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Kore Press- Deadline for 2010 Writing Contests extended
The Brainpan —
Authority: 142
Extended Deadlines for Kore Submission Contests To ensure a competitive environment for our contests, we’re giving all you perfectionists out there the gift of time. The Short Fiction Award deadline is now December 21 & The Poetry in Translation Award deadline is now December 31. You can find our ...5 hours ago -
3 Tips For Beginning Writers
C.J. Darlington —
Authority: 113
Over the past fifteen years Ive heard so much great advice on writing and becoming a writer. Here are three tips Im finding from my own experience to be true: 1. The best way to learn how to write fiction is to read great novels. It’s learning by osmosis---you’ll pick up concepts like how to structure a story, ...9 hours ago -
A Novel Idea by ChiLibras
WORD up! —
Authority: 431
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card ...3 days ago -
Speak of characters and critique shall appear
The Word The Word According To Me —
Authority: 421
Funny. I’d just published the previous post about characters, then off I went to check my Google Alerts. I found a review of RealmShift by Karen Lee Field. I know Karen from a great writers messageboard that sadly no longer exists and I usually read her blog. I’m rather honoured to discover that RealmShift was ...3 days ago -
Body Language at IGMS
Mary Robinette Kowal —
Authority: 113
Eek! How did I not post this earlier? My story “Body Language” is now up at OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show with an awesome cover illustration which you must now appreciate in all its glory. And here’s a teaser of the story. Saskia leaned into the darkness above the stage, only vaguely aware of ...4 days ago -
Arizona Daily Star November 22, 2009- Youth Flash Fiction Writing Contest
The Brainpan —
Authority: 142
Youth Flash Fiction Writing Contest is back as part of 2010 Festival of Books “The second annual Youth flash Fiction Writing Contest challenges preschool and school-age children to write a story and submit it for a chance to win prizes. Winners will be recognized at the 2010 ...6 days ago -
Dan Brown Doesn’t Know Much about Helicopters
An Eclectic Mind —
Authority: 129
I guess a best-selling author doesn’t need to check his facts. A few weeks ago, I forced myself to slog through Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol . I’m trying really hard to understand why people like this guy’s work. He’s a gawdawful writer. Have we become a nation of illiterates? As a helicopter pilot, I’m ...6 days ago -
Troubled by Point of View? Particularly OMNI?
Selling Books —
Authority: 125
Ten times out of ten Omni doesnt work and youre left wondering why. "Omni is suppose to head-hop!" you cry.Related posts:Write a Novel – Point of View and Techniques for Effective Shifts... Click on the title to read the entire post.6 days ago -
Learning to Write Clearly...1883 book still pertinent!
Barbara`s Travels —
Authority: 126
I was reading a blog called How to Write this morning. I assume that writers everywhere are interested in the correct usage of their language. How to Write described its mission by saying "This site is dedicated to those of you who love to read or to write. I hope you find interesting reviews and discussions ...1 week ago -
ARE YOU AWARE?
The Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers —
Authority: 129
I decided to post this blog this week because next week, with the holiday we all will be too busy to sit and read. Also, I’d like to reach as many friends and friends of friends before they head out the door and become victims. Holiday shopping is dangerous. Humming classic tunes, we head to the stores with visions ...1 week ago -
Why Can’t I Get My Novel Published?
Selling Books —
Authority: 125
There are abundant bear traps along the way that even writers who are old hands at accepting the vagaries of the publishing industry are having difficulty navigating in the current literary... Click on the title to read the entire post.1 week ago -
Publishing: Anyone Can Play, Part 1
Murderous Musings —
Authority: 127
By Pat Browning This week’s news: Harlequin created a new imprint, Harlequin Horizons, for self-publishing. A spokesman said it was "a way to participate in the fast-growing self-publishing market … ” You can read the full New York Times article at tinyurl.com/yz9f2s3 . *** Meanwhile, back in ...1 week ago -
Six-Word Memoirs
Writing is Cake —
Authority: 112
The novelist Ernest Hemingway was once asked to create a full story in six words or less. Here is what he wrote: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Last year, the online magazine Smith asked readers to take up the same challenge and write the story of their own lives in a single, six-word sentence. The ...1 week ago -
To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Media Assassin —
Authority: 125
What is science-fiction? To Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., right, you can describe it many ways. But, in the end, “more than a literary genre or a social passion,” sci-fi, or sf , “is a way of organizing the mind to include the contemporary world.” Well and simply said, and there’s more where that came ...1 week ago -
Literary Award Winners 2009
...SoApBoX Shafinaaz... A World of Words.. —
Authority: 115
A16: Food + Wine by Nate Appleman, Shelley Lindgren and Kate Leahy Winner of the IACP Cookbook Awards Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Winner of the Man Booker Award The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Winner of the Newbery Medal and Hugo Award for Best Novel American Lion by Jon Meacham Winner of the Pulitzer ...1 week ago -
#fridayflash: In Short Order
J. Dane Tyler —
Authority: 100
He drags on the cigarette and lets the smoke out through his nostrils in a gray-blue plume. It clashes with the red vinyl of the stools, chairs and pocked countertop. A lump of adobe which used to be a pile of donuts fossilizes under a glass cover at the L-turn. A waitress is smacking her [...]1 week ago -
How One Small Word Leads to Thousands More
Fuel Your Writing —
Authority: 485
I tend to have so many ideas for writing that I can’t settle down and choose just one to go with. So then I end up writing nothing and I spend all my time messing around with editing or something else. Something productive, but not “new word count” productive. A site I write for used to do a lot of writing ...1 week ago -
Empire of the Sun and Tideland
Peromyscus —
Authority: 121
The other day I wrote about Terry Gilliams Tideland , and said a number of unpraising things about it. STB thought it was a little unfair – he said, "I think Gilliam did absolutely nail it – seeing the world through an eight year olds eyes. But…theres a reason why eight year olds dont direct movies." I came ...1 week ago -
Support Your Local Indie SF Press
delagar —
Authority: 130
I know Ive mentioned this before, but Crossed Genres is now having an official find-raising drive. Buy the anthology and get prizes! Its not even a ton of money, either. Like $13 bucks, as I recall. Even in these financially sucky times, most of us can scrape that together. And! If you buy it? You win a ...1 week ago -
FastFiction – Our Cup Runneth Over
Brain Release Valve —
Authority: 128
This one comes from Ben Powers , one of my compatriots at The Great and Secret Thing . Title: Our Cup Runneth Over Word: Indefatigable A 200 word Norse cautionary tale: The slam of a flagon full of mead roused Hriemnir from his drunken snoring. He found himself at a long table in a packed meadhall. Last thing ...1 week ago
