November is the traditional novel writing month for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). What’s the big idea? Easy. A commitment to write a 50,000 word novel starting with word one on November 1st and completing the project by November 30. Are you afraid of commitment? So what. Cast all of your worries and baggage aside [...]
Let’s hear it. Do you contest? Well, you should. If you’re a writer of fiction, chances are you have a manuscript just laying around that could fit quite nicely into one of the many contests available. Here are some recent contests posted around the web: Random House – Short Fiction. Deadline: January 31, 2009. $100 [...]
I posted an ad on Craigslist for folks interested in starting a Writer’s Group. To date, I’ve gotten a single reply. I know there has got to be more of you folks out there. What gives? Are you not interested? Do you not have the time? Are you concerned about seething critiques of your work? [...]
I guess it depends on the kind of writing you’re up to, really. It’s pretty easy to break it up. Let’s say there are two types of writing you’re doing – The writing that is destined for the printed form, and then the writing that will live on the web. We can toss writing for [...]
I reviewed acobox as an assignment from Textbroker Take it for what it is… User: Tumblemoose There are some things I like about this service and some things I’m less than happy about. On the good side, the site is well designed and simple. There is not a lot of distracting clutter and the navigation [...]
