10 ways to make editors fall in love with your work
Follow these tips for pitching, reporting and writing articles – taken directly from editors – and you’ll have publications clamoring to work with you.
Recommended reading for writers for Jan. 28, 2011
Demand Media IPO and other recommended reading for writers for Jan. 28, 2011.
8 reasons to sign up for the WordCount RSS feed
If you’re a fan of the WordCount writing blog, add the RSS feed to your blog reader, or sign up to have it automatically forwarded to your email inbox.
Today’s live chat: search tools for writers
Join us for WordCount’s monthly Twitter chat today from 10 to 11 am PST. To follow along, use the hashtag #wclw. The subject: search tools for writers.
WordCount Jan. 26 chat: Google, search spam and search tools for writers
WordCount’s Jan. 26 chat looks at Google searches and other ways writers can search for story sources. Join us 10 a.m. PST on Twitter at #wclw.
Recommended reading for writers for Jan. 21, 2011
To do good writing, read good writing. Here’s the good writing I’ve been reading this week: Betty MacDonald was the original mommy blogger. MacDonald is the author of The Egg and I and subsequent memoirs about her life in and around Seattle in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, though most people know her better as [...]
8 secrets for getting better HARO query results
Help A Reporter Out (HARO) founder Peter Shankman gives tips for getting the most out of the story source-finding site popular with reporters and other writers.
HARO’s Shankman to reporters: We haven’t sold you out
Help A Reporter Out (HARO) founder Peter Shankman talks about what has and hasn’t changed since he sold the service to PR software maker Vocus in June 2010.
News flash: editors don’t have all the answers
Writers, when you run into trouble on an assignment, don’t panic, think like an editor.
