Find Your Writing Niche
Find Your Writing Niche: Write Reviews to Improve Your Writing
March 3, 2015Publishers, editors and agents recommend writers read as much as possible. One way to accomplish both reading and writing at the same time is to write reviews. Reviewers learn what works and what ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Enter Contests to Win
February 17, 2015Contests fascinate writers because they want to know where they fit among their peers. I have judged contests in the past and did it again this year. I like judging because: I see how other ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Suggest a column to an editor
February 3, 2015I've always enjoyed reading columns, primarily political and humorous ones, and decided to ask my then-editor if I ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Critiquing
January 19, 2015Offer constructive suggestions in critiques. Cynthia Price’s December 30, 2014 blog “Three Words” at cynthiapri ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Set Goals for 2015
January 6, 2015At the end of each year, I look back and assess my writing accomplishments. Then I look forward and set the goals for the New Year. I didn’t reach all the goals I had set for myse ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Investigative Journalism
December 16, 2014One of the aberrations of the recent cover story in “Rolling Stone” magazine, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” is the lack of confirming information. ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas, Women’s Fiction Writers Association
December 9, 2014I have another Holiday gift suggestion: membership in Women’s Fiction Writers Association. This online group has the subtitle: For aspiring, debut and multi-published authors, which truly ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas
November 18, 2014People will be asking you for gift suggestions now, and here is one for writers, especially beginning writers: membership in a writers’ group. The groups mentioned below aren’t strictly ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Politics
November 11, 2014I was asked to write the newsletter for my town when I lived in Illinois, and I accepted because it was an opportunity to hone my writing skills and get published. It wasn’t my favorite freelanc ...
Find Your Writing Niche: Teens and writing
October 21, 2014Writers are inquisitive sorts. They are always eavesdropping on people at the next table, reading obscure texts or nuzzling to unearth a fascinating tidbit. In effect, they are looking for the n ...