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Featured Book of the Month
The
Complete Writer: A Guide To Tapping Your Full Potential
by Beverly Walton Porter, Mindy Phillips Lawrence, Pat McGrath Avery, Joyce
Faulkner
Red Engine Press
192 pp
Authored by four professional freelancers,
The
Complete Writer is packed with how-to's, advice, wisdom and inspiration.
Pulling from their diverse backgrounds, the authors discuss time management,
writer's block, networking, marketing, resume writing, query letters, launching
an e-zine, among various other topics. I highly recommend this book, especially
for beginning and aspiring writers.
Excerpt:
What's the biggest excuse I hear from people who want to write, but
don't? I'll bet you can already guess the answer: "But I don't have time
to write!"
The concern is understandable. In
today's society, forty hours of work per week has stretched to sixty, sometimes
eighty, and after work we have the kids' activities, community volunteer work
and other obligations and concerns. Not having enough time seems to be an
insidious disease wending its way through society's veins. We try to be all, do
all, please all. Here's the problem—we can't be/do/please all the time.
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Table of Contents:
Freelancing
Live Your Freelance Writing Dream!
Developing an Effective Press Release
Are You Ready for Full-Time Freelancing?
The Professional Pitch: Mastering Query Letters
From Ether to Editor: How E-Queries Make Your Life Easier
Quick Clips: Writing Book Reviews
Rejection Redux: How To Turn a Negative Into a Positive
Marketing
Capturing Local and Regional Markets
Smart Marketing: Slanting Articles for Print and Web Publications
Diversifying Efforts for More Sales
Writing For Businesses
Making $$$ In the Nonfiction Market
Tips for Writing Resumes and Letters for Companies
Writing Exercises for Resumes and Letters
The 'Editing With Clients' Experience
The Writer's Psyche
Get In Sync: How To Reach Your O.W.L. (Optimum Writing Level)
Using Emotions To Fuel Your Writing Fire
Writing and Mindfulness: Powerful Partners
Exercising the Writer's Soul—Tai Chi
Picture Yourself a Winner
Inspiration And Discipline
Beat the Clock: Time Management for Writers
Eight Great Ways to Jump-Start Your Writing
Driven to Distraction—Moving From Unfocused To Focused
Research And Organization
I Am Your Computer: Speak To Me—Boolean Searches
Where To Go When You Need To Know—Searching the Internet—The Basics
Magazines On the Cheap
Load Up On Valuable E-mail Goodies
Traveling for Research (Part One)—Planning
Traveling for Research (Part Two)—Recording What You See—Low Tech Techniques
Using Private Guides: A writer's Eye
Seek and You Shall Find
The Super Scrapbook: Creating the Project File
Write, Write, Write
Networking And Partnerships
Networking for Writers: Harnessing the Power of Teamwork
Anyone Can Network
When You Are Sharing Information
Writing Tips And Techniques
Ten BIG Ways to Annoy Book Reviewers
Editing Techniques Using Microsoft Word Functions
Spell Checker—A Blessing and a Curse
I'm Your Reader: Ten Things I Hate
Moving On
Six Easy Steps To Launching Your Own E-Zine
Self Publishing
Scamming the Scammers: Beware Your Own Culpability in Traps and Scams Aimed at
Writers
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The
Complete Writer
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Have You Read...
I Wanna
Win
by Cheryl Wright
If you want to win writing contests and earn that elusive tag of
'award-winning writer' or if you just want to hone your skills, this book will
point you in the right direction.
New to freelance writing?
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