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Award-winning, Nashville-based writer, editor and journalist Katie Lewis talks about the creative community, being a freelancer, setting deadlines and remaining healthy and inspired.
Beginning a career as a freelance writer is actually fairly straightforward. Get the answers to your burning questions about where to find jobs, how to create ongoing business relationships, and ensure you make money.
No more writing as a hobby — it’s go time.
Read moreUsing your blog to build professional authority and reputation is one of the best ways to consistently show up for your audience and climb the ranks of search result pages.
Sound daunting? Nah. I’ve broken it down for all us creative types, so let’s get to learning!
Read moreThere’s a formula to successful freelance story pitches. Here are two tips to get a publication or company to buy your writing work.
Read moreShort stories get a bad rep from novel-lovers, yet short story devotees call it the purest form of writing. The author creates living characters, a full world and a complete arc, all in 1,500 to 30,000 words.
Phew. Not so easy, right? You can improve your own short story to immediately engage these hesitant readers by taking these six steps.
Read moreCreative writing can be about anything! Yay! Huzzah!
This is not a blog post about focusing your plot. This is a blog post about freedom.
Phew. A lofty statement, that one, am I right? But here’s the deal: So many of us (like, sooo many) sit down to write and are stricken by the belief that it must look a certain way. But it doesn’t!
Read moreWherever you are in your path to publication, at some point, you’ll wonder if creating an author website is a necessity.
TL;DR Sure, why not? :) Let’s talk about what to include on a writing website.
Read moreThe truth is that as writers, we cannot see the forest for the trees. Like, cannot. I’ve been writing stories and submitting manuscripts for more than a decade, as well as editing some incredible books myself, and let me tell you: I needed a creative writing editor.
Read moreWhen a literary agent requests your full or partial manuscript, how you format your book manuscript matters. Formatting a novel for submission — title page, spacing, alignment — shows you take the process seriously and are considerate of the reading agent’s time.
Read moreHow do I find a literary agent? It’s the question all writers ask themselves, no matter how craft-oriented they are. I can help you write your agent query letter and book synopsis so you can land that agent and book contract. Oprah’s Book Club, here you come.
Read moreThe struggle of working off one’s ass (as well as not ending in a preposition) with the sole purpose of more, more, more is, frankly, ugly to me. It didn’t used to be, but now, I’m not impressed by my past self. She seems easily influenced by what she thinks she should be doing instead of what she wants to be doing.
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