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Getting Started: A Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Writing Career
- Begin at the Beginning...
- What Is a Writer? - Moira Allen
- What You Need to Start Your Writing Career - Moira Allen
- A Beginner's Guide to Writing Terminology - Dawn Copeman
- Planning Your Writing Career - Dawn Copeman
- Should You Specialize or Generalize? - Moira Allen
- Take Your Specialty for a Spin - Moira Allen
- Setting Effective Writing Goals - Moira Allen
- Goals Are Worthless If... - Brian Jud
- Getting the Most from Online Writing Classes - Moira Allen
- How to Read 'How To Write' Books, by Sean McLachlan
- Learning the Craft - Dawn Copeman
- Should You Write for Free? - Moira Allen
- What Kind of Writer Do You Want to Be? - Terje Johansen
- Finding Ideas
- Five Unusual Places to Look for Article Ideas - Chryselle D'Silva Dias
- Where Oh Where Are All the Good Article Ideas? - Patricia Fry
- Finding Markets
- Bread and Butter Markets - Moira Allen
- Exploring New Markets - Moira Allen
- Finding Sample Magazines - Without Breaking the Bank - Moira Allen
- How to Study a Magazine You've Never Seen - Mridu Khullar
- Researching Markets: Looking Beyond the Obvious - Karen Luna Ray
- A Smorgasbord of Markets - Penny Ehrenkranz
- Targeting the Wrong Markets: The New Writer's Most Common Mistake - Moira Allen
- Queries and Submissions
- Queries vs. Articles: Which is Best? - Moira Allen
- How to Write a Successful Query - Moira Allen
- E-mail Queries and Submissions: How to Keep Editors Happy - Moira Allen
- E-mail Submissions: Why We Love Them (or Hate Them) - Peggy Tibbetts
- What to Do if You Don't Have Clips - Moira Allen
- A Quick Guide to Manuscript Format - Moira Allen
- Cover Letters: When, How and Why to Use Them - Moira Allen
- Cover Me - I'm Going In! - John Floyd
- Pros and Cons of Simultaneous Submissions - Moira Allen
- Who's Who on the Magazine Masthead - Moira Allen
- Writing Your Bio - Terje Johansen
- Conducting Research and Interviews
- A Beginner's Guide to Interviewing - Dawn Copeman
- Conducting Interviews (including E-mail Interviews and Surveys) - Moira Allen
- Creating an Expert File - Kathryn Lay
- Expert-Finding Strategies Every Writer Needs to Know - Mridu Khullar
- Don't Reach for Any Old Quote - John Rains
- It's Interesting -- But Is It Accurate? (The Perils of Online Information) - Moira Allen
- Searching the Web - Moira Allen
- Why Libraries Still Matter - Ellen Metter
- For additional information on researching specific topic areas, see our Romance and Mystery sections.
- Crafting Your Article
- Avoiding Comma Confusion - Moira Allen
- Becoming Your Own Editor - Moira Allen
- Death by Revision - Kristin Camiolo
- Facing the First Draft - Moira Allen
- Five Fatal Flaws that Can Lead to Rejection - Moira Allen
- Five Tips to Writing Great Subheads - Kristina Springer
- Grammar Gaffes and How to Avoid Them - Marg Gilks
- What a Good Editor Can Do for You - Patricia Fry
- How to Craft a Great Article, Part I: Structure, Focus, Unity and Flow - Dawn Copeman
- How to Craft a Great Article, Part II: Hooks, Leads, and Endings - Dawn Copeman
- How to Outgrow "Write What You Know" - Jenna Glatzer
- How to "Show Don't Tell" - Dawn Copeman
- How to Sit Down and Write an Article - Dawn Copeman
- How to Write Like an Expert - Moira Allen
- The Outline Demystified - Moira Allen
- Proofread Your Article Professionally! - Janis Butler Holm
- Tapping Your Innate Creativity - Barbara Florio Graham
- What Every Writer Needs to Know About Article Titles - Julie K. Cohen
- When "First Person" Is the Last Person You Need - Moira Allen
- Why You Can't Rely on Your Spellchecker - Jan K. the Proofer
- Networking
- The Benefits of Critique Groups - Michele Acker
- The Buddy System - Carol Sjostrom Miller
- How Online Critiquing Can Help Your Writing - Moira Allen
- How to Give and Receive Critiques - Dawn Copeman
- Ten Great Reasons (Plus One) to Attend a Writers' Conference - by Susan Denney
- Using Informational Interviews to Advance Your Career - Terri Mrosko
- Should You Quit Your Day Job?
- Balancing Act: Ten Reasons to Keep Your Day Job - Denene Brox
- Making the Leap from a "Real Job" to Freelancing - Kathy Sena
- To Plunge or Not to Plunge? - Moira Allen
- Fifty Tips on Taking the Plunge - Moira Allen
- Ready to Quit Your Day Job? - Hasmita Chander
- Moving On...
- For more information on advanced freelancing topics, including how to target specific markets, please visit our Freelancing section.
- For tips on coping with "The Writing Life" -- including handling rejection, improving time management, finding unique ways to deal with the stress of being a writer, and how to avoid writing-related health issues, see our Writing Life section.
- For information on handling the business of writing, including income and expenses, contracts, rights, and related issues, please see our Business of Writing section.
- For tips on winning writing contests, visit the Contests section.
- Related Links:
- Other General Writing Sites
- Classes
- Critique Groups
- Business & Financial Resources
- Guidelines and Guideline Databases
- Magazine and Newspaper Listings
- Writing Publications
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