If you want to cut some leg work off your writing research, convert as many interviews as you can to telephone interviews. Beginning writers try to hoof it all over their city to hook up with experts, but that isn’t necessary. You can learn to be effective by phone and get all the skinny you [...]

(this is part three of a three part series on freelance copyrights)
An email I received offering to save the soul of my work for cold cash was from one of hundreds of slightly off-center entrepreneurs trying to make a bunch of bucks from anything they can put into html code. Copyrighting your work is not [...]

Linda Formichelli teaches you how to sell your writing
Want to sell your writing to high-profile magazines? It isn’t a walk in the press room to break in to magazines, but you can do it if you put your back into it. You need a successful mentor and you can buy one online. Linda Formichelli morphed [...]

A communications professional’s pet peeves
By Gail Sideman

I’m a journalist and publicist so it should come as no surprise that I’m picky about the way words are used.
The number of media outlets has grown tenfold in the last quarter century, and as a result, so have misuses of words in [...]

Hollywood screenwriter/producer celebrity Blake Snyder sells scripts to Disney and Spielberg, among others. He knows what he’s doing and shares with other writers via his software, Save the Cat. Snyder taught at Chapman, UCLA, Vanderbilt, and the Beijing Film Academy. His book is highly visible in screenwriting classes at U.S. and Canadian universities. His software [...]