How to be a Journalist 1.0: Writing News, Blog Writing, Pitching Freelance Stories, Building Contacts

How to be a Journalist 1.0: Writing News, Blog Writing, Pitching Freelance Stories, Building Contacts Review

A practical ebook with chapters on writing news, identifying stories, blog writing, contacts, pitching freelance stories and how to get a job. This book is aimed at student journalists, or new journalists who wish to improve their techniques. Writing news is the most important skill a journalist can have. This book will give you the basic grounding in writing and seeking out stories that you can do, and write for money. David Stephenson works at a national newspaper, and knows what stories work for papers and websites. His book includes chapters, such as Five Ways to Instantly Improve Your Writing, Selling Your Freelance Stories, and How to Build Contacts. It's a great introduction for new journalists, at a bargain price.

Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better

Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better Review

Sticky Readers is a humorous, but helpful book about writing better blog posts. While the book is helpful for all writers, it was written with bloggers in mind.

Sticky Readers explains the various ways to make your writing more engaging (i.e. less boring) so that a reader will "stick" around for the whole thing, rather than read the first paragraph, get bored and leave.

Sticky Readers is not a book about English grammar, but a book about how to tell an engaging story.

It also includes a section about combating writer's block and a list of Top Ten Mistakes that bloggers make to drive readers away.

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More Review

When you finally have the opportunity to sit down and write, you want absolutely nothing to get in your way. In an ideal world, the ideas would flow from head to pen quickly and easily. You would have thousands of ideas at your fingertips. This new idea-generating book makes that dream a reality. With exactly one thousand prompts, 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More is truly a cure for writer's block. These story starters cover a large range of topics, including: * Holidays * College * Health * Regrets * Nature * Shakespeare * Religion * The American Dream * ...and over 40 more! These prompts help you to write from the heart so that you can relate to your audience. They work for blogs, scripts, stories, poems, essays and anything else that requires that you write with no interruptions.

Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More (Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Blogs,)

Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More (Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Blogs,) Review

The success of Julie & Julia highlights the newest trend in food writing: blogging. Noted journalist and food-writing instructor Dianne Jacob has revised her award-winning book to include a chapter covering all the how-to’s of food blogging as well as updated resources and new information on working in other wildly popular genres, namely cookbooks and food memoirs. Incredibly timely, this new edition of Will Write for Food is the must-have for every foodie who wants to put pen to page—or hands to keyboard.

Write First, Clean Later: Blogs, Articles, & Writing Advice

Write First, Clean Later: Blogs, Articles, & Writing Advice Review

Award-winning journalist and bestselling mystery/suspense author L.J. Sellers shares humorous personal essays, nonfiction features, and a host of blogs about her journey to become a full-time novelist. The book also includes a big chapter with writing, editing, and promotion advice, as well as detailed information about her writing process. The final chapter highlights features she wrote about amazing women in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. L.J. Sellers is the author of the highly praised Detective Jackson mysteries as well as three standalone thrillers. All eight of her novels have an average 4.5-star rating on Amazon.

A novel approach: in search of a more personal writing style, author Yang-May Ooi turns to blogs--and discovers what makes them so compelling to write ... An article from: Communication World

A novel approach: in search of a more personal writing style, author Yang-May Ooi turns to blogs--and discovers what makes them so compelling to write ... An article from: Communication World Review

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Title: A novel approach: in search of a more personal writing style, author Yang-May Ooi turns to blogs--and discovers what makes them so compelling to write and to read.(Interview)
Author: Silvia Cambie
Publication:Communication World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 31(3)

Article Type: Interview

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Creating And Writing Your Blog

Creating And Writing Your Blog Review

The success of a blog lies in the content. It is the content and the key words that consistently attract potential customers. Great blog content literally means something different on every blog.

Great blog content is researched and not impulsive. You cannot treat the blog as an experimental playground and expect it to work for you. It is designed to mean business and make you presence felt online and you have to ensure it performs the way you want it to.