Often there are hundreds of writers are competing for same, limited number of assignments, and writer who can best showcase his or her abilities is one who lands job.

Editors, however, are very busy people, and don’t have time nor inclination to sift through hundreds of resumes and clips they receive in search of your information. If your credits and clips are not right there on an editor’s desk, or available with a single click of mouse, that plumb assignment is going to go to writer who managed to catch editor’s eye; even if you’re better writer for job.

So, how do you get your writing clips into hands of editors looking for writers? Easy, with your own online resume!

A personal site has become a must for today’s freelancer, but successful writers know that they need to do more than simply paste their picture out on Internet, or send off their email address along with their snail mail query.

What’s needed is a site that showcases your entire writing resume, including:

Bio Publishing history Writing-related job history All published credits Specialty or genre Easily accessible and visually attractive clips, whether scanned or in document form

AGE

Age-appropriate actions are paramount to development of character. If heroine is in her teens, she will react differently to situations than if she is in her late twenties. The same goes with hero. In a romance novel, typical heroine is in her early twenties, while hero is older. If he is in his twenties, he shouldn’t be shown as a tycoon, unless of course, he inherited wealth. If he is in his thirties, he shouldn’t be shown doing activities that are immature for his age.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

A character in your novel needs to have distinct personality traits that make them unique. By distinguishing them from other persons in novel, you can create all kinds of situations based on those traits. Personality traits are typically revealed in story through actions, dialogue with other people in story, and sometimes through flashbacks that may reveal how that person became way they are.

If you are not familiar with personality traits, you can begin by studying psychology books that describe them. Some examples of personality traits are introvert/extrovert, obsessive-compulsive, Type “A”/Type “B” personalities, etc. For example, an introverted person would appear shy, doesn’t speak much, and shuns being in social situations, whereas an extroverted person would be gregarious, out-going, and usually a partygoer.

There are many types of personalities that you can choose from for your heroine, but typically, a “romantic” female would include following: kind, young, nurturing, loving, warm, single, sensual, doesn’t fool around, and attractive. For your hero, characteristics could vary even more, and usually include being: older, decisive, powerful, kind, caring, single, gentle, and handsome.