If you’ve never worked to a deadline, you haven’t had the opportunity to build that skill into your writing life. If you think you’ll never be held to a deadline that probably means you don’t see yourself ever writing for a magazine, a newspaper, or for any publishing house. It means you’ll never find yourself […]
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Revealing Ourselves: Writers Take Risks
So, I didn’t win, or even place, in Jeff’s Goins’ You Are a Writer contest. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that I was one of 138 writers who publicly stood up and declared our innermost identities. Isn’t that the most important thing? That we claim our talents and make use of them – […]
Claim It, Shout It: I Am A Writer!
Is yours the only house on the block with a window still lit at 2:00 a.m.? If that light were not casting a golden glow across your backyard when he comes home from swing shift, would the deputy sheriff living next-door break down the door to see if you are lying in a pool of […]
Generous Writers Reap Rewards: Share Your Knowledge
Are you a generous writer? When you run across a contest or call for submissions do you hoard it for yourself, or do you joyfully send the information to writer friends you know can create exactly what the publisher desires? Are you afraid if you share what you have learned with other writers that somehow they […]
Scarlet Boa Contest Results: My Scene Is A Runner-up
The Big News is that my all-dialogue story ended as a runner-up in the Stella Cameron 2011 Scarlet Boa contest. Thrilled doesn’t describe my feelings about that. Along with the wonderful support from the people who read and voted for my story, I received a signed copy (with a personal message!) of one of Stella’s […]
Waiting For Contest Results!
One thing I did while I was offline was get some writing done. I’m excited that my all-dialogue story was a finalist in author Stella Cameron’s 2011 Scarlet Boa contest, “Show Don’t Tell”. I can’t wait until Sunday night when we will learn which story won the most reader votes. If I do win, you know you’ll […]