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The Writing Jobs offers the resources and information you need to assist in your search for employment in the writing and editing fields. Our job board and category sections include the latest leads available. Both are "search" friendly whether you are looking for a certain type of position or specific location. Jobs for writers are out there...our goal is to help you locate them.

Let Them Say It For You! The Secret To Grant Proposal Writing Success

In my position working in programming for one of the country's major foundations, I reviewed many many grant proposals. And, while I loved the opportunity to become acquainted with the regions many nonprofit organizations, I was also dismayed by how dry and tedious so many of the proposals seeking funding were. It was a rare proposal - perhaps one out of fifty - that reached out and grabbed you.
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Inside the fiction factory

Several years ago, at a gathering of marketing experts in the US, a Harvard Business School professor named John Deighton had a disorienting experience. The Direct Marketing Association - which represents that maligned segment of society responsible for sending junk mail, unsolicited faxes, and "commercial email" - had invited the thriller writer James Patterson to deliver a lecture. By some measures, Patterson is the world's most commercially successful author, and as he listened, Deighton began to see why. Patterson didn't discuss literary technique. He spoke of TV advertising and brand penetration, and about how and where his books were displayed in shops. "I'd never actually heard a product speak," said Deighton, recalling the lecture. "It was like listening to a can of Coca-Cola describe how it would like to be marketed."

Have you always wanted to be a freelance writer? Or are you considering moonlighting as a writer to earn some extra income? Although most beginning writers think first of fiction when considering writing as a career choice, there are several questions you may want to consider before making a final decision between fiction and non-fiction. Making the choice that is right for your circumstances can mean the difference between financial success and a drawer full of rejection slips.

I Think I Need an Agent

Your initial manuscript is complete. Maybe it's even been shelved for a period of time. You may have sent the manuscript to a publisher, but it never really went anywhere. You really believe in the book, but are tired of hitting the roadblock that reads, "No unsolicited manuscripts".
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From albedo to zugunruhe

The hardest part of this confession has already been made. It is easier to admit an unwelcome truth to the world than to admit it to yourself, and I faced this one in late 2003. I was going to Pakistan, and bought a guidebook in the Footprint series, written by Dave Winter and Ivan Mannheim. I was enjoying the book until I came across the following sentence: "The albedo of Gilgit's brown, barren hills is high, and the heat from the sun just seems to bounce around the bowl that the town sits in."

After the storm

At any one time crime fiction will usually boast a writer, most often someone just below the level of the best known or biggest seller, who is hailed by insiders as the best in the business. In the 1970s it was Elmore Leonard and in the 80s James Ellroy. Throughout the 90s the cognoscenti's vote consistently went to James Lee Burke, whose darkly moralistic evocations of crime and punishment in Louisiana and Montana probed the shifting boundaries between the powerful and powerless, past and present, and, especially, good and evil in modern America.

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