Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here’s a controversial opinion: Writers are born, not made. If you’re a natural-born writer, then you’ll write your ass off either way. To be clear: Sometimes it takes “real” writers years, even decades, to succeed. Not everyone, ergo, is a writer. The second thing about being a writer is: My God, read a LOT.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 15, 2024

We use the seed sentence from the writing teachers Marie Ponsot and Rosemary Deen: “They say __ but my experience tells me __” to help writers discover their counterintuitive ideas. Writing and publishing a nonfiction book is a big investment—of time, energy, and often money. That’s why we’ve created these five ways to test your book idea.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Our guide below covers everything you need to know about freelance greeting card writing jobs, including how much you can make, which companies are looking for writers, how to land the gigs, and more. How do you become a greeting card writer? That’s where you’d be wrong. How much do greeting card writing jobs pay?

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Make a Living Writing

JULY 22, 2024

However, it’s not impossible to land poetry jobs, get paid for your prose, and even get a byline for publishing poetry. But you can consider writing poetry as one way to earn an income as a freelance writer. New Letters New Letters writers and poets frequently win tons of rewards, and the editors are a pleasure to work with.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today’s post is by writer and literary consultant Grace Bialecki ( @GraceBialecki ). As writers, we know that critiques are an integral part of improving our work. Remember, even if the future of this piece is unclear, creating it has made you a better writer. Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash. Throw out the bad.

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Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

As a literary editor and writer, I love working in the world of words. As a literary editor and writer, it’s rewarding to interview people in the know, like bookstore aficionado Jay Rohfritch, owner of Good Books in the Woods. It’s a lot of fun to be a literary editor and writer and see books come to life!

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s little wonder then why writers, bloggers, copywriters, students, and creatives from all fields use swipe files to fine-tune their writing skills and brainstorm fresh ideas. When these writers needed to create a new piece of content, swipe files gave them something to lean on. But what is a swipe file anyway?

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Grammarly

MAY 2, 2024

For writers wanting to spice up the descriptive quality of their prose, epithets can enrich literary works by adding imagery and layers of meaning. 3 Memorability and rhythm : In poetry and prose, epithets can enhance the rhythm and flow of the text, as well as the sound quality when spoken aloud.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 16, 2024

For many writers, platform is a dirty word. If you’re a more literary writer (where what attracts readers to your work is the quality of the prose and the depth of the concept), start working your way up the literary magazine ladder. Today’s guest post is by Allison K Williams ( @guerillamemoir ).

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Step up your writing game and meet fellow writers with The Deep Dive Workshop, a 10-week series from the podcast hosts of The S**t No One Tells You About Writing. Each week you’ll hear from expert writers and editors, followed by workshops led by Bianca, Carly or CeCe. I’m a beginning writer. It’s not getting me anywhere.

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The Write Life

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mastering writing with sensory language can elevate your prose, help your audience empathize with your characters, and create an overall more engaging story. Let’s look at some examples and tips for how to use sensory language in your writing. Reveal things about your characters and their perspectives. Set the scene.

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Jane Friedman

MAY 14, 2024

The prose has an immersive quality as I navigate complicated grief, investigate his cause of death, and eventually find my footing and place in the world. It’s tough to execute and doesn’t suit every writer or every memoir (or every editor!). I respectfully disagreed (and sold the book to a different publisher who shared my vision).

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2024

Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. The editor’s work here doesn’t differ a lot from what it would be when editing any prose piece. Scholars generally have two very different venues in which to publish their work, and hence two different audiences as well. Make it clear.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Not all authors remember or rely on their dreams, but dreamers and journal-keepers are uniquely blessed as writers. Although writers’ dreams are often the exception to that rule.) Each of my published books was birthed from the pages of my notebooks and is peppered with snippets of dreams and morsels of dream wisdom.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Writers can take advantage of this audible quality using assonance. But assonance is also a way for writers to create rhythm and repetition without rhyming. Assonance can also be sprinkled throughout prose to stress certain words, build a mood, and give prose a poetic quality.

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ghostwriting a memoir means collaborating with a professional writer who remains anonymous. Edit and Revise Once we have a complete draft, we’ll go through several rounds of editing and revising to polish the prose, clarify ideas, and ensure the flow of your memoir is smooth. Need Help Ghostwriting a Memoir?

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photo by Steve Johnson Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. One of the characters in the great short novel Lord Nelson Tavern (1974) by Canadian writer Ray Smith dismisses Jane Austen because all she wrote about were “the absurd concerns of silly small-town girls in England around 1800.” No morals, no messages.

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Make a Living Writing

AUGUST 7, 2023

We’ve curated 11 interview questions for technical writers to help you prepare and ace your next interview. Cracking the code of technical jargon and translating it into user-friendly prose makes technical writers the unsung heroes of the communication world. But hold on to your style guides, dear writers!

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 14, 2024

The trap many aspiring authors and beginner writers (especially young writers ) fall into is they believe if they mimic a famous author or writer, they’ll be popular too. Smart writers and copywriters know what word choice matters. This is true for most writers — even experienced, well-known ones. But it’s vital.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Or at least the folks at the Erma Bombeck Writing Workshop think so because they’ve honored me with the distinction of “Humor Writer of the Month,” in conjunction with the release of my new essay collection Party Like It’s 2044: Finding the Funny in Life and Death. But am I a humor writer? For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2018

So, Fergal’s article felt like a rallying cry for me and any other writer who has had to argue with stakeholders about why their buzzword bingo content does not sound more “professional.”. As he argues, “even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose.” Well, not really.

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The Write Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If you want to become a poet or a writer, you have most likely come across the Poets and Writers Magazine. It’s a magazine that condenses a lot of helpful information writers need to succeed in their careers. Poets and Writers Magazine currently has 100,000 readers, so there must be something to it.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2023

She sounds like a lot of the writers I work with. Why do so many writers get blocked, or find themselves writing in circles? And it’s pretty much immune to writer’s block, because writing down little notes and moving them around doesn’t tap into the “people will be reading this, what if it sucks” anxiety of imposter syndrome.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer and book coach Amy Goldmacher. Ah, a writing retreat. Doesn’t the idea sound amazing? The delicious word “treat” is even embedded in the concept, connoting something special or perhaps even forbidden. Give yourself permission. A writing retreat can be anything you want it to be.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Today’s post is excerpted from the book The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments by John Matthew Fox ( @bookfox ). I don’t like studying first sentences of books—a sentence really doesn’t give the reader enough information or the writer enough room. Photo by Monstera. Learn powerful strategies for book openings.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2011

With the amount of work I’ve been producing, I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer and about writing in general. So for my next great endeavor, I’d like to discuss how a writer evolves. Like most writers, I look back at some of my blog posts from about two years ago and cringe a little. What more can I say? Moderation?

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Grammarly

MARCH 7, 2023

uses iambic pentameter to give the prose a more subtle musicality. Writers today use iambic pentameter for a variety of reasons. Writers today use iambic pentameter for a variety of reasons. Sometimes the rhythm isn’t quite so obvious. For example, John Updike’s novel S. Why use iambic pentameter?

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Since it can be hard for a writer to know where to find them, we did the legwork for you. Since it can be hard for a writer to know where to find them, we did the legwork for you. We found 40 reputable, well-reviewed, free writing contests for poets, fiction writers, essayists and more. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.

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Grammarly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some elements that you’ll find in creative nonfiction include: 1 Scene setting Writers focus on the tangible details about a time and place to immerse their readers in a scene. By using different narrative structures, the writer can control the pace at which events unfold and draw the reader further into the story.

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Make a Living Writing

JUNE 14, 2023

Understanding how to use tones is an important skill for any type of writer. Negative tone words can be weaved into prose in order for a particular situation or feeling to stand out in the reader’s mind. The tone you choose matters because it evokes a strong emotional response in readers. Our brains are pretty cool!

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

Writers are frequently advised to read more to improve their writing. You’ll find books on this topic, such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer and How to Read Like a Writer by Erin Pushman, but they tend to take a generalist approach. What POV does the writer use? What stands in her way?

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But here’s advice I wish I could offer to every writer tying themselves into knots trying to find that magical first line: Let it go. Studies show people make judgments about others in a tenth of a second. And it often seems like readers, agents, and editors may decide almost as quickly whether to keep reading your story. It didn’t.)

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

Author Elisa Lorello’s exploratory dive into ChatGPT led her to discover its usefulness to fiction and nonfiction writers, and she shares them all in her new book The AI Author Assistant: How to Use Chat GPT to Optimize Your Writing Progress and Income While Retaining Your Human Touch. Let’s just say I took one for the team.)

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Article Writing

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hiring a content writer for your marketing agency is part art, part science and part nightmare. Take it from someone who’s done it – the chances of scoring the right content writer with this approach are slim to none. Interviewing Top Freelance Writers & Handing Out Test Assignments. Reviewing & Scoring Applications.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 23, 2023

An epigraph is a short quote that a writer uses to set up the literary work that follows. By introducing the story with this reference, the writer prepares readers to enter a world full of disruption and disorder. Writers use epigraphs for different reasons. These famous lines are the book’s epigraph.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2012

So what’s the writer who has a message to share with the world to do? Not because I wanted to be a business writer, but because I wanted to be heard. In a world where there are too many messages, too many writers, too many people demanding our time, we have all learned to filter out what’s non-essential. Like I did.

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For writers and readers alike, it can be difficult to tell the difference—especially when the two genres often intersect. Fiction refers to literature that is not grounded in real-life events but is made up or created from a writer’s imagination. This example illustrates the problem of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

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