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Showing posts with label Chicken Soup for the Soul call for submissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicken Soup for the Soul call for submissions. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2022

Around the Web: Best Posts on Writing I've Discovered This Week

I subscribe to and follow several authors, blogs, and writing sources throughout the week.

Each Friday, I include links to FIVE sources to improve your writing that I found useful.

Here are my offerings for this week. Hope they inspire you to start writing and continue writing!


This is a great breakdown of analysing your writing and improve your rewrites.

Here's a good breakdown of a conference and the great keynote speaker.

If you write books for children, here's a great free webinar to attend TODAY!

Here's the current callout for submissions to Chicken Soup for the Soul. See if one of them fits something you have in your writing treasure chest!

This is the key to starting your book in the right part of your storyline. 
https://jerryjenkins.com/inciting-incident/

Friday, March 25, 2022

Around the Web: Best Posts on Writing I've Discovered This Week

 I subscribe to and follow several authors, blogs, and writing sources throughout the week.

Each Friday, I include links to FIVE sources to improve your writing that I found useful.

Here are my offerings for this week.

Hope they inspire you to start writing
and to continue to write
!

Here's the latest call-out from Chicken Soup for the Soul...Crazy, eccentric, wacky, lovable, fun families...Those eccentric, goofy, wacky, lovable, and oh-so-fun family members — the ones we tell all the stories about. Share your true stories and poems about those family members. With love and appreciation, please. No mean-spirited stories wanted. And you can put a pen name on your story if necessary. Submission details: https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/possible-book-topics/

Here's an explanation on SEO and why it matters for dummies: https://authorkristenlamb.com/2022/03/seo-the-key-to-working-smarter-not-harder/

I love this site for their weekly critique sessions using one piece of writing. This one is a query and Bransford shows how it could be written with more precision to pique the literary agent's interest in finding something with a unique twist. https://nathanbransford.com/blog/2022/03/lead-with-the-story-query-critique

If you want to create characters that readers will remember and want to follow in the next book, read this: https://jerryjenkins.com/character-profile

This must be a hot topic this week. Just watched a podcast on M-I-D - Multiple streams of income. This is a good overview: https://www.blueridgeconference.com/writer-what-is-your-side-hustle/