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Check, check, check! It’s so important to check your work before you send it out. Mistakes easily creep in. Set your work aside for a few days and then read it through. If you leave it for a while, you then see it anew and mistakes stand out. To show you how easy it is…
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Thank you to Eddy, Alexandra and Jasdeep for the wonderful, emotive diary entries they sent in for my challenge last week. They’re published below. I’m sure you would all like to congratulate Jasdeep for her recent special mention in ‘The Global Short story‘ 100-word competition. Please let me know of any successes you have and I’ll put them…
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My weekly market for you follows. It will be added to my ‘More Markets For Freelancers Page’, where you’ll find lots of others markets to send your work to. There are also lots of different publications for writers on my ‘Markets For Freelancers’ page. Ambit, a UK quarterly literary and arts magazine, is my publication…
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Sometimes the meaning literally becomes lost in translation. This is the first in my new ‘Funny Of The Week’ series:
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I’ve written about flash fiction a few times but some of you are still a little confused as to what it is. Here’s some further detail and an example. Perhaps it’ll inspire you to enter a competition or to send me some for ‘My Weekly Writing Challenge’. There’s still time to send a diary entry…
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If you’re writing a short story or novel and one character has a large passage of dialogue, you can break it down into shorter paragraphs rather than one big block of words. This helps readability. You’ll find an example below. As you’ll see, each paragraph should begin with speech marks, but only the last paragraph…
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Last week, I gave you some titles in the hope that it would spark off lots of ideas. It certainly did! You sent in some wonderful true-stories, poems and prose. A huge thank you to all of you who had a go. They’re all published below. Please take a look. Each one is fantastic. My…
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As well as checking this week’s market out, there are plenty more to choose from on my ‘Markets For Freelancers‘ and ‘More Markets For Freelancers‘ pages. Cricket Magazine You could be forgiven for thinking that this is a magazine devoted to the popular sport but take a look at the website and you’ll soon see…
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Talking of funny, there’s still time to enter my weekly writing challenge (ends Thursday – see earlier post). Perhaps you could send me a funny story or poem. Anyway, here’s my award for ‘Funny Of The Week’: Know of any services which operate this way?
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After my piece on adding humour to your writing last week, I thought I’d build on it this week and help you to start your week off with a smile: E-Publishing and the Re-birth of Malapropism, Misspellings, Mistakes and Mayhem They say anyone can be published these days thanks to e-publishing, blogging, social networking and…
Esther Chilton 