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Doing research for a new writing project or to come up with story ideas for your next magazine article? If you’re coming up dry when looking in the same old places, you probably need to start fresh in some areas you wouldn’t normally go.

A great example is FREE–Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. There is a nice little treasure trove of ideas and information waiting for you at this .gov site, all of them free and easy to access. It’s certainly not the only site of its kind, but is an excellent place to start looking for fresh ideas. The next time you get stuck for a topic, check out FREE to help get those creative process up and running again.

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Becoming a Writer

March 17, 2010

by Mike O’Mary
I am editing a book about creative writing. I’m very excited about it. It’s more of a “why” write, rather than a “how” to write. But in the process of talking about why write, the author sheds a lot of light on how to write, as well. I think it’s going to [...]

What’s a Swipe File?

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by Joe Wallace
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A Simple Exercise To Kill Writer’s Block

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I still don’t believe in writer’s block per se. I’ve written other screeds about this, and in a nutshell while I believe it’s possible to work yourself to the point of burnout, I think as long as you can physically use your brain, you don’t have “writer’s block”.
The key is to physically walk away from [...]

Research Source List

April 25, 2009

Journalist and website editor Robert Niles has put together a great list of links for researching everything from education to safety here. It is a good compilation of basic resources for a whole variety of subjects–a great site to bookmark for future reference!

International Freelancing

November 4, 2008

Sure, it was published in 2005, but I found this great article on international freelancing to be quite interesting indeed. Most fascinating was the idea of offering an employer a competitive edge by being able to submit work during “our” normal working hours that would arrive overseas in the middle of the night, waiting for [...]

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