Fiction Writer's Character Chart - EpiGuide.com If you're a fiction writer -- whether you're working on a novel, short story, screenplay, television series, play, web series, webserial, or blog-based fiction -- your characters should come alive for your reader or audience. The highly detailed chart below will help writers develop fictional characters who are believable, captivating, and unique. Print this page to complete the form for each main character you create. IMPORTANT: Note that all fields are optional and should be used simply as a guide; character charts should inspire you to think about your character in new ways, rather than constrain your writing. If this character chart is helpful, please let us know! Looking for more character questionnaires / charts?
How to Write a Post for Lifehacker Pretty obvious stuff but a nice reference. What is the preferred method of sending in a longer post? By email or through the #tips page? @gameripper: Either is fine with us. @Whitson Gordon: In addition, if I write a post on my own blog and think "hey, this is also Lifehacker-worthy", can I just post the link in either #readerpost or e-mail it? On a different note... is Adam on a "offtopic" hunt? @Firesphere: Yeah, you can definitely post it on your own blog and post the link. Yeah, I think with the new comment system, since we now have the opportunity, we're just trying to keep threads a bit clearer. Writing for DOLLARS! How to Start a Freelance Copywriting Business Edit Article Edited by Krystle C., Mary Klaebel, Donni Jay De-Ville, Flickety and 13 others Launching a freelance copywriting career is not only possible, but profitable as well. Here are some steps to get you started. Ad Steps 1Start telling all your friends and relatives about your career change to get the word out. 12Consider scoring your copywriting effort against a database of historically most effective sales copies and ads using an automatic solution, such as Glyphius. Tips Use a sales letter generating software to help you get started.
201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. Creativity is like sex. I know, I know. The people I speak of are writers. Below, I’ve exposed some of their secret tips, methods, and techniques. Now, lie back, relax and take pleasure in these 201 provocative ways to arouse your creativity. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders
How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out. We asked 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants to tell us how much they get paid, by the post, by the hour or by the month – however their rates are set. Half of them told us, on the condition that we wouldn’t disclose who they were or where they worked. The end result is an anecdotal overview of what some of the top tech bloggers and social media consultants are making. There are a handful of people in tech blogging that make even more than this but the vast majority of people who get paid to blog get paid far less. Our methodology was to email people we trust to be honest and who trust us to keep their identities secret, and ask them to post anonymously their rates and the rates they can confirm of co-workers or employees they’ve overseen within the last year.
How To Make Your Own eBooks And Publish Them On Amazon I’m sure that more than a few of you readers have a half-written book or useful guide you’ve put together to help people learn something. You’ve probably wondered if it would be possible to make money off of your book, or at least gain some exposure, by selling it as an eBook on Amazon. Well, the idea isn’t as far-fetched as you might imagine. As long as you have already created something worth reading, the process of getting it into Amazon as an eBook isn’t that onerous. We’ll take you through the basic steps of how to make your own ebook today and you can be selling your eBook in a few days. Download Sigil And Kindle Previewer Sigil and Kindle Previewer are two free programs you’ll need to create eBooks, so grab them now. Use Sigil To Create An ePub File You’ll need to use Sigil to create an ePub file. On the left you’ll see the book browser. For each chapter, you can paste your text in using the book view and adjust the text styles using the toolbar. Upload eBook to Amazon
Poynter. | Standing for journalism, strengthening democracy | Journalism training, media news & how to's 10 Commandments for a Happy Writer by Nathan Bransford Writers aren't generally known as the happiest lot. As a recent Guardian survey of some top writers shows, even the best ones don't particularly enjoy it all that much. And in case you think this is a new development, an 1842 letter from Edgar Allen Poe to his publisher recently surfaced in which he was found apologizing for drinking so much and begging for money. But believe it or not, writing and happiness can, in fact, go together. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Nathan Bransford is the author of JACOB WONDERBAR AND THE COSMIC SPACE KAPOW, a middle grade novel about three kids who blast off into space, break the universe, and have to find their way back home, which was published by Dial Books for Young Readers in May 2011.