Write From The Heart

I write on hubpages, and I write on Squidoo.  I have some experience with writing and publishing, and I felt that I was being challenged enough there, after all I made a decent income from them and I had enough visitors.  I enjoyed the communities in both, and I was pleased with my results.  Last year, I learned about a writing site called Wizzley and its online writing community, and I wanted to start expanding where I publish my writing.

I want to be clear, it is a great place to write, and it is also the first place to tell me that my writing was not up to a good standard- as there are some excellent editors here.  I think that I must have had at least 5 or six pages be rejected, which would otherwise have been published elsewhere with no problems.  That was my problem, and the people here are kind enough to point this out. The main reason was that my writing needed to improve a lot from where it was. This fact was amazing to me, and I think that my feelings were a bit hurt.

That is when I learned how great a place Wizzley is.  Instead of giving up, I kept on going, and I looked long at hard at the many successful writers at Wizzley and what they did that was different from what I was doing.  They were doing a lot more things that I wasn't. 

The successful writers had articles which made connections to the readers, and they also had little or no grammar or spelling mistakes.  In my case, my grammar and spelling were poor, and this was something I didn't see until I spent time reading other writers articles.

Writing and publishing here is not about what you think you know, but how you can show what you know.  I was telling and not showing, and thankfully this writing site showed me how to fix it, this also included my spelling and my grammar.  The Wizzley team makes their views clear on what they want on this website.