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This month we have expert advice from Rob Innis on how to ensure your work is stored safe and sound, Ten Top Tips advises on how to make your dialogue convincing. Useful websites helps in that area too as well as offering some markets and a research site. And hopefully, you’ll find some fun and something to inspire you in the end note.

END NOTE and a little inspiration!

Of course Christmas is the biggest pull when it comes to writing articles for December. However, there are all sorts of other things going on that you could write about. Could you use any of these events to create an interesting article? This month you should be planning for submission in December.

Inspiration

1st December	World Aids Day.
2nd December	International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
3rd December 1967	Christian Barnard carries out the first heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, SA.
4th December 1998	The second module - Unity - of the International Space Station is launched.
5th December 1360	The French Franc is created.
6th December	St Nicholas Day.
7th December 1993	Activists in East London lose their battle to save a 250 year old Chestnut tree from being cut down. It was one of the first protests of its kind and sparked a multitude of copy cats.
8th December 1980	Ex-Beatles frontman John Lennon is shot dead in New York.
9th December 1979	Smallpox is certified as eradicated - the first disease to receive this status.
10th December	Human Rights Day.
11th December 2006	Elizabeth Bolden - at the time of her death, the world's oldest person - dies in Tennessee, USA.
12th December 1992	Princess Anne marries Tim Lawrence in small ceremony in Scotland.
13th December 1983	Nichita Stanescu - Romanian poet and essayist - dies in Bucharest (see below for super little Nichita poem).
14th December 1979	Manchester and England footballer Michael Owen is born in Chester.
15th December 1960	King Baudouin of Belgium marries - are you ready? - Fabiola Fernanda Maria de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragon in Belgium. Phew!
16th December 1969	MPs vote to abolish hanging in the UK.
17th December	Wright Brothers Day - USA.
18th December 1966	Richard L Walker discovers Saturn's moon, Epimethius.
19th December	1154 Henry II of England is crowned King in a ceremony held at Westminster Abbey.
20th December 1968	American writer John Steinbeck - ‘Of Mice and Men' and ‘The Grapes of Wrath' - dies in New York.
21st December	Chester Greenwood Day - the inventor of earmuffs - in Maine, USA.
22nd December 1964	The SR-71 - better known as the Blackbird - takes its first flight.
23rd December	The Emperor of Japan - Akihito's - Birthday.
24th December 1979	Europe's first space rocket - Ariane 1 - is launched.
25th December 1233	The first Nativity scene is assembled by St. Francis of Assisi.
26th December	Wren Day - Ireland and Isle of Man.
27th December 537	Hagia Sophia - the famous mosque in Instanbul - is completed.
28th December 1950	The Peak District becomes the UK's first national park.
29th December 1970	Welsh singer Aled Jones is born Bangor, Wales.
30th December 1924	dward Hubble announces that there is evidence of the existence of other galaxies.
31st December 186	French painter Henri Matisse is born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France.

This is Nichita's wonderful, and fitting, poem named Field in Spring - enjoy!

Try this little game out - Taberino's - I loved the concept and it kept me hooked for hours, but I am a game freak so...

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 Celebration and Poetry and Short Story Writing Competitions

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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