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Dec 10, 2011
Some Awesome Gifts for Writers This Christmas – By Christopher Jackson – Fuel Your Writing – http://goo.gl/yfqTQ
Writers Guild Awards Announced Their Nominees – By Josh Abraham – http://goo.gl/zMJ5m
3 Surefire Ways To Build An Even Bigger E-mail List – By Marlee Ward – E-Junkie.Info – http://goo.gl/ynS2V
Understanding Point of View (POV) – by The Writers Alley – http://goo.gl/e1lBX
Is It “Christmastime” or “Christmas Time?” – by Grammar Girl Newsletter – http://goo.gl/GBcPA
If writing seems hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things people do. – William Zinsser
Self-Publishing And The Definition Of An Indie Author – By Joanna Penn – The creative Penn – http://goo.gl/CU8GB
Do Writers Really Need a Book Business Plan? – by Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/3gpTW
Such Sweet Sorrow – By Jennifer – Procrastinating Writers – http://goo.gl/bDPwP – Looking forward to the new PW!
Marketing 101 for Freelance Writers: #2 The Easiest Promotional Tactic – By Carol – Make a Living Writing – http://goo.gl/XJxI8
“Life is what happens to a writer between drafts.” – Dennis R. Miller
Julia Peterkin Award for poetry – Deadline – Feb. 15, 2012 – http://goo.gl/xuu3C
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Dec 8, 2011
Gorgeous Green Christmas Tree is Made from 40,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles – By Lori Zimmer – inhabitat – http://goo.gl/jz1U2
Hottest Twitter Topics of 2011 – By E-Junkie.Info – http://goo.gl/tMeBx
Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should – By Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/UiHQO
Hardcover Books Reach New Heights – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/85ddE
The Simple Power of Asking – By Sanjeev Mohindra – Problogger – http://goo.gl/iIJcQ
How to Network Without Networking – By Nathan Bransford – http://goo.gl/AZEKP
Tool vs Insight – By Seth Godin – http://goo.gl/pCPfZ
“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.”- Justice Brandeis
“It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn’t advance the story.” – Frank Yerby
“If you cannot gain an emotional reaction from your reader, then you have not written well enough.” – ACL
Andres Montoya Poetry Prize – Deadline Jan. 15, 2012 – http://goo.gl/hZeQE
Yasmin Shiraz – Someone who makes a difference – an activist and author who helps and empowers our teens –http://www.yasminshiraz.net/
Her latest book, Retaliation , a novel about a community’s response to violence, led Shiraz to partner with the Boys and Girls Clubs in creating violence prevention programs for youth . . . (excerpt from Yasmin Shiraz’s Bio)
Check out her YouTube documentary – Can She Be Saved : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pAdF4Oog0
Hats off to this special woman who is making a difference in many of our youth’s lives!
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Nov 22, 2011
Author Blogging 101: Blog Design – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/BupDH
Your competitive advantage – By Seth Godin – http://goo.gl/jygZ9
From Failed Idea to Profitable Product: What I Learned from Failure – By Bjorgvin Benediktsson – Problogger – http://goo.gl/4YoSE
Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies? – By Nathan Bransford – http://goo.gl/deJzd – His strong exaggeration is hilarious!
The Chalk Guy is Back– Pictures on a flat sidewalk surface – Amazing! – By Soul Food – http://goo.gl/knqtg – Thanks Alex, for sending!
“Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition – Deadline Dec. 31, 2011 – http://goo.gl/soJUW
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Nov 18, 2011
Looking Forward, Peering Back – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/HzoQV
Questions My Dad Would Ask Before You Started that E-Book – By Barb Sawyers – Problogger – http://goo.gl/7TrmE
Beware Zombies: Franklin-Madison Literary Agency – By Victoria Strauss – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/SPx9U
Why Bad Writers are Eating Your Lunch and What To Do About it – By Jeff Goins – copyblogger – http://goo.gl/Y0fEJ
Quote(s) of the Day
“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” – Samuel Johnson
Writing Contest
Writing Contest – Meridian’s 2012 Editors’ Prize Contests – Fiction & Poetry – Deadline Dec. 30, 2011 – http://goo.gl/3P0tP
Special Tribute
Michael Chatman – the Maverick Philanthropist – The Giving Show – http://goo.gl/aCjKr
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