Max overcame his writer’s block.
Back to Basics Stop thinking of yourself as trapped in front of a blank screen. Your fingers refuse to move, your brain refuses to think, your spirit refuses to inspire. Think of taking each element of your writing project as a block, a building block. The next time you face a blank page, think beyond […]
Editing Web Content Services Promise, “Less is More”. Editing anything, particularly web content, means relevant brevity. People surf the web in search of answers to specific questions, concerns, wants, or needs. Successful websites provide those answers in as few words as possible. No one has the time to plow through flowery prose, adjective laden descriptions,
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No! Hell no! Never pay anyone to read your work… Never, never, never pay anyone to read anything you write in any form. PLUS a bonus just for you! Change nothing in your ms (manuscript) unless: You sincerely believe (notice I did NOT say think) it’s an improvement, you must BELIEVE it improves your work.
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“And what do you do?” “I’m a writer….” “Have I read anything you’ve written?” Overheard at every party you will attend now and in the future. It takes ego to declare yourself a professional writer, regardless of the price per word you earn. Many of us, ok most of us, at one time or another
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Tell the truth, please. To write anything requires an ego with a willingness to share (and often not in the nicest of ways). To write publicly adds the ability to shout “Incoming!” while ducking rejection slips* delivered by email, snail mail, or robo calls from your agent. Unlike the professional (aka received payment) writing I
How to Finish Your Project: Prioritize it! Inspiration, Perspiration, then Priority. Coachwrite • 0 Comments There are as many reasons to put down a project as there are to complete it. When you want to finish a project, you finish it. Priority is one of my favorite words. When your project is a priority, it completes itself. There are three
Courses = Cost = Accountability Coachwrite • 0 Comments “How to” courses have their place in every marketplace. The acceptable formats for submissions of articles, manuscripts, proposals, plays, screenplays are available in books, classes, videos, and courses. Take your work and yourself seriously, so take the strain, and submit your work in the appropriate format. Learning the
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Publishing Options What to do with your finished manuscript now that you’ve put the final period on “The Great American Novel”, or “How to Survive Climate Change” or “My Life as a Recovering Republican”? Now you seek a film deal, right? Sorry, I got ahead of myself. You’re exploring your publishing options. 1)The really good
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Take all the creativity out of writing personally or professionally. If you are a technical writer, journalist, historian, essayist then accuracy, integrity, and attention to specific detail is part of the task. (Please note the absence of the word “job”.) The “work”, “task”, “assignment” refers to the challenge when a writer faces a blank page.
Bad Agent is Always Worse than No Agent Marty Shapiro, of Shapiro Lichtman Agency, Los Angeles California told me exactly that when he wanted to represent me in television and film writing. Believe me, he ought to know ☺ In writing for television or film, an agent is a necessary evil: because he or she
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