How do you back up your teaching and writing files? See if one of these describes you. You save your files to a thumb drive and carry it around with you. You email files to yourself for safekeeping. You subscribe to an online backup service. You backup your own files with an external hard drive. [...]
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So much has been said about creating memorable characters on the web, and there is no end to the different strategies to do that. Strong characters drive a strong plot and give the readers someone to connect with, positively or negatively. Yet, even with all the worksheets, formulas, and psychological advice, a writer may still [...]
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Smashcake Magazine is a new, twice yearly print magazine currently looking for fiction to fill its pages. The fiction may be any genre, any tone, and any length. However, if your story is very long, you may want to -mail the editors to ask about that. Since there are no previous issues to purview, what [...]
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Novel writers are painfully aware of the long, slow, and intimidating process of researching agents, sending out query letters with a perfect pitch, and waiting. And waiting. And waiting. The process can take weeks, months, sometimes even longer. On the other end of the spectrum, agents have tidal waves of queries to surf through, searching [...]
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Summer is the time for conferences. It’s when many of us can get away from the day job to spend a few lavish days with other writers, editors, and agents. It’s when we can sit in the hotel bar networking all night. It’s when we can pitch our novels in person to the agent of [...]
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How many writing conferences or workshops did you attend in 2009? How many online courses in writing did you take? How many books about writing did you read? How many books in your genre did you read? What are your writing goals for this coming year? You don’t have to answer anyone but yourself. Those [...]
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By Ingrid Cliff When writing for the web, you are writing for two audiences: the human reader and the search engines. The science of writing for the human reader means that you need to look at all the psychological research and triggers to persuade people to read your web page and take action on what [...]
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By Stuart Brown Everyone has plans to write the great American novel. In fact, most researchers believe that everyone has at least one great story inside them. However, you may be wondering, then if everyone has a great story, how can they get the story out? The key to getting the story out is to [...]
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If you’ve ever wanted to earn some extra cash writing greeting cards, you may know how hard it is to break into that market. The competition is fierce. The judging is subjective. The designing is hard work. People who do it, love it. I’m happy to pass along this blog I recently found, called The [...]
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As teachers, we make plans. That’s what teachers do. As writers, we write. That’s what writers do. If you are a teacherwriter, plan for summer writing now. During the school year, we write in small blocks, 30 minutes here, and hour there, at midnight after grading another time. However, during a break, a glorious [...]
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