The Creative Competitor

Can You Win a Writing Competition?

It might not be as difficult as you think to win a writing competition but many people are put off by the thought that they will not be able to make their entry stand out enough to catch the judge’s eye. Rest assured that any judge will spot your entry if it reflects the theme (if any provided) and if the writing is of high quality.

Writing Tip: Read This Out Loud

Editing is a bore. It’s a pain. It’s far too easy to gloss over what we’ve written (it’s not like we don’t know the ending) without really taking it in. How many novels and other works have you, dear reader, come across with wonky sentence phrasings and obvious wrong words? If they’d taken this first tip, perhaps it wouldn’t have happened. Here’s the Tip: Read what you’ve written out loud.

How To Write A Screenplay In A Non-Hollywood Way

How To Write a Screenplay in 10 Days – Writing a film is something you don’t learn overnight. It requires a lot of effort and expertise in various fields such as creative writing, marketing and the ability to visually project something in your head. Nevertheless it can be learned.

The Book Sales Process: An Overlooked and Important Consideration for Your Book

When authors call me to inquire about publishing or marketing services for their books, they are often stumped by one of my questions. When I ask about the sales process for the book, the phone line goes silent. It is understandable.

Publish an E-Book on Amazon – The Rise of The Author

Amazon’s Kindle has leveled the playing field for all authors. No one but you will stand between you and your dream of being a published author. Maybe it’s time to take that old novel out of the drawer where you’ve kept it hiding, dust it off, clean it up and submit it for publishing on Amazon. Only you can stand in the way of your dreams in this day and age.

Writing Jobs 06/01/2012

Check out the latest writing jobs that are published today. Don’t forget though that writing jobs get snapped up quickly so check out the details and apply to any that grab your attention.

Having a Successful Book Signing

Finally, after an excruciatingly long wait, your book is released to the public. You’re still basking in the glow of being an author and suddenly, along comes an invitation to the first of many book signings at a bookstore. Now what?

How To Repurpose Your Articles To The Maximum

Most people tend to write an article and then submit it to a few top article directories. Then they may put it onto their blog. There are many other things that you can do with that article and here are a few tips on how to repurpose your article so that you can get the most out of it. In this way you will save a lot of time and make your content go a lot further.

Writing Jobs 30/12/2011

Here are your last writing jobs of 2011….

Seeking Writers for New Online Magazine

We are a new liberal, national online magazine looking for new or aspiring writers who want to build a portfolio of writing clips. Similar to various online mags. such as The Huffington Post

Shaping A Book

I often say that books are more than the sum of their words. A real book is an entire entity-plot, organization, characterization, style, including all of the subheads for each one. Circling all of these things is the entire forest-the shape of the book.

Writing Jobs 23/12/2011

If you fancy picking up a nice writing job before Christmas, then here is your chance.

Creative and Computer Savvy Writer

Small office in Midtown in need of a technology-savvy writer for medium-term assignment. Must be technically knowledgeable and be able to handle a variety of miscellaneous tasks.

Christmas Greetings from the Creative Competitor

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May all of your dreams come true in 2012. We would like to take this opportunity to thank

You Gotta Want It Badly – 8 Ways to Actually Write

No matter how much we want and love to write, unless we’re terribly disciplined or have deadlines (or an editor/agent looming over us), our default activity is not writing. In other words, if we have a spare minute, a break between activities, the rare gift of an unplanned hour, do we write? Or do we fill it in with stuff that “needs to be done”? Or take a much-needed nap? Or call a girlfriend and relax? Or make plans for dinner?

How to Stay Focused When Writing

For some freelance writers, the hardest thing to do is stay focused with so much going on around you. Anything can be a distraction that keeps you from producing work to your fullest potential.

How to Find an Endless Supply of Best-Selling Ideas for Your Nonfiction Book Title

Follow the method in this article to analyze best-selling book titles and create your own quite different version of them. When you’ve done it right, you’ll have a resonance of success that people feel without knowing why that makes them want to explore your book and buy it.

Writing Jobs 16/12/2011

Copywriter (Gibraltar)

I am currently looking for an experienced Copywriter with extensive experience in online landing pages, newsletters and websites dedicated for product marketing.

Some People Won’t Like It, and That’s Alright

It’s a never-ending quest to find that one thing that everyone likes. Something that would appease any man, woman, or child the world over. Every single person is different though, and I doubt there is any one thing that every single person likes. When we write stories, we write them with the intent that every single person who reads it will love it.

3 Low Cost Ways to Meet Agents & Editors

These days it’s common knowledge that it’s hard to meet an agent or an editor through an unsolicited mailing. They are more likely to pay attention to a submission coming from someone they have met in person.

Finding a Literary Agent – First Steps

One subject that comes up more than almost any other on writers’ forums, is how new writers go about finding a literary agent. Although there are many different routes to publication, it is through agents that publishing houses find the bulk of their new authors.

Learning From Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway said, “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit-detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.” By this Hemingway signalled the vital importance of honesty and truth in creative writing – and these two are not easily found, least of all by the writer himself in the very act of writing.