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This month we have expert advice, and secrets from Simon Whaley on how to get paid twice for your work, Ten Top Tips focuses on adding value to your work with photographs, which is echoed in Useful Websites. Student Successes are as uplifting as usual and, if you’re stuck for ideas, see Inspiration.
Hello Dear Readers,
Ah, 2011 is almost over! I cannot believe that the next edition of E-Zee Writer will be in a brand spanking New Year – 2012! The prophetic year that marks the end of the Mayan long calendar and, for some, the end of the world. I am more of an optimist and hope that the year marks the beginning of a new level of social and moral consciousness amongst the inhabitants of this small blue-green marble. A bit deep, I know, but it does make you wonder about what it all means doesn’t it? What do you think is going to happen, if anything at all?
On to business! This month we have expert advice from Simon Whaley on how to make extra money from your articles by selling them more than once. Ten Top Tips advises you on how to add value to your writing by submitting photographs. And, if you’re not confident or you simply don’t want to take photos, you can browse through and use those available on the websites in Useful Websites. Student Successes come from the forums and an email I received. They’ll certainly provide you with proof that you really should send off that article you’ve been sitting on for the past three months!
Writer of The Year is open until 31st December. So, if you want to enter, you’d better get your skates on. To qualify for entry you simply need to be a student who has been published within the last year. You could win £250!
Are you are planning on writing a novel? If so, you should consider the workshop ‘Thinking Big’ with American novelist, Mimi Thebo on 29th January 2012. She’ll ‘take you through all the stages of planning a novel, from The Big Idea to The End. Mimi will use a mixture of group and solo exercises. By the end of the workshop you should feel comfortable working with big themes and concepts, as well as being able to plan your novel.’ It costs £38 and will be held in Bath.
Recently we had this super rhyming request for a prospectus from Douglas James and thought you might like to see it too.
Word Perfect
Could the Writers Bureau improve my word skills,
And give me a good scribing role?
For, at present, I’m told if I write for a living,
I’d be a real hungry old soul.
But further than that I’m now of the age,
When the words must be drafted quite clear;
“Here lies a man who has written words well,
And so rests very nice on his bier.”
If the WB could give me that skill,
I’d like them to make the fact clear;
So then I could write the memorable words:
“Here rests a fine man with his beer.”
Thanks for making me smile Douglas.
Happy writing
Shelley
P.S Don’t forget our Poetry Writing Competition closes on 31st December 2011.
