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Making a success of your writing

By Patricia Fry

firstwriter.com – Friday October 26, 2007

A new year is looming large. Are you ready to take your writing business to the next level? Will you finally complete that novel in 2008? Despite years of putting off your dream, you can succeed. You can earn a living as a freelance writer. You can experience the joy of authorship. Here are some suggestions to help you move closer to your writing goals.

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How I got a literary agent - An interview with author, Robert W. Morgan

firstwriter.com – Saturday September 29, 2007

In 2006, Robert W. Morgan acquired an agent using firstwriter.com's database of literary agencies. Eighteen months on, he's repeated the same success by placing his latest work with another agent, again found through firstwriter.com. We asked him about his writing, and how he found success.

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Surviving in the small press

By David Soulsby
Editor, Libbon

firstwriter.com – Saturday September 29, 2007

There is one of the unexplained mysteries of the writer/publisher interface that grieves me. Why do writers submit their work to magazines without first checking out their suitability? It grieves me because my belief that writers would not hand over their masterpieces without first ensuring that the magazine wasn't printed on toilet tissue with a John Bull home printing set led me to publish my own short story magazine entitled Libbon.

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How I got a literary agent - An interview with author Rob Riley

firstwriter.com – Saturday August 25, 2007

Rob Riley recently acquired an agent using firstwriter.com's database of literary agencies. We asked him about his writing, and how he found success.

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The mathematics of persuasion

By Philip Yaffe

firstwriter.com – Sunday July 29, 2007

At first glance mathematics and persuasive communication – writing, and particularly public speaking – would seem to have little in common. After all, mathematics is an objective science, whilst speaking involves voice quality, inflection, eye contact, personality, body language, and other subjective components.

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How I got my book published - An interview with author, James J. Garber

firstwriter.com – Friday June 22, 2007

James J. Garber recently secured a publisher using firstwriter.com's database of book publishers. We caught up with him to talk to him about his success, and his writing.

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Adverbs of doom

By Dave Duggins
Editor, Spacesuits and Sixguns Magazine

firstwriter.com – Saturday April 28, 2007

I was doing a deep critique for a student in the Creative Writing Magnet at Woodside High School in Newport News, VA (hi guys!) when I saw them.

Them. Those – things. They mostly come out at night, but sometimes show their evil little faces in broad daylight. Impertinent snots.

I'm talking about adverbs, of course. Those words that end in “ly” and modify verbs. Messily, hungrily, angrily. Those words.

They are not your friends.

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Do writing programs work?

By Ken Brosky
Editor-in-Chief, Brew City Magazine

firstwriter.com – Saturday April 28, 2007

You’ve probably seen ads for them in your favourite writing magazine, and maybe even one or two on your favourite writing websites, too. They’re writing programs, and they’re the bane of the beginning and intermediate writer. Programs that offer you instant help on putting together new exciting characters, complete with unique features – some going so far as to include pictures to help you visualise your new characters. Plot programs that let you point-and-click together an entire plot as if it was truly as simple as that. Setting programs that give you pre-made places – from buildings to vast plains to exotic alien planets – to help you place your cardboard characters who will eventually be drawn into your point-and-click story.

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My writing competition success - An interview with writer, Jerry Ryan

firstwriter.com – Saturday April 28, 2007

Jerry Ryan recently found success in a writing competition he found through firstwriter.com. We caught up with him to talk to him about the competition, and his writing.

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My writing competition success - An interview with writer, Brian Richmond

firstwriter.com – Saturday February 24, 2007

Brian Richmond recently found success in a writing competition he found through firstwriter.com. We caught up with him to talk to him about the competition, and his writing.

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