FundsforWriters

I am an abdominal surgeon based in Italy. I am also a self-taught developer. Yet, despite my demanding primary career, I maintain a steady, predictable stream of freelance writing income. How? Not by pitching major consumer magazines, but by turning my hyper-specific, off-the-clock hobbies into recurring assignments in niche markets.

Early in my writing journey, I assu...

Okay, so you’re a novelist by trade, but you’ve got a story idea you feel is just as well suited for a Hollywood film as a paperback. However, before you put ink to paper, you wonder whether it would be wiser to write the novel first and then sell the IP (Intellectual Property), or just go directly to the screenplay. Might one format be an easier sell in Hollywood? Could the ...

Media coverage from bloggers and newspapers is part of the writing journey since this is how readers discover their favorite authors and how ‘public figures’ remain relevant. Here’s what I learned about promotion working for 

I’d always worked directly with my editor. We’d go back and forth, smooth out phrases, maybe tweak a section or two, and then the piece would move forward to the publication phase.

But one day, she said she wanted to pass the copy to a fact-checker first. Admittedly, in the era of AI, everything needs an extra human eye. However, the process wasn’t what I expected. It ...

By copycatting, I’m talking about you copying someone’s style, plagiarizing their description, stealing a story concept, or using AI. The creative world is anti-AI, in case you hadn’t noticed, and regardless of what those using it are saying, readers do want to know if a human or machine wrote it. Readers are not ignorant creatures who only want a good story regardless where ...