06 Feb 10 What Freelance Writers Should Read?

My love for short and intriguing answer is pushing me to say “read anything that you can lay your hand on to”, but, my slightly more normal self asks my crazy mind to explain. So, here goes the explanation.

A freelance writer should read anything that succeeds in catching, holding, and retaining his attention. Because the more diverse your reading habit will be the better equipped you will be to handle the challenges posed by freelance writing. You should care less about following a genre through head to tail. Well, doing it will be make you an expert and may be better accomplished as a writer of that particular genre, but expertise in one and dumbness in rest of the subjects is not what you should eye for. You need to have sufficient control on as many genres as possible.

What did you say— you will be master of one and will research for the rest?

I know many freelancers doing that, and quite a few have attained some degrees of success while treading down this road. But more often than not an article written by a freelance writer who has no prior knowledge or intuitive understanding of the subject matter lacks depth. To add depth and texture to your writing, you need to learn various things.

Freelance writing poses unique challenge that is seldom faced by fiction or non-fiction writers. Therefore, the solution used by freelance writers should also be different.

Read as much as you can, and from as many genres as you feel comfortable in!

Learning is a complex process, and acquiring knowledge is even more complex. One never knows which piece of text or byte of media triggers what. Sometimes the knowledge gained is a direct result of the things you are reading, while at other times, it is gained because the things you are reading have activated some unknown part of the brain which has triggered something else then something else, and the end result of all this could be the new understanding you have developed.

So, to help your brain form new pattern and new understanding, you need to provide it as many types of fodders as possible.

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06 Dec 09 Why E-Book Readers Got More Male Buyers Than Female?

In a research conducted by Mediamark Research & Intelligence, it was found that more males than the females are using e-book readers in the United States. Why is it so? Why despite women being more into books and reading are not using electronic book reading devices? And why male members of society who read less than their female counterpart reads (or buys) more e-book readers?

The possible explanation to this could be their (male members) love for the gadgets or say everything that is electronic. And may be (here I am guessing), the men’s love for gadgets has put the other half of their life away from it. After all, it is the matter of attention: who is paying attention to what.

Research findings

56.3% of e-book are men, where as female constitutes the rest 43.7% of the readers.
Adults aged between 35-54 are 20% more likely to buy an e-book readers.
87% of the e-book readers have annual household income of more than $100,000.
11% of the e-book reader are more likely to own their home in comparison to average US adult.
111% are more likely to have a graduate or post graduate degree than average American.

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The study should also have concentrated on finding the following:

How many e-book owners actually read books on the device?
How many hours do they spend on reading anything on the reader?
How does owning an e-book reader have affected their reading habit? Have they started to read more or got so intoxicated by the device that actual reading has gone down?

The result will then give the actual figure of e-book readership. The current study has just given a figure of how many people own an e-book reader.

Tags: Adults, Amp, Book Readers, Book Reading, E Book Reader, Electronic Book, Female Counterpart, Females, gadgets, Graduate Degree, Household Income, How Many People, Intelligence, Male Members, Mediamark Research, Paying Attention, Post Graduate, Readership, Reading Devices, Reading Habit, Research Findings, United States

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06 Feb 10 What Freelance Writers Should Read?

06 Dec 09 Why E-Book Readers Got More Male Buyers Than Female?

Research findings

The study should also have concentrated on finding the following:

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