Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Sending Motoring Tips to a Gardening Magazine is Silly

WRITING articles for nothing is good writing practice; but it will not keep the wolf from the door for very long unless the wolf likes a good laugh. A working writer needs to target a market where she will see a return for her effort. For return read money.
Novelists notoriously fail to sustain their own real-life by their writing efforts alone. A few are wonderful and make a living from writing books solely. Others even make lots of lolly. People who have not yet made lots of lolly interview them in turn and write up the result for cash or wages.
Such interviews and article writing are good potboilers for the writer working towards seeing her name in lights, or at least on a webscreen near you. 
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

News is not hearsay

The first man to run a 26-mile marathon was a messenger sent to report the news of the battle. Exhausted, he dropped dead after he reported the news.

Not all reporting is quite that injurious to your health.

Such good news/bad news is the stuff of creative writing.

A story begins with the calm of a summer’s day while in the distance a low thunder rolls. The thunder may be simply a summer phenomenon or it could be the drumming of the hooves of many horsemen come to start a war.

How the happy people face this dilemma is story. more

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