The May Write On Online Meeting featured freelance writer and Blog Talk Radio host J Blair Brown. If you missed the show you can listen here. According to J Blair Brown, it’s imperative for writers to (at least) do these three things to advance your career: 1. Identify your audience. Otherwise you’re ‘writing just to [...]
In our continuing effort to help writers jump-start their careers, Write On Online is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Write On! Query Contest. There will be four categories … and four winners: Fiction Book, Non-Fiction Book, Screenplay, and Teleplay Query. Winners in the Fiction and Non-Fiction Book categories will have their queries read by [...]
Write On! April Challenge: Challenge Yourself: It’s April! Whether you plan to write a screenplay in a month for Script Frenzy, take the Poem-A-Day Challenge for National Poetry Month, or come up with something spectacular and ongoing to do during the month of April, you can win just for declaring Your April Challenge! Four winners [...]
On the Air: On Tuesday, the interviewer, became the interviewee. Listen to my BlogTalkRadio interview on Livin’ the Dream! with J Blair Brown. Also, on Wednesday, March 16, I joined Karen Worden and David Branin to interview Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way, The Vein of Gold, The Right to Write) on a special episode of [...]
If you missed the March Write On! Meeting on Blog Talk Radio with guest Mark Coker, Smashwords, you can listen here. Listen to internet radio with WriteOnOnline on Blog Talk Radio Read Mark Coker’s Write On! guest column: The Five Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success. During the show, Mark added an additional “secret.” Pay close [...]
On Wednesday, February 23, Peter Shankman, Help A Reporter, did a webinar on PRWeb: Peter Shankman’s BIG Publicity Ideas For Small Business Success. Peter, who I interviewed when he was in Los Angeles last year, impressed upon his audience the importance of good writing. He had lot of amazing information, and I tweeted to find [...]
If you missed the February Write On! Meeting on Blog Talk Radio with guest screenwriter/consultant Annie Lower, you can listen here. Listen to internet radio with WriteOnOnline on Blog Talk Radio Annie Lower’s top 3 tips from the show: 1. Give yourself permission to write crap… not just permission to write crap, but to embrace [...]
It’s Award Season! Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced this year’s Oscar nominations. Here are the Best Original and Adapted Screenplay nominees: Best Original Screenplay Another Year – Screenplay by Mike Leigh The Fighter – Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; story by Keith Dorrington & [...]
The hardest part of blogging is getting started! Many see blogging as time-consuming, and spend more time procrastinating than they would have spent blogging. If you are prepared – if you have a vision, a mission, and do your homework beforehand – blogging will be a cinch. 1. Name your blog. Is it a personal [...]
Listen to the January Write On! Meeting on Blog Talk Radio. Michele Wallerstein, author of MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent’s Guide To Your Writing Career, answered member questions about finding an agent. Listen to internet radio with WriteOnOnline on Blog Talk Radio Some advice from Michele Wallerstein from the show: – If you [...]