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------------------------------------------------------------- The Writer Buddy Gazette January 1, 2005 Issue #5 ------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE => News From the Top => Featured Article: The Recipe for Getting Published => Featured Article: A Few Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue => Featured Article: Top 10 Tips to Complete a Creative Writing Project Without Losing Creativity => Featured Article: Three Quick and Easy Ways to Generate Story Ideas => Writer Buddy Community News => Contest Corner => Writing Markets => The Gazette Writers' Submission Guidelines => Support My Writer Buddy => Classified Ads => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information ------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS FROM THE TOP ------------------------------------------------------------ Happy New Year from My Writer Buddy. 2004 was a great year for WB members and this next year promises to be even better. From writing contests to publication contracts, we've seen it all in the past 12 months. As WB moves into its sixth year, the year promises to be bigger and better for WB members. Be sure to pencil "get published" on your list of New Year's Resolutions and we'll work together to make it a reality. Happy Writing! Denise ------------------------------------------------------------ FEATURED ARTICLE: The Recipe for Getting Published ------------------------------------------------------------ By Mridu Khullar Got talent but no clips? Here's the recipe for getting published... Procrastinating When you've finally decided you have to put into writing the fabulous idea that just struck, you enter the first phase of the writing process. "I'll start tomorrow," "I'm not inspired yet" and "I just don't have the time" are some of the phrases that will form a part of your vocabulary. When you've incorporated them into your daily lifestyle, you're ready to enter the second phase. The Blank Screen You sit in front of your computer, usually without a clue to what you're supposed to be doing. You stare at the blank screen constantly without blinking. You may take short coffee breaks or a walk, but you still make it back to where you started. Type a few lines of crap, then erase. Repeat this process a number of times, and proceed. Read on: http://www.writerbuddy.com/wbhome/articles/recipe_being_published.html ------------------------------------------------------------ FEATURED ARTICLE: A Few Keys to Writing Effective Dialogue ------------------------------------------------------------ By Karyn Follis Cheatham Listen to How People Talk If you listen carefully to how people speak, you'll notice that people tend to use shorter sentences in times of high emotion: anger, surprise, awe. "I can't take this! Get out!" versus "I find this situation intolerable. I want you to leave right now." They ramble a bit when they're nervous or confused. "I know this isn't what you wanted, but I wasn't sure which way to make the diagram fit best on the page so I brought both copies with me. I hope you don't mind." Young children tend to get pronouns confused or leave out articles: "Me go to store with Gramma." You'll begin to recognize how different personalities have different word usage and diction. All of these observations can be incorporated in the dialogue you write. The best grammar isn't always used, either. Even people who write well, don't always speak well. "I've got to get that new CD of Carlson's," takes precedence in speech over the more correct, "I have to buy Carlson's new CD." Word usage and contractions that you might avoid in narration become quite logical in dialogue: "There's no more to see, so let's get outta here." Read on: http://www.writerbuddy.com/wbhome/articles/effective_dialogue.html ------------------------------------------------------------ FEATURED ARTICLE: Top 10 Tips to Complete a Creative Writing Project Without Losing Creativity ------------------------------------------------------------ By Ginger Blanchette Have you ever started a creative writing project with great excitement, only to have your interest dwindle as the process, itself, interfere with your creativity? How do you keep the momentum going and continue to enjoy the creative process? Follow these tips for high creativity, fun and success! 1. Create a writing environment that inspires you. Create a place in your home or outdoors that calls you to write. Consider light, color, sound, scent, taste, writing materials. 2. Follow The Artist??™s Way, by Julia Cameron. I highly recommend this book. It keeps you focused, observant, playful, and creative - and it keeps you believing in yourself as a writer! Read on: http://www.writerbuddy.com/wbhome/articles/complete_writing_project.html ------------------------------------------------------------ FEATURED ARTICLE: Three Quick and Easy Ways to Generate Story Ideas ------------------------------------------------------------ By Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ There are many ways you can generate ideas you can use for your stories, articles and other creative pieces. Start with the three ways given below: 1. Put Your 5 Senses to Work A simple but effective way to generate fresh ideas from a single concept, idea or object is to describe or illustrate it using the 5 senses -- sight, smell, touch, taste, sound. For you to do: Generate 5 specific images or concrete examples (one example for each sense) for the following: * Vindication (what's the smell of vindication? how does it taste? how does it sound? what does it look like? how does it feel?) * Hesitation * Celebration Read on: http://www.writerbuddy.com/wbhome/articles/3_quick_ways.html ------------------------------------------------------------ WRITER BUDDY MEMBER & COMMUNITY NEWS ------------------------------------------------------------ WB Members Published!! Two other WB members have now been published with ArcheBooks Publishing. They are our very own Achgook (Jake George) and Sesh (Laura E. Reagan). For more information about their books, be sure to visit their pages on the ArcheBooks web site: Grandfather's Song by Jake George: http://archebooks.com/BookIDX/Indexes/History/GS/GSDesc.htm and If You Only Knew by Laura E. Reagan. http://archebooks.com/BookIDX/Indexes/Romance/IYOK/IYOKDesc.htm They join Bob Farley (Thrips) and Scott Morgan (The Warlock), both of which were recently published by ArcheBooks. Other WB members will have their books released soon. Be sure to check WB or ArcheBooks for additional information. Join our growing list of published members. Visit the WB Contest Corner for complete information on the 2005 contest. --------------- Member Birthdays It appears we only have one member birthday in January. Be sure to wish BF a happy 16th birthday Jan. 19. If you have a birthday this month and are not on this list, be sure to add your news to our events calendar by visiting: http://writerbuddy.com/wbhome/modules.php?name=Calendar --------------- Mew Members Our WB family continues to grow. In December, 61 new members joined our family. Join me in welcoming: Dylandrew, regretful_angel90, Nebontha, janet, Jabberwocky, CurvyNovels, Juanita, valeca, quennie, RomanceWriterGirl, CWHD, Spunk, melly20, thetouchofrain, alisonfromme, Aikenfan26, littleozzyman, Brigid1, Tom-R, Christinekey, DarkHaven80, icklestar, mrsteacup2, Angel, businessfilmelan, Sunah, sweetrobin213, tenderspirit74, Eldaveer, aynfan, mcasares1666, EmotionallyStunted, hereinthishead, Aplin, The_Purple_Knight, Billy, Earthy71, Chesnay, nettereads, mfon, Sagawriter, JackRayner, Charlotte, PersonalEnigma, Molly, scorpio2, Nana, Moonmoth, JoeCanadian, PK, basic, LadyFreyja, Narabinai, Thejoshfranklin, dotty, K509, RayvenRose, msballpoint, sapphira, bjfraserjr, islandscribe. Thanks for joining and welcome home. --------------- Do you have news you'd like to share with your fellow Writer Buddy members? Have you recently been published? Do you have something to crow about? This is the spot. Send your news items to: thegazette@writerbuddy.com ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTEST CORNER ------------------------------------------------------------ 2005 Writer Buddy/ArcheBooks Novel Writing Contest Officially begins March 15, 2005 with acceptance of submissions in the three categories: Mystery-Suspense, Science-Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, and Women's Fiction. All participants must be previously unpublished (i.e. novels only, it's OK if they've published a short story, magazine article, or poems). The deadline for submission is June 30, 2005. Ten semi-finalists in each category will be announced July 15, 2005 and the three finalists in each category will be announced July 30, 2005. One winner will be selected in each category. Winners will be announced during the last week of August 2005. The winners' books will be published and released in late Fall 2005. For complete details, visit: http:\\www.archebooks.com\Contest2005.htm --------------- December 2004 Monthly Contest Winner The winner of the revised monthly contest is Charles Gonda with his story "Christmas Grab." The winning story can be viewed in the Winner's Circle section of the WB Contest Corner. --------------- January 2005 Monthly Writing Contest The phrase for January is: It was too late. This entire phrase must appear at some point in your sentence. Deadline for entries is January 15, 2005. Voting will take place Jan. 16-23 and the winner will be announced Tuesday, February 1. For more information, visit the WB Contest Corner at: http://www.writerbuddy.com/wbhome/contest_corner/index.html E-mail your entry to: thegazette@writerbuddy.com Make sure to put the words Contest Entry in the subject line of your E-mail. The entire story should be typed in the body of the E-mail. No attachments will be opened. That's it folks. Gets those pencils and pens moving and those keyboard keys clicking. ------------------------------------------------------------ WRITING MARKETS ------------------------------------------------------------ Mystery Island Publications Seeks previously unpublished short stories, articles and poems for themed projects. Looking for great short stories that invoke the fun of the American pulps and the wild "B" movies that used to be part of a double feature or on Saturday mornings with the Creature Feature monster series. Also looking at "pulp style" art submissions. Pays: $10.00 and up per previously unpublished story Guidelines: http://www.mysteryisland.net/submit Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Publishes every kind of mystery short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye case-the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the policeman's lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative (including "locked rooms" and "impossible crimes"). Needs hard-boiled stories as well as "cozies." Does not want true detective or crime stories. Pays: 3-8 cents per word Guidelines: http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/ Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Interested in nearly every kind of mystery, however: stories of detection of the classic kind, police procedurals, private eye tales, suspense, courtroom dramas, stories of espionage, and so on. The story must be about a crime (or the threat or fear of one). Sometimes accept ghost stories or supernatural tales, but those also should involve a crime. Pays: 8 cents per word Guidelines: http://www.themysteryplace.com/ahmm/guidelines/ Over My Dead Body! The Mystery Magazine Publishes a wide variety of mystery-related manuscripts, from cozy to hardboiled and everything in between. We're looking for mystery-related author interviews/profiles and articles. Mystery-related travel pieces will also be considered. Pays: $.01 per word for fiction and $10-$25 for unsolicited non-fiction. Guidelines: http://www.overmydeadbody.com/wguide20.htm Mystery Readers Journal Does not publish fiction. Short reviews and articles focusing on the theme of the issue are welcome. Reviews of a single book should be 200 words or less, articles around 1,000 words. If writing an article or essay, please try to provide a title OTHER than "Why I Write Mysteries About [subject]." Pays: Non-paying market but sends complimentary copy of the issue in which your story or essay appears. Guidelines: http://www.mysteryreaders.org/Guidelines.html ------------------------------------------------------------ THE GAZETTE WRITERS' SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------------------ The Writer Buddy Gazette needs writers. We need regular monthly features of interest to all writers and news of interest specifically to Writer Buddy members. Of special interest are how-to articles on all aspects of writing. We are also always looking for interviews with published authors or publishers. Book reviews of published fiction or books on writing are also needed. All articles should be 500-1,500 words. The WB Gazette is unable to pay for articles/stories at this time. In lieu of payment, all contributors and regular columnists will have a short bio with a link to their email address and Web site listed at the end of the story or article. The Gazette seeks non-exclusive rights to reprint articles in this newsletter and in the reference section of the My Writer Buddy site: http://writerbuddy.com/wbhome/modules.php?name=NukeWrap&page=articles/index.html To suggest an idea for a regular column or to query an article, review or author interview, send an email to thegazette@writerbuddy.com ------------------------------------------------------------ SUPPORT MY WRITER BUDDY ------------------------------------------------------------ Since its inception in 1999, My Writer Buddy has been committed to the ideal of writers helping writers. In that time many of our members have achieved the elusive goal of publication. 2005 will bring other publication opportunities for WB members, including our very own paying e-zine - Buddy Tales. How can you help? Donations of any amount will be greatly appreciated. All members who donate at least $5 will receive a "three-star Community Sponsor" designation under their names. They will also receive a note of gratitude in The Writer Buddy Gazette newsletter. To make a donation, visit the Writer Buddy site and click on the Donate button. All donations are handled through PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account or prefer to send your donation via snail mail, write to: thegazette@writerbuddy.com for address information. ------------------------------------------------------------ CLASSIFIED ADS ------------------------------------------------------------ WriteSparks!?„? Software for Writers can generate more than 10 million story sparks to keep you writing for years... and all at a click of a button. Getting ideas for your stories has never been this easy! For more information, go to: http://hop.clickbank.net/?writerbudd/ewrite2001 ********* The 10 Top 10 Lists for Writers list contests, ezines and newsletters, encouragement and tips from successful writers, resource information and more. 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For more information, write to: thegazette@writerbuddy.com ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBER MANAGEMENT / CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2004 - Denise Williams All Rights reserved http://www.writerbuddy.com To Subscribe: http://www.zinester.com/mpb/ml_fs.cgi?topic=91205 To Unsubscribe: Archived issues of this newsletter can be found at http://archives.zinester.com/91205 Denise Williams, Editor The Writer Buddy Gazette email: thegazette@writerbuddy.com |
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