Writing: How Tough is It?

How Tough is It?

Written by Mike Smith

Continued from page 1
enjoy my articles and E-Books, you wouldn't be reading this, right? One thing I do encourage is to borrow ideas from other people. Don't steal them, that is plagiarism, but take ideas from them. What repparttar

Internet needs is good Writin' that folks will enjoy and benefit from. I don't have a lot of time for reading and if you don't make it interesting, enjoyable and fun, I won't bother putting my time into reading it. Wonderful thing, repparttar 129694

delete key. I don't even have to go out in repparttar 129695

snow (dirty 4 letter word) to get rid of all repparttar 129696

junk paper. When I wrote "E-Books repparttar 129697

Easy Guide" one of repparttar 129698

key things I did was to make sure folks would enjoy repparttar 129699

time they put into reading it. I follow repparttar 129700

same rule with all of my Writin'. Maybe this is why so many of my article submissions get accepted by other Ezines. OK, I needed to give myself a little pat on repparttar 129701

back :-) You probably wear a lot of hats just like me. Running your E-Business, marketing, advertising, building websites or what ever your business is. Gail and I run 4 sites, 3 Ezines and have do much of that for others. Still in all, repparttar 129702

best communication we have with folks like you is our Writin'. We write, you read, we make a friend and a new client. It just can't get any better than that. WE know because of all repparttar 129703

replies we get from you folks telling us how we are doing. So with all of this in mind, download my E-Books, read my articles, borrow my ideas, have fun Writin' and most of all, when you can, go Fishin'. Here is a little gift for you. I have a fun little E-Book called "Funny Fishin' Stuff". I guarantee you will get some laughs from it and maybe even some great ideas of your own. best of all, it is Free. You can download it here. http://www.coyote-art.com/book/fishinfun.exe

Your Internet Friend, Mike Smith, of CM/YMTC, http://cmymtc.com, is an experienced site designer, writer, and master in Ebook and Ezine creation and marketing. His affordable two-book Easy Guide package will teach you everything you need to know to produce successful Ebooks and Ezines. You can even share in the profits with his Affiliate program. http://www.makemoneyhowto.com/clkbnksale1.htm

Freelance Article Writing on the Net

Written by Jill Black

Continued from page 1

The internet has made it easier to build a successful freelance career as a independent professional.

To find markets on repparttar internet visit yahoogroups, topica etc and join writing job newsletters and job boards.

Some newsletters/groups I have found very informative are -

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freelancewriters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workforwriters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webwritingbuzz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WritersMailBox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writesuccess http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com (fee $5.00 per year - well worth repparttar 129693 money to receive) http://www.sellwritingonline.com - (mailto:sellwritingonline-subscribe@topica.com)

There are many sites that bring people together... some offer a free service, others you will need to register with and/or supply your resume before you can get started.

http://www.writerfind.com (international) http://www.freelanceworkexchange.com http://www.freelancewriting.com http://freelancing4money.com http://www.worldwidefreelance.com (international) http://freelancewrite.about.com http://www.burryman.com (click on repparttar 129694 freelance job and non-fiction writing link) http://www.burbages.com http://www.flipdog.com http://www.guru.com http://www.writersweekly.com http://writerslounge.com http://www.smarterwork.com http://www.writerswrite.com http://www.bullhorn.com http://www.writestart.com http://www.jobsonline.com http://www.elance.com http://www.travelwriters.com (for travel writers)

The government is repparttar 129695 largest source of freelance contract work in most countries. One USA based web site set up to bring you repparttar 129696 latest news in repparttar 129697 market today, whatever your area of expertise, can be found at:

http://www.bidmain.com For other countries try your local government web site for information.

Another option is to do some detective work to source work. Look for new web sites to send a congratulatory email.

Explain your services and how your work can repparttar 129698 improve chances of survival on repparttar 129699 net while politely enquiring if they have any current or future needs for repparttar 129700 services you can offer and how they may contact you.

Newly launched web sites can by found via press release sites-

http://www.internetnewsbureau.com http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/home http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com http://prweb.com

Invest in Writers Market and digest books (both local and international). These list thousands of markets, niches and industries that require repparttar 129702 needs of freelance writers.

Put together a portfolio with a selection of your best articles.

If you enjoy for example, travel writing, include a selection of your best photos if sending queries to offline editors as many will ask if you will be supplying photos along with your story. If you can send photos to accompany your article your chances of having your article accepted increases as it saves them repparttar 129703 trouble of sourcing photos to compliment repparttar 129704 article.

At repparttar 129705 bottom of repparttar 129706 article include your resource box. For example: Joe Bloggs is a freelance writer and webmaster at your domain.com and whatever ties your web site into repparttar 129707 article...

Producing free content articles are a great way to build up your business and reputation. They can also be used as publishing credits if they have been placed on another's web site -mention where samples of your published work can be viewed.

Writing freelance articles increases exposure for your business to another market segment of interested individuals. If you had not considered freelancing as a possibility... give it a try.

Jill Black is a professional freelance writer and photographer and member of the New Zealand freelance writers association (NZFWA). For writing and epublishingresources and ideas visit http://www.netwrite-publish.com.

<Back to Page 1