Keeping our writing business afloat isn’t easy. Simon Whaley chats to two writers who’ve found diversification has led to calmer seas.
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Business of Writing – Free Words?
Is it good business to write for free? Simon Whaley explores the value of your words.
Picture the scene: an email pops into your inbox. The editor loves your submission and wants to publish it. Sadly, there’s no budget to pay contributors, but it’s a great opportunity to see your name in print, and it’ll give you a piece to put in your published portfolio. So, what do you do?
Writing Magazine – The Business of Writing – Software Solutions
The latest article in my Business of Writing column in Writing Magazine has just been published. Software Solutions identifies a few computer programmes of use to writers, with some quotes …
Writing Magazine – The Business of Writing – Rights
My latest article in the Business of Writing series has just been published in Writing Magazine. Know Your rights looks at the various rights writers need to consider offering/retaining when submitting their work to editors.
Writing Magazine – Business of Writing Series continues
The June issue of Writing Magazine is out now, containing the latest in the series of articles I’ve written for them about the Business of Writing … Read about the …
New Series in Writing Magazine
The Business of Writing: my new series of articles on the business of writing has just started in the latest issue of Writing magazine (April 2014 – out now).
The Wrong Number
When Lisa Edwards’ telephone number appeared on Ricky Butcher’s mobile phone in an episode of the BBC’s popular Eastenders soap opera last year, she soon discovered what happens when a …