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For Writers Considering Self-Publishing: 8 Useful Posts - delializhernandez - Gmail. Why Do Writers Write? Surely, for a writer, it must be incredibly irritating to be continually probed for the reason why you write, requiring an armoury of quelling responses along the lines of “just because”. But for non-authors, the question is an intriguing one. Writing is a singularly anti-social job, one that can only really proceed with success if the practitioner consigns themselves to days spent alone with just the click of their keyboard for company, and Youtube for the odd distraction.

Can the transient pleasure brought to a reader ever counterbalance the exhaustive hours and years spent by the author redrafting, chopping, amending, finessing and, perhaps most difficult, receiving in good grace the criticism of others? “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means” — Joan Didion Many people have opined on why they write.

Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds, Singing & After the Fire"I never had that feeling of ‘I want to be a writer.’ Free Self-Publishing Resources. Welcome to Writing for the Web. Thank you for subscribing to The Writers Life. Your subscription has been confirmed. As promised, here’s the link to your FREE copy of It’s True! You Can Make a Very Good Living as a Writer: *** Free Bonus Report *** One of the best paying gigs for writers is freelance copywriting.

And if you have any questions about either report, or any of the opportunities covered, don’t hesitate to contact us at info@thebarefootwriter.com or at ** Special Offer ** Join The Barefoot Writer’s Club and Start Making a Great Living as a Writer (Exclusive offer: 50% off … Free Library … AND 1-year no-risk guarantee!) At AWAI, we’ve helped a lot of people eager to leave the work-a-day world move up to very different (and far more rewarding) lives as successful freelance writers. These folks no longer have jobs in the traditional sense: They have no bosses, no commute, and no place to be at any given time. You can become a Barefoot Writer. Learn more … or Join Now! 10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online. See our list of universities that offer free online writing courses. Learn about what courses are available and what topics they cover to find the course that's right for you.

Online Writing Courses for Credit Many schools offer free online courses and materials through OpenCourseWare (OCW) projects. While formal admission isn't necessary to access lectures and other materials, these courses don't usually award college credit. Students looking for the same ease of access and the opportunity to apply their study time towards a degree or certificate program might want to consider courses that can lead to an alternative form of credit. For far less than the cost of enrolling in a traditional class, Education Portal offers hundreds of online courses that allow students to start working their way towards real college credit. Free Online Non-Credited Writing Courses Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Writing and Reading the Essay focuses on the essay as a popular literary genre.

List of Free Online Technical Writing Courses and Training Programs. Learn technical writing with these free online courses and training programs. See the full list of free technical writing courses and find the course that's right for you. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Most of the courses offered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are at the undergraduate level.

However, the school does offer one advanced technical writing course that is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers three free online technical writing courses. New Jersey Institute of Technology Aspiring technical writers will also find two free online non-credit courses offered by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Show me popular schools. Getting a Technical Writing Job, Even If You Have No Experience. Technical writing jobs can be hard to get if you have little or no experience. But there are things you can do to improve your chances of getting hired. Join the STCFirst of all, if you have not already done so, join the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the professional organization for technical communicators. While this in itself will not get you a technical writing job, it will bring you into contact with many people who can help you in your career. Networking is a far more effective method for finding work than flooding the marketplace with your résumé.

Technical writers in India might prefer to join the Technical Writers of India (TWIN), which lists a huge number of job opportunities. Search Jobs OnlineMany employers never advertise their jobs. Create an Error-Free RésuméEnsure that your résumé is error-free. There are many web sites on the subject of résumé creation. Many companies prefer that you send them a copy of your résumé in Microsoft Word. Did you get the job? Confronting Reality By Reading Fantasy. Author Lev Grossman says C.S. Lewis taught him that in fiction, stepping into magical realms means encountering earthly concerns in transfigured form. By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more.

“If you were in a room full of books,” Lev Grossman writes in his latest novel, The Magician’s Land, “you were at least halfway home.” For Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write. The Magician’s Land concludes Grossman’s acclaimed and best-selling trilogy, which has been praised in magazines like The New Republic and The New Yorker for being a darker, grown-up, and more complex Harry Potter. Lev Grossman is a book critic and senior technology writer for Time magazine. So the Narnia books had a special place for my mom.

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Get Published (Part 3): Marketing Your Posts After Publication. Are you done with your article? Have you had it edited, rewritten, and edited some more before being approved for publication? Great! That’s the good news. The bad news is, your work doesn’t stop there. "What do you mean my work doesn’t stop there? ", you protest. Well, if print publications are as popular now as they were before the Internet age, the answer would’ve been "Yes". Check out the first two parts of this series: That’s why you have to work harder to market yourself and: Put Your Social Networks To Good Use Instead of sharing yet another done-to-death meme with your contacts, why not share a well-written article that you’ve managed to complete by sacrificing buckets of blood, sweat, and creative juices?

Busy, on-the-go people (i.e. the people who are most likely to use social networks) are always on the lookout for something new to read and/or share with their friends. By the way, you don’t have to share every single article that you’ve written. Participate In The Comments Section.