2009-07-24 14:47:26 Picture this: you've just come across a lucrative new market calling for freelance submissions. The deadline is fast approaching and a few photos will make all the difference between a good article an...

2009-07-24 14:45:02 The postman has just arrived with my newly developed film. I leaf hurriedly through the prints in the hope that some of them will be good enough to illustrate the article on hedging and fencing I've j...

2009-07-24 14:42:17 Apart from the X-rated stuff, there's something I do quite a lot in the bedroom - and that's dream.It was this line in the Writelink March Newsletter that set me thinking: "I don't mean we want you to...

2009-07-24 14:34:21 Writing can be a bit like home decorating. Once you've finished one project, you're ready to move on to the next. One thing plainly leads to another.A few words of your own or those of another writer ...

2009-07-24 14:30:40 Get great sex and plenty of money through your writing.All right, I lied about the sex, but it grabbed your attention, didn't it? That's the way you need to catch the editor - and ultimately the reade...

2009-07-24 14:28:50 Don't just sit there - we're about to lay the urban myth of "writer's block". It's not real, you know; a lazy writer invented it as an excuse to carry on being lazy. This literary bogeyman has survive...

2009-07-24 14:25:56 It's a vicious circle - a bit like one of those Viking dragon things with its tail in its mouth. You need to show an editor clips to prove you're up to the job. And to get those clips, you need to sho...

2009-07-24 14:22:14   What makes a romance? It's not just hearts and flowers and living happily ever after.Concise Oxford Dictionary definitions include: "a love affair" and: "a literary genre with romantic love or...

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2009-07-24 14:19:25   With a place to stand and a long enough lever, Archimedes claimed he could move the world.Stay right where you are! You can move the world using the written word as leverage.World travel is fi...