Archive for November, 2008
Anyone Can Write an Essay!
OK…so you have to write an essay, and you’re not sure how to do it? No problem! When the process is broken down, its as easy as 1-2-3!
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5 Reasons to Start Writing a Research Paper in Summer
Find out 5 proven reasons to start writing a research paper in summer and learn how to make your vacation even more exciting.
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A Writer’s Guide To Finding Freelance Writing Jobs
Writers are very much in demand these days because of the rising demands for their online content. Many even freelance full-time.
Freelance writing extends to several different categories. If you insist on a byline, you may have difficulty finding a lot of paying jobs. Byline jobs are out there if you look. However, the most money to be made is from working as a web ghostwriter.
Article writers concentrate on providing articles for websites, newsletters and blogs. Generally, articles for the web are between 400 and 800 words each. Ebook ghostwriters provide clients with full-length books on a variety of topics.
Freelance writers need to be professional in their online presence. This means spell-checking all writing, including e-mails to clients. A personal e-mail address with a goofy handle will make you appear unprofessional. Readers online have short attention spans, and you’ll need to keep your sentences short and your paragraphs clear.
Keywords are words that have been selected by your client to be used in the article. These words have been selected because they are Internet search terms and your client wants their website to show up for those search terms. Keyword articles will require you to use the word or phrase a certain number of times in the article. Experienced web writers have developed ways to make the keywords flow naturally into their articles.
Below are some of the areas and industries where freelance writers are needed.
MAGAZINES
Freelance writers are frequently hired to contribute articles for magazines. The rate for every article is quite generous especially if it involves interviewing.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
Another area where you can get freelance work is the newspapers, where editors often hire freelance correspondents (sometimes called “stringers”).
ONLINE WRITERS
As mentioned before, online writers are in demand nowadays because writers are needed to update website content. Magazines that maintain their own websites hire freelance writers just to do online content.
BLOGGING
Blogging is yet another way to make money as a freelance writer. Blogs are an ever-growing form of Internet media. Blog writers generally provide their own content. Once you become an experienced blogger, you can apply for blogging jobs and post for other people.
GHOSTWRITING
When you work as a freelance ghostwriter you provide writing services for clients who will then use the work as their own. Ghostwriting is a lucrative opportunity, especially when you focus on web writing. For the most part, the Internet is a text and image based platform. Companies and individuals who run websites constantly need text to make their websites attractive to visitors. You can find work on writing message boards, freelance writing job sites, and classified ad sites.
1 comment November 26, 2008
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Art of Essay Writing
I love essays! I enjoy reading them, checking them, teaching my students how to generate them, but most of all I enjoy writing them! I hope after reading my article you will understand. Let’s start our trip from a short background. The word “essay” originated from French word “essai” which means “attempt, effort, and sketch”. And this translation reflects the essence of the task you are assigned at your college.
Really, it is your personal attempt to give a challenging sketch on some engrossing issue. Unlike other academic assignments, essay suggests freedom of your creative work. Essay is your own point of view on something you have heard, read, seen etc. The forefront of the essay is your personality, your thoughts, feelings and your life position.
You have a unique chance to enter a reasonable controversy with other authors, as the teacher expects you to show your erudition in the subject. The title of essay does not strictly depend on the essay topic: the title can also serve as a starting point in your reflection; it can express the relation of the whole and the parts.
A free composition of essay is subject to its inner logic, it is an emphasized position of the author. The style of the essay is marked by its aphoristic, paradoxical and figurative character. To convey your personal perception of the world you should: employ a lot of capturing examples, draw parallels, choose analogies, and use various associations.
One of the characteristic features of essay is the wide usage of numerous expressive means, such as metaphors, parable and allegoric figures, symbols and comparisons. Your can enrich and make your essay more interesting if you include in it: unpredictable conclusions, unexpected turning points, interesting clutches of events. Essay presents a dynamic interchange of author’s arguments, supporting evidence and questions.
Be brief, but at the same time avoid absolute simplicity. No one will like reading a monotonous narration. Completing the draft of your essay, read it aloud, yes, aloud. You will be struck by the number of rough details in your essay. If you have to say something new, original and exclusive, then the genre of essay is your genre.
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5 Reasons Every Writer Needs a Web Site
If you are serious about your writing, in fact even if you aren’t, you need a web site. Let me repeat that — every writer needs a web site!
1. Your web site can serve as your showcase and portfolio. It can include your biography, experience, and writing credits as well as copies of your work or better yet–links to your published work. So many queries today are done electronically and it much easier to simply include a URL for editors or prospective clients to visit than to try to attach copies and/or a long list of urls on various locations.
2. Your web site can be your creative outlet. Perhaps your bread-and-butter writing is in the financial field but you really enjoy writing poetry or about fly fishing. Then you can publish those pieces on your web site to receive exposure or simply to reward yourself for a job well done.
3. You can demonstrate your expertise in your particular field or fields by demonstrating the number of articles you have written in that area as well as any experience and/or education you may offer in this field. Listing your articles or putting a selection on your site will get your name linked with various key words surrounding that topic in the search engines.
4. For writers, your name is your brand and you need to continually have your name out there and furthermore you need to have it connected with your areas of expertise. The more articles and essays you have published on the web then the more times your name gets out there for readers, clients, and editors. Owning your own web site (deannamascle.com for example) is like owning your own billboard on the internet superhighway.
5. You can earn money with your own web site and your writing even without getting paid by publications. Place Pay-Per-Click ads on your site or sign up for some affiliate programs to advertise on your site. I hope I’ve convinced you that a web site can be an asset to your writing career, but I must warn you that web mastering can be very addictive to us creative types. Don’t let it overtake your writing time.
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3 Ways You Can Profit From Giving Your Writing Away
I recently made an important discovery that I just couldn’t wait to share. You can make money by giving your writing away. You have to do the work yourself and it will take some time to set everything in place — but anyone with an elementary grasp of the English language can make this work!
Giving your writing away to web sites, blogs, ezines, and newsletters can really make you some serious cash on the internet and I’m not joking. I have been writing professionally for two decades and I never thought I’d make more by writing for free but I am.
The truth is that I’m making more money writing part-time for free than I did in any of my full-time paid writing jobs and that includes advances and royalties from the publication of three novels.
~ Traffic for my web sites and blogs (I’ve seen traffic triple within a week from some articles)
~ Reputation building for me and my online enterprises which helps attract clients, customers, and visitors
~ Profit for my advertisers and for me through sales of my own products as well as affiliate income
It really is not a difficult or complicated business model and one any competent writer, or anyone with the ability to string a decent sentence together, could replicate or modify to suit their purpose. I am a writer not a business person, but I know this is working for me and that it could work for you, too.
And let me share one last terrific benefit of this writing business — you can write whatever you want. You aren’t dependent on some editor’s whim or assignment. You don’t need to worry about tightly focusing your work to fit within a publication’s editorial guidelines. You are in total control — you write to suit yourself in terms of topic, approach, and tone. I promise!
Add comment November 26, 2008
4 Hassle-Free Ways To Write How-To Articles
You want to get your e-mail newsletter started, but you don’t want to be burdened with writing articles every time you turn around. Fact is, writing a how-to article isn’t that much of a hassle once you have a system for it.
Creating short, how-to articles allows you to:
- connect with your audience
- position yourself as an expert, and
- increase sales
Bottom line: Give clients information they need and you’ll be the first person they’ll think of when they run into challenges.
Consider creating a template for your e-mail newsletter articles that will fit the needs of your audience. Ask yourself if they want detailed information, or if they’re happy receiving broad ideas that will allow them to tailor the information to meet their specific needs.
If they want specific info, you could always include a teaser paragraph in your newsletter and then provide a link at the bottom of that paragraph. The link can lead to more detailed information about the subject your that audience is interested in.
Once you understand the needs of your audience, place your information in article format. Here’s a system I’ve often used to produce quick, informative articles.
1. Begin with an identifier paragraph.
This is an introduction to the subject. Just let people know exactly what you’re getting at.
2. Tell them why they should be interested.
This is where you just get into the reader’s world. You will what you’re talking about help them do their jobs better? In essence, that’s all people really want to know.
3. Give short, realistic pieces of advice.
Otherwise you’ll lose your audience’s attention. Try to stick to the points that have the most impact or the ones that are completely opposite to what people in your industry are currently doing.
4. Wrap it up.
One of my mentors used to always say to me, “Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em. Then tell ‘em. Then tell ‘em what you told ‘em.” At the end of every article I just wrap up what I’ve said by reviewing the key points of the article. It’s called a “takeaway.” What’s the one thing you want the audience to take away from your article and implement in their daily work lives? Once you’ve answered that question, you have your final paragraph.
Whatever you do, keep it short and simple. Sure we may want to use sophisticated language if your audience craves that, but you’d be surprised. When reading e-mail especially, readers won’t mind short, concise words and phrases. And that’s especially true if those words and phrases add more to the bottom line and/or help them become more efficient.
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