Finding Funds for Writers

Writers often enter the word business thinking if they write what they want, when they want, and submit often, that a luscious fulltime living is within reach. In reality, writers often have to start one place to wind up reaching another, and sometimes they need sidesteps to reach a writing end game. They may have to write for one entity in order to gain access to another. They want to be known for their writing, but a book takes a long time to write, much less publish. The truth is, nothing in the writing world is straightforward. 

Writing is not a linear progression from novice to expert. C. Hope Clark has spent years explaining to writers about open calls for submissions for contests, markets, grants, and publishers/agents and how to think outside the box in bringing in a writing income. Funding that book project may take alternate avenues. No two writers operate the same. Sometimes you diversify. Sometimes you define a niche. Whatever you do, realize that writing for a living is a learning curve and never what you expect. 

Over the course of her career as a freelance writer and award-winning novelist, Hope Clark learned in her research, starts, stops, and detours that writing is more than penning a story and publishing it. And earning a living at writing is about little detours and side roads to make ends meet. 

This OnDemand webinar will show writers how to earn an income as a writer and explain the diverse avenues for obtaining funds.  

What You Will Learn:

• How to see your writing career as multi-layered
• How to strategically use assorted sources of income, even if you write books
• How to broaden your brand
• How to get published other than pitching
• How to use other sources of writing income in pitching your book
• How to demonstrate you are a serious writer
• Where are the grants, and what are the myths about them
• Why everyone ought to freelance
• Why everyone ought to enter writing contests

Who Should Attend:

• Writers who want to justify writing for a living
• Writers who need short-term income in addition to long-term
• Writers who want to understand the facts and myths of grants
• Writers who aren’t sure about entering writing contests
• Writers who aren’t sure where to start earning a living
• Writers who need direction in the balance of creativity and entrepreneurship
• Writers who crave support for their dream project
• Writers who dream of writing from home forever

Instructor:

C. Hope Clark has spent 25 years as editor of FundsforWriters.com and its newsletter, Writer’s Digest selected FundsforWriters.com for its 101 Best Websites for Writers for 20+ years. Its newsletter reaches 28,000 readers.

She has written freelance for years for entities like SC Wildlife, Chapin Neighbors Magazine, Chapin Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Writer’s Market, The Guide to Literary Agents, and more. At the same time, in addition to freelancing and managing FundsforWriters, she pens mysteries, with three series and 22 novels under her belt, several being award-winning, from a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier award to twice winner and twice finalist of The Silver Falchion Award for mystery/thriller/suspense.

Hope’s websites can be viewed at: www.fundsforwriters.com and www.chopeclark.com Her books are available wherever books are sold.