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Create the Writing Life You Want
Ah, writing. For those of us who love to play with words, it’s like standing in front of a smorgasbord, agonizing over which delicacies to try. You can potter about with your writing as a thoroughly delightful hobby
Female Heroines: Is Kick-Ass Compatible With Kleenex?
For a long time guys got all the glory in fantasy, action, and adventure books, but recently female characters (and writers) have been fighting their way to the forefront of these genres. This is a terrific trend-so long as we’re not doing it by simply slapping heels on our heroes, renaming them heroines, and calling it a day.
Writing Jobs 17/02/2012
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Studying Your Favorite Author Can Help You Write Your Book
One thing that is extremely helpful to authors as they are writing their book is market research. You may have heard this term used as it relates to consumer research for marketing services and products, but it is also a very relevant practice for writers, too!
Fiction Writing – How To Keep Readers Turning Pages
You’ve arranged your writing area, you go there every day and churn out x number of words on the story you have set out to tell. Kudos. But along with writing your dream, there are techniques that make a story sizzle and lack of those techniques that make it fall flat.
Rejection Letters – Learn From Your Mistakes and Become a Better Writer
As a writer, it is almost a given that your dream is for someone to notice your talents, realise your natural flair for words, and agree that your work is worthy of gracing the shelves of bookstores worldwide. Before you achieve that dream however, you have to let publishers know you’re out there. And that means writing letters, which in turn, if you’re lucky, means receiving replies to those letters. And more often than not those replies will be rejection letters.
How To Start A Book – Seven Tips For New Writers
Starting a book can be the most difficult part of the process. Many a new author will procrastinate and find all sorts of reason for not starting. At the end of the day though it is down to the individual to break down the barriers and get on with it. Here are a few tips for doing just that.
How to Successfully Write the Plot of Your Story in Reverse
How can one write a good fiction story in reverse? This may seem a trick question until you realise this simple fact: a novel is defined by its outcome. Put it in another way; every story has a Controlling Idea; and this idea is embedded in the final climax of the story. You cannot know what you are really trying to say until you have your Controlling Idea. And the corollary of that is: you cannot find out what you are trying to say until you have written your story. So what do you do?
Fiction Writing – Reasons to Tell a Story
There are as many reasons to tell a fictionalized story as there are books in print or eBook. Do you think you have a story to tell? Take a look around the fiction shelves of a bookstore and note the others who felt similarly. Then determine your own reasons for telling your story and consider the below questions.
Man on the Train Writing Competition
1st Prize: 150.00
2nd Prize:£100.00
3rd Prize: £75.00
4th Prize: 3 months Creative Competitor Premier1 membership
Closing Date: 7th April 2012
Entry fee: £3.00
Are you a Creative Competitor Premier1 Member? You can enter for free.
Using the photo for inspiration, create a story that depicts a man on a journey by train, but a journey to where?
What Happens Next? Writing Competition
Using the photo published online for creative inspiration, your story must be about a man in a library who chooses a book that changes his life. What the book is and why it has such an effect on him is up to you. The story must be evolve and can be emotional, action-packed, mysterious or indeed take any shape that you like.
500 Word Fiction Writing Contest
1st Prize; £100.00
2nd Prize: £75.00
3rd Prize: £50.00
Closing date; March 15th 2012
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?
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.
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.
Writing Jobs 08/12/2011
Need to pick up an extra writing job or two? Take a look at our brand new list of writing jobs and take your pick. If you work as a freelance writer or would like to take your first steps into the freelance writing world, why not join our Premier1 Membership packag
Twist In The Tale Writing Competition
1st Prize: £200
2nd Prize: £150
3rd Prize: £100
4th Prize: e-Coaching Session
5th Prize: 3 Creative Competitor Months Premier1 membership
Closing Date: March 3rd 2012
Entry fee: £3.50 or free to Premier1 Members
Can you craft a story that contains a unique twist at the end? If yes, you have just 1500 words to enthrall and surprise us.
Character Profile Writing Competition
Write a detailed character profile using the photo published on this page for inspiration. We want to know everything there is to know about your character. Bring him to life by adding rich layers of detail to the profile.
Flash Fiction Writing Competition
Flash Fiction Writing Competition1st Prize: £150.00
2nd Prize: £100.00
3rd Prize:£75.00
Descriptive Poetry Competition
1st Prize: £100
2nd Prize: £75
3rd Prize: £50
Entry fee: £2.50 (free to Creative Competitor Premier1 members)
Closing date: January 31st 2012
Using the photo for inspiration, create a poem that is brings the scene alive.
You have a maximum of 20 lines.
Writing Jobs 02/12/2011
Here is the latest list of writing jobs available for all. See any you like? Write a timely query now so that you don’t miss out.
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Junior Copywriter
he Creative Group is currently looking for a creative, deadline-driven Jr. copywriter for a client in the southbay area. The junior copywriter will be working as part of a team to develop content and copy for direct marketing campaigns. Additionally, the copywriter
Thriller Novels – What Will Be The Next Big Theme?
Al Quaeda has been a gift to thriller novelists, with countless books being written on the topic since 2001. Before that it was the Cold War. What will the next ‘big theme’ be? China – the Chinese navy, China’s financial tentacles and industrial might – the author argues persuasively that this will be the next big theme for thriller writers.
How to Write: Use Both Sides of Your Brain in Your Writing
Have you ever experienced a time when you were so involved in something, you lost track of time? Have you ever been in what they call the “zone?” Are there other times you were exceptionally logical and analytical about what you are doing?
Writing Competition Results
Check out the website and newsletters for details of some exciting competition results next week.
Navigate The New World Of Publishing
Anyone with access to a word processor and the Internet can become a published author, but most do not become successful authors. We all know the publishing industry has changed drastically since the introduction of eReaders, but how many authors (traditional, self, or aspiring) truly understand the changes and how to navigate this new world?
Five Surprises of Being a Published Book Author
Enjoy the unusual quiet before publication because it has the sweetness of innocence before its lost, an anticipation before passion’s first demanding kiss. The curiosity and envy I saw in people’s eyes when I said I had a book coming out was a first clue.
One Week Fiction Challenge
One Week Fiction Challenge. Exciting new competition from the Creative Competitor designed to test your creativity under pressure. Masses of prizes to tempt creative writers everywhere.
Why ‘Quitting’ Is Not a Dirty Word for Freelance Writers
Ever really wanted to quit a writing job halfway through but thought you couldn’t? Well you can. And sometimes it is the only option you have. So when and why should you give up, and should you ever feel guilty about it?
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