Group items tagged

(And the cats that tolerate them. :) )

A panel of publishers, writers and journalists at the Emerging Writers' Festival shared their tips on getting paid for your writing.

Great post by Lee Kofman on how to kill that poor novel stone dead.

Followed this link from the Writers Victoria posting. Some of my writers workshop people would do well to take it to heart!

New Australian publisher of short stories and novellas. Must be by a Brisbane writer or have some connection to Brisbane. Pays $10 for a story and wants all world-wide rights for a year after the anthology is published, then rights revert to the author.

Good overview of how we as fiction writers could apply 'write what you know'. Practical. 

Take a story by a writer you really, really admire - preferably a short short story that won't take for ever to reproduce. Analyze it in minute detail: from word choice to sentence length. Now, choose a different setting and different characters with different dreams from that of the originals, and write a copycat story, following the exact structure and tone of the original.

Site of a local writer of short stories and flash fiction.

Interesting looking workshop weekend for writers

I've belonged to this for more than ten years. It is a huge community of people who write, at all levels of experience. Mostly Americans, but many from all around the English-speaking world. There is a free course you can do to see if you like it, before paying to join. If you join, there are many interest groups, self-moderated. I belong to one focusing on literary short story writing, invitation only, full at the moment and not taking members. There are groups writing every kind of genre you can think of. The standard varies hugely from group to group, and from course to course.

Great software for drafting - much easier to use than MS Word for longer pieces of writing. It's worth downloading the trial and setting aside some time to play with the tutorial.

Yes it is, though it's only about $40. Have a play.

Writing software designed especially for writers. Costs around $40 (but do a search for vouchers and you may get a discount).

Free (or very cheap if you want upgrades or cloud version) software for writers, including formatted templates for scripts of all kinds and integrated shooting calendars, production resources, etc

Summary of session on plotting, drafting and timeline tools

Online version of presentation on information flows, managing resources and note-keeping.

One for the nonfiction writers especially but everyone will benefit, I think. Snopes debunks urban legends, lies and ridiculous social media campaigns by a team of fact-checkers. It is very fast and pretty reliable.

This is an example of one of the intensive writing events I was talking about. NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) is another.

Interesting....... 'All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.' George Orwell, with his breezy advocacy of a very British 'common sense', often seems as much crackpot as savant.

Networking: Learning and sharing online. Toolbox:Twitter, Facebook pages and groups, Goodreads, Hootsuite

On productivity, storing documents safely, and how to write without being disturbed.

This is the home site for AWM. Each Wednesday night they invite people to write for an hour together, via Facebook. I think you don't need to be a member to join in.