Make Money from FictionPosted by Ruth B Tue, July 27, 2010 16:43:19
When you want to start getting paid for your creative writing, you need to begin submitting stories for publication, or find a literary agent willing to submit your novel to appropriate publishers. You might prefer to self-publish your novel or collection of short stories, and you can use self-publishing opportunities to launch your own successful writing career.
It takes plenty of self-discipline to be a writer. The more you write the easier it should be to stick to a writing routine, to meet writing targets and headlines, and to have sufficient time for proofreading and editing your own work. It is important not to get distracted when you are writing seriously, and to understand that your creative writing is no longer a hobby but a serious business.
When you decide you want to take your creative writing a step further and get your work published, you will no longer be writing only to please yourself. Your style and presentation must be acceptable to an agent, a publisher or a magazine editor, and you need to write something that will satisfy your readers when it is published.
Find out more more in these full length articles on writing and publishing:
* How to find a literary agent
* Steps to getting published and being paid for writing
* How self publishing can impact a writing career
* How to strengthen self discipline through writing
* How to avoid online distractions when writing
Writing Tools and ResourcesPosted by Ruth B Tue, June 29, 2010 12:57:25
Article Video Robot will create a full video from any story, poem or script you write. You do not need a camera or a microphone to create videos from your creative writing, and you can make a video in just a few minutes. No previous experience or technical skills are required. Simply select voice-overs, animations and images from stock libraries, or upload your own.
To see how article-to-video applications convert text into video, you can view a short demonstration video at http://www.articlevideorobot.com/about
Each time you make a live-talking video you can link it back to your own blog or website, and get a high quality backlink by posting it on YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace or Facebook.
An award winning video marketing tool called Video Submit Robot lets you submit all your videos to 17 or more top video sharing websites, with a single click of the mouse.
When you use the video robot to convert your creative writing into videos, you can also use the submit robot to distribute 125 videos every month, for free. One mouse-click will submit to multiple video sites, all of which are indexed by Google.
Read more in this blog post on how to use an article to video converter http://www.paid2write.co.uk/article-to-video converter
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Creative WritersPosted by Ruth B Fri, June 11, 2010 12:39:54
Creative writers know how few opportunities exist for publishing poetry and short stories online. Fortitude is a daily magazine, launched on June 7 2010, which provides unlimited publishing opportunities for creative writers.
Get Paid to Write for Fortitude
Fortitude accepts poems, stories, essays, articles, reviews and opinion pieces. When a piece of writing gets the thumbs up from other users it is published on the front page and earns a minimum of $10. A new edition of the online magazine appears every day.
Members are also paid for each piece they read and rate, so money earned in the Review Center soon covers the cost of membership.
It costs $23.88 for a year ($1.99 per month) to join. Members can write in any style, using any format they choose, and can submit as much and often as they like.
Fortitude has a free affiliate program, which pays a high rate of commission for new subscribers and the opportunity to earn residual payments for life.
Visit Fortitude now to discover more and publish your own creative writing.
Fiction Writing TipsPosted by Ruth B Sun, March 28, 2010 17:54:34The funniest scenes in books and movies do not always appear as part of a funny script or in a comic novel. They can simply be very well written comedy scenes.
It is possible to write an entire script or story that is funny from start to finish, but even the most serious tale can include elements of fun, and a good fiction writer can set up comedy scenes to get people laughing.
In an article on the best ways to write a comedy scene in a novel, I present some comedy writing ideas. As one of my examples I have picked a scene from what some people would consider to be a serious novel, Possession by A. S. Byatt.
See also my blog post on Comedy Writing. This was written about a comedy secrets course I am promoting. Max Matterson is a professional comedy trainer who shares his comedy secrets in How to be Funny. You can visit his website to discover more http://www.how-to-be-funny.com
Make Money from FictionPosted by Ruth B Sun, February 28, 2010 11:04:35My free online guide to becoming a published author is filled with information about how to get your creative writing published.
* Read articles on writing better novels than the ones on your shelves, writing short stories for a living and how to be more successful that other authors.
* Find tips on writing dialogue, avoiding cliches and writing comedy scenes.
* See why you should be publishing your own e-books.
http://writing.helium.com/zone/2844-how-to-become-a-published-author
I have placed some links on my free guide to great writing courses, including a new one I promote on e-book writing, publishing and marketing:
Nick Daws is an award-winning writer and the author of more than 80 books. His new course 10 DAY E-BOOK shows you how to turn your ideas into published e-books. There is plenty of good information on marketing and promoting e-books included in this course.
This course is backed up by a 100% guarantee. Find everything you need to know before you purchase the product at www.10dayebook.com
Fiction Writing TipsPosted by Ruth B Thu, January 14, 2010 14:35:53When writing full length fiction you need to know how to structure a novel, and what is required for publishing success. Study your writing market, and read as much as you can in your chosen genre, before you begin to write a novel.
Read more in "How reading helps you become a better writer"
Using Dialogue:
Dialogue in fiction provides insight into characters responses to, and can help identify evil characters when what they say is obviously untrue. Dialogue also shows when characters are naive or vulnerable, when they accept and believe what is said.
Read more in "Fiction-writing: How to use dialogue to increase conflict, tension, and suspense"
Developing a Mystery:
Crime fiction and private-eye stories rely on compelling characters and intriguing plot development, with unexpected twists in seemingly unsolvable cases, finally solved to the satisfaction of readers.
Read more in "The future of private-eye fiction"
Creating Original Plot Ideas and Characters:
Use your imagination to devise original ideas and unique characters, even if the theme has been used before. The best way to avoid repeating your own plot devices and character traits is to keep plot notes and character profiles from each story you write, and refer to your notes before writing a new story. If you use the same setting for all your stories, be sure to feature a range of characters and avoid inconsistencies.
Read more in "Making sure you don't reuse ideas and characters"
Creative WritersPosted by Ruth B Tue, November 17, 2009 15:20:06Since her death in 1968, books and stories by Enid Blyton have often been banned by broadcasters, educators, librarians and parents, but those books continue to sell and remain popular with young readers. How amazing it is, in the era of computer games, DVDs and entire TV channels for children, that kids still enjoy reading books written so long ago!
Enid Blyton has a special place in my own development. The first book I ever read all on my own, rather than having one read to me, was a Noddy book. I clearly remember reaching the end of the story and the thrill of knowing I had read a whole book in one go, and that I could now read independently. I have not stopped reading since that day, and my love of books led me to work in publishing and bookselling for many years.
In my later childhood years I read the Famous Five books, with great enthusiasm. My friend and I used to act out the parts of the children in those stories, and we made up our own adventures for them. I read other books by Enid Blyton but these were the characters and stories I loved best.
I also joined the Enid Blyton Club, to receive regular newsletters from the author herself, in which she wrote about her own family and daily life. Later I discovered that much of what she wrote about her family was itself a fiction. Her own children felt neglected and unhappy at the time. However, her life as a writer always interested me more than her role as a mother.
Books by Enid Blyton might be said to have little literary merit, but she is reponsible for encouraging children to read more and to enjoy owning books, even to start writing stories from their own imagination.
By the time she was in her teens, Enid Blyton was writing stories and poetry. Much of what she submitted was rejected, but she did have early success, in 1911, when one of her poems appeared in a magazine edited by Arthur Mee. Enid Blyton went on to become the most popular writer for children in her lifetime. See my article Biography: Enid Blyton
Mel McIntyre, author of the Flutter Bunnies series, will show you step-by-step how to devise, plan and write a children's book in the shortest possible time. Find out more at: www.write-a-childrens-book.com.
Fiction Writing TipsPosted by Ruth B Tue, November 10, 2009 11:41:24Creative writers always need to find new ideas for writing stories and novels, and there are many different sources of inspiration for writing fiction.
Private thoughts:
Good ideas to explore in fiction can come from private thoughts, and from personal recollections. Memories can be a good starting point for a story when a creative writer considers what might have happened if things had been different.
Dreams are often sources of inspiration for creative writers who use them to describe magical events, or even to write horror stories. A creative writer can keep a dream diary, and should try to make a habit of recalling dreams. Creative writers can describe how it feels to fly, or to fall through empty space, because those experiences frequently occur in dreams.
News reports:
Daily news reports can be sources of inspiration to a writer. When journalists present items on nuclear weapons or on developments in scientific research, creative writers can use their imagination to create futuristic stories about how things might turn out.
Life:
There is very little in life that cannot be used by a writer as inspiration. Ideas come from personal observation, interior thoughts, and from what is happening in the world. Life itself should provide enough inspiration for any creative writer.
Further reading:
Sources of inspiration for writing
Using writing prompts to get over writer's block
How to write a comedy scene in a novel
Would you like to write a children's book?
