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Write

Before you can hope to publish and promote, you have to get the basics of writing under your belt. You’ll need to learn a few skills, read a lot of books, probably attend a few courses, conferences and seminars, and share your work with other writers. That is, if you really want to publish.

If all you’re really interested in is getting the words out of your head, and you don’t plan on sharing your work with anyone other than your family and friends, then you can probably get away with the odd misspelling or grammatical error. Maybe they won’t point them out, and hurt your feelings. If you’re looking for a wider audience, though, start with the basics, and never forget them.

This section of the site is designed to help you with every aspect of writing, from choosing the kind of writing you want to focus on (short fiction, novel, poetry, non-fiction books, technical manuals, web pages, magazine articles) to polishing your craft.

I’ll be posting links to the best books, sites, courses and conferences for would be writers that I have come accross with reviews, and possibly criticisms. If you have a valuable writers’ resource you would like to see included, let me know and I’ll do my best to cover it.

I’ll also be discussing online writing as a potential career, and one that is often overlooked, or underestimated. So I’ll be discussing the various article directories and content mills that I’ve come accross and telling you which ones I think are worth your time and effort, and which ones to steer clear of. If you have experiences with any of them, and are prepared to disclose your earnings (to me at least, I won’t share that information with site readers unless you’re happy for me to do so) then get in touch with your reviews or comments.

If you’re serious, your online writing career starts here.

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Posts on Writing

• ePublishing Week in Brief – May 6th to 11th 2012
• The Business of Writing for Children: An Award-Winning Author’s Tips on Writing Children’s Books and Publishing Them, or How to Write, Publish, and Promote a Book for Kids
• Show, Don’t Tell: Five Secrets to Solving the #1 Problem in Fiction Writing
• Plotting Simplified: Story Structure Tips For The Break-Out Novelist (Writing With Excellence)
• Creative Writing for People Who Can’t Not Write
• The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
• Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction
• The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing (The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
• Creative Writing Guidebook
• Creative Writing and the New Humanities
• The Soul of Creative Writing
• Creative Writing Handbook
• The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
• Creative Writing the Easy Way (Barron’s E-Z)
• Write Good or Die
• The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
• Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing
• Jump Write In! : Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Classrooms, Grades 6-12
• Gotham Writers’ Workshop Fiction Gallery: Exceptional Short Stories Selected by New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School
• Everyday Creative Writing
• Short and Sweet: Quick Creative Writing Activities that Encourage Imagination, Humor and Enthusiasm for Writing
• The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
• Dan Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Volume 2)
• In a Field of Words: A Creative Writing Text
• Creative Writing DeMYSTiFied
• The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing
• Just About Write: How To Master Creative Writing
• The Everything Creative Writing Book: All you need to know to write novels, plays, short stories, screenplays, poems, articles, or blogs (Everything Series)
• The Creative Writing Guide: A Path to Poetry, Nonfiction, and Drama
• On Creative Writing
• How To Make Money Writing: Your Guide on How To Get Paid To Write Including How To Score Creative Writing Jobs, Article Writing Jobs, Content Writing Jobs, Technical Writing Jobs
• The College Handbook of Creative Writing
• Creative Writing Mfa Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students (Revised & Updated)
• Crossroads: Creative Writing in Four Genres
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creative Writing, 2nd Edition
• The Everything Creative Writing Book: All You Need to Know to Write a Novel, Play, Short Story, Screenplay, Poem, or Article (Everything (Language & Writing))
• The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing
• The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students
• Portable MFA in Creative Writing (New York Writers Workshop)
• Rip the Page!: Adventures in Creative Writing
• The Word Weaver’s Grimoire (Creative Writing Tips and Tricks)
• Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York’s Acclaimed Creative Writing School
• Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
• Creative Writing–And How To Do It.
• 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More
• Writing for change, journaling and reflecting through creative writing
• EFT Tapping for Creative Writing: 7 Days to Unlock Creativity to Become a Better Writer
• Petrus Ramus, outlining software and the non-linear creative writing process
• Andy Evans & Vesna Kovac’s First Tentative Steps into the Writer’s World Part 2
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 10
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 9
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 8
• The Indie Author Companion Notes Guide Day 7
• My Sample Edit from Writershelper.com results
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 6
• Upload to iWriteReadRate.com and win a General Report from Cornerstones
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 5
• Get Liquid Story Binder Free or Half Price
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 4
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 3
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 2
• The Indie Author Guide Companion Notes Day 1
• Resources section
• Writing with BISAC book categories in mind
• Using the External Google Keywords Tool
• The Indie Author Guide
• Write, Publish, Promote