Contests, a fast track to getting published
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy.
Sites to see, places to go and groups to join
My Writing Friend: writingfriend@earthlink.net This is a great place to hone your writing skills.
Nick Daws Writers Circle: Click link on this page. I'm a moderator on this site, It's awesome.
Sites to see, places to go and groups to join
My Writing Friend: writingfriend@earthlink.net This is a great place to hone your writing skills.
Nick Daws Writers Circle: Click link on this page. I'm a moderator on this site, It's awesome.
Online Writing Workshop: http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/ Want feedback for your work?
Newbie Writers: http://www.newbiewriters.com/ Great place to meet other newbies
I’ll be adding to the above list as I find more newbie friendly sites.
What about contests? When I first started writing, again, I worked exclusively on my novel. Day in, day out. Plodding along toward a distant goal of being published. I became impatient after about ten months and started to yearn for a little recognition. My novel, should it be published, won’t happen for at least another year. That’s a mighty long time for any new writer (Specially me) to go before he or she can lay claim to the illustrious title of “Writer.” I started casting about for a quicker means of obtaining clips and having something, anything, published.
Lo and behold, I ran across a little contest in Australia. http://www.authorsunlimited.net/ had a contest going on. It looked easy enough,I really didn’t have to write much, though I did have to be original. Well, to make a long story short, I won second place. That got me an autographed book and the right to lay claim to the title “Professional Writer”.
I’ll be adding to the above list as I find more newbie friendly sites.
What about contests? When I first started writing, again, I worked exclusively on my novel. Day in, day out. Plodding along toward a distant goal of being published. I became impatient after about ten months and started to yearn for a little recognition. My novel, should it be published, won’t happen for at least another year. That’s a mighty long time for any new writer (Specially me) to go before he or she can lay claim to the illustrious title of “Writer.” I started casting about for a quicker means of obtaining clips and having something, anything, published.
Lo and behold, I ran across a little contest in Australia. http://www.authorsunlimited.net/ had a contest going on. It looked easy enough,I really didn’t have to write much, though I did have to be original. Well, to make a long story short, I won second place. That got me an autographed book and the right to lay claim to the title “Professional Writer”.
Does it matter that it was only a contest? NOOO, the point is that I wrote something, entered a contest, and what I wrote won something. Ergo, Professional.
No, it's not a big thing, not to most, but for the aspiring writer it's the spark that can ignite a career. It took me days to stop walking about with my chest puffed out with pride. LOL There are so many contests out there; it’s just a matter of finding ones that fit with what a person writes.
Mystery? Fantasy? Romance? Poetry? I have entered several more contests and have some poetry and a short story in competition. It doesn’t take very long to write these short pieces and while waiting to get the results, I just keep plugging away at my novel. Maybe by the time I’m ready to send my novel to a publisher, they won’t look at it and say “Who?”
Next time: Joining writers chat rooms and forums. There are some very good reasons to do so.
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