More than Writers

  As writers, we’d all like to think our readers hang on our every word. In fact, we often have to work hard to get their attention. This is particularly true for news stories which are the chip paper of the future. Though health and safety may interfere with that cliché. After writing for the Christian Writer magazine, I was reminded that we’ve all got skills and knowledge from our past that we can use in our writing, and not always in the ways we’d expect. Last month I covered how to make your writing more visible for Search Engines , using my limited website design experience. In this post, I’ll expand on tips gained when writing news articles and press releases as a freelance writer. Even if you’re more into writing fiction, these tips may be useful for your next author event or to promote a new book, poets may want to highlight an appearance at an Open Mic event. It may be a useful angle for a short story or a plot line. If your writing is more Bible-based then maybe try w...