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This month we have details of an exciting new competition, expert research and resourcing tips from Lorraine Mace, Ten Tops Tips shows you how to prepare for and write travel articles, Student Success provides you with your monthly dose of motivation and the Useful Websites, End Note and Inspiration hopefully live up to their names

END NOTE and a little inspiration!

February is, of course, the month of love for those who celebrate St Valentine’s Day and I am sure the magazines will be saturated with features relating to this. So, take yourself off the beaten track and see if you can come up with something a little more original from the other events in February listed below.

Inspiration

1st February 1884	The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
2nd February	Ground Hog Day – USA.
3rd February 1998	Karla Faye Tucker has the dubious honour of becoming the first woman to be executed in the USA since 1984.
4th February	World Cancer Day.
5th February 1988	The first Comic Relief ‘Red Nose Day’ held in the UK raises £15 million for charity.
6th February 1952	King George IV dies peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House.
7th February	International Men’s Day – Malta.
8th February	Nirvana Day – Buddhist celebration.
9th February 1969	The Boeing 747 makes it first test flight.
10th February 1931	India has a new capital – New Delhi.
11th February	National Inventors Day – USA.
12th February 1980	American poet Muriel Rukeyser dies in New York aged 66 (see End Note for a poem about poetry by Muriel).
13th February 2000	Newspapers publish the last original ‘Peanuts’ cartoon strip following the death of Charles M. Schulz the day before.
14th February 1924	The International Business Machines Corporation, better known as IBM, is formed.
15th February 1812	American jeweller Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Co. is born in Killingly, Connecticut.
16th February 1937	The patent for Nylon is received by Wallace H Carothers.
17th February 1972	Sales of the Ford Model-T are overtaken by the Volkswagon Beetle.
18th February	Independence Day – Gambia.
19th February 1881	The first full prohibition of alcoholic beverages is instituted in Kansas, USA.
20th February 1472	Orkney and Shetland are passed as part of a dowry from Norway to Scotland.
21st February 1953	Crick and Watson discover the structure of DNA.
22nd February 1983	English conductor, Sir Adrian Boult, dies aged 92 in London.
23rd February 1836	San Antonio sees the start of the Battle of the Alamo.
24th February	National Artist Day – Thailand.
25th February 1922	Notorious French serial killer, Henri Desire Lendru, is executed by guillotine for murdering 11 people.
26th February	Liberation Day – Kuwait.
27th February 1900	The British Labour Party is founded.
28th February 1925	Harry H Corbett, best known for his role in Steptoe and Son is born in Burma.

And here’s the promised poem about poetry by Muriel Rukeyser.

Ooo...this game, Bubble Spinner is so simple but infuriatingly difficult. I couldn’t even get past level one!

And finally, if you found something of use to you in this issue please pass the word on to all your writer friends – and even those who don’t! You never know, you might inspire them to take it up. They can sign up here.

Until next month farewell and do lots of writing!

Shelley x

P.S. Don’t forget the 21st Birthday Competition to win an Article Writing Course.

As usual, if you've any suggestions or would like to comment on anything you have read then please contact me at: ezeewriter@writersbureau.com

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