25 Things Writers Should Know About Social Media 1. The Devil’s Trident Social media has three essential prongs of activity: broadcast, rebroadcast, conversation. 2. Writers and other creative-types often seem to believe that they need to become someone different online, that they cannot be themselves lest they not find a publisher, not get work, not sell their book, not collect sexy groupies, etc. 3. You are not a brand. 4. Put the “social” in “social media.” 5. Having a blog, website, or online space where you establish an authorial “base camp” is a great thing. 6. Find different uses for different social media. 7. Writers are content creators, and so it behooves us to share what we love. 8. The Internet is like hot dogs: it’s made of lips and assholes. 9. Connection, not conflict. 10. …and is essential to the creation of the sandworms, as well as the diet of the wandering Fremen. 11. Speaking of self-promo… the reality of the modern writer’s existence is that self-promotion is inescapable. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.
A Second Chance At Life A Second Chance at Life Miranda Flairgold I own nothing you recognize, and all the ideas that you don't. I own the bloodmagic ideas; thread magic, and all original characters and magic and plants and potions. Baku come from Japanese legends, the Chachapoya are real - The Chachapoyaro are not real. Starts after HBP (Half-Blood Prince) No pairing yet, haven't decided if there will even be any long-term pairings at all. Rating will be PG-13 to R (I think rating depends on your personal opinion). If it goes higher than R I'll move it to another website. Note this is a very long fic, is part of a series, and will be getting a lot longer. If you want to use any of my ideas in your fics you may, just please note where the idea comes from. The gunman moved silently through the house, his padded boots making no noise on the floors. But down below Harry Potter was waiting, and he most certainly was planning an ambush. "Who are you working for? The owl dropped down into the fog towards an old farmhouse.
Setting up WriteMonkey on WordPress | ben.hamilton.id.au This post has been written using [WriteMonkey]( “Zenware for full screen distraction free writing”) as the text editor. Not only that but I’ve utilised Markdown as the method of text mark-up. All of this has been achieved using WordPress as my CMS, Firefox as my browser and a Firefox plug-in called It’s All Text. My first impressions are actually good. Although its taken a little setup, I’m actually happy with the result. You see, using WriteMonkey as a text editor is, well, gorgeous. Now to get this to work I did the following: + [disabled the visual editor]( “Article by Chris Coyier on blogging in WordPress with Markdown”) in [WordPress]( “The official WordPress site”), + installed the [It's All Text]( Not so hard is it? Of course, now the hard bit is about to start, that is, do more writing.
Lágrimas Lágrimas Another tender undertaking by *AethraZip*, AKA the evil-psycho-Terry- torturing-bitch. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE \ WARNING: Yaoi. Physical abuse. Psychosis. You suuuuuure you wanna risk it? A\N: Finally! To LuvLuvG: That was the unedited version. Admitting to himself that he was in love wasn't so bad; it was kind of a relief, to tell the truth. 'And he loves me, too.' That was the best part. By lunchtime, Caleb had made up his mind to say something— tell Toushin he loved him, or at least hint at it. Then Toushin dropped a bomb. Caleb made an indistinct noise as he gnawed on his sandwich. "I had an epiphany last night, as I lay in bed missing you—" "I'm sure you did." "Don't interrupt, my love." "I'm not your boyfriend." "Well, you will be. "If you say so." "I do. ". . .What about it?" "Coming over, silly studmonkey. 'Definitely not. "Great. 'No, because I'm not going!' "Six-thirty?" 'No!' Toushin grinned, and Caleb's heart melted, refroze, and melted again. Could it be? Mrs.
Creative Briefs: Editor's Brief: Greed The fat of the land has been spanked across the cheek and is wobbling like a plump new jelly. From big-cheese bonuses to plucked turkeys, the season of indulgence has begun in hot, buttered earnest. Whether you’re rolling in dough or just scraping by, we could all do with a little December treat. Which is where we come in. This month’s Editor’s Brief is on the theme of greed. As always, this is a multi-disciplinary brief; that means you can respond with anything you like, be it poetry, prose, animation, video, photography, illustration etc. The person who submits the best piece of work will win £250 and become part of our IdeasTap alumni. The work can be in any discipline you like, but it must relate to the theme. Members can only apply once. Your single entry is limited to: • Audio and video – no longer than two minutes • Text – no longer than 1,000 words • Images/photos – no more than two Find out how to apply by clicking on How to respond at the top of this brief. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
London Library Student Prize PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for entries to The London Library Student Prize 2013 has now passed. A big thank you to all those who entered the competition. Our panel of judges will be reading the entries over the coming months and the winner and runners-up will be announced in April 2013. 1. The theme of the prize is ‘GAP YEARS: A NEW FORM OF COLONIALISM.’ Before writing your piece, please read our Entry Guidelines. 2. Your full-length entry (no more than 800 words) must submitted by midnight on 11th January 2013. Before you enter, please read the Terms and Conditions thoroughly, as entry into the prize constitutes agreement to the Terms and Conditions. To enter, please answer all compulsory questions below. Please ensure your entry has been typed in a text document (Microsoft Word or equivalent). The first page of all entries must be clearly labeled with your: Full name Email address Postal address Telephone number University and degree title 3. For full prize details click here. 4.
Gold Dust - writers' mentoring, UK about the short review: reviews, news and interviews the short review brings you original reviews of new, not-quite-so-new and classic collections and anthologies, written by reviewers many of whom are also short story writers themselves and who love short fiction. To ensure some measure of objectivity, we ask that none of our reviewers review the work of an author or publisher that they have any connection to (at least at the time of writing the review). We also try and interview as many of the authors we review as possible. On the Links page are links to competitions for short story collections and other things we think you might like. Why? I love short stories. So I thought I would create a space just for short story collections and anthologies, to give them their turn in the spotlight. Ok, I have to confess – my motives are not entirely pure. Tania Founding Editor, The Short Review TaniaHershman.com Like this: Like Loading...
James Benmore James Benmore was born in Kent and currently lives in South-East London. He studied literature at the Open University and has since completed an Mst in Creative Writing from Oxford University. His first novel, Dodger, follows the story of Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. It was awarded the AM Heath prize for fiction in 2010 (for best work of fiction by a graduating student of Kellogg College, Oxford), and was published by Heron in 2013. (For more about Dodger, see 'On our Blog', below.) He is represented by Jon Elek at AP Watt. Publications with The Fiction Desk 'Jaggers & Crown' in All These Little Worlds On our blog External links