The dream for every writer is to be noticed. This is a listing of four Literary Agents looking for new writers. A useful resource for the unpublished author.
Here are some points to consider when choosing a topic:
It is very easy to get cheated, even if you are an experienced writer.
Entering free writing competitions is a good way of getting noticed and a chance to earn money. Many published authors recommend this practice. This is a comprehensive list of competitions for end 2009 and 2010.
It really irritates me when some silly idiot writes “good info….thanks for sharing” on each and every article I write! I really look forward to an intelligent comment that supports or refutes my material and that I might feel urged to reply to. This nonsense of commenting on an article simply for the sake of it is complete madness.
Finding resources for writing an article or book is part of daily life for writers. Five writing websites, blogs, directories and online magazines is a listing of useful resources.
The theme of a piece of fiction is the controlling idea or its central insight.It’s the generalization about life, stated or implied by the story. For the theme of the story we must ask what the main purpose is, what view of life it supports or what insight into life it reveals.
Whenever you feel you want to or should write an article but you can’t make up your mind about what, reading old Triond articles may help you out of your dilemma. Go to your friends’ profiles, read their old articles, and go to their friends’ profiles and read their articles.
There are so many fine things you can do online that you can’t do offline, with paper, illustrations, pictures, audio, video, radio, TV. And still there are not many genuine "online storytellers" among the online writers. Triond author Timothy Dumont Jr. however, offers us a great example of what a true online story can be…