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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 30th, 2008

Throw Out The First Three Paragraphs!

I’ve heard writing teachers say it, and I’ve heard magazine editors say it: “Throw out the first three paragraphs!”
What in the world are they talking about?
The truth is, even for professionals, the first couple of paragraphs, if you’re writing an article, or even the first chapter if you’re writing a book, is likely to […]

By Anne Wayman -- 9 comments

March 13th, 2008

Keeping Track Of Paper

Back when I had a studio, I was drowning in paper. Guess what? Now that I’m in a two-bedroom, with one bedroom as my office, the problem hasn’t gone away… it’s just spread out more.
Back at the studio, I worked with Jennifer Hofmann of MyOrganizedBiz and Inspired Home Office She helped me solve multiple […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

March 12th, 2008

Are You Afraid To Get Your Book Written?

Are you afraid to get your book written? That’s such a rude question! Yet I find probably one out of every four or five people who contact me about getting a book written are actually so afraid of the project it never happens.
My own experience with fear says that the sooner I face it the […]

By Anne Wayman -- 11 comments

October 1st, 2007

Sometimes Writing and Editing is Boring!

Okay, I wouldn’t want to do anything else. I love writing, ghostwriting and coaching writers. But darn! Sometimes writing, rewriting and editing is just plain boring.
Yesterday and this morning, I went through a 20,000 word manuscript. All sorts of small things showed up, like extra spaces, words that needed to be changed and punctuation clarified. […]

By Anne Wayman -- 9 comments

June 7th, 2007

Writing Clients and Response Time

Over in our forum we had a question about how long to wait for a client’s response to an email. As I understood it, the writer had a new client who hadn’t responded to an email for a couple of days. The writer had started to panic a bit and wondered what to do.
There […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 10th, 2007

Vision Your Book – A Teleclass

If you’ve been following this blog for awhile you know I’ve been working on a new site. One of the goals of that site is to begin to offer teleclasses around book writing and book publishing.
On Tuesday, May 29th at 3 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time - 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time I’ll be offering a […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments