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March 26, 2004
New site focuses on writing as a lucrative career
Traditionally, writers' incomes have been low, and many writers don't understand that their skills are valuable. Pro Write at http://www.prowrite.biz/ is focused on helping writers to write for money. Each month, writers discover a new way to become a big-selling writer. Pro Write features a new workshop every month, so writers can make money from fiction, nonfiction, and copywriting (writing for business).
In the 21st century, there are more markets for writers than ever: traditional publishers, niche publishers, magazines, corporations, electronic media — there are literally millions of markets for writers, world-wide. Pro Write focuses on helping writers to write the words those markets need.
Pro Write's co-founder, Angela Booth, who's been writing and selling for over 25 years, says: "Pro Write's workshops are inspirational, and are packed full of information writers can use immediately. We're ready to advise, guide, and cheer writers on at every step of the process. There's a lot of disinformation around about professional writing as a career. Our aim is to demystify writing."
All Pro Write's workshops stay online, and writers can take them at their own pace. As each lesson is posted, writers can interact with the course instructor. They can post their exercises, and can ask questions. The workshops teach skills which are marketable assets. The skills will build, so that writers can get started immediately, earning while they're learning.
Angela Booth says that for joining, writers receive the free writing manual which contains the first four issues of Freelance Copy Write, the ezine for professional freelance copywriters, described at digital-e.biz.
Currently Pro Write offers three workshops. "Sell To Magazines Today" teaches writers to convert their experiences into magazine articles. "Write Genre Novels (Commercial Fiction) For Fun And Profit" starts writers on careers as novelists. They learn why genre is important, and how to write a novel. "Fast-Start Copywriting: Write For Business" starts writers on writing for the hidden writing markets — on writing for businesses.
Writers can find more information at http://www.prowrite.biz/
ABOUT PRO WRITE: PROFESSIONAL WRITING SECRETS
Pro Write: Professional Writing Secrets http://www.prowrite.biz/ was developed by professional writer Angela Booth, and Web site designer Birgitt Thursby, to help writers to build successful full-time writing careers. Designed as a fun, interactive training site, Pro Write provides an on-going series of practical workshops in fiction, nonfiction and copywriting, and publishes three ezines for subscribers. The site is dedicated to helping writers to build their income, as well as their self-esteem and creativity.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.prowrite.biz/
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March 19, 2004
Fast And Easy Workshop Shows Writers How To Write For Business
The days when writers starved in garrets are long past. Nowadays, any competent word-spinner with an entrepreneurial bent knows where a steady writing pay check comes from. It comes from copywriting — that is, from writing for business. The major benefit of copywriting is that it enables writers to make a great living by doing what they love — writing.
Pro Write's new workshop: "Fast-Start Copywriting: Write For Business" at http://www.prowrite.biz/ helps writers to get started as freelance copywriters in less than a month.
Pro Write's Angela Booth, a professional writer and copywriter for over a quarter of a century says: "I created the workshop for writers who want to make money writing. Writing is a skill, and businesses pay well for that skill. Most writers have no idea what copywriting is, or that businesses buy writing skills in exactly the same way they buy other skills. Anyone who writes for business has millions of markets for her work."
The workshop takes a month. The first lesson alerts writers to what copy actually is, and where their potential markets are. Booth says that copy is everywhere. "When they hear 'copywriter' people think of advertising writers. However the wide, wide field of copy extends well beyond advertising. It covers everything from simple business letters to publicity campaigns, and annual reports."
Each lesson of the workshop contains exercises, which writers can post on Pro Write's forums. They can also get coaching on any aspect of copywriting, including winning clients, and running their business efficiently.
Writers can contact Angela Booth (angela@prowrite.biz) and Birgitt Thursby (birgitt@prowrite.biz) of Pro Write at any time.
ABOUT PRO WRITE: PROFESSIONAL WRITING SECRETS
Pro Write: Professional Writing Secrets http://www.prowrite.biz/ was developed by professional writer Angela Booth, and Web site designer Birgitt Thursby, to help writers to build successful full-time writing careers. Designed as a fun, interactive training site, Pro Write provides an on-going series of practical workshops in fiction, nonfiction and copywriting, and publishes three ezines for subscribers. The site is dedicated to helping writers to build their income, as well as their self-esteem and creativity.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.prowrite.biz/
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March 9, 2004
Helping Writers To Write: You Just Have To Do It
Summary
Many writers have trouble writing. As author Shirley Hazzard said: "The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of." Pro Write at http://www.prowrite.biz/ helps writers to develop flourishing, lucrative writing careers. The site not only gives writers training in writing fiction, nonfiction and copywriting (writing for business), but also provides daily help, motivation, and inspiration.
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The hardest part of writing for a living is sitting down and writing. Writers need to make friends with their anxieties in order to write regularly. Pro Write's (http://www.prowrite.biz/) Angela Booth, a professional writer for over a quarter of a century says: "This creative anxiety never disappears. You do however get used to it. Over the years, I've come to understand that without this creative tension, true creativity is impossible. Writers need to understand that feeling anxious before they write is a mind state, and will evaporate as they work."
In addition to awkward emotions, writers may also feel that their writing efforts aren't good enough. Booth says that this is because writers are surrounded by words every day, in print and other media. It's intimidating. They should remember that these words are polished, professional words. Says Booth: "Work and effort has gone into those words, but the effort doesn't show. The first drafts of a professional writer's words are just as awkward as a novice's first drafts, but the professional doesn't care. He knows that just getting ANY words written is a victory."
Booth says that membership in the Pro Write writing site at http://www.prowrite.biz/ helps writers to deal with their creative anxiety. Membership is for all writers, for professional, selling freelance writers, as well as for novice writers. For professionals, Pro Write membership extends their writing skills into new areas, providing workshops, advice about their work, and a writing community.
For hobbyist and new writers, Pro Write membership provides access to constant training, in many different areas of writing, with daily writing prompts and writing advice. This helps new writers to deal with their psychological and emotional blocks, so they can build their skills and develop a lucrative career.
Booth feels that Pro Write membership is an investment for writers that helps writers to develop an understanding of themselves, and their creative process, so that they can enjoy writing. This leads to increased confidence, so that they can turn their love of writing into a lucrative career.
Writers can contact Angela Booth (angela@prowrite.biz) and Birgitt Thursby (birgitt@prowrite.biz) of Pro Write at any time.
ABOUT PRO WRITE: PROFESSIONAL WRITING SECRETS
Pro Write: Professional Writing Secrets http://www.prowrite.biz/ was developed by professional writer Angela Booth, and Web site designer Birgitt Thursby, to help writers to build successful full-time writing careers. Designed as a fun, interactive training site, Pro Write provides an on-going series of practical workshops in fiction, nonfiction and copywriting, and publishes three ezines for subscribers. The site is dedicated to helping writers to build their income, as well as their self-esteem and creativity.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.prowrite.biz/
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March 4, 2004
Writing Lies for Profit: Earn Big Bucks with Commercial Fiction
Summary
Pro Write's workshop, "Write Genre Novels (Commercial Fiction) for Fun and Profit", shows new writers how to start a lucrative fiction-writing career. The workshop takes writers through the complete process of writing a genre novel, from choosing a genre to writing the novel.
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The news that Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling has just become a billionaire is inspiring many new novelists. It's also bewildering. How do you start writing novels for major publishers? What's the first step?
Designed to demystify the fiction-writing process, Pro Write's new workshop, "Write Genre Novels (Commercial Fiction) for Fun and Profit", shows new writers how to build a fiction-writing career.
Angela Booth, who's written and published romance novels, says she wrote the workshop because most new writers don't understand the importance of deciding on their novel's genre before they start to write the book. She says: "A genre label answers the 'What is it?' question which will be posed first by a writer's editor, then by the sales and marketing departments of the publisher. Understanding genre, and writing to genre, starts novelists off on the right foot, and can save them years of wasted effort."
Genres are categories of novels. The major genres include: romance, mystery, horror, science fiction, thriller and fantasy. Booth says that when authors start by deciding on the genre they're writing in, they start the right way, by considering their readers, who choose books by genre. "Some people read only mysteries. Others read only science fiction. Many women read only romances, and they'll read half a dozen of the Harlequin romances a month."
Many books on the New York Times fiction bestseller list are genre novels. For example, Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, has been on the list for months. Its genre? It's a thriller.
Pro Write's workshop takes writers through the process of writing a novel, from deciding on a genre to completing the novel. It's made up of three lessons, with exercises, which writers can complete and can post on the Pro Write forum for feedback.
Angela Booth is pleased with the response to the workshop. "Writers enjoy it because it's interactive, and they feel that they're part of a community. Our site has something new for them almost every day to help them to develop their professional careers".
The workshop is part of the Pro Write site, at http://www.prowrite.biz/. Subscribers have instant access not only to the fiction workshop, but to other writing workshops, with a new workshop added to the site every month.
ABOUT PRO WRITE: PROFESSIONAL WRITING SECRETS
Pro Write: Professional Writing Secrets http://www.prowrite.biz/ was developed by professional writer Angela Booth, and Web site designer Birgitt Thursby, to help writers to build successful full-time writing careers. Designed as a fun, interactive training site, Pro Write provides an on-going series of practical workshops in fiction, nonfiction and copywriting, and publishes three ezines for subscribers. The site is dedicated to helping writers to build their income, as well as their self-esteem and creativity.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.prowrite.biz/
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February 24, 2004
Course Helps Writers To Business Success
Writers who want to extend their skills to copywriting (writing for business) have found an interactive email course that helps them to set up their own copywriting services business in eight short weeks.
Veteran writer Angela Booth, who's a copywriter, as well as a feature writer for magazines, developed the "Writing Words that Sell: Freelance Copywriting" email workshop in 2002.
She's pleased that the course, at http://www.digital-e.biz/ecourses2.html, has been so well-received by writers. "Many writers are unaware of the huge demand for business writing skills," Booth said. "They're amazed when the workshop, which includes exercises and personal coaching, helps them to get their new business off the ground so quickly. Students can take the course at their own pace, in their own time."
Writers with creativity and communication skills are in high demand in the global economy. All businesses need effective marketing materials, especially for the Web. Experienced copywriters are earning up to $3 per word to write Web sales pages of from between 1500 and 4000 words.
"I wanted to create a course that teaches copywriting skills, while leading writers through the process of getting their own copywriting business off the ground," says Booth. "So by the second lesson, writers are sending out direct mail letters to market their business. By the end of the short eight week course, they've developed a marketing process, are regularly sending out news releases, and are building a stable of regular clients. Our Digital-e Web site at http://www.digital-e.biz/ contains a library of free articles they can use to expand their skills further. We also have two free ezines for writers to build their writing and business competence."
Although most of the "Writing Words that Sell: Freelance Copywriting" students are writers, several web entrepreneurs have also taken the course, using it to market their information products online, and to create new information products.
Media Contacts
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.digital-e.biz/ecourses2.html
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February 18, 2004
New Site Helps Writers Sell More, Earn More
The new Pro Write: Professional Writing Secrets site at http://www.prowrite.biz/ was developed by professional writer Angela Booth, and Web site designer Birgitt Thursby, to help writers to diversify in order to build successful writing careers.
Designed as a fun, interactive training site, Pro Write provides an on-going series of practical workshops, and also helps writers to build their self-esteem and creativity. Booth said: "Most writers underestimate their own abilities. If you can write in one area, you can write in another. With each new experience, a writer's self-esteem grows, it's inevitable. I want to inspire and motivate each writer, so that at the end of a workshop — in writing personal essays perhaps, or in writing a novel — she'll say: I can do that! And she will know that she can."
Why do writers need to diversify? Because writers are earning much less now than they did forty years ago. The National Writers Union says: "In real dollars, freelance rates have declined by more than 50 percent since the 1960s".
This means that writers need to be daring and confident, and to realize that they CAN build great careers says Booth. She's been writing professionally for over a quarter of a century. "Pay rates at magazines and newspapers are low, so writers who thrive need to write a wide range of material. The problem is that many writers get stuck in a rut. They don't realize that they can write in many different fields, and that writing in a new area doesn't take much adjustment. Writing skills are transferable. At Pro Write, we're dedicated to helping writers explore their talents, and to treating their writing as an exciting well-paid adventure."
Birgitt Thursby says that Pro Write's concept is unique. "As far as I know, there's nothing else like it online. It's different — and exciting. Anyone can learn how to write more effectively in more areas."
Media Contacts
Angela Booth: angela@prowrite.biz
Birgitt Thursby: birgitt@prowrite.biz
URL: http://www.prowrite.biz/
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November 12, 2002
Writers Ignore Opportunities For Success
Author and writer Angela Booth has written a new email workshop, Writing To Sell In the Internet Age, to help writers use business skills and Internet technology to write more and sell more.
She says: "Writers are artists, not business people. However, it's using basic business skills that will help a writer to quit her day job and write full time."
Angela Booth emphasizes that the material the workshop teaches is new. She became inspired to create the workshop when she asked herself what successful writers were doing that made them successful.
She says: "I found they were simply using the technology, and business skills. They weren't afraid to break the rules of writing that put all the power in the hands of editors. They were treating their writing as a business. It's this business-like approach that made them successful."
The new workshop teaches writers clever new ways to market their work and services, including autoresponders, email mini-courses, and joint ventures with other writers or designers. It also reveals the hidden marketplace, consisting of millions of markets for writing, that most writers don't know exists.
Media Contact
Angela Booth
Digital-e — Info to go!
Email: angela@zip.com.au
URL: http://www.digital-e.biz/
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October 17, 2002
Stopping the great creative rip-off
Australian author and writer Angela Booth wants to stop the rip-off of creatives, and has started the Creative Small Biz ezine (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Creative_Small_Biz/) to help other creatives to profit from their talents.
Sam Goldwyn called writers: "Schmucks with Underwoods" (a brand of typewriter). Sixty years after Goldwyn's era, the great creative rip-off is continuing.
The work of writers, artists, photographers and other creatives directly underpins the growth of multinational, billion-dollar industries like publishing. Hundreds of thousands of people owe their well-paid jobs to the creative efforts of writers, artists and designers, but the majority of professional writers and creatives earn less than the minimum wage.
This is particularly so for freelancers.
Creative Small Biz runs articles on how to price services, how to market, and how to be more productive. In a recent poll of Creative Small Biz subscribers, half the respondents indicated that they'd like to see more articles on marketing in the ezine.
Angela says: "Creatives are born with a creative gene, but usually without a business gene. Most creatives don't know how to price and market their services. This makes them easy targets for rip-off merchants."
She feels that this is particularly so in publishing. "Most writers are desperate to publish a book. So when the publisher suggests that they might want to spend their advance on earnings on promoting the book, the writers are only too pleased to do it. In effect, this means that the writer earns zero from the book, because few books earn out their advances."
Creative Small Biz
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Creative_Small_Biz/
Media Contact
Angela Booth
Digital-e — Info to go
Email: angela@zip.com.au
URL: http://www.digital-e.biz/
