My writing partner found an interesting local contest for us to enter: the “Short on Words” writing contest, held in conjunction with Northville’s 2013 Arts & Acts Festival. Entries should be no longer than 1,500 words and must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 12. The cash award for the winner is $100; second-place … Read More →
The Writers’ Group met again Wednesday and we discussed several essays as well as our beginning novels. We’ve selected two new contests to enter. The Writer’s Digest Your Story Contest looks intriguing: Every other month, Writer’s Digest presents a creative challenge for fun and prizes. We’ll provide a short, open-ended prompt. In turn, you’ll submit … Read More →
My new writers’ group partner (we’ll call her “TQ Poet”) and I met again last week and this morning. We’ve decided that entering contests will be a great motivation. I had begun to enter a few last year, but, of course, lost my motivation when I didn’t make it past the short list. TQ Poet … Read More →
Very excited to meet up with an old friend, who will remain anonymous. She and I spent many an evening discussing novels, poetry, and prose years and years ago. We have both dusted off our “works” and will begin meeting regularly in order to gain some writing inspiration. I need this regular influx of conversation … Read More →
For the fourth year, I’m beginning the big write-off. Let’s hope this year I finish, as well.
I’m really enjoying Hillary Rettig’s The 7 Secrets of the Prolific about writing, procrastination, perfectionism, and all the internal and external traps that keep a writer from actual being a writer. A lot of her advice is spot on, and I’m working to put it into practice immediately. She advises the writer to find other writers, … Read More →