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Markets For Writers

Originally posted on Esther Chilton:
This week’s market comes courtesy of the wonderful Sacha Black. She’s spotted an excellent competition that’s a must enter. It’s the ‘Stephen King – The Bazaar of Bad Dreams competition’. The competition is calling for entries for a fiction story of up to 4,000 words. The story must be on…

Resources for Storytellers: A Roundup

Resources for Storytellers: A Roundup

Your Gravatar…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
The information that a Gravatar provides helps everyone find your web site on the internet. It enables any person you ‘like’ to instantly return a visit to your blog. As described on its own information page, “a Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar”. In other words, you have an…

7 Things You Can do to Identify Your Genre

Originally posted on COW PASTURE CHRONICLES:
Welcome to another, You Asked, the Experts Answer, segment. This week ‘s question is: How do I know If I’ve chosen the right genre?   Choosing a genre is something many writers struggle with and the biggest reason is being  unfamiliar with the different genres. Unfamiliarity breeds confusion, which in turn makes…

Writing Discipline

Writing Discipline

Originally posted on writerlywitterings:
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Top Ten Tips on NaNoWriMo, I thought I ought to add a response to two of the comments I’ve received. The two points that were raised both relate to discipline more than anything else. First, another writer was a little concerned at my point 7. She pointed out, quite rightly,…

What do you do for inspiration?

Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
I read. That’s right, I read. When my mind is blank and I’m overcome with writer’s block I let go and enjoy an afternoon or two of reading. Reading takes the pressure from the need to produce. This may not get the job done, but I love reading and once…

8 Great Writing Tools to Keep You Motivated to Write…

8 Great Writing Tools to Keep You Motivated to Write…

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
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Tips on Creating Settings for your Characters and Scenes.

Originally posted on Ramblings from a Writer's Mind:
I was going to call this post something simple, like ‘somewhere’ or ‘place’, but then I thought that it may be a little to oblique, so I ended up with the rather long title above. Pretty much is the same with content. To make this as…

10 Ingenious Ways to Increase Your Word Count and Win NaNoWriMo!

10 Ingenious Ways to Increase Your Word Count and Win NaNoWriMo!

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