Fab Freelance Writing Ezine: Issue # 9


Publisher: Angela Booth.

Copyright 2006 Angela Booth

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* Issue # 9

* Date: December 6, 2006

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Includes:



* Editorial: Modeling - copying forms

* Freelance Writing Tip Of The Week: Focus on time management with 43 Folders

* Writing Resource: MediaBistro.com

* Article: Freelance Writing For Absolute Beginners, Part Two - Modeling To Write

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** The More You Write, The More You Earn **

What if you could WRITE MORE - effortlessly?

It's possible to write more - to write at least a thousand words an hour, easily and effortlessly.

Discover how to write more with "Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More" at

http://www.//Write-More/write-more.html


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[Editorial] Modeling - copying forms



Welcome to this week's issue. I hope you're having a great week, and that your gift-buying for the holiday season is well underway. Don't forget to include gifts for YOU in your gift-buying. :-)

This week's article " Freelance Writing For Absolute Beginners, Part Two - Modeling To Write" discusses modeling.

Modeling helps you to write ANYTHING. When you have a form to imitate, your creativity will soar, because modeling removes anxiety. Please let me know of your successes with modeling.

If you'd like to know more about modeling, or have other questions, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Cheers until next week.

Affectionately,

Angela

P.S. Have you visited my writing blog at http://// ? There's a lot of material to help your freelance career on that blog, and I post to it most days. Enjoy.

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** Copywriting Success: Your Stepping Stone To A New Career **

Copywriters are in high demand. Develop a lucrative career with "First Steps in Your Copywriting Career: cash in on the demand for business writers" at

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* Freelance Writing Tip Of The Week: Focus on time management with 43 Folders



The only limit on your income as a freelance writer is your time. 43 Folders (home of the Hipster PDA) is a brilliant, and huge resource to help you to make the most of the time you have. It will also help you to streamline your processes so that you have MORE time. Add the site to your bookmarks - http://www.43folders.com/

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** How Do You Manage To Write So Much? **

At least a couple of times a week, I get an email message from a writer who wonders how and why I'm so prolific.

The answer is simple. I taught myself how to produce. You can do it too. In my new ebook, "Top 70 Writing Tips To Help You To Write More," you'll discover 70 ways in which you can write more, no matter who you are, or what your level of writing experience -

http:////Write-More/write-more.html

I've had great reviews of this ebook, and I'm thrilled that it helps other writers to make the most of their writing talents.

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* Writing Resource: MediaBistro.com

Media Bistro has something for every freelance writer. I'm a subscriber, and have been for years - http://www.mediabistro.com/

I often forget to look at the site for weeks on end, but when I do get around to visiting, there's always a bit of info that I can use. Whether you're looking for a writing job, a course to extend your skills, or a new place to pitch, Media Bistro is a gold mine.

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** Discover Blogging And Increase Your Freelance Income **

What's a blog? A blog is a fantastic way to make BIG money as a freelance writer. Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller "Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger -- in your PJs, if you want". It's my complete ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well. Pro bloggers are making $1000 to $1500 a week for just a couple of hours of work each weekday.

Find out more at:

http://www.//Blog/blogging.html


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* Article: Freelance Writing For Absolute Beginners, Part Two - Modeling To Write




(c) Copyright 2006 Angela Booth. All Rights Reserved.


If you're a writer, and even if you've yet to sell a word, you know you're a writer. Many writers know who they are from a young age, as soon as they realize that someone writes the stories they love to read. With other writers, the love of writing, and the knowledge that they're a writer, sneaks up on them.

So here you are, a newly minted freelance writer, and of course you write, but now you want to sell your writing. As we discussed in Part One of the this article, the fundamental of freelance writing is that people make money from your words. For those people to make money from your words, the words you hope to sell must be in a certain form - a novel, a screenplay, a white paper, a Yellow Pages advertisement, a Web site - your buyers buy a bunch of words in some form or other.

The Key To Form: Audience And Response



The key to any form, is AUDIENCE and RESPONSE. As with most of the fundamentals of freelance writing, most writers write for years without becoming aware of this bedrock requirement. I managed to write successfully for at least a decade without having a clue to about what I was doing. Had I learned audience/ response earlier, I'm sure I would have had an easier time of both writing and selling my writing.

Always keep audience/ response in the back of your mind. It applies to everything you write, and ensuring that your writing is laser-targeted to audience/ response ensures that any piece of writing sells.

When a piece of writing isn't working, the clue is often in audience/ response. For example, let's say you've written a mystery novel. You try to sell it, but it's rejected. You remember audience/ response. OK, the audience is people who love mysteries - they love working out puzzles. The response required is for them to read to the end of the novel by continually finding clues and solutions. Understanding this, you revise your novel. You discover how to create characters with secrets and a great mystery puzzle by modeling six mystery novels, then you create another outline for your own. When you've finished, each character in the novel has a secret for the reader to discover, and a greatly enhanced primary puzzle. Your novel sells.


Tip: Write It Down - Who's The Audience? What's The Required Response?



Don't try to keep audience/ response in your head. It doesn't work. Write it down. Stick audience/ response on your computer monitor where you can see it.

You can write in any form by modeling examples of the form. You model by: collecting examples, outlining those examples, and writing practice outlines of those models.


Modeling A Form: Collect Examples, Outline Them, And Create Practice Outlines



A "model" is defined as a "system or thing, used as an example to follow or imitate".

Modeling a form works for everything you want to write. It works for novels, articles, advertisements, nonfiction books: whatever the form, find examples, and outline them. Then create your own practice outlines for your current project in that particular form.

Yes, this is a lot of work. However, it's work that you must do. Nowadays, editors don't edit - they don't have time. They expect that your article or book will be pretty much in its final form. If you're writing copy, it's also vital that you model what works (copywriters keep "swipe" files of models so they can copy forms), because your clients are counting on you.

Modeling isn't copying, per se. You're not copying words. You're copying form, structure, and voice.

I know many writers who baulk at this kind of analysis. If this is you, you can shorten the process. For example, let's say you want to write an article for a magazine. Collect six issues of the magazine. Read all the articles. Then find six example articles of the kind of article you want to write. Read those examples several times each, with close attention. Make some notes for yourself, thinking about why certain headlines were used (write this down - writing something down fixes it in your mind). Count the number of words in each article. Count the anecdotes, and count the number of people quoted. Now write your own article.

Modeling successful examples is the KEY to writing anything that you want to write. I wish you much success with modeling. I've used modeling to write many projects, from advertisements to books. You can too.


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** A Million Writing Gigs: Watch Your Bank Account Grow **

Are you writing for the Web? Writing for Web businesses and publishers can swell your bank account each week. Here's a big benefit - when you write for the Web you get paid half your fee before you begin writing.

Get paid REAL money to write - from $120 to $150 per hour. Discover "Writing For The Web" at:

http://www.//Web_Write/Web_write.html


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Get the latest freelance blogging news on Blogging For Dollars at:

http://www.dollars2blog.com/blog/

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