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6/28/2013

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6/28/2013

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6/28/2013

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Creative Writers and Authors Need an Online Presence

6/10/2013

by Stu Leventhal
A lot of you have been asking about website marketing that has to do with building an author related career on the internet. Many of you are struggling to make a living with your passion, creative writing. Many of you write part time and hold down a second job to pay most of the bills. We all realize the internet is the biggest market place for new writers of all kinds to make an impression and offline is where the big bucks dwell. You have to play the game if you ever want to win. There is a definite need for quality writers of every genre online. There are also tons of people who want you to write for free! But online is where you should start. Prove yourself, build a following then approach the off line literary moguls. Once you have a readership they’ll welcome you with open arms!

Online and offline, the writing world is full of unscrupulous characters so one has to be careful. Quite frankly, I never was very careful. I got burned plenty of times and I’m still being plagiarized all over the net, especially by the article spinner crowd. I guess I should feel flattered that they deem my text worthy of copying. My attitude always was, I just want to be read. I don’t care much about copy writing everything I type, but that is just me. I understand completely the feelings of worry and helplessness when a young writer sends out query letters or emails a script. Will someone steel your idea and not give you any credit? Sure, it happened to me and it probably has happened to most professional writers of any quantity of work. The only thing I can say to console you is that the people who copy and steel make a quick score but they can’t put out the quality of work as the real deals can time and time again.

For real creative writers, there is never enough time in the day to write what you want to write, to plot out your next piece, to rewrite just one more time. I have beginnings of stories that have been lying around for years that I can’t get back to finish. One has to prioritize. There will be stories in your mind that you never get to pen. For years, I’ve been hoping to find time to write a mystery based around a rock and roll band. Now, don’t steal my idea! But truthfully, I don’t mind sharing that idea because there is plenty of room for a few rock and roll mysteries on the book shelves today. The point is, when you submit your work to an editor or literary agent they sometimes agree with you that your idea is terrific but feel your name doesn’t have the clout to make them money. They turn you down, reject your book then tell their star author about the idea they came up with…your idea! Most of the time you won’t even find out your idea was stolen. This is the industry you’ve chosen to dabble in. Take solace in the fact that there are plenty of other industries just as shady!

So, how does a creative writer protect one’s self and their work while they wait to be discovered? My strategy, and it may not be the best strategy, has always been to keep doing what you do best. Write! Keep getting better and better at writing. Keep sending more and more work out there. Publish when and where you can regardless of the pay! Even if someone wants something for free. I wouldn’t spend too much time on a freebee unless it was for a good charitable cause but I wouldn’t turn down anyone who is willing to publish me. Consider the publicity and promotional worth of everything you publish more important than the actual pay you get. I know what it is like to yearn for a time when you will be finally able to quit that corny day job and write full time. But, you have to build your credibility in order to catch the eye of a webmaster paying top dollar per word. He wants the best writing on a subject period and the cold hard facts are these players would rather pay tons of money to steal a writer away from one of their competitors than take a chance on an unknown.

So, how do we get that good writing job, land that big contract, sell our first of many novels? Well, you are a writer, so you should use your strength, writing, to get people’s attention. Isn’t that why you write? You don’t write stuff then put it in a box so no one can see it. You want to be a ‘Paper Back Writer’ for the fame and recognition just like in the Beatles song. So let’s write and then let’s make sure everyone everywhere reads us! In this day and age the best medium to accomplish fame and then fortune is the internet. Now, most of you have been avoiding learning the ropes of internet marketing. I get it, you just want to write, and you aren’t a salesman! This attitude means you write an article that is great, post it on the web but no one knows it is there so only a few people read it. A competing writer writes and posts a similar article that isn’t nearly as well thought out or researched as yours but they know SEO, search engine optimization and SEM, search engine marketing and they understand social media so everyone reads their article. People tweet about your competitor’s article and re-post it on Facebook then your competitor gets the credit from all that and everyone hails him with praise. Eventually someone mentions your competitor’s name to a literary agent who signs him and all you have to say for yourself is “But I’m a much better writer than he is!”

Any writing career in 2013 and beyond means learning and knowing the internet. The more you know the better you will fare! Even if you sell all your writing offline, you will do much better if you market and promote yourself and your work online too! Getting a writing job offline is still the coveted goal. Writing hard and soft cover books still pay more and are more prestigious than downloads online due to the reputation that online books and online authors have since many people feel, anyone can publish a book himself online. And, since the reality is that many people do publish their own books online and plenty of them are subpar, the good writers suffer the consequences. Still you can’t fight a losing battle. If you want to be a writer today, you must promote yourself online. You need a website showing off your accomplishments and telling people where they can find all your work to read more and more. To get higher pay for your writing you must show you have a following. It’s no longer good enough to just submit your work. You have to add your bio and state how many followers you have on Facebook and Twitter because many editors, down want to be bothered.

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Building a Creative Writing Career

6/7/2013

by Stu Leventhal

Now a days, Creative Writers and authors of all kinds are almost expected to have at least one personal blog. Many writers maintain a couple of blogs, at least one or more pertaining to each niche that they write for. When you become an authority on a specific subject you can demand a higher price for your work. A writer whose blog is on the first page of Google commands attention. Also impressive to show one’s potential clients are your past articles, essays and stories that have accumulated a few thousand likes. Having a large amount of Facebook followers is noteworthy too.

The fact that not every writer enjoys writing on a blog like platform or that many writers and authors view blogging as well as social media posting a amateurish writing, is of no concern to clients. Many of the people who do the hiring of freelance writers need to be able to justify their decisions to people hire up the ladder. Showing that the creative writer they hired has a large internet following is all the proof they need.

Whether us fellow scribes respect bloggers and blogging as a legitimate literary art form or not doesn’t seem to matter very much to the masses. Blogging is here to stay! Not only has blogging become a large part of social interaction, it has also become a big deal for businesses of all types to have and maintain a blog. Even government agencies, schools and institutions are getting in on the act. For this reason it has become very necessary for writers of all kinds, types and styles to learn SEO search engine optimization and SEM search engine marketing. Yes, even if your, creative writing specialty is as far removed from big business as one can get, for example, a children’s fairy tale author. Book publishers want new authors to prove themselves before they’ll even glance your way.

The best way to gain an offline book publisher’s attention is to build a large online fan base. This means playing the internet game; social media, blogging and even possibly creating your own website. If you can’t beat them join them. Whether you like surfing the web or not it is a good idea for any writer, new or established to invest time and maybe even some money in building an online presence. In the long run, when your offline books hit the book stores, you’ll already have a large amount of them sold via the internet.

If you already sell a lot of your writing to be published on the internet then you probably know that you can command a lot more for your work if it is written in a way that the search engines like it to be written. Good, SEO, search engine optimized writing is in high demand. This is because it is more difficult to write in a way to please both robots and people. People pleasing text may flow from your fingertips on to the computer screen but search engines scan your writing for repeating words in order to determine what your piece is about. It takes skill and art to repeat the same words and phrases over and over for the search engines to grasp and not end up with writing that sounds silly, incompetent and/or is annoying to people.

Until the search engines acquire the technology to interpret text in a similar way that humans interpret text it will be advantageous for any writer to take at least a basic course or two in SEO and SEM. It will help you advance your career as well as assist you in building up your online reputation. And, your writing will be more marketable!

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Teaching and Learning Creative Writing

6/7/2013

by Stuart Leventhal

No one knows everything they can possibly know about the world of creative writing. Creative writing is an ever evolving craft. Good writers experiment with new styles and techniques all the time. Pushing oneself with attempts to take one’s craft to higher levels is how we learn, grow and become better writers. Reading other authors’ works on any subjects we can find, exposes us to different ways of expressing our self and teaches us different methods of communicating what we wish to say. Reading everything you can get your hands on is one way to gain a larger vocabulary which will serve you well throughout your writing endeavors. But a lot more goes into writing good text than just knowing a lot of big words.

If you really wish to develop your writing craft through reading, you need to start reading everything with a very critical eye. Forget about the subject of the piece and break down how it was structured. Ask yourself, why do you like this piece? What don’t you like about this piece? What could the author have done better? What would you have done differently? If the piece gets boring at one point try to figure out what can be done to cure that problem without changing the whole focus of the author’s work. Can you identify a signature style of wordsmithing in the piece? Why do you think the author choose to word things the way he did? If you are reading a story, why did the author lay out the form the way he did. Why tell it in the first person as if the story was about himself instead of using the third person technique and writing the same tale through the eyes and thoughts of one of his other main characters? How would the story change if it was told from a different character’s view point?

Reading a lot is definitely a key to learning how to write better. But, it is very important for young writers to force themselves to read stuff that is outside of their comfort zone. Regardless of whether a specific literary genre is the category of writing that you excel at or are trying to learn more about, every creative writer can always find writing tips and advice of significant value by reading and especially studying other writing niches other than their chosen field. A poet or song lyricist for instance can benefit greatly from listening to the lessons or insight given by a top newspaper reporter who is mentoring young journalists. And young journalists can certainly gain knowledge, technique and wisdom from studying our poet laureates. Don’t both crafts require developing intense skills of observation, eloquence of language, a flare for the dramatic and the gift of smooth, comprehensive communication?

Fiction and nonfiction sit at opposite ends of the literary spectrum; one form of literature being true and factual the other being based on the imagination and expression yet they both relying on the skills of telling a story and each type of author can benefit by studying each other’s styles and techniques then adopting them to serve their needs and purposes as they struggle to communicate expressively to their readers. As important as reading is to a young writer’s development it pales in comparison to actually writing something yourself. Few things in life engage a person’s mind more than struggling to write your thoughts down in a way that others will understand where you are coming from. Writing challenges your imagination, dredges up your emotions and can be quite frustrating and fatiguing most of the time.

Learning and developing a craft, so diverse, as writing, is definitely a lifelong experience. Having a mentor willing to help, listen and advise a fellow struggling writer cannot have a value placed on it. The next best thing is to join a writing group where likeminded people interested in developing the same art as you can converse, assist and support each other. We all know that the master can teach the student but remember it is a surprise and delight when the student occasionally teaches the master something too. Any good professor will tell you this does happen quite frequently and understandably more often than it is spoken of! We all learn and grow together.

Writing itself is sometimes mystical. We don’t always know where or how we come up with the stuff we come up with. We’re always over critical when we critique our own work. We doubt ourselves often and worry is this really the best way to say something. Is this the best word? And on top of that writing is art and art is many times hard to define. Everyone’s opinion can differ when art enters the equation which can leave an even an established author quite insecure. All this makes the craft of creative writing all the more tougher to learn or teach. Then by adding the word ‘creative’ to the word ‘writing’ we are putting added pressure on our young scribes to feel they have to always write something that is so utterly unique and astounding that it leaves the reader with their mouth hanging open.

Like with developing any other skill, the most important thing for becoming a better creative writer is practice. The more you write the faster and better you get at writing. Reading and studying is all fine and dandy but writing and writing and writing is what will eventually make you a great writer.

For this reason I urge you all to read every bit of writing advice and tips on this quite, large website. Then, put the theories and tips to use. All the writing help is free and posted on Anewtale.com for the purpose of helping young and old writers, new, professional and amateur writers and scribes of any and all genres, styles and levels of expertise. If you have some incite to add that might help a struggling young artist hone their skills of wordsmithing then by all means share. That is why we blog! Together we can help each other master the honorable craft of creative writing and hopefully, some great new literature will be the result!

Devour the poems and flash fiction of our student writers struggling to make an impression on anyone. Comment and lend your wit where wit is needed. Teaching is one craft where the student and the teacher both always benefit. Our writers crave the attention so constructively critique away! Everyone who publishes on this website knows they do so with the risk of having their feelings hurt. But we promise to take you worst with a grain of salt. It’s all in the spirit of learning! So, don’t be shy. Tell us what you think about any piece on the site even if it is to simply cast a vote for your favorite sci-fi fiction or to announce you really enjoy the work of one of our feature mystery writers. Don’t forget to praise our artists and photographers when deserved, they have feeling too! Now, let’s get writing. For, I cannot think of a nobler endeavor.

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