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If you are interested in selling articles to magazines and newspapers, that’s great. So am I. Everyone wants to see their article and byline in a nice glossy magazine or a major newspaper. It’s one of the goals that I have at the top of my list of things to accomplish. To me it is […]

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Jody Mace tagged me for this six word memoir challenge.
It is time to take a small break and have a little fun with your writing. Here are the rules to the tag writing game.

With just six words, write a title for your personal memoir.
Go publish your title creation on your own blog.
Include a link back to the blog […]

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We are all familiar with the saying “Practice Makes Perfect.” That saying definitely applies to a freelance writer. The more you practice writing, the better your writing skills will become. I have read that truth in every single writing book I have read. Many expert writers declare writing practice to be essential for success as […]

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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a list of examples of writing errors to avoid? After you finished a rough draft of an article, you could scan over the list to make sure you didn’t make any obvious errors. Well, there is one resource online that will help you avoid some of the most […]

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A query letter is a very concise pitch of an article or book idea. Authors use query letters to line up assignments before they even write the article. But many professional writers do some preliminary research and gathering of reference materials before writing and submitting a query letter to a magazine, newspaper, publisher, or literary […]

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You may be asking yourself “How do I become a freelance writer?” Do I need to go to college? Well, the answer is no. That would be great, of course, but unnecessary. There are many writers who never went to college. Some didn’t even graduate from high school. So a freelance writing career can […]

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