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• So You Wanna Be a Proofreader - Ten Tips For Better Proofreading by Tom Aaron - The title in this article should grab your attention for one of two reasons: you are interested in being a proofreader or you notice the language is inappropriate. "Wanna" is not standard English. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

FREELANCING

• Six Tips For Winning Story Contests by John Yeoman - How do you win a creative writing contest? More important, from the judge's point of view, how do you judge one? Those were the questions I put to myself when I set up a short fiction contest in 2009 NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• Generating Passive Income Through Your Writing by Leonard Sampson - Earning passive income on-line can be a trying and difficult process. even for some of the best writers around. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

• The Cons of Freelancing - When Clients Don't Pay by Lisa A Mason - Anyone who works for themselves at home like me will understand that making money is a process. You have to complete the work, wait for review and wait for final payments for your services. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |

QUERY LETTERS

• What Makes a Good Magazine Query? by Jennifer Carsen - Any successful magazine writer will tell you that query letters are the key to breaking in to the business. NEW! (Added: 8-Mar-2010) Detail | Go to Article |