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Our New Year edition features expert advice on how to keep months ahead of the game using editorial calendars, 10 Top Tips on making your work more saleable by adding illustrations, plus the usual dose of inspiration and helpful websites.
USEFUL SITES FOR WRITERS
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/radioplay_what_it_is.shtml
The British Council, which exists in most countries, run various different writing events you can attend, plus they have competitions you can enter with quite fantastic prizes. For instance I found this competition – The International Radio Playwriting Competition – on the British Council’s Kenyan Website, but it is available to anyone not resident in the UK. There are two categories, one for English speakers and one for those who have English as a second language. The prize for this competition is to travel to London to see the play made into a full radio production which will then be broadcast on BBC World Service, plus £2500! Closing date is March 31st 2009. To find your local British council website simply type British Council and your country into a search engine such as Google.
www.vizero.com
Just to revisit top tips again, I have found an interesting website where you can buy images, if you can’t take them yourself and cannot find any enthusiastic helpers. You can also upload your photo’s for sale to others – and why not! You can purchase photo’s for as little as £3.00 and, in their words, “All photos on our site are royalty-free, meaning that the price of each image is fixed, regardless of how you intended to use it or the number of times!” Unlike many websites I tried, this one is easy to navigate and it’s free to sign up.
www.greatwriting.co.uk
This is a general website for writers, I can’t say it any better myself so in their words “The idea behind Great Writing is simple; sign up, submit a piece of creative writing, and allow others to offer advice and constructive criticism. This is supported by a general discussion area where you can promote your work, ask questions about all aspects of writing and publishing, or just chew the fat with friends. We're also trying our darndest to bring you original articles on writing and interviews with those in the trade. We'll be keeping an eye out for writing contests too, and even running a few of our own.” It’s nicely laid out and very easy to navigate.
Remember, if you run a website that you think may be of use to our readers, let us know. If we like it, we’ll publish a link to it giving you a free plug. What could be better than that?
