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NETWORDS BLOG


Lisa Bendall
Should you become a non-fiction book author?
If you’re flourishing as a non-fiction writer—you’re skilled at conducting research and interviews, you’re reliably meeting deadlines and expectations, and you’re organizing information, opinion or service into...
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Lisa Bendall
I.J. Schecter
Aiming for the grin
Putting a smile on people’s faces can be a great way to engage them in your writing. I tend to write funny because I see the world as a funny place. (One of my favorite moments was when my father, after reading a few of my horror stories,...
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I.J. Schecter
Tammy Burns
Edit your way to being a better writer
I sometimes try to decide if I’m more of a writer or an editor at heart—but trying to figure that out is like the clichéd chicken or egg riddle. I belong to both PWAC and EAC. My official title at the magazine I work for is editor, but a...
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Tammy Burns
Virginia Heffernan
Is niche writing the way of the future?
I was expecting a mid-January lull in new assignments, but it was not to be: within days of arriving home from holidays, I had requests to improve a faculty website, produce a conference fact sheet, ghostwrite an article for a client, produce a...
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Virginia Heffernan
Luigi Benetton
Empty inbox to zap stress, boost productivity
Stress-free productivity: You can do lots of things to approach it, but let me suggest one that you might not have thought about. Empty your e-mail inbox. Why? Because you’re using it as a calendar, contact list, task list, reminder list,...
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Luigi Benetton
John Schofield
Steer yourself towards freelance success
How do you define success? For freelance writers, it can be measured in many ways: More freedom, perhaps, or the chance to chart your own career course. That may be all the success you need. But when it comes to cold, hard cash, so many freelancers...
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John Schofield
Nate Hendley
Staying motivated in 2012
The holiday season is over and now it’s time to go back to work. While no one, with the possible exception of the Mayans, can predict how 2012 will unfold, there are ways to make sure your year starts off well. Attitude is key: do you envision...
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Nate Hendley
Krystyna Lagowski
Hopping back into the freelance saddle
December marks an important and happy anniversary for me—although at one time, I wasn’t so sure. One year ago, I was downsized out of a job. It’s a familiar story to many in these troubled economic times, and one that carries quite...
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Krystyna Lagowski
Mariellen Ward
The brave new world of blogging
Writers are all over the map when it comes to blogging, and this is understandable: as a new platform for communication, its value has yet to be convincingly proven. Blogging is a brave new world, a frontier, and those who have forged ahead have...
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Mariellen Ward
Donna Papacosta
Google+ for Writers
Google’s new social media platform, Google+, launched this past summer, is one of the tools you can employ as a writer - to get known, get remembered, and build your business. Think of Google+ as a venue to publish your writing, to conduct...
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Donna Papacosta
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