The Internet has definitely made it easier for writers. A wealth of information is at a writer’s fingertips and it has provided a way to work from home for anyplace in the country — or even the world! But the Internet has also produced many armchair writers who either think that they understand grammar or [...]

One of my pet peeves lately is how there are so many writing sites that only pay writers a song. I’m talking about social sites and writing sites that hire writers by the hundreds, paying anywhere from $5 to $30 for an article. That coupled with all of the bidding sites, where writers underbid each [...]

In my never-ending search for new assignments, I often find it ironic that the level of professionalism that is demanded of writers is often a one-sided affair. Case in point: over the past month, I have been contacted by two editors from two different companies that have reputations for being places that any writer worth his [...]

It was only a matter of time. In these days of texting rather than conversing, socializing via Facebook and Twitter rather than face-to-face, and being tied to a cell phone 24/7, enter the cell phone novel. Think serial, as in the days when writers published their novels in installments in weekly and daily magazines. Or for that [...]

After eight months of no writing jobs, where the market started resembling a desert, I’ve just been handed a huge writing project on a subject I know nothing about. It involves writing a 65,000 word book on pruning trees and bushes, and while the pay isn’t great, the assignment could open doors in the book publishing [...]

Can anybody be a writer? Is it a talent you are born with or one that’s learned? These are age-old questions that can apply to just about any artistic field. And the answer to both is … yes and no. The truth is, some folks are born with writing talent — it’s in their charts, [...]

One problem that many writers, secretaries and others chained to their desks encounter is something that used to be called “secretary spread”; that is, so much time is spent in a chair as opposed to physical work, that one’s bum begins to widen or “spread.” Of course, no one should neglect a daily workout or eating [...]

Years ago, when I was three, President Kennedy challenged a generation tempered by war to go out into the world and make a difference. He was murdered three years later, but his words still echo in those of us who know that words have the power to shape and change. Words are like that. They live [...]