7. Who will be doing writing?

Busy, successful writers often outsource writing projects to other writers. Any businessperson who does this will be sure to send work to someone he or she trusts to do work to your specifications. However, if you are used to working with one particular writer you may not want your job farmed out. Think about it before you decide.

8. What is included in price?

Revisions? How many? Will writer expect to get reimbursed for travel time or long distance phone calls for research? Will s/he charge for meeting in person?

9. What other services do you provide?

Sometimes writers offer graphic design services as well as freelance writing. If this is case, they might be focused on more than writing your piece - they also have to worry about design, layout and production. If you want a top-notch copywriter, stick with someone who concentrates on writing.

If, however, writer is teamed up with other professionals or can refer you to designers or printers, feel free to take advantage of this service.

10. I have another project for you. Will you accept?

If you like writer's work, by all means, hire her/him again! It is good to establish long term relationships with writers for several reasons:

*Reliability and dependability are hard to come by. If you find somebody that works well with you, that you can count on to be professional and meet your deadlines, it is wise to hire that person again.

*Style. A writer, or any contracted vendor, will get to know your company and its products over time. The better they know you and your needs, better able they are to help you.

*Consistency. If you are using same person to write all your materials, you will send a consistent message throughout your internal and external communications. Your corporate image will flourish as a result.

Ask these questions and you are sure to find a talented, hard working, creative and dependable freelance writer with whom you can build a lucrative relationship.

4. Are My Characters Believable? If you start by wondering whether your reader may believe your characters or not, you will not excel. After all, even in real life situations, there are persons who behave as if they are not of this world. Your reader may identify with one or two of your characters.

Have you read Charles Dickens? You may have noticed that his characters are larger than life –- unbelievable. There was one of his characters (I can’t remember his name now), in his book, DAVID COPPERFIELD, whose life pre-occupation was compilation of a dictionary. And there he was, struggling some where in letter “D” or so, in his old age, but still optimistic of reaching his cherished goal before final call. Do such people live on earth? Yet, Charles Dickens remains greatest novelist, who has ever lived.

5. How Should They Speak? You will have to vary speech patterns of your characters. From royal and dignified speech of a king, to learned and pedantic discourse of scientists; from lowly and untrained language of a court servant, to meaningless quibbling of a child.

In short, speeches should reflect various social, cultural, and educational backgrounds of your characters.

1.What Are My Characters’ Motives? There should be a motive for actions of your characters. Or is it not so in life? For example, why do people love, or hate one another? Why do some kill, while others like charity? Why do people work? Or why do they have ambition? Or, to bring chickens to roost –- why do you want to write a best – seller?

If your reader doesn’t find satisfactory motives behind actions of your characters, then you have not communicated.

7. Do my Characters Contribute to Development of my Story? This is a good question. In story writing, you may decide to be he story-teller. Or, you may leave that task to one, or several of your characters. What your characters say, therefore, should have bearing to subject matter, and outworking of your story. Put differently, they should do work you want them to do.

Do you want them to fight over something, or to love or kill themselves? Which character is doing what, and which characters are in know, or are ignorant of those actions?

In doing so, you are using your characters to inform your reader. And if you do it well, you would have succeeded in pulling out a good story.

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