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2024 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering
Hello, 2024! New year, new opportunities. Here are updated writing contests for 2024 that will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Along with the chance to win some money, you get to have your work…
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Creative Writing Contests and Competitions 2014
For a change of pace from looking for freelance writing gigs working for clients, why don’t you check out these upcoming writing contests and competitions?
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Starting a Freelance Writing Career as a Senior
If you google Am I too old to become a freelance writer or Is it too late to write, you’ll see tons of similar questions in writing communities. The most striking thing? You could assume the people asking those are 60, 70, 80, or above, but no! They are 30, 35, or 40, in general.…
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10 Winning Tips For Writing Irresistible Blog Post Introductions
What is a blog post introduction? Whether you’re writing a blog post for a client or for your website the introduction is a way to hook your audience and convey what your writing is here for. It can’t afford to be boring or irrelevant, and it has to have some kind of ‘wow’ factor. As…
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3 Most Common Reasons People Start Freelance Writing
The internet is the most common place that people turn to as a source of information. There is a blog or article for just about any subject you can think of. From stamp collecting to science experiments, you’ll find a source of writing out there talking about exactly what you want to find out more…
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Enter a Writing Contest to Challenge Yourself in 2016
The New Year is a time to look for new challenges, and one way to change things up is to enter a writing contest.
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Enter a Writing Contest: a Way to Share your Work and Make Some Money
One way to share your work and get it noticed is to enter a writing contest. You may think that the odds of winning are about the same as winning the lottery, but keep in mind that many people may read and ad for a contest and decide the same thing. That fact will eliminate…
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My Writing Spot Giveaway
Thank you again to those of you who participated in the previous giveaway, and for those who wanted the iPad app, here’s another chance. This time, we are giving away codes for a useful writing tool for the iPad and the iPhone: My Writing Spot. My Writing Spot is a simple yet effective tool for…
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Win Codes for Chapters – Notebooks for Writing!
What is your most important writing tool? Many years ago, the most common answers would probably have been “notebook” or “notepad” and “pen” or “pencil”. I wouldn’t be surprised if majority of modern answers include laptop, desktop computer, and iPad (or any other tablet for that matter). This is especially true for those of us…
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Writing Success Resource Center
Copyright 101 for Freelance Writers by Jonathan Bailey As freelance writers, you earn your living creating, selling and editing copyrighted worked. As such, copyright law is, quite literally, the law that governs your business and is perhaps the single most important area of the law for any freelance writer to understand. However, so many freelance…
