Starting your own writer’s group will be a breeze with these tips from my own experience! Whether you’re a freelance writer, aspiring novelist, or published poet – a writer’s group can keep you motivated, disciplined, productive…and published!
I mentioned my writing group on Twitter, and received several “I wish I belonged to a writer’s group, but [...]

Published author Iris Waichler, MSW, explains how a writing or publishing co-operative affects a writer’s platform – and describes the writing, publishing, and book marketing process.
First, Waichler offers a writing tip from A Book is Born: 24 Authors Tell All (which she contributed to).
“Don’t be afraid to contact people you feel may be out of reach [...]

These tips for publishing and marketing your book are from published author Iris Waichler. This is excellent and necessary writing advice for both new and professional writers!
First, here’s a quip from one of Waichler’s writing colleagues:
“May the grace of knowing how important your message is surround you always,” says Christine Louise Hohlbaum.
If you haven’t bought into [...]

These seven tips for writing with a chronic illnes are from Suite101 writer Barbara Melville.
“Writing always poses challenges,” says Melville. “Having a chronic illness, disability, or indeed any circumstances that makes us housebound, can make the writing life seem overwhelming. I took a year out to write, but badly injured my back at the very [...]

Here’s a list and brief description of some of the best freelance writing books for both experienced and new writers. Most aren’t one-time reads – they’re solid resources for a writer’s bookshelf.
First though, a quip from a “real” writer:
“Books are like lobster shells; we surround ourselves with ’em, then we grow out of ‘em and leave ‘em behind, as evidence [...]

To help you stay motivated, here are several tips on succeeding as a freelance writer!
First, a quip from a published writer:
“Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.” – Bernard Malamud, author of several novels and short stories – and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Malamud also said, “I write a book or a short story three times. Once to [...]

Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s three writing tips will improve your skills, especially when you’re discouraged and fatigued. But – if you want to be a successful writer – you must set your feelings aside and treat writing like it is: your work.
Why? Because it’s a job. For instance, when emergency room doctors are discouraged, they can’t lie down for a snooze. When garbage men [...]

These 10 effective ways to build your writer’s platform will not only make you more marketable as a writer, they’ll help you become a better writer, too. You’ll develop your skills and writing discipline.
First, a quip from a famous published author:
“What I had that others didn’t was a capacity for sticking to it,” said Doris [...]

These tips will help you support a family member who writes; they’re from a fulltime freelancer who gets all the support could ever want!
Before the tips, a writing quip:
“I think marriage and writing books are very difficult to combine. If things don’t go well between you, then there’s a tendency for the partner to blame it on [...]