Here’s how to open a variety of businesses
as a creative writing coach. Incorporate techniques for healing or memory enhancement inspired by music, drama, and art therapists.
Book Description
Exercise your brain’s
right hemisphere to write words using improved visual imagery. Here’s how to open 30+ businesses as a creative writing
coach incorporating selected techniques for healing and memory enhancement inspired by music, drama, and art therapists.
Learn healing techniques from creative writing therapists
using the tools of music, visual imagery, and expressive arts therapies in the background. It’s a multimedia approach
to enhancing creativity, memory and to write salable work.
Are you interested in guiding life story writers in a variety
of environments from life-long learning or reminiscence therapy to working with hospice chaplains? Be an entrepreneur, career
coach, or manuscript “doctor” organizing groups using music and art in the background to inspire authors. Design
brain-stimulating exercises for specific types of writing.
Tired of analyzing puzzles to build brain dendrites and stimulate,
enhance and exercise your own memory or those of groups or clients? Help yourself or others write salable works and move beyond
journaling as a healing tool. Write therapeutically about a significant event in anyone’s life against a background
of art or music.
Fold paper to make pop-up books, gifts, or time capsules
where you can illustrate and write. Even add MP3 audio files.
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Resources for Creativity Enhancement
Creative
Writing & Writing Therapy Resources on the Web
©
2007 By Anne Hart
Training
Beginners in the Business of Writing and the Writing of Business
Alexander
Communications, Business Writing Seminars Provides on-site, customized
seminars
in business writing skills. The seminars are practical and tailored
especially
for employee needs. Yvonne Alexander founded Alexander
Communications,
a San Francisco-based company, in 1986 to help her clients
increase
profits and persuasiveness by developing effective writing skills. Trainers
will travel
to your training site.
http://www.alexcommunications.com/
The Business
Writing Center
Online, Instructor-Led
Business Writing Courses Business Writing Workshops
at Company
Sites. Currently, over 400 students from 158 companies in 12 countries
taking 15
online business writing courses to enhance their work performance
and success
http://www.writingtrainers.com/
Business
Writing Workshop Catalog
The Basic
Grammar for Business Writing workshop is for people who have a
good command
of the English language, but need to make their sentences and
paragraphs
clearer, or who show a small number of consistent errors in grammar,
syntax, punctuation,
and spelling. It is suitable for non-native speakers of English
as well as
people who are native speakers.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/workshop/workcat.htm
Salary
Wizard
Thousands
of jobs are listed with free salary information as well as compensation
packages,
stock options, and bonus information. Select the Media designation.
http://www.salary.com
Copywriter.com
This is a
Web site where words get results. Site is created by Al Bredenberg Creative
Services.
http://www.copywriter.com
American
Reporter
This magazine
is the online cooperative “reporter’s newspaper.”
http://www.american-reporter.com/
Executive
Speech and Business Writing Internet And Marketing Strategies
For Writers
Practical
advice books on how to use the Internet to further your writing career
and market
your writing.
http://www.speechwriter.net/
Instructional
Solutions: Instructional Solutions Online is a leader in online business
writing training.
Writing services and training materials at this training site
for business
writing. All of their training is instructor-led, providing personalized
coaching
and evaluation of writing tasks.
The training
offered measures and improves skill gaps, tracks progress, and boasts
a 96% completion
rate across programs. Instructional Solutions is very proud to
have been
chosen by FedEx University and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
to provide
online business writing training to their employees worldwide, including
clients from
11 nations.
http://www.instructionalsolutions.com/
Internet
Strategies for Writers
Moira Allen’s
new book, Writing.com: Creative Internet Strategies to Advance
Your
Writing Career offers practical advice with chapters on
finding markets
online, electronic
rights, netiquette, joining online discussions, Web site construction
and online
publishing, including at the end of each chapter, lists of relevant
online resources
for writers.
http://www.washwriter.org/resources/membersonly/archive/netstrats.htm
Rules
of Punctuation for Business Writing
The rules
are excerpted from “The Perfect Letter” published by Scott Foresman,
with a link
to the book.
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/tpl4.htm
Writing
Successful Business Proposals
Skills are
taught at this site to prepare successful business proposals for potential
customers
or clients, structure of a business proposal as a series of slots into which
you put persuasive
information. The training also teaches methods of persuasion
and effective,
clear, correct writing. Grant writing is also taught at the Business
Writing Center
as is public relations writing and copywriting.
http://www.writingtrainers.com/center/bwc360.htm
Writers
Conferences and Seminars
E-book World
Offering
conferences, networking, and information on writing and publishing as
well as all
other business aspects of the e-book marketplace.
http://www.e-book-world.com/ebook-fr.shtml
Newspaper
Association of America
Conferences,
marketing resources, circulation data, surveys, and events.
http://www.naa.org
Poynter
Online
(Everything
You Need to be a Better Journalist)
http://www.poynter.org/
Finding
Paying Markets for Freelance Writers
Finding
Writing Markets Online:
Online sources
for finding the latest print markets: electronic newsstands, publication
Web sites
and guideline databases. Electronic newsstands help you find emarkets
for writing.
http://www.NewsDirectory.com
Writers
Guideline Databases.
Online listing
of writing markets and databases on marketing your writing.
www.Marketlist.com
Writers
Guideline Publications
These may
link you to guidelines on a publication’s Web site.
www.writersdigest.com
Media
Directories
To send review
copies of books and freelance article queries to publications listed
in media
directories.
General Major
Media Directories for Freelance Writers
Gebbie Press
The All-in-One
Media Directory
PR Media
Directory: Newspapers Radio TV Magazines:Press releases,
Faxes, e-mail,
publicity, and freelance. Media directory includes TV and
radio stations,
daily and weekly newspapers, and consumer and trade
magazines.
http://www.gebbieinc.com/
http://www.gebbieinc.com/presto1.htm
Gebbie Press:
Magazine
Publishers on the Internet
An alphabetical
listing of leading publishers in the United States, and
links to
their web sites.
http://www.gebbieinc.com/publish.htm
Electronic
Media Directories
Press Flash
Distribute
your Web firm’s press releases to media outlets throughout
the world
using the services and resources provided by Press Flash. Press
release writing
services are also provided.
http://www.pressflash.com/
E-zine
directories
E-Publications
Directors Resource List
If you want
to write for electronic publications, see these e-publications directories.
At this site
you can find out information on writing for electronic markets.
http://www.zinebook.com
E-Zine
Advice Publications Online
Contentious
This publication
is the e-zine that advises and offers information for people who
write or
publish content on the Web. Find out where to write for other electronic
magazines.
Offers online options for frustrated journalists.
http://www.contentious.com/
Ethnic
Media Directories
American
Minorities Media
American
Minorities Media is a subsidiary of Market Place Media, the leading
media placement
company reaching specialized markets.
http://www.marketmedia.com/amm
Specialized
Markets
MarketMedia.com
Media and
promotions solutions for reaching specialized markets such as senior
citizens,
minorities, military, students, and others. Also media analysis is offered.
http://www.marketmedia.com/
Freelance
Editorial Association
(Includes
desktop publishers)
The current
online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997, includes listings
by skills
as well as a specialties index. This association published the hardcopy,
Yellow
Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to
advertise
their skills
and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html
International
International
Journalists’ Network
If you write
about overseas subjects or travel, you’ll find the International Center
for Journalists’
online source full of training information and media directories.
http://www.ijnet.org
SAJA:
South Asian Journalists Association
Writers interested
in South Asian features, covering the people, businesses, or
processes
impacting South Asia will find excellent resources in this association
and its publications.
http://www.saja.org/job.html
International
Women’s Writing Guild
The International
Women’s Writing Guild, headquartered in New York and
founded in
1976, is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of
women through
writing.
http://www.iwwg.com
Poets.Org
(from the Academy of American Poets)
http://www.awpwriter.org/
Pressbox—UK
Pressbox
is the UK online press center offering press release and copywriting services
providing
a professional resource for news, press releases, and postings to
carefully
targeted audiences.
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
Associazioni
ed Enti Professionali—America
List of South
American, Canadian, and US writers’ organizations. This site contains
a fine list
of writers’ associations and language translation firms.
http://www.alice.it/writers/grp.wri/wgrpame.htm
Rural
Press Interactive
Rural Press
Interactive outlines opportunities to target specific markets throughout
Australia,
includes metro, regional and rural. The association brings press and
Internet
together with a network of publications and sites.
http://www.rpinteractive.com.au
Electronic
Pages and E-Marketing for Writers
The development
journal of the International Informatics Institute is called Electronic
Pages. It
offers at the site, articles, forums, and announcements of conferences
as well as
great advice on writing for the electronic market
http://www.electric-pages.com/
Tailwind.com
Responsible
e-mail marketing, help for small businesses, help for the small business
owner such
as freelance writers.
http://www.tailwind.com/db/y.asp?hid=90&nid=1
Marketing
Strategies and Techniques for Writers
101 Marketing
Tips for Writers: This site offers a list of 101 marketing
tips,
Cassell Success
Guide, and some links for writers, such as if you “want to break
into advertising,
go to church.” Published by Cassell Network of Writers, Cassell
Communications,
Inc.
http://www.bitcave.com/101tips.htm
Elaine’s
Marketing Suggestions for Writers
The Professional
Association for Christian Writers
http://www.christianwritersinfo.net/ElaineTips.htm
Writers
Information Network (WIN). Christian writer’s information
network
and advice:
quality writing for the Christian markets.
http://www.bluejaypub.com/win/ElaineTips.htm
Business
Writing Associations
American
Business Press
The American
Business Press is the industry association for business-to-business
information
providers, including producers of magazines, CD-ROMS, Web
sites, trade
shows and products that build upon the printed product. The association
has a staff
of specialists in government affairs, marketing, communications,
promotion
and finance.
http://www.salesdoctors.com/directory/dircos/3103a03.htm
American
Society of Business Press Editors
(ASBPE) is
the professional association for full-time and freelance editors and
writers employed
in the business, trade, and specialty press.
http://www.asbpe.org/
Writers’,
Journalists’, & Editors’ Associations
Academy
Of American Poets
Provides
information, events, publications, education, and professional services
to people
writing poetry as a profession. The Academy of American Poets offers
poetry exhibits
online and biographies, photographs, and selected poems.
http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/kkochfst.htm
American
Society of Journalists and Authors.
Links on
how electronic publishing allows a writer to create a parallel product
line to profitably
meet more needs in a different way. This site contains links and
resources
for the organization called American Society of Journalists and Authors
and features
books by members and speakers. ASJA Writer Referral Service is at
http://www.asja.org
American
Copy Editors Society
The society
focuses on improving the quality of journalism. Writerly resources
include editorial
advice, job openings, discussion boards and conference updates.
http://www.copydesk.org/
The American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
More than
80,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers belong
to this society.
ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and paying
royalties
for copyrighted works. The job board and Resource Guide to the Music
Business
are excellent resources for writers interested in the business of writing
lyrics or
song and music publishing.
http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html
American
Jewish Press Association
Founded nearly
50 years ago as an association for the English-language Jewish
press in
North America, today more than 150 newspapers, publications and individual
journalists
are members. Excellent job bank. Publishes a directory of members.
http://www.ajpa.org/
Association
of Jewish Book Publishers
http://www.avotaynu.com/ajbp.html
Writers
Guild of America
Association
of screenwriters and animation scriptwriters that work for union
wages for
the film and TV production industry. You may register scripts here, or
find a list
of agents, WGA news, online mentor service, and research links.
http://www.wga.org/
Society
for Professional Journalists
This society
offers local chapters, a code of ethics in journalism, and professional
membership
events, contests, and awards as well as meetings covering the business
of journalism
to any working journalist, freelance or staff. Maintains local
and student
chapters nationwide.
The society
offers ethics news, publications, job referrals, and continuing education
seminars
for journalists and grants scholarships in journalism. SPJ publishes
Quill magazine,
a trade journal for journalists. Maintains a site called The Electronic
Journalist
for online writers.
http://spj.org/
National
Writers Association
Foundation
partnerships, courses, publications, services for writers. Excellent site
for contract
reading, critiques, and help for all types of writers. National Writers
Press, a
leader in self-publishing of books.
http://www.nationalwriters.com/
American
Society of Media Photographers
Offers an
online gallery of work done by members of this professional association
for photographers.
The links of this national organization includes a directory
and links
to members’ Web pages. Useful for writers seeking media photographers
to work with
on an article or book that needs media photography work.
http://www.asmp.org/
Association
of Writers & Writing Programs
The mission
of The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is to foster literary
talent and
achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good
education,
and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary
writing.
http://www.awpwriter.org/
Society
of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
SCBWI is
dedicated to serving those who write, illustrate, or share an interest in
children’s
literature. The site offers conferences, regional newsletters, a bimonthly
bulletin,
writing and publishing links and tips, including other informational
publications.
http://www.scbwi.org/
Writersclub.com
Resource
links for writers.
http://www.writers.club.com/
California
Writers Clubs
List of writers
clubs and resources with links to seminars, training, magazines,
groups, conferences,
career centers, area writers’ organizations, book cafes, and
directories
of newspapers.
http://www.calwriters.org/
Society
for Professional Journalists
Their New
Way Journalism Page is excellent.
http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/
Society
of American Business Editors and Writers
Members of
the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have joined
together
in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic journalism,
through both
individual and collective efforts.
http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage
Technical
Writers Associations
Society for
Technical Communication
STC is the
largest professional organization serving the technical communication
profession.
http://www.stc.org/
Society
for Technical Communicators
Technical
writing information, grants, salary surveys, loans, and book listings.
http://www.stc-va.org
HTML Writers
Guild
International
association of Web authors offering tips on good Web writing,
design information
and technology resources for writers of html.
http://www.hwg.org
Hypertext
Writers Guild
If you write
content in hypertext or want to learn, you can benefit from the
resources,
tips, and networks at the Hypertext Writers Guild.
http://www.mindspring.com/guild/
Computer
Press Association
The Computer
Press Association (CPA) was established to promote excellence in
the field
of computer journalism. Members include working editors, writers, producers,
and freelancers
who cover issues related to computers and technology.
http://www.computerpress.org/
Associations
for Business or Marketing Journalists and Copywriters:
Freelance
or Staff
American
Business Press
Non-profit,
global association for business-to-business information
Providers
including databases, conventions, and other media.
http://www.americanbusinesspress.com/
American
Society of Business Press Editors
(ASBPE) is
the professional association for full-time and freelance editors and
writers employed
in the business, trade, and specialty press.
http://www.asbpe.org/
Associated
Business Writers of America
This site
contains an excellent list of writers’ associations.
http://www.poewar.com/articles/associations.htm
Association
of Professional Communication Consultants
APCC creates
a “professional community where communication consultants
increase
their knowledge, grow their businesses, and achieve high standards of
professional
practice.” APCC’s mission is to “support members as they help clients
reach their
goals through better communication.”
http://www.apcc-online.org/
Cat Writers’
Association, Inc. (CWA)
http://www.catwriters.org/
Dog Writers
Association of America
http://www.dwaa.org/
Freelance
Editorial Association
(Includes
desktop publishers)
The current
online Yellow Pages, published annually since 1997, includes listings
by skills
as well as a specialties index. This association published the hardcopy,
Yellow
Pages, a listing of Association members who wished to
advertise
their skills
and specialties, between 1989 and 1999.
http://www.tiac.net/users/freelanc/YP.html
Selected
List of Multimedia Publishers/Producers/Distributors
Kay E. Vandergrift
has compiled an excellent list in order to facilitate easy access
to contact
media publishers, producers and distributors.
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/mediacatalog.html
Society
of American Business Editors and Writers
Members of
the Society of American Business Editors and Writers have joined
together
in the common pursuit of the highest standards of economic journalism,
through both
individual and collective efforts.
http://www.sabew.org/sabew.nsf/home?OpenPage
Software
Publishers Association
Are you a
multimedia developer or publisher? Or do you own multimedia content
that you
want to license? See The Software Publishers Association Legal
Guide
to Multimedia. It’s a guide to the legal issues
of developing, protecting,
and distributing
multimedia products.
http://www.awl-he.com/titles/0201409313.html
Women
In Scholarly Publishing
Women in
Scholarly Publishing (WiSP) is a professional organization serving the<
