Monthly Archives: May 2012

To find someone who can help you improve rapidly, take a part-time position as a reporter for a weekly newspaper. Or you can ask your writer friends about night-school teachers at your local community college and then enroll in the … Continue reading →

If you are in a writers’ critique group or writers’ club, gravitate to those members with the best track records in sales. Find someone who also has good editing skills and then woo that person. Take her to lunch one … Continue reading →

You’re already aware that the world is full of critics. Come up with an idea, and ten critics will be ready to tell you why it won’t work. Critics, however, are evaluators, whereas editors are teachers. There is a big … Continue reading →

I can see direct parallels between the worlds of freelance writing and professional baseball . Even the catch phrases and lingo are the same. When I was a young reporter for The Muncie Star, I would have to start each … Continue reading →