Fiction Scribe

Welcome to the May 4, 2009 edition of Scribes.

I apologize for how late this is being posted. Without getting into too many details, this is a very busy time for me and my husband, plus May 5th is our wedding anniversary, so we took advantage of the beautiful weather this weekend. Thus, I am here trying desperately to catch up with everything.

Just a note - If you submit your posts after the deadline has passed (and there is a notice on there when the deadline has passed), I will not post it. No exceptions. So, if you go there and see the notice, please be patient and submit your work when submissions are open again.

As always, thank you to everyone who submitted their posts. None of this would work without you. Enjoy.

Debbie Dragon presents Writing for Money Without Being Published posted at Empowering Mom.

Sarah Scrafford presents 50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers posted at Online College Degree.

Fiction

Aetius Romulous presents It’s Spring, and ‘Luke’ is in the Air… posted at ScreamBucket.

steven germain presents Rough Fractals: The Way My Mother Was When She was Young… posted at Rough Fractals, saying, “A brilliant stream of consciousness…”

Ella Moss presents 2 MORE LIGHTS « Zodiac Times posted at Zodiac Times.

How-To

Nicholas Powiull presents Conscious Flex: Universal Knowledge: by Nicholas Powiull posted at Conscious Flex, saying, “How to write from a place of Universal Knowledge.”

Eldon Sarte presents What to Charge: The”Profit Goal” Formula posted at Wordpreneur.com, saying, “an older post, but the info doesn’t expire, this particular post has proven to be one of the most popular on Wordpreneur.com”

Burak Bilgin presents The Writing Cycle posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, “Writing cycle: the actions that a writer takes to write a complete, ready to be published manuscript.”

Mike Southern presents The One Thing You Must Know About Every Character posted at Written To A Pulp, saying, “”Written to a Pulp” is a blog about using formula fiction techniques to overcome writer’s block. I’m in the process of creating a novel-length space opera online (The Virulent Project) to help demonstrate how it all works.”

C.F. Jackson presents Book Marketing in Social Networks, Right! posted at Website Makeover Workshop, saying, “Book marketing in social networks can help or damage your results. It’s about providing value rather than selfishly book marketing and book promoting.”

Publishing and Agents

Shaun Duke presents Publishing: Your Options and the Pros and Cons posted at The World in the Satin Bag, saying, “I thought this one might be a good one for you all. It’s one of my favorites.”

Jon Bard presents A Crash Course in Submitting a Manuscript to a Children’s Book Publisher | Children’s Writing Web Journal posted at Children’s Writing Web Journal.

Writing Competitions

Derek D. Hambrick presents Young Georgia Authors’ Writing Competition & Pirsig’s Quality « Derek Hambrick’s Blog posted at Derek Hambrick’s Blog.

Writing in General

Jon Bard presents 4 Rules Beginning Children’s Book Writers Should Never Break | Children’s Writing Web Journal posted at Children’s Writing Web Journal.

Cheryl Snell presents Fire on the Cuyahoga posted at Scattered Light, saying, “Using YouTube to promote your books”

Burak Bilgin presents Explore Your Creativity with Mind Maps posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, “In this post, I explain mind mapping in greater detail. I present how you can use it to explore your creativity, and as an example, I show how you can use it to convert your ideas into texts.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents An Ode To Writer’s Block posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

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