writing community
Sign In Here | Lost Password | FREE Sign Up
E-mail: Password:
Remember login  
The place for writers:
Upload your writing in minutes, receive peer feedback from other writers, poets, authors, then get your work published out there in the real world.       Learn how other writers are doing it.

Writers Resource
Writers Resource 
http://www.editred.com
United States
Username: Writers Resource 

  View Writers Resource's Library (0) items

 
E-mail this user E-mail this user
Writing Synopses
By Nick Daws Got a great idea for a book? Then two roads are open to you. One is to spend six months or longer writing your book, then send it to a publisher and cross your fingers. The other...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:1235|  Comments:5|  Status:Public

Writing for Local Businesses
by Nick Daws Many writers concentrate all their efforts on trying to sell their work to national publishers and magazines. And yet, by doing so they are overlooking a huge potential market...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:836|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

Writing Dialogue
by Nick Daws If you hope to write saleable fiction (or even popular non-fiction) today, one skill you must master is the art of writing dialogue. Dialogue serves a number of very important...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:1199|  Comments:5|  Status:Public

Writing Collaboratively Using the Net
by Nick Daws Many writers will know already that the Internet is a wonderful research resource, and it can also be an invaluable tool for communicating with editors and publicising your work. A...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:12-04-07
Words:1249|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Why Every Writer Needs a Web-base
By Nick Daws...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:856|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

Twelve Great Ways to Generate Ideas for Fiction
by Nick Daws Need an idea for a short story, play or movie script? Here are twelve kick-starters for your imagination! 1. Dictionary Roulette Open a dictionary at random and choose the first...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:863|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

Tips for Writing Flash Fiction
Below are a few tips for writing sharp flash fiction stories....
Blogs|  Genre:Flash Fiction|  Updated:09-03-07
Words:214|  Comments:10|  Status:Public

The Magic of Writing.
How to write and publish the book that is inside you. by Linda J. Falkner "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:1832|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

The Anatomy of a Good Query Letter
Nathan Bransford is a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd, a New York based agency that has been representing writers since 1914. In this article he outlines how to write the perfect query letter....
Blogs|  Updated:30-01-07
Words:1154|  Comments:21|  Status:Public

Selling More Books on EditRED
EditRED.com has been designed by writers with books to sell. We quickly learnt, when prompting people to buy our own books, that the most common response from friends, colleagues and blog subscribers...
Blogs|  Genre:Book Promotion|  Updated:08-09-07
Words:1149|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Interview with Indepublishing: consultancy for self-published authors.

For many years independent publishing was synonymous with â??vanity publishingâ??, a term coined in 1959 by Johnathon Clifford to describe any company...
Blogs|  Updated:22-03-07
Words:1485|  Comments:0|  Status:Reader

How to Structure Your Short Story
by Nick Daws Do you enjoy writing short stories but never have any success placing them? Maybe your problem is one of structure. A short story is not just a very short novel but a distinctive...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:1154|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

Give it a Week!
by Nick Daws 'Give it a week' is a piece of advice I heard many years ago when I was starting out as a freelance writer. I believe the phrase is commonly used in advertising agencies, though as...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:580|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

Getting An idea for a book
by Nick Daws So you want to write a book, but canâ??t think of an idea? No problem! Here are just a few suggestions to set you on the road to your first best-seller! Start by thinking about your...
Essays|  Genre:Writers Resource|  Updated:11-04-07
Words:918|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Ezine Interview: Traverse Magazine
Ezine Interview: Traverse Magazine ******************************************************** ********************************************************
Author Interviews|  Genre:Interview, Writing Resources|  Updated:15-10-07
Words:2328|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

Ezine Interview: 34th Parallel
*********************************************************...
Author Interviews|  Updated:10-09-07
Words:3884|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs: #6
#6 (Dull) Beginning, (Sagging round the) Middle and (Lame at the) End.

Dull, sagging and lame. Who would want a life like that? Who would want to be like that? Yet, it's amazing how...
Blogs|  Genre:Writing tips, story plotting, writing fi|  Updated:24-07-07
Words:1580|  Comments:2|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Cost: #7
# 7. 'BS' stands for Back Story

All your main characters have a back story that you should probably know inside out.  However, your readers don't need to be exposed to all the...
Blogs|  Genre:story plotting, writing fiction|  Updated:24-07-07
Words:1846|  Comments:7|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Cost: #5
Pace: Cracking or Grinding?

Your reader is into the third paragraph of your story and although she has already developed a connection to your main character, she's beginning...
Blogs|  Genre:writing tips, story plotting, writing fi|  Updated:25-07-07
Words:969|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Cost: #4.
Enter Deus Ex Machina; Exit Reader

When Ben Elton teamed up with Richard Curtis to write the celebrated second series of 'Black Adder', he brought his own unique brand of word-play and...
Blogs|  Genre:writing tips, story plotting, writing|  Updated:30-07-07
Words:780|  Comments:0|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Cost: #3
#3 Facing up to Conflict.

In Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club', Tyler Durden gives his followers a special task to fulfill before they meet again: to pick a fight with someone in the...

Blogs|  Genre:writing resource, writing tips & advice|  Updated:13-08-07
Words:827|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

All-time Top-7 Plotting Mistakes to Avoid at All Cost: #2
#2 Story Structure - The Journey Without and Within

Writing a Structured Story

I remember one of my good friends approaching me after completing a story - the first...
Blogs|  Genre:writing resource, writing tips & advice|  Updated:13-08-07
Words:2368|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

1st book, 21 advances, Hollywood bidding war. (part 4)
By Steven Hall / rawsharktexts.com...
Blogs|  Updated:13-03-07
Words:690|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

1st book, 21 advances, Hollywood bidding war. (part 3)
By Steven Hall / rawsharktexts.com
Blogs|  Updated:06-03-07
Words:1487|  Comments:1|  Status:Public

1st book, 21 advances, Hollywood bidding war. (part 2)
By Steven Hall / rawsharktexts.com
Blogs|  Updated:27-02-07
Words:1374|  Comments:4|  Status:Public

1st book, 21 advances, Hollywood bidding war. (part 1)
By Steven Hall / rawsharktexts.com
Blogs|  Updated:26-02-07
Words:1712|  Comments:18|  Status:Public

1
Sponsored Links


Featured Writers

Advertising - Terms & Conditions - Short Story Submissions - Contact - Writing Competitions - Writing Links - Book Promotion - Sky-Tribe.com - alanemmins.com
  Member short stories, poems, comments and other contributions are owned by the poster.
Copyright 2003 - 2007 Edit Red I/S