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My award for ‘Funny Of The Week’ goes to this cute little chap who really does look like he’s laughing at a joke. It seems that his brother just doesn’t get it. Bless 🙂
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When I came across this photo I had to share it. Just looking at it makes you smile – even if it’s Monday and the start of a working week! Â Â
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Check, check and re-check! In my interview for ‘The Write Place’ (http://www.writersbureau.com/editorimages/Issue%207a.pdf) I was asked to give a tip for copywriting students. I advised on making sure that they read the brief from the client very carefully. A similar point can be applied to writing competitions, whether they’re poetry, short story or article writing competitions.…
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Yesterday in my blog about my writing week, I wrote about aiming to send a piece of work out everyday. As writers, especially when first starting out, we can be a bit precious over our work. We send it out, by e-mail or post, and then chew our nails down to stumps, persistently checking our…
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Tutoring and working on my books take up a lot of my time but I still aim to send a piece of work out everyday. Sometimes this may only be a reader’s letter, other times it’s a short story or article. But I find it’s always a good idea to have that goal in mind.…
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We’ve all done it – written a word similar to the one we wanted to write but a word with a very different meaning. I’ve been guilty of writing about a character who was ‘battling through the dessert, his body pushed to breaking point’. Of course, I meant the sandy version i.e. the ‘desert’. The…
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It’s been back to the old photo album this week in search of a photo to accompany a nostalgia piece I’ve written about the comics I enjoyed as a child. The editor wants some photos of me when I was little. I won’t be sending this one in. My mother insists the ‘Elfin-look’ hairdo was…
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Whether you’re a short story writer, novelist, copywriter or non-fiction writer, always check your work through. If you don’t and your script is full of spelling mistakes, missing passages of text, omitted full stops and commas, then the editor/publisher will think you don’t care about your work. He’ll think that if you don’t care, then…
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This iconic quote from the film, ‘Jerry Maguire’ could be applied to editors who drag their heels when it comes to paying for published work. A few editors pay on acceptance, though these are few and far between. Most pay 4-6 weeks after publication. Sometimes the editor will require an invoice so check whether one…
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Book one in my children’s book series has now been edited to within an inch of its life! Though, I have to say, I am finally happy with the end result. My daughter has also finished the cover illustration and it looks fantastic. Only five books in the series to go! Although I’m immersed in…
Esther Chilton 