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From income tax to time management, there are a number of challenges writers must face in order to be successful.
With advice from experts such as life coaches, accountants, software technicians and writers, these pages will help you to make your writing profitable, productive and practical, and an essential part of your everyday life.
If you’re finding the endless stream of rejections hard to handle, take a look at poet Noel William’s tips on how to benefit from rejection. If stress is driving you up the wall, read advice from psychotherapist Sally Box. Find out how to get the most out of internships, set up a wireless internet connection or get your novel published.
Whatever you need to know, we can find the answers, so if you have a problem, or if you’d like to share yur expertise get in touch by emailing Judy@EssentialWriters.com.
1. Benefit from rejection
Rejection is part of a writer’s job, but that doesn’t stop it being painful. Noel Williams tells us how to deal with negative replies and make use of feedback. read more...
2. Conduct a successful interview
When you work as a journalist, carrying out interviews with the people you admire can be one of the major perks. read more...
3. Cope with stress
We all wake up sometimes and feel stressed, but creative people seem to be more prone than most to breakdowns and emotional stress. read more...
4. Copyright your writing
Writer Suzanna Stanbury advises us that the law is on our side when it comes to protecting our work, so you don’t need to keep your writing under lock and key. read more...
5. Create a home office
A home office is effectively any space you can go to and feel business-like, productive and ready to work read more...
6. Create believable characters
Making your characters believable is a matter of imbuing them with details you notice in the people around you, from the saints to the sinners! read more...
7. Deal with income tax
Guidence from a Chartered Certified Accountant on how to deal with income tax if you are a freelance writer. read more...
8. Evoke a sense of place
As a fiction and travel writer Judy Darley is well aware of the importance of a sense of place in all kinds of writing, regardless of genre. read more...
9. Get published
Whether your work becomes a bestseller or you gather the largest collection of rejection letters in existence, never forget why you write. Have fun! read more...
10. Get the most out of internships
However much you can pick up on a media degree, nothing compares to hands-on experience in the field. read more...
11. Launch your own online magazine
For the past two years Angeline Trevena has been running EGL Magazine. Here she explains how follow her example to for online publishing success. read more...
12. Maintain your motivation
To succeed as a writer you need to be able to stay motivated despite setbacks, rejection letters and competition. Keep your spirits high with our A to Z! read more...
13. Make money from online writing
When writing for a content website you may only earn $2 for an article in a month, but it will generally continue to earn this amount every month, indefinitely. read more...
14. Manage your time
It can be difficult to justify finding the time to write. However, your main problem may be overcoming your own perception of what you do. read more...
15. Move your writing career overseas
Writers can write anywhere, right? Well, yes, but there are some issues to consider, from working visas to your writing speciality, as Lucy Denyer explains. read more...
16. Network successfully
When networking, your focus should be on marketing yourself and your work, rather than going for the hard-sell. read more...
17. Perfect your feature pitch
Punteha Yazdanian is a freelance journalist with her finger on the pulse of most major UK commissioning editors. These are her tips on perfecting your pitch. read more...
18. Prepare your debut novel for the world
Nikki Dudley\'s debut novel Ellipsis is published by Sparkling Books. Here Nikki explains how she found a publisher & prepared her manuscript for publication. read more...
19. Promote yourself – and your writing
Margaret Adamstalks explains the basics of marketing yourself and your work if you want to climb the steep staircase of literary success. read more...
20. Set up wireless broadband connection
If you plan to work from home, you’re likely to find that internet access is essential, so set up a wireless broadband connection. read more...
21. Turn your day-job into fiction
Author Diane Chamberlain advises us on how to utilise our working lives to fuel our fiction writing. read more...
22. Write for online magazines
Writing for online magazine requires very different skills to writing for print publications, as Nick Clarke, the founder and editor of Gunpowder Magazine, explains. read more...
