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Understanding Personal Essays: Get Your Essays Into Print
By Abigail Green So you’ve chosen the perfect topic, crafted a solid lead and conclusion, and revised (and revised and revised) your essay until it shines. Now what? Now you need to find a place… more →
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Understanding Personal Essays: Get Your Essays Into Print
The Writer Mama wrote 4 days ago: By Abigail Green So you’ve chosen the perfect topic, crafted a solid lead and conclusion, and … more →
The Freelancer's Phrase Book: "On Spec"
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The Writer Mama wrote 1 month ago: By Abigail Green Back in my March column, I discussed submitting queries versus complete articles. I … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: Short and Sweet
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The Writer Mama wrote 1 month ago: By Abigail Green The consensus among most writers I know is that it’s much easier to write lon … more →
The Freelancer's Phrase Book: All About the Hook
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The Writer Mama wrote 2 months ago: By Abigail Green Every published article has to have a hook — something that draws the reader … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: Food for Thought
The Writer Mama wrote 2 months ago: By Abigail Green In “Remembrance of Things Past,” Marcel Proust waxed poetic about that … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: What's Your Opinion
The Writer Mama wrote 4 months ago: By Abigail Green Think op-ed pages are all angry letters about parking meters and people spouting of … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: Memoir Essays
The Writer Mama wrote 5 months ago: By Abigail Green “As a child in the late 1940s, I knew it was spring when I smelled newly mown … more →
Evergreen = More Green in Your Wallet
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The Writer Mama wrote 6 months ago: By Abigail Green Last month I talked about lead time, and timing your pitches to coincide with a cer … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: A Traveler's Tales
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The Writer Mama wrote 6 months ago: By Abigail Green How could you not be enticed into reading an essay titled “In the Land of the … more →
The Freelancer's Phrase Book: Lead Time
The Writer Mama wrote 7 months ago: By Abigail Green Who, besides Santa and seriously organized people, starts thinking about Christmas … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: A Healthy Niche
The Writer Mama wrote 7 months ago: By Abigail Green If there’s one subject people never seem to tire of, it’s their health. … more →
The Freelancer's Phrase Book: Submit or Query?
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The Writer Mama wrote 8 months ago: By Abigail Green Seasoned freelancers don’t write entire articles and then send them to editor … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: Parenting and Publishing
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The Writer Mama wrote 8 months ago: By Abigail Green If there’s any topic that lends itself particularly well to the personal essa … more →
A Few Quick Announcements From the March 2009 The Writer Mama
The Writer Mama wrote 8 months ago: Giveaway alert: I’m giving away a copy of Writer Mama every day this month as part of my Write … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: Funny Business
The Writer Mama wrote 9 months ago: By Abigail Green So you think you’re funny, do you? For essay writers, funny is good. Humor ca … more →
The Freelancer's Phrase Book: Pitch It Good
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The Writer Mama wrote 10 months ago: By Abigail Green It was like a scene from “Girls Gone Wild” – a beach, bikinis, an … more →
Personal Essays That Get Published E-class Begins January 14th
The Writer Mama wrote 10 months ago: Personal Essays that Get Published With Abigail Green Class Begins on January 14th Prerequisites: No … more →
Understanding Personal Essays: What's An Essay Anyway?
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The Writer Mama wrote 11 months ago: By Abigail Green Writers are often told, “Write what you know.” And what subject can you … more →
December Sell-a-bration #5: Not Usually A Networker
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The Writer Mama wrote 12 months ago: By Abigail Green As a typical introverted writer, I am not a natural networker. So it was with some … more →
