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Newsletter Highlights
Check out our Applause section – we have a sale as well as those all important rejections that mean you ARE a real writer!
Johnny Faulkenberry realizes it’s never too late to get started.
Our Tuesday Forum – August 25 – is all about agents.
In our Spotlight section, compare first and third person POV. Which one suits your story?
Donna answers Carol’s question about omniscient point of view.
Chynna Laird, Writer Mom Extraordinaire, was a great guest in Post a Note. Check out the conversation!
We have our prompt winners.
National Public Radio wants to read your Three Minute Fiction on the air.
Suzanne offers us the Writers Digest bi-monthly ‘Your Story’ contest.
Noelle Stern reviews ‘Morning Pages Day and Night’ Great advice for real world writing!
Need a critique? Some expertise? Post an ad in the Want Ads or advertise your book for sale!
Keep track of your submissions for the Most Persistent Writer Award. It runs from September to September. Sending out your work counts, remember...not acceptances! You'll find the very simple rules in our 'Applause' section.
Don't miss the newsletter. You'll be sorry you did!
Professional Connection Post A Note Interview
If you missed our Post A Note visit with Chynna Laird, she’s an inspiration to anyone who wants to make a career of writing. She is a psychology student, freelance writer and author living in Edmonton, Alberta with her three daughters [Jaimie (six), Jordhan (four), and baby Sophie (one)] and baby boy, Xander (two and a half). Her passion is helping children and families living with Sensory Processing Disorder and other special needs. And on top of all of this…she writes. A lot!
The conversation is still up, so drop over to the Post a Note to see what Chynna had to say about all she does.
Next Forum
OPEN FORUM REPORT:
If you haven't tried the chat rooms yet, Visit our Using the New Chat Rooms for instructions on how to use our lovely new chat site! For the Forums, enter (you'll find yourself in the Lounge) and select the Auditorium from the pull-down menu at the top of the page. I'll see you there for our next Forum.
OUR NEXT TUESDAY LUNCHBOX FORUM meets Tuesday, August 25. Let’s talk about agents. Do you need one? Why? When? And how do you know you’re not being scammed? It’s a jungle out there.
The TUESDAY LUNCHBOX FORUM begins at:
10AM Pacific
11AM Mountain
12 Noon Central
1PM Eastern
2PM Atlantic/Canada.
OUR NEXT FRIDAY AFTER HOURS FORUM meets September 4. Let’s talk about transitions. It can be harder to get your character from bed to the breakfast table than to have him escape a tiger attack! How do you get through those slow spots without boring readers?
The AFTER HOURS FORUM begins
at:
6PM Pacific
7PM Mountain
8PM Central
9 PM Eastern
10 PM Atlantic/Canada.
All Forums take place on the Chat Site , in the Auditorium.
New Article
Daily Devotions For Writers rests next to my printer, Nancy Kopp tells us, where I can reach it easily every morning before beginning to work. The writer’s life lessons the book contains offer advice, relate trials and also inject a bit of humor. Some of the writers talk of a revelation that came when least expected. Most of the devotions include a scripture verse and/or a prayer—sometimes a quote.
After reading the daily devotional book for a few months, a pattern appeared to emerge in the guise of a two-sided coin. On one side of the coin, I sensed frustration from so many of the writers. It appears to be a universal theme for both seasoned and new writers. But flip the coin over, and satisfaction is evident. She has some great advice for all of you struggling with the frustrations and satisfactions of writing. Do check out: A Two Sided Coin in Writing Craft – Boosting Creativity.