Working as a Freelance Writer for many years, and also as a tutor
on courses run by the London School of Journalism, Writers News
and RRC, has led me to collect many tips that may be of benefit to
others. I have placed them into categories that can be accessed via
links. I hope these are found to be useful? However, the Golden Rule
is always: Does It Work. A freelance writer lives a feral lifestyle in
search of new markets and new possibilities.
I have some misgivings about the use of Character Trait Templates for Characters in a story.
They can be useful for fleshing out characters and for keeping consistency in a longer
work with a large number of characters. But they can also end up as an end rather than
a means and distract from the business of writing. Here is one I knocked up.
