Cultivating multiple article ideas from the same topic can help freelance writers collect more bylines explains Dinsa Sachan in this article from Writer’s Digest March/April 2019. In today’s fractured media environment, every month sees...
Wondering how to sell an essay? Writing a cover letter that’s short and perfect to introduce your pages will sell a piece faster than submitting an excellent article or essay with an uninspired note. This article is excerpted from Susan S...
This article is excerpted from Susan Shapiro’s new book, The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks © 2018 from Writer’s Digest Books. The newspaper, magazine or web editor loves the freelance article you submitted and says “Yes!...
In the viscious “How the hell am I going to pay for school?” cycle most students go through daily, more and more are coming to one answer: sugar daddies. Jenny* is a 19-year-old first-year student at Mount Royal University in Alberta. S...
We’ve got $35,000 up for grabs for one lucky Student Life Network member in FULL RIDE. Happy 2018! You’re totally killing that “New Year, New You” vibe and sticking to your resolutions right? (cut to new running shoes still in the ...
The Hook by Dave Smith There’s a ton of talk about the hook. Everyone tells me I have to have a hook to begin my story. Without it, no one will read beyond the first page, or maybe the first paragraph. I’m petrified! What if I can’...
Today we are happy to repeat the first Friday story by Writers Forum member Dale Angel. It posted on July 3, 2020. We had not yet titled the feature ‘Fridays With Dale.’ I had planned to run a Dale Angel story every Friday, at...
You Can’t Scare Me by Dave Smith My most memorable childhood epiphany was this: a good number of kids’ songs, nursery rhymes and the like were designed to scare the bejesus out of five-year-olds. That’s right, they̵...
Lots of levels here. First, I think we have to enjoy writing. And we’d better, because that’s our only guaranteed benefit. There’s nothing wrong with ambition, but it’s probably unwise to bank on some level of public...
The Tour de France begins at the end of this week. As an avid cyclist I enjoy watching it and I find that it provides some neat opportunities for science, health, and physical education lessons. Here are some of my go-to resources for teach...