The Writers Network News, March 30, 2005 http://ezezine.com
March 30, 2005
Welcome to this free issue of The Writers Network News. I hope you love it and forward it to all your writing friends, but if you don’t love it, follow the simple instructions at the bottom to remove your address from the mailing list.
In This Issue:
One: Kudos: Kenn Allen, Walter Lawrence, Danny O’Dell
Two: From the editor’s desk: Tax Time is Happy Time for Writers
Three: Ask the Book Doctor: submission oversights, grammar, copyrights, slow responses from editors
Four: Subjects of interest to writers
Five: Jobs, contests, grants, agents and markets
Six: Writing Assignment: Concrete vs. Abstract; Gerunds vs. Active Verbs
Seven: Looking for Critique Circles
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Next Roswell meeting date: Friday, April 1, 2005
12:00 noon at Wok & Chops Chinese Restaurant
If you happen to be in Atlanta on the first Friday of the month, bring questions and business cards and network with us. See directions at the end of the e-zine.
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Writer’s quote of the day:
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual
from the successful one is a lot of hard work." --Stephen King
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One: Kudos
[Kudos: noun: praise or honor: praise, credit, or glory for an achievement]
I just got another short story published in the Chicago Quarterly Review. It is called “The Chocolate Kiss-Off.” It is in the winter 2005 issue. It's a great literary magazine. --Kenn Allen (For information on subscriptions, see: http://manhattangp.home.att.net/prod01b.htm)
Way to go, Kenn!
Walter Lawrence’s poem, "My Woods" was published in the Summer 2004 Chattahoochee Review, which was just released—a little behind schedule, but at least it’s out! Congratulations, Walter.
“I have taken the leap into turning one of my earlier self published books into a hardcopy. My wife and I met with a publisher/editor here in Spokane, Washington, who is looking seriously at publishing my Wilderness Basics for the young woodsman. He will print it, promote it, market it, and give me 15 percent for every one sold. I will give him a three- to four-year copyright, and then it reverts to me.
“My latest book, called The Ultimate Bench Press, is being reviewed by the same group in England that marketed and promoted my Strength Training Secrets Manual. They have tentatively expressed an interest in it. I have also sent it out to five trainers here in the United States for their critiques and testimonials, if they like it. Once the critiques and testimonials come back, I will see what comes next in this continuing adventure.” –Danny M. O’Dell
Please send in your accomplishments for our kudos section!
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Two: From the editor’s desk: Tax Time is Happy Time for Writers
Dear Fellow Writers:
I finished my taxes early, so I could travel with a clear conscience, and I just got word from my accountant that my quarterly payments to the government were sufficient; I do not owe the IRS any money; in fact I’ll get a little rebate, just enough to pay my Georgia state taxes. What fun!
Why is tax time a happy time for writers? Because I used to pay the government a big bundle of money, but now I pay only a little, because I take many deductions, while having fun and doing what I love.
If you have not set your writing up as a small business, you are missing out on many valuable tax deductions. Yes, my business if full-time, now, but for many years I had a freelance business on the side, while working as an editor in the corporate world. As a result, I deducted a portion of my car mileage and utility bills. I deducted a portion of my meals, if they related to business meetings or if I took someone to lunch or dinner as part of an interview for an article. I deducted the cost of my reference books, subscriptions to writing-related magazines, membership dues in writing organizations, and all the office supplies I needed to maintain my freelance business.
Now that my business is full-time and supports me totally, I have much larger quarters in my home for an office and seminar space, and I deduct more items than ever before. As a result, even though my entrepreneurial income has never reached the levels I achieved in the corporate world, I don’t need as much. My taxes are lower, I live a fine life, I am able to travel (and sometimes deduct portions of those expenses as well), I schedule my own days, and I make a living doing what I love.
I am not an accountant, so check with one before you set yourself up as business, but it is easy, and it does not mean you have to incorporate or even that you have to show a profit. You simply must show that you intend to make a profit, and you can reap the benefits due you.
Is this message self-serving? It was not intended that way, but as I finished it, I realized that if you hire a professional editor like me, you can deduct the cost of the editing, provided you have set your writing up as a business. I should have thought of that point first! Well, I’m here to help fellow writers, and in so doing, I make a living, too.
Enjoy this newsletter and be sure to send your kudos, questions, comments, and leads to share with members of your network.
--Bobbie Christmas
Author of award-winning Write In Style (Union Square Publishing, an imprint of Cardoza Publishing) and director of The Writers Network
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Three: Ask the Book Doctor
The first item was not sent as a question and did not come in my own mail, but it involved me, and you can learn a large lesson from it, so I’m including it. Here goes:
In addition to editing manuscripts, I also act as one of the first readers for a literary agency. I do not get paid for doing so; instead, I am allowed to insert my promotional literature into the returned submissions that could use editing services. In this way I help the agency, give feedback to writers, offer help to writers who need it, and get a client here and there. Everybody wins.
I am only one of the first readers, though. The agency uses quite a few. We each get stacks of submissions each week to open and evaluate. If the submission passes muster—if it follows agency guidelines, is in correct format, does not require a great deal of editing, fits one of the categories that the agency handles, is written well, captures the interest of the reader, and shows promise, we pass those (few) submissions to the agency. The job of first reader is to find any reason to reject a submission, so we spare the agents the trouble of going through thousands of pieces of mail each year. We reduce the mail that passes on to the agent by sixty percent or more.
I opened a letter to the agency recently that said, “Please place this critically revised synopsis with my materials and disregard my earlier summary. Apologies for the inconvenience.”
I shook my head in wonder. Please, never make the same error. It marks you as disorganized and unpredictable and puts agents and readers in an impossible bind. Here is the response I started to send:
“As you can imagine, the volume of mail that comes into [agency name deleted for privacy] is overwhelming. The agency uses several "first readers." I am but one of them, and I received your note requesting that we place your revised synopsis with your materials and disregard the earlier summary. We cannot go through hundreds of submissions on the desks of several first readers to put your revised synopsis together with your earlier materials. It would take hours to find a specific submission after it was received, and it could be in any number of locations.
“My advice: Always be sure you send all the materials at the same time and that they are as ready as they can be, before sending them.
“If you would like to resubmit your materials, along with your revised synopsis, perhaps one of the readers will like the newer version well enough to recommend it to the agency.
“I hope this information helps you with your submission to [name of agency] as well as future agencies, should you need to continue submitting.
Before I sent that note, I was interrupted and had to do something else. When I returned to my editing desk, guess what I found was the very next submission I was supposed to evaluate. You guessed it. I was able to do as the writer requested and put the new synopsis in with the submission. The writer was lucky. I hope he or she bought a lottery ticket today, too.
Q: I’ve noticed in bestsellers, newspapers, scholarly articles, and everywhere the use of a plural subject and singular verb. Does it matter?
A: I assume you’re talking about formations such as this one: “If an author wants to sell their book, they have to write well.” The answer is that grammar—agreement between subject and verb—does matter, especially to the unproven writer. Some publications have come to accept the error, to avoid the politically incorrect use of “he” to refer to all genders: “If an author wants to sell his book, he has to write well.”
Although awkward, for a while we used formations like this: “If an author wants to sell his or her book, he or she has to write well.” A great solution that avoids the entire issue is to use plurals: “If authors want to sell their books, they have to write well.” Using the plural form avoids the political issue and follows correct grammar rules.
Q: If you write an article and it is published in a newspaper, but you aren’t paid, who owns the copyright?
A: I’m not an attorney, but as I understand rights, the one who writes the material owns the copyrights to that material, until and unless the author sells those rights. No money changed hands (a legal term for it is “consideration”) so in my lay opinion, you still own all the rights.
Q: An interested acquisitions editor sent me a note saying she had received my manuscript and would probably get back to me in about six weeks. After four months with no word, I called. I explained that I knew how busy every one at the publishing house must be; I just wanted to check. The editor was very nice; she checked and called back to say my manuscript was still under consideration, and I should know something in "a couple of weeks."
I interpreted "a couple of weeks" to probably mean more than the traditional two weeks. Another month has gone by; it's now been five months. I certainly don't want to seem pushy, but I would like to know. Should I call again? We're starting into month six now.
A: In reality, the publisher indicated only that the manuscript was received. The acquisition editor’s note did not say the manuscript was under serious consideration. Acquisitions editors get hundreds of manuscripts a month and often have to plow through them in their spare time, such as at home. If the editor reads a manuscript and is seriously considering it, he or she usually lets the author or the author’s agent know.
We often say that in the publishing business no news is no news. When you don't hear from a publisher, it means only that the publisher has made no decision. In this case it could mean the manuscript has not even been read, yet. Calling does not change anything; instead it sometimes highlights the author as someone who will "bug" the publisher.
If I were in your shoes, I'd submit the manuscript elsewhere, too, to at least ten other places, and the publisher who makes the first offer wins.
You should not be held hostage to any publisher without a contract, especially one who has not even indicated that the manuscript has been read. Think of it this way: Once you receive an offer, the book is usually published a year or two later. That would be two more years out of your life spent waiting. Time's a wasting!
Do you have a question? Send it today to Bobbie@zebraeditor.com.
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Four: Subjects of interest to writers
If you have a Website (and you should, if you have books to promote), check out this Web address to check the popularity of your Website: http://www.uptimebot.com
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If you don’t have a Website, or if you want to learn how to work on the one you have, take a class. You’ll save thousands of dollars by working on your own site and be able to react immediately to update your site if any information changes. Here’s a good class given twice in the coming months in Atlanta: Design Your Web Page, Wednesday, April 6, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. or Saturday, June 11, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. $25 The Knowledge Shop, 180 Cobb Parkway S #C24, Marietta, GA 30060. 678/766-6666. By the way, I don’t know how to work on my own Website, either, so I signed up for the April 6 class. Join me!
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CanWest Global Communications is launching a free daily youth-oriented tabloid magazine called Dose in five Canadian cities in early April.
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Wonderland, a bimonthly UK publication is published by London-based Visual Talent and focuses on fashion, arts, film, celebrity, design, and music. Target audience: affluent urban consumers.
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Barricade Books has developed a new imprint called Legend Books, which the publisher says will be "a distinct and formal home of our line of Hollywood nostalgia titles."
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
DIY BOOK FESTIVAL
For complete guidelines: http://diyconvention.com/
The 2005 DIY (Do It Yourself) Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its fourth annual program celebrating the success of independent authors and publishers.
The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher nonfiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, photography, art, comics, e-zines, fan fiction, poetry and e-books published on or after Jan. 1, 2003. All entries must be in English and have been self-published or issued by an independent publishing house that has published less than 50 works since the entry cut-off point. Please note that authors with iUniverse, Infinity Publishing and other print-on-demand outlets are eligible for the competition. Grand prize for the Author of the Year is $1,000 cash and a flight to Los Angeles for a gala awards ceremony. Genre category winners will receive a combination of books, software, and cash awards.
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Expand Your Vocabulary--Free
Every once in a while I must tell readers about A.Word.A.Day, a service that sends me interesting words that I, as a writer, should know. It gives the pronunciation as well as the origin and uses it in an example. I’m pleased when I already know them, and I’m even more pleased when I learn a new one. For example, as I write this, today’s word was: subdolous (SUB-duh-luhs) adjective
Sly; crafty; cunning.
[From Latin subdolus, from sub- (slightly) + dolus (deceit).]
"A little attention to the subdolous artifices of those pretended patriots would soon have discovered those darlings, those revered guides of theirs, to have been their most pestilent enemies, wolves in sheep's clothing." --Bernard Bailyn; The Origins of American Politics; Vintage Books; 1970.
To sign up for A.Word.A.Day go to http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/subscribe.html.
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How to Market Your Book
In an alphabetical format for ease of use, “Book Marketing from A-Z” by Francine Silverman is packed with unique ideas from Advertising (Pros and Cons) to Zero Promotion (when the book sells itself). Readers will learn by their mistakes and adapt ideas in promoting their own books. “This book contains everything a new (or even experienced) author needs to begin marketing,” writes book reviewer Jeremy Hoover. http://hooverreviews.blogspot.com. “Authors might be surprised to learn that there are many free things they can do to market their books!”
The 400-page paperback is available at http://www.buybooksontheweb.com (Category: Marketing).
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Search a list of more than 2,000 print and Internet magazines and publishers from all over the world, at no cost! See http://www.thunderburst.co.uk/
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Secrets from “Write In Style” Revealed
The Find and Refine Method™ assists writers in being objective about their work. To learn much more about Bobbie Christmas’s trademarked method, outlined in her book, “Write In Style,” see http://tinyurl.com/5vabr
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Info for Book Proposals
Here’s a Website for a company that wants to write your book proposal for a fee, so it does not show the correct format or lineup of the contents of a book proposal. It does, however, list what you will need to incorporate into your book proposal when you write it, so it offers some good information. See http://www.imageshaper.biz/services3_bookproposals.asp
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Keep That Opening Strong! Dismal statistics from http://parapub.com/statistics/
Although 63% of adults report purchasing at least one book during the previous three-month period, most were probably exaggerating, and most readers do not get past page eighteen in the book. http://news.bookweb.org/ Also: Fiction outsells nonfiction about 60% to 40%. http://www.USAtoday.com
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What’s in a name? Type any word or combination of words, even your name, and see what comes up: http://wordsmith.org/anagram
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Save $7! “Rev Up Your Writing and Win” Seminar on Tape Reduced!
“Rev Up Your Writing and Win” is an hour-long seminar on a high-quality cassette recorded at the Harriette Austin Writers Conference in Athens, Georgia. The package includes all accompanying materials and handouts. Was $14.95 plus $4 shipping (total $18.95). Sale priced this week: $11.95, and we pay the shipping. To order, send your check today. Zebra Communications, 230 Deerchase Drive, Woodstock, Georgia 30188. Credit cards accepted. Call 770/924-0528 to apply.
Get the above hour-long seminar on tape FREE! Elsewhere in this newsletter, read the details about the upcoming book signing at Borders Books in Kennesaw, Georgia. Bobbie will be signing two books at that time, “Write In Style” and the brand-new Adams Media release, “A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Sons,” at $9.95 the perfect gift for Mother’s Day. Buy both books and get a free copy of “Rev Up Your Writing and Win.”
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What’s in a Title?
Gone With the Wind was originally called Tomorrow is Another Day. Blossom and the Flower was changed to Peyton Place. John Thomas and Lady Jane became Lady Chatterly’s Lover. Hardest to believe: Of Mice and Men was originally titled Something that Happened. A good title is vital!
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Come hear Bobbie speak
May 12, 2005
Main Street Writers
Cartersville, Georgia
For more information contact: birdfeeder@budweiser.com
June 7, 2005
The Village Writers Group
For more info watch http://www.villagewritersgroup.org/pages/512418/index.htm
The Village Writers Group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month in the Toco Hills-Avis Williams branch of the Dekalb County library at 1282 McConnell Drive (off Clairmont Road just south of North Druid Hills Road) in Decatur, Georgia. The library phone number is 404-679-4404.
July 15-16, 2005
12th annual Harriette Austin Writers Conference
University of Georgia
Suite 570
2351 College Station Rd
Athens GA 30605
706-743-3810
The program is still being formed. For more information watch http://www.coe.uga.edu/hawc/
July 23, 2005
Atlanta Writers Club Presents
Write In Style: A Crash Course in Creative Writing - $65
10:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. (break for lunch)
Sandy Springs Library
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Only one percent of all books written get sold to traditional publishers. The odds of selling a short story or magazine article are better, but still dismal. Increase your chances of selling whatever you write by picking the brains of an editor with more than 30 years of book, magazine and newspaper experience. For the Atlanta Writers Club, Bobbie Christmas has condensed her six-week creative writing course into a one-day seminar, and you do not have to be a member of the Atlanta Writers Club to take the course. For more information contact George Weinstein: gjweinstein@yahoo.com or Bobbie Christmas: Bobbie@ZebraEditor.com. Seating is limited! Secure your spot by pre-registering.
The best way to ensure you have a seat is to pre-register. You can do any of the following:
A. Mail a $65 check made out to Bobbie Christmas to 230 Deerchase Drive, Woodstock, GA 30188
B. Log onto PayPal.com, register your name with PayPal (if you are not already a member) and say you want to pay $65 to Bobbie@zebraeditor.com. You will get an e-mail confirmation of your payment.
C. Pay by cash, check, or credit card at the door, but it will require time, so arrive a little early. If you try to register at the door, though, and all the seats are filled with pre-registered people, we will have to turn you away.
Take the seminar on your own schedule! If you cannot be there July 23 but wish you could, preorder the event on a six-CD set. Prepaid fee: $65. To prepay for the six-CD set of “A Crash Course in Creative Writing,” send $65 by check to Bobbie Christmas, 230 Deerchase Drive, Woodstock, Georgia 30188. Make a note that the check is for the seminar on CD. If we experience any technical difficulty and the seminar does not record well, your money will be refunded in total. The seminar on CD will cost $75 after the event, so you save $10 by prepaying.
August 20, 2005
Writers Boot Camp
The Knowledge Shop
Marietta, Georgia
A full day of workshops for writers. Details to be announced.
Contact me for more information as it develops.
Bobbie@ZebraEditor.com
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Buy two of Bobbie’s books and get a free $14.95 seminar on tape!
It’s too early to be specific about the time and date in April, but it looks like it will be Friday, April 23, at Borders Books on Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw. Ellen Ward and I will be signing “A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Sons.” The newest book in the series by Adams Media Corporation features stories from each of us and at $9.95 is the perfect Mother’s Day gift. I will also be signing “Write In Style,” and every person who buys both books while I’m there gets a FREE one-hour writing seminar on tape. “Rev Up Your Writing and Win” is a $14.95 value. Just bring your sales receipt to my signing table to get your free seminar on tape.
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Write In Style: Using Your Word Processor and Other Techniques to Improve Your Writing teaches the Find and Refine Method ™ to locate words and phrases you can delete, upgrade or rewrite to power up your prose. Bobbie Christmas reveals secrets only a book doctor could know. First Place winner of the Royal Palm Award for education! Union Square Publishing, publisher; Simon and Schuster, distributor. Available in bookstores and Internet retailers. To order at Amazon.com DISCOUNT prices, go to http://zebraeditor.com/bookstore.shtml
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Five: Jobs, Contests, Grants, Agents and Markets
Home Town News is looking for experienced freelance writers for publications covering the northeast Atlanta area. Articles are short (a few paragraphs); pay is $25 per article. For more information, call 770-939-5888.
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The Writers' Workshop of Asheville, N.C., has fiction and nonfiction contests with entries due June 25, 2005. Entry fee: $25. Win $500 or a trip to the Hamptons, N.Y., and drinks with contest judges Kurt Vonnegut and Peter Matthiessen). http://www.twwoa.org/contests.html
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Crap Towns Wanted for Humor Book
I'm compiling information for a humor book being published by St. Martin's Press in early 2006. In addition to the names of the American towns and cities you find most dreadful, I'm looking for some colorful information and quotations in support of each. Anything from a sentence to a page could work. All quotes and material will be attributed to their source, so this is a great opportunity to get some short humor writing published by a major house. For more information, or to nominate a town, please visit www.craptowns.netfirms.com or email me at craptowns@earthlink.net.
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Orchid Short Fiction Contest wants entries by June 15, 2005. Entry fee is $10. Win $100 plus publication. http://orchidlit.org/_wsn/page5.html
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Do you have an aging parent who manipulates you with guilt? The parent can be living alone, with you or other family members, or in a long-term care facility. How were you able to get back to a normal healthy relationship with your parent? Or were you? I am writing a book about these relationships and possible solutions. Please email me at: gailhess@charter.net. Please put the words “aging parent” in the subject line of your email. --Gail Hess
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Swink Magazine's Awards in Fiction and Poetry wants entries by April 1, 2005. Entry fee is $15. Top prizes are $1,500 and $1,000. http://www.swinkmag.com/contests.html
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African-American Review
Joycelyn Moody
Saint Louis University
Humanities
317, 3800 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
Tel: 314-977-3703.
Fax: 314-977-1514
Email: keenanam@slu.edu accepts email submissions from outside the USA only.
Website: http://aar.slu.edu/
Established: 1967.
This quarterly pays varying rates for articles, depending upon the length.
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AGNI:
Sven Birkerts
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Telephone: 617-353-7135.
Fax: 617-353-7134.
Email: agni@bu.edu Email submissions accepted only from overseas.
Website: www.bu.edu/agni
“We look for the honest voice, the idiosyncratic signature, experimental where necessary but not willfully so. Great work is always and everywhere true to itself. Writing that grows from a vision, a perspective, and a passion will interest us, regardless of structure or approach.” Two issues a year. Pays $10 a page. Reading period: Sept-May
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Six: Writing Assignment: Concrete vs. Abstract; Gerunds vs. Active Verbs
“This amazing assignment is alarming in its scintillating structure, and if you are enjoying this newsletter, you will be delighting in what you learn.”
For this assignment you will look for abstract adjectives as well as gerunds in your work. Note that in the sentence above, the words “amazing,” “alarming,” and “scintillating” are all abstract, and the words “enjoying” and “delighting” are gerunds, yet what did they all have in common? You got it; they all end in –ing.
This assignment is easier to perform on a computer than on paper. Take any manuscript you have written and use my trademarked Find and Refine Method. Go to Tools, pull down Find, and type in the letters ing and hit the space bar. Hit Return, and see how many –ing words you find in your manuscript. How many abstract adjectives can be changed to more descriptive words or simply deleted? How many gerunds can be changed to active verbs?
When I applied the Find and Refine Method to the sentence in quotation above, it turned into this: “This educational assignment uses the computer to assist you, and if you enjoy this newsletter, you will delight in what you learn.”
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Seven: Looking for Critique Circles
Do you want to join or form a critique circle in your area or online? In the body of an e-mail send me your name, general location, contact information, and your preferences (fiction, nonfiction, short stories, books, poetry, etc.). I’ll list your information here, to help you find or form a group that allows you to get feedback.
Remember to ask me for Free Report #101 on forming and maintaining a successful critique circle. Send your request to me at Bobbie@zebraeditor.com.
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Directions to meetings:
Directions to monthly meetings held the first Friday of each month at Wok & Chops Chinese Restaurant, Roswell, Georgia.
The restaurant is in King’s Market on Holcomb Bridge, Roswell, Georgia, one block from Hwy. 400. If on 400, take Exit 7 toward Norcross (7A if going north, exit 7 and turn left, if going south). If on Holcomb Bridge already, turn into King’s Market by turning onto Market Boulevard beside SouthTrust Bank, turn left behind the bank, and you’ll see the restaurant in the hollow on the right. Restaurant phone: 770-552-8981.
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