With over 100 published books and magazine articles, Jan delivers first-hand knowledge on how to sharpen, submit, and market your writing. Jan’s articles explore inevitable writing struggles and offers tireless strategies and techniques to support you in reaching your writing goals.
Professional writers take on extra challenges, and often face extra limitations as well. So the decision to write for money is best made after careful consideration of what you’ll gain and what you may give up.
Beyond the possibility of winning, there are so many benefits for writers entering contests. Jan Fields shares what contests can do for you.
Discover how connecting to learn with others can make a huge difference in your writing skills.
Don’t be a stagnant writer. No matter where you are at in the journey, you still have places to go and things to learn.
Writing classes have considerable value for a writer, but there are things you can do to help the writing class do the most for you. Let’s look at four ways to make the most of writing classes.
Whatever your writing journey entails, it always includes learning. To write is to learn. And every piece of writing you do will teach you something if you let it.
Seasonal stories, seasonal poetry and even a bit of seasonal nonfiction can be counted upon to appear in magazines and on publishers’ book lists every year. Jan Fields shares how to make this perennial topics feel new.
Every year one event rolls around that is profoundly meaningful for children: the first day of school and these stories can offer a special opportunity for writers.
Most publishers (including books and magazines) produce some holiday pieces each year. Here’s what you need to know to take advantage of these opportunities.
Mysteries are rarely open-ended because the very nature of how mysteries work requires closure to be successful. So let’s think about what makes for a good mystery ending.
Dialogue is important in virtually every story you’ll ever write, but in mysteries that importance (and difficulty) is compounded by the use of dialogue in relation to clues.
Jan Fields shares the differences in writing mystery for adults and kids. Time to put on your mystery thinking C.A.P. and get started writing a mystery today!
Jan Fields reveals how to write a winning mystery for readers of all ages.
Jan Fields explains Freedom of Speech and what it means for writers
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How can you be successful writing poetry for children’s magazines? Check out these three elements that editors look for in children’s poetry from Jan Fields.
Writing nonfiction for magazines offers publication opportunities and develops skills in research, organization, and submission in writers. Let’s find out how!
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