You might not like change, but like it or not, everything changes all the time. There’s the kind of change you choose, like retiring from your current work life to pursue the encore career of your dreams. There’s also the kind that’s thrust upon you that you would never choose for yourself, like being downsized from work that you love.

What’s important, in either case, is how you make the journey from where you were to where you choose to be. You can dig in your heels and resist change, or open to the opportunities that change offers. You…

Give a writer a creative writing exercise or prompt and they won’t necessarily come up with some interesting creative writing. In fact many times, however ingenious, stimulating and brilliant the exercise is, the writer won’t produce a single word, let alone a wonderful piece of writing. So why is this? What’s missing? In this article we uncover 5 of the crucial elements a creative writing exercise or prompt on its own WON’T give you, and how you can go about getting them:

Getting an agent was delaying my writing something fierce. I was spending most of my time sending out query letters instead of doing what a writer should do and that is write. Finally I stumbled across what seemed to be a miracle. I found Publishamerica’s website. Since I had written over one thousand query letter’s writing something that would capture a publishers interest was no problem. I wrote a query letter in a style that I found to work. I asked the publisher a question about a character in my novel and I used it as a hook. …

What sets experienced people apart from others with article writing is that they are prepared with methods and procedures in place for writing their articles. Remember that article writing is part science, part technical and part literature and is not done with the sole intent to sell a product or service, but to “inform”. The benefit article writing then provides is link building, back links or one way links, site traffic, visitors and buyers and a simple but great way to make money online.

The article writing is a useful online marketing technique these days. Many article writers use their articles to promote their websites and generate traffic. However, writing effective articles that can generate higher traffic can be a huge challenge for the newbie writers. But after knowing some basics about the article writing and avoiding certain mistakes that are commonly made by the article writers, being a writer would not seem to be a tough job after all. The newbies will need to express their view in a manner that would attract their readers and create interest in them. Once the…

Writing has a single requirement – that you write. There’s not much more to it, because when you write, writing will teach you what you need to know. However, you also need to avoid the seven deadly sins of writing – here they are.

From experience we find the best outreach to get new visitors to your site to buy your books and reports is to write a lot of short, Ezine articles, that become widely distributed on the Internet through article directories. Links in your article bring new visitors to your home site where they may indeed buy your books and reports.

If you want to write a novel, but are putting it off until the kids are grown, I have two words for you: Don’t wait. It’s possible to raise a happy, healthy family and still follow your writing dream. And that’s true whether you’re single or married. Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom or work outside the house.

You may think I’m crazy – how can you find time to write when you’re already so busy you barely have time to sleep?

It can be done.

J.K. Rowling quite famously penned the first of her Harry Potter series in a…

Tips on how to get rid of writer’s block.

Since I’m both a writing instructor and a writing coach, people are always asking me, “What’s the difference between a writing instructor and a writing coach?” Here’s what I tell them. A writing instructor is someone who teaches a person (or persons) HOW to write.