Thursday 13: Free Resources for Writers
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- From Writing-World.com, a step-by-step guide to launching your writing career. This is a great collection of articles covering all the basic topics, from the basics of getting started to setting goals to gleaning ideas to finding markets. A worthwhile couple of hours for anyone launching a freelance writing career.
- From WritersWrite.com, a collection of self-publishing how-to articles and interviews. Specific topics: Choosing an Epublisher, How to Distribute Your Self-Published Book Offline, and How Three Publishing Myths Kill the Author.
- From Small Business Guru, a free 26-page report: 10 Mistakes Small Business Owners Make. If you are working even part-time as a freelance writer, that makes you a small business owner. Maybe you don’t have employees or inventory, but you still have to make all the decisions about tax structures, marketing, and working with clients. You have to register to get the report.
- From EnhanceMyWriting.com, a guide to writing reference sites and internet reference resources.
- From WorkingWriterHappyWriter, a free report: Top 5 Tactics to Boost Your Writing Business. You have to register and then you receive an email with the link to download the report (when you follow the link, click on the tiny text at the top of the page, not the very distracting advertisement that you will immediately see). It’s a good read and worth wading a bit to get to it.
- From FreelanceWriting.com, a whole list of free e-books for writers, with titles including Creative Freelancing, The Active Author’s Guide to Copyright Basics, and The Lousy Writer’s Guide to Writing Persuasively. Just click to download.
- From FreeBookMiners.com, 8 ebooks about writing and speaking, and lots more that cover online marketing. The online marketing list contains several, er, less than stellar options. (They sound kind of scammy.) There are several that look worthwhile, however, especially if you’re interested in writing for article databases or e-zines.
- From New York literary agent Noah Lukeman, an ebook every writer should read: How to Write a Great Query Letter.. Love them or hate them, you have to write them. Do it well and you’ll have to write fewer of them.
- From Write4Kids.com, several articles and 3 free e-books on writing for children and getting a children’s book published.
- From Writers-Free-Reference.com, a nicely categorized list of internet resources. I can see this site being very helpful when you just need a little bit of information to finish up an article.
- From CopyWritingSecrets.com, a free report: 3 Powerful Secrets of Online Copy. Even if you are not a copywriter, the ideas can translate into how you market yourself as a writer to gain new clients and expand your business.
From Nick Daws’ Writing World, a free downloadable report in .pdf: 30 Writing Tips for eBook Authors. The author is Jimmy D. Brown, and Daws has reproduction rights for the ebook and is offering it as a free download at his site. You don’t have to register for this one.
From EducationPortal, a list of free writing courses avaialable online. Everything from Writing and Reading Short Stories to Technology for Professional Writers to Proofreading Your Writing to Introduction to Web Writing. Push to finish your work a bit early so you can do a little learning on the side and keep yourself growing as a writer.
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