Thank You, Patti!
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Patti
Save Your Writing Career (And Your Sanity!) By Knowing When To Quit! By Akil Wingate
Sometimes we writers get hitched to the wagon and steed on a blazing trail headed to nowhere fast. That blazing trail for our purposes may be the pipe dream magazine of a bitter editor. It might be a newspaper making due at just the middle ground with no path to better real estate. It may be the dead end online portal for pulp entertainment and sports write ups that don’t really get you the Pulitzer you dream of. Whatever it is, eventually you have to have a heart to heart with yourself about your ambitions as a writer. When is it time to move on to greater adventures? That, my friends, is the million dollar question…
Can You Recommend Specific Markets For My Articles?
I have a few articles about optics (binoculars, spotting scopes, riflescopes, etc.). Any guidance in where I may publish them?
Learning InDesign Increased My Freelance Income! By Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan
Six months ago, I landed a contract with a local non-profit editing articles for their newsletter. They needed a freelancer because staff downsizing had eliminated several staff positions and the few staff who remained were overloaded. After three months of editing, and spending time going back and forth with the staff person who took over design and layout, I asked the director of communications if I could take over that part of the project in addition to editing…
Zach’s Got A Girlfriend!
Zach (age 27) has a new girlfriend! She’s 29 years old, really friendly, and in advertising. We liked her immediately!
Topic, Common Themes, and Winners of the WritersWeekly.com Winter, 2014 24-Hour Short Story Contest!
For the past six weeks, we’ve spent every spare moment judging the hundreds of entries submitted for the WritersWeekly Winter, 2014 24-Hour Short Story Contest. In case you’re not familiar with our quarterly contest, this is how it works. On the date of the contest, at start-time, we send out the topic for that specific contest to all registered entrants, while also posting it on WritersWeekly.com. Entrants must be registered before the contest begins and there is a limit of 500 participants per contest. Entrants then have 24 hours to write and submit their stories via email. The stories “must deal with the topic in some way to qualify” and they must not exceed the pre-assigned word count, which is announced with the topic.
After reading the entries for each contest, we can see how difficult it is to come up with a unique plot when working with an assigned topic. But, inevitably, a few writers do manage to successfully break away from the pack.
Letters To The Editor For February 26th
Letters will return next week.
How I Accept Credit Cards At Book Signings And Other Events! By Lance Fogan
Less than two years ago, I purchased an item from a vendor in a large meeting hall. This was my first personal experience with a device that would take my ability to process credit card orders anywhere WiFi is available…
Should I Pay A Marketing Spammer To Review My Book?
There’s a company by the name of [removed] and they want to review my book for a very expensive price. Any advice?
Visualize Your Success By Diane Stark
Five years ago, I started writing a romance novel. I wrote the first 30,000 words before life got busy and the novel was forgotten.
But every year, usually around New Year’s Day, I made promises to myself that I would finally complete the novel.
It didn’t happen…