animals
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My tip for this week builds on my blog from yesterday and concerns poetry: Every word and every line should be important to the poem as a whole. If your poem feels right after 20 lines, stop there. Don’t try and make it into a longer poem; you’ll be forcing it and it’ll ruin the
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My feet literally aren’t touching the ground this week. I’ve deadlines galore and the tutoring is always busy. I’m also undergoing a test for a new role so while it’s hectic, it’s also very exciting. My market for you this week is ‘Crystal Magazine’. It’s a small press publication aimed at new and established writers.
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I think this fella took the quote ‘Keep the dream alive, hit the snooze button!’ to heart and literally hit the button!
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Introducing Gentleman Joe Unlike my two cats, Clio and Morris, who regularly ‘help’ me with my writing by playing with my pens, attempting to walk across my laptop keyboard and lying across my carefully printed out work, Joe, up until now, can usually be found hidden away somewhere. Joe is a rescue cat, with a
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My writing week is going well, with several submissions sent out and an article published in The Guardian at the weekend. I recently covered this as a market (see Markets For Freelancers) so if you’d like to see an example of the type of piece they publish, you can find my article if you click on the
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Well, I suppose I should be grateful; at least my 17-year-old isn’t sprawled across my work today and stopping me getting on. No, she’s managed to find ‘comfort’ in a drawer 🙂
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I’m often inspired to write when I see a photo of an animal, whether it’s my own beloved cats who’ve triggered an idea for a reader’s letter, or another image which has given me an idea for an article. When I saw this chap, all I thought was, grimace or smile? Any ideas?
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Have box, will fit! My beloved seventeen-year-old, Clio loves lying in or on anything, from comfy beds, to pieces of paper, to my i-phone, to my computer. But her favourite place is a cardboard box – whatever the size!
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By Post or E-mail? Even though we live in an electronic age where more and more publications are accepting work by e-mail, some still prefer postal submissions, especially from someone writing for them for the first time. So make sure you research this carefully. If a magazine only accepts work by post, don’t think you
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My award this week goes to this comfy chap!
Esther Chilton 