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Thanks to everyone who has signed up for and contributed magazine markets and edits to the Renegade Writer Markets Wiki! Recently, members have added The Writer, WOW! Women on Writing, front+porch, The Writer, and Graduating Engineer. There have also been helpful edits to the American Cheerleader entry. Please do visit and help us make the […]

If you have trouble getting started on important projects because you have so many other things to do, follow the advice of a brilliant writer I know and abide by the “Rule of Four”: At the beginning of the day or in the evening before you go to bed, make a list of the […]

Diana and I have been adding markets to the Renegade Writer Markets Wiki — today we added Imagination Publishing and Graduating Engineer — but we need your help! We can’t create a valuable markets resource all by ourselves; we need input from many, many writers to get this thing off the ground. Please visit the […]

Kristen writes: I have 23 articles due between now (August 21) and August 31. My total pay for those articles will be around $2,300. I quit my staff writing job after 10 years in January and, out of fear of never eating again, lined up many local paper and magazine assignments. They’re fun and easy […]

Trisha Grissom at the Coffee and Critique Writers Group blog linked to my post 8 Tips to Generating Salable Article Ideas and added a great tip of her own: Use smells to generate memories and associations. To get more details on how to sniff your way to salable ideas, read her blog post. [lf]
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Just wanted to pop my head out of the water and say sorry for not posting as much. Life has been kind of crazy these past few weeks, starting with a major screwup while we were updating this blog that left my own writing site homeless and crippled. (I’m still trying to figure out how […]

If you’ve been getting published, you probably have a stack of magazines with your articles in them. My husband Eric and I learned the hard way, when we moved, that boxes of magazines are extremely heavy. So we set aside a couple of days to go through the mags and, using an Xacto knife and […]

The Renegade Writer website has a new look — and new features for writers! We’re thrilled with the renegade broken pencil links and other work done by Reese at Design by Reese. Here are our new features, all of which are accesible via the new links above:
The Renegade Writer Markets Wiki. According to Wikipedia, which […]

As writers, much of our success depends on the quality and quantity of our ideas. if your idea well is running dry, try these tips for filling it back up:
1. Play a game. I’ve mentioned this tip on the blog before: Open your dictionary to a random page, close your eyes, and randomly choose a […]

An editor sent me this press release today…I hope she wasn’t trying to tell me something about my grammar skills!
Purdue University’s online writing lab receives millions of visitors a year, and here are the questions people most frequently ask. People may be surprised to learn it’s not just students asking questions. […]