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Writing jobs are rare enough as it is, but even those jobs that are out there are becoming less and less about the skill of crafting compelling dialog, storylines, characters and scenes, and, increasingly, more about specialist knowledge. The term “writer” is losing its meaning. For example, I recently interviewed with an employer where the …

The right furniture can make the task of writing much less of a task. In fact, next to a PC and word processor, I’d say that a comfortable chair is probably one of the most essential tools an aspiring writer can invest in. In my own experience, my best writing came when I owned a …

The recent announcement that The O.C. was canceled got me thinking. It was never a show I watched, but I was aware of it. It debuted right around the time Dawson’s Creek was ending and seemed to fill that gap for a teen- to young adult-oriented prime time soap. I just never jumped on board. …

Writing for pay is the dream of nearly every writer. But actually doing it is a completely different reality than dreaming about it. Rarely does the reality measure up to aspirations – unless, perhaps, you’re Stephen King or James Patterson. For most of us, though, real-world writing jobs feel more like jobs than they do …

I was recently asked by a younger writer friend whether it was OK for a writer who is a believer to feature characters in their stories who do not reflect their own belief system. It was an interesting question, even though at first blush it seems so simple that with all the time left after …