Increasing Your Blog’s Readership
by Linda Fulkerson, The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Well
The number-one question I get asked as a blog coach is “How do I get people to come to my blog?” Blog traffic streams flow from three areas: offline, on-site, and off-site. There are a lot of quick and easy tactics bloggers [...]
Great meeting last night! We welcomed Casey, Tim, and Scott. We gave encouragement to Martha, who is having her next booksigning on Monday, March 15 at 7:30 pm at Village Books in Pacific Palisades, and snaps to Kathryn, who placed 3rd in the February Challenge.
Since we didn’t have a lot of readers, we spent extra [...]
THE MARCH CHALLENGE: GREEN
Time for another Writing Prompt contest. The March Challenge is to write a story or essay, based on the writing prompt: “Green.” There are numerous ways a writer can go with this: Green is a color, name, and emotion, as well as a representation of money and the environment. And that’s [...]
Entertainment writer Andy Hunsaker, Fancast, live-blogged both the Film Independent Spirit Awards and Academy Awards® last weekend. He speaks with Write On! about entertainment writing, his career path, and some of the things he learned along the way.
How did you get involved writing entertainment?
I worked at Yahoo! Movies for about 8 years, helping build [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online February Challenge – Have a Heart! Here are the winners:
1st Place:
PJ Kaiser – “Waiting for Spring”
(Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript; the 1st Place Story is posted below)
2nd Place:
Dylan Kenin – “Heart”
(Prize: Writing the Romantic Comedy by Billy Mernit, compliments of The [...]
Congratulations to Laurie Dinnerstein, March winner of an iScript, for posting goals on Write On! Online. Post your April goals and be entered in the monthly drawing to win a FREE iScript. (An iScript is a professionally recorded audio version of a screenplay or novel read by professional readers, similar to an audiobook.)
Post goals in [...]
The mood was Precious on Friday, March 5, at Film Independent’s 2010 Spirit Awards.
Geoffrey Fletcher, Screenwriter, Precious
Precious took home awards for Best First Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher), Best Director, and Best Feature, as well as Best Lead (Gabourey Sidibe) and Supporting Female (Mo’Nique). (Fletcher and Mo’Nique brought home the gold at Sunday‘s Oscars, as well.) Scott [...]
Celebration of film in in the air. Today, Write On! speaks with Gregg Helvey, writer/director/producer of Kavi, which is nominated for the Academy-Award® for Best Live Action Short Film.
Filmed entirely on location in India, Kavi—winner of the 2009 Student Academy Award® Gold Medal in the narrative category—tells the story of a young boy who wants [...]
Screenwriting – East of LA by Scott W Smith, Screenwriting from Iowa
On my blog Screenwriting from Iowa I enjoy writing about screenwriters who come from outside L.A., not because I have anything against L.A., but because I think there are wonderful stories to tell from all over the world. The famous painter Grant Wood (American [...]
Dennis Danziger, author of the recently released novel A Short History of a Tall Jew, has also written essays, non-fiction, and TV sitcoms. His essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Premiere, and Education Week; Danziger is the author of non-fiction book: Daddy, The Diary of an Expectant Father; and his TV credits include Taxi [...]
Debra Eckerling is a professional writer with expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Read more.
The leader of Write On!, Debra has been a professional writer for more than 10 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual - and live - writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
