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Fortitude - A Daily Magazine for Being Human: They accept any pieces of original writing. I wonder if it's worth submitting a few of my short pieces there. If they make the front page, I'll get $10 for them.
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SavvyAuthors.com are running an interesting mini-workshop: Crash Revision, presented by Holly Lisle. It will run from March 28 - April 1 and is $5 for non-members and free for members. Sounds good, doesn't it?
If you realise half-way through NaNoEdMo that you need help with the revision process, Crash revisions might be just what you're looking for.
NaNoEdMo is less than three weeks away. That means you'd best brush up on your editing skills now. If you wait until March, you'll lose precious editing time then.
Here are a few tips and links that will make life during EdMo easier:
Read Holly Lisle's article How to Revise a Novel and have a look at the One Pass Revision workshop. As I mentioned before, I'm currently working through Holly's course How to Revise Your Novel (veeeery slowly) and I think her advice on novel revision is excellent. Even if you don't agree with her, you're bound to find some useful tips for your own revision process here
If you'd rather have short, pithy advice, check out Darcy Pattison's 30 One-Minute Tips for Strengthening Your Novel. As the title suggests, these revision tips are short - an ideal pointer in the right direction when you're stuck with a specific element of your novel.
Dianna over at Fictional Worlds is planning to do an editing workshop in March. If you find you need a bit more guidance and a close-knit group of writers around you, you might find it there. Head over to the Organization Workshop Intro to get a messy story in shape for editing.
Every writer has a different process. As with all writing advice, you'll have to find out for yourself what works for you. Some writers are happy with a one pass novel revision, others want to improve their story gradually.
No matter to which group you belong, don't forget that you want to be published. Put your readers first, give them what they want. That may be all the editing advice you need.
There is lots of information on writing available online, but there are times when it's nice to have a magazine you can leaf through. If you can't access a computer during the day (or have to watch which websites you visit), a writing magazine may be the answer. Here are a few good ones to consider:
Writers' Forum - This is my favourite. It's full of advice, they run short story and poetry competitions every month and they list writing courses and writing competitions. Writers' Forum also accepts articles, both from published and unpublished writers. It's published monthly and available at WHSmith (a UK newsagent).
Writing Magazine - Similar to Writers' Forum magazine in content, my second choice, also published monthly and available at WHSmith.
Mslexia - For women who write. I go to their website regularly, but only bought the mag once. I keep thinking I should subscribe to it. It's published quarterly, and the subscription is £21.75 for four issues. Mslexia welcomes submission from women writers about all aspects of writing.
Granta - Not so much a writing magazine but a literary magazine. It's a must-read for modern literary fiction writers.
The Writer Magazine - I hear The Writer Magazine is the best U.S. magazine for writers. I only know their website, so I'd appreciate opinions of writers who read it.
Writer's Digest - Every writer is probably aware of Writer's Digest. I bought one copy once when I was in the U.S. and my impression was that it is a good magazine for new writers. I'll buy it again if I come across it, but it's not one I feel I should read regularly.
Do you agree? Do you know any other magazines for writers you'd recommend? As always, I'm looking forward to your comments.
After writing about the best blogs for writers on Saturday, I felt bad about my other favourite blogs that were culled from the list.
In the end, you choose how many blogs you want to read, and chances are you don't agree with my choices for the best blogs. So here are more blogs I read and recommend:
Published Writers
Neil Gaiman - Do I have to say anything about Neil Gaiman? No, I don't think so.
Nova Ren Suma - I've read Nova's blog for years, long before she got a publishing deal in fact. I got Dani Noir as a Christmas pressie and read it in 12 hours. So not only do I feel like I know her, I also love her writing.
Writing in General
The Writing Coach - Blog of writing coach (and novelist) Jacqui Lofthouse. She currently runs the Don't forget to write challenge.
Write to Done - Creative writing and zen
Freelance Writing
Problogger - Everything you need to know about the ever-changing blogosphere.
Writing Prompts
Writing prompt blogs are quite possibly the only type of blog you can't follow enough of, especially if you subscribe to the posts via RSS. If you don't need to be prompted, you can just ignore the posts. If you need inspiration, the prompts are there in your RSS reader whenever you are stuck with a story, don't know how to start a new piece or need a topic for a blog post. Sound good? Then subscribe to these writing prompt blogs:
What's your story?
Write One Leaf
The One-Minute Writer
First 50 Words
Fiction Podcasts
Escape Pod - Science Fiction short story podcasts. Ideal for the commute or when doing the dishes.
PodCastle - Escape Pod's sister podcast for fantasy short stories.
This is a difficult one - there are so many good blogs for writers out there and if you follow too many of them, you won't have time to write. I've cut my selection down to five writing blogs I couldn't do without:
Published Writers
Pocket Full of Words: Holly Lisle's writing diary. Holly's passion for writing and helping new writers is inspiring.
Writing Podcast
I Should Be Writing: Mur Lafferty's podcast and blog (with daily writing prompt) for wanna-be writers.
Freelance Writing
Freelance Writing Gigs: Tips, inspiration and job leads for freelance writers.
Writing Prompts
Sunday Scribblings: Weekly writing prompt, great if you're looking for a bit of inspiration for the weekend.
Grammar and language
Grammar Girl: Language and grammar are the writer's tools, so we should all make sure we know how to use them.
If you want to check out more blogs, here's a blog post with 100 top writing blogs.
One of the best online tools to help you boost your wordcount is Write or Die. This simple tool will make you write a lot of words unless you don't mind your computer going berserk and screeching at you. You decide how long you want to write and how many words you want to write in that period, and then you start typing. Whenever you stop typing, the punishments begins.
It's an excellent help if you struggle with getting the words out, not just during NaNoWriMo.
Good news for romance writers: Digital publisher Carina Press launched today,and they are looking for submissions. Carina press is a division of Harlequin, and they are looking for romances in all forms and shapes (they are also open for other genres, though.)
Here's a link to the most important page: the submission guidelines.
I'm surprised I seem to have never mentioned Holly Lisle here. Holly is awesome. She's a successful fitcion author, she's published lots of free material for fellow writers to improve their craft, and she's compiled a comprehensive course called How to Think Sideways.
A few days ago, Holly wrote a blog post called Do you need to know more about how to revise your novel?, in which she asked if people were interested in learning how she honed her revision skills. Of course, the response was huge. As a consequence, Holly has put up a preliminary How to revise your novel site where people can indicate what they want to know. You can also sign up there if you want to be kept in the loop about the course
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