Affirmations for Writers: 3 Self-Talk Secrets

Want to improve your writing, and your life? Use affirmations. Affirmations are positive statements which we make to ourselves. They’re a form of autosuggestion. We’re affected by suggestions everywhere we go every day, both from other people, and from powerful advertising.

Quick Rules for Freelance Writing Success

If you are looking to break into freelance writing – whether on a full-time or part-time basis, there are some important characteristics that the top freelancers all share. If you can take into account and adopt some of these characteristics into your own writing, then you will stand a much better chance at becoming successful and earning money from your writing.

Flexing Novel-Writing Muscles

I was reading an article in our local small town newspaper recently about a high school student who was making significant wins in swimming competition. The article explained that this young lady swims two hours every day at her high school pool. Then a couple days a week, she travels twenty miles to where her coach is located for more intense, concentrated training. It’s obvious this young student’s mind and her body are toned and honed for swimming. She probably dreams about swimming. As novelists, we too should be constantly looking for ways to flex and tone our writing muscles. This might include our powers of concentration, our skills for keen observation, our wild flights of imagination, and so on.

Three Cover Design Secrets for Drawing in Readers

Great book covers compel readers to grab and buy the book. This feat is a veritable art form in itself. Often, either authors take this matter for granted and spend little effort to ensure it looks artfully compelling, or worse, they take matters into their own hands and do the artwork themselves. This would be okay if they really know what they are doing. Often, the DIY approach proves devastating to first-time authors without enough book cover art experience.

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Creative Writing Competitions

Our creative writing competitions are designed to inspire and challenge all creative individuals and to reward those submissions that are intuitive, creative and well-written, we offer a multitude of prizes and publication for the winner of each competition.

Fees are listed alongside each writing competition listing and links for payment by Paypal are clearly stated. We prefer payment through Paypal and our creative writing competitions are open to writers world-wide. Due to the popularity of our writing competitions, judging may take some time so please be patient. From 2013 we now resolve to judge and announce all competition winners within a 12 week period. All winners are contacted directly and the overall winning submissions are published in our free newsletter

Our new creative writing competition listings for 2013 are online here. Simply click on the document and save to your documents.

Creative Competitor Comps Jan- May 2013

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