The Writers Network News August 2009 Issue http://ezezine.com
August 2009 Issue
The Writers Network News
No Rules; Just Write!
Editor: Bobbie Christmas
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Welcome to this issue of The Writers Network News
In This Issue
One: Kudos to Richard Lederer and Marianne Sciucco
Two: From the editor’s desk – No Going Back to Square One for Me!
Three: Ask the Book Doctor – About Works of Art, Blogs, and Repeating
Information
Four: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Don’t be
Nauseous!
Five: Letters from Members
Six: Subjects of Interest to Writers
Seven: Jobs, Contests, Grants, Agents, and Markets
Eight: Creative Writing Assignment – Get a New Point of View
Nine: Web Sites of Interest to Writers
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Writer’s quote of the day
A good writer is basically a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer
of mankind. —Isaac Bashevis Singer
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One: Kudos* to Richard Lederer and Marianne Sciucco
Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English and Pun & Games, says this
about Dick Dowis’s latest book: “The River Lady Mystery is a
rip-roaring boys' adventure tale. Ricky and Steve are modern-day Huck
Finns and Tom Sawyers, and author Dick Dowis is a modern-day Mark
Twain.” You can order the book at
www.pdbookstore.com/comfiles/pages/RichardDowis.shtml
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My story, "Ino's Love," was just published in the Summer/Fall 2009
issue of KALEIDOSCOPE. Published semiannually by United Disability
Services of Akron, Ohio, the award-winning KALEIDOSCOPE explores the
experience of disability through literature and the fine arts. "Ino's
Love" is the story of an elderly woman sharing Christmas dinner with
her home health aide. The story was rejected twelve times prior to this
publication. I am pleased and proud my work was chosen by this fine
literary journal. --Marianne Sciucco
To read "Ino's Love" and other works, order KALEIDOSCOPE Issue No. 58,
Giving and Receiving Care--A Delicate Balance at
http://tinyurl.com/kp85dz.
Your successes encourage others; please send your accomplishments for
our kudos section.
*Kudos: praise or honor, glory for an achievement (Like “praise,”
“kudos” is a singular noun and takes a singular verb.)
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Two: From the editor’s desk — No Going Back to Square One for Me!
Dear Fellow Writers:
In the past few weeks I have received pleasant and complimentary
rejection letters from several agents, some of which I know personally.
One called my latest book “delicious,” but said she did not know the
right acquisitions editors for it.
It’s interesting to see my own reactions to rejection, now that I’ve
been in this business for four decades. Rejections used to crush me,
make me think I was back at square one. Now when I get a rejection
notice, I just say, “Okay, it’s back to my research.” You see I have
already performed copious research and made a long list of agents that
handle my type of book, so one rejection means only that I need to go
to the next person on my list and submit my query and/or proposal
again.
With age and experience I’ve developed an internal calmness about the
submission process and the inevitable rejection it entails. If only I
could have felt so calm about rejection ten years ago!
I’ve told many a writer that rejection is not personal; it means only
your manuscript has not reached the right person yet. I know. My first
book, Write In Style, met with several rejections from agents and
publishers before it finally sold. The process of submission and
rejection took four years, but would have taken less if I had not been
daunted by the first few rejections. I let the manuscript linger in my
computer for at least two years before a friend asked, “What’s the
latest on your book?” When I said it was rejected by the publisher I
wanted and my agent dropped me, she asked, “Was that the only publisher
in the universe?” Her humorous question brought me back to reality and
gave me the boost I needed, and by golly I sold the book to a publisher
myself, without an agent.
I’m trying to find an agent to sell my latest book to a larger
publisher than my prior one, but because the book is nonfiction, I know
I have the option of going directly to a publisher, if need be. It
merely means more research and more submission. I’m ready for anything.
There’s no going back to square one for me!
By the way, readers have asked me what path I will take with Write In
Style, now that it is no longer available through bookstores. I bought
the few remaining unused copies and will sell them online and wherever
I speak. I will also contact other publishers who specialize in books
for writers to try to sell them the second rights. You can buy one of
the remaining new copies of my award-winning book on creative writing
by going to http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml.
Note! Several people have pleaded with me to give a seminar for
nonfiction writers, so I have planned one for August. It’s called
“Write Your Memoirs for Fun and Profit.” See Section Six: Subjects of
interest to writers for all the details.
Yours in writing,
Bobbie Christmas (Bobbie@zebraeditor.com or bzebra@aol.com )
Author of triple-award-winning Write In Style (Union Square
Publishing), owner of Zebra Communications, and director of The Writers
Network
P.S. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Let me hear from you
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Three: Ask the Book Doctor — About Works of Art, Blogs, and Repeating
Information
Q: I have a question about quotation marks. I know the punctuation goes
inside the quotation marks when writing dialogue, as in: Ray asked,
“What about quotation marks?” What happens when they’re used in titles,
though, as in this example: Three very different styles are represented
by “Nude Descending a Staircase,” “The Scream,” and “The Mona Lisa.”
The punctuation (including the serial comma) doesn’t look right inside
the quotation marks. I tried it outside, though, and it looked even
less right. Which way is right?
A: The answer is not going to be what you expect. If you are writing a
book and correctly following the guidelines set forth in The Chicago
Manual of Style, the titles of works of art will be in italics
(underlined in manuscript form), rather than in quotation marks, so the
punctuation point is moot.
Q: I have started a blog, which started out slowly, but I now get about
fifteen hits a day. How can I increase that number?
A: First, for those not familiar with blogs (Web logs), they are online
journals. One provider of Web log space is www.blogspot.com. Many
authors have found that maintaining a blog builds a fan base for their
books and keeps fans up to date when a new book is going to be
released.
I’m not the expert on blogs or driving traffic to blogs, but I will
give these tips:
What are you doing to make those people go to your blog and read it
now? Do more of the same.
Register your blog wherever possible, and be sure your blog offers good
content that people will want to read.
To drive traffic to your blog, write articles or a column regarding
your subject matter and include a link to your blog. Send those
articles to any site that may post them.
Embed key words in your blog, words that readers might use to search
for the type of information you provide in your blog.
In addition to my very basic advice, buy and read a book on how to
increase visibility and drive readers to a blog. I noted 164 books
about blogs on Amazon.com.
Q: I’m starting on the next nonfiction book in my series. What’s your
opinion on this issue: How should I repeat, or not repeat, foundational
information for the second book? Here are some of the options others
and I have come up with so far:
Don’t repeat anything; refer readers to the first book.
Use the same foundational pages as I did in the first book, but place
them in an appendix at the back.
Repeat everything I need to, but repackage it in a different way with
new layouts and illustrations.
Reproduce it as is in the back in miniatures, four to a page.
A: Without seeing the actual manuscript, it’s hard to answer your
questions about whether or how to repeat information, but my
inclination is not to repeat information at all. If folks want the
information, they should buy your other book. Think marketing. I’d
refer to the previous book and even include an order form in the back.
Send your questions to the Book Doctor Bobbie Christmas at
Bobbie@zebraeditor.com.
Would you like to read or save the Ask the Book Doctor column as a
clear PDF file? Now you can! See
http://zebraeditor.com/files/ask_the_book_doctor.pdf. The newest column
is posted around the first of each month.
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Four: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Don’t Be
Nauseous!
The word “nauseated” suggests a condition induced by an external cause.
Example: The colors on the wall nauseated me.
By contrast, “nauseous” is an adjective that refers to a state whose
cause may be unknown. Example: The nauseous colors on the wall made me
sick to my stomach.
Be careful not to say Sally was nauseous, for it implies she nauseates
someone else. If Sally is sick to her stomach, you must say Sally was
nauseated.
From Purge Your Prose of Problems:
Nauseate, nauseated, nauseating, nauseates: (Verbs) 1. To feel or cause
to feel nausea. 2. To feel or cause to feel loathing or disgust. The
smell nauseated the workers.
Nauseous: (Adjective) 1. Causing nausea; sickening: “the most nauseous
offal fit for the gods” (John Fowles).
For more opportunities for improvement, buy Write In Style (Union
Square Publishing) by clicking here:
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml. Hurry! Only a few
copies remain!
Purge Your Prose of Problems is available at http://tinyurl.com/4ptjnr.
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Five: Letters from Members
"I look forward to the Writers Network News. I keep writing and hope
someday to see some of my words in print." –Jack Dunn
[Guess what, Jack; you just did! –Ed.]
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I always get something I had already been looking for in your
newsletter. I end up saving it in my notebook. This month it was the
model query letter. Thanks so much! --Jill Jennings
Tell me what you think of the newsletter, what you’re doing, or any
tidbit of information you want to share with other writers. E-mail me
at Bobbie@zebraeditor.com or bzebra@aol.com.
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Six: Subjects of interest to writers
Where is Bobbie Christmas speaking?
Write Well U offers telephone seminars you can take in the comfort of
your own home.
“Write in Style and You Write to Win”
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Learn the basis of Write In Style, Bobbie’s award-winning textbook on
creative writing. Discover how to make your writing stand head and
shoulders above the rest, so it wins the attention of agents and
editors. Write in style, and you are much more likely to achieve the
success you deserve.
To register for these and other classes, go to www.WriteWellU.com.
BEST NEWS: Whether or not you actually call in for the event,
AuthorSmart and Write Well U send you all the handouts and an MP3
recording of the event, so even if you forget to listen in, you’ll
still get all the information you need.
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Write Your Memoirs for Fun and Profit
A small, private seminar in the home of Bobbie Christmas
Saturday, August 29, 2009
1:00 – 5:00
$99
Home of Bobbie Christmas
230 Deerchase Drive, Woodstock, Georgia, 30188.
You may simply want to write your memoirs for your family, but what if
you wrote them in such a way that you could also sell them to
publishers? Would you mind the added money and notoriety? Of course
not.
In this workshop you’ll uncover:
Where to start and how to plan your memoir
What publishers look for in a memoir
Why you don’t have to be famous to sell your memoirs
What type of publishers buy memoirs and how to find them
How to write memoirs that people want to read
How to write from the heart—the most creative, simple way to write
What is vital to a memoir and what is not
What to delete to make your memoirs more powerful
In addition to spending her entire career as an editor and writer,
Bobbie Christmas has sold personal memoirs to publishers such as John
Wiley & Sons, Adams Media, St. Martin’s Press, and others.
This seminar will take place in the workshop space in the home of
Bobbie Christmas, and space is limited. Act now to reserve your seat,
because her seminars sell out early.
ADDED BONUS: Every attendee will receive a FREE copy of Bobbie’s latest
book, Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your
Writing, a $14.98 value.
Attendance is by prepaid reservation only. Mail your check for $99 to
Bobbie Christmas, 230 Deerchase Drive, Woodstock, Georgia, 30188 today
or call 770-924-0528 with Visa, MasterCard or Discover Card
information.
Coming in from out of town? E-mail me at Bobbie@zebraeditor.com for
nearby accommodations.
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Sisters in Crime
Smyrna Library
Smyrna, Georgia
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
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Attention Writers in Metro Atlanta!
The Writers Network has occasional local meetings in the
Roswell-Alpharetta general area. If you’re interested in meeting with
other writers, send me an e-mail (Bobbie@zebraeditor.com) and ask to be
put on a list of local members to be notified if and when we plan a get
together.
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Purge Your Prose of Problems
A Book Doctor’s Desk Reference, Fourth Edition
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Written in easy-to-understand language, the information covers all you
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Save shipping costs PLUS instantly get Purge Your Prose of Problems as
an e-book with clickable links and bookmarks that zip you directly to
any subject. Go to http://tinyurl.com/4ptjnr.
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From The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor:
David Lehman, who created and has served as the series editor of the
yearly anthology called Best American Poetry (Scribner), was inspired
by Robert Bly, who was in turn inspired by William Stafford, to wake up
early in the morning and write a poem, one poem every morning. He did
that on and off for years, and once he managed to write poems for 186
consecutive days. He published two books of his favorite daily poems:
The Daily Mirror (2000) and The Evening Sun (2002).
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Novelist Gail Godwin, author of A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and
The Good Husband (1994), said: "I work continuously within the shadow
of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there
are at least five or six that died on the way."
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Novelist Charles Webb grew up in a wealthy family living in Pasadena,
California. He was attracted to the wife of a friend of his parents. He
said he decided "it might be better to write about it than to do it,"
so he wrote The Graduate in the poolside bar of the Pasadena Huntington
Hotel. He was twenty-four when it was published.
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New and Inexpensive! Now you can download Bobbie’s newest one-hour
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Gail Richards of AuthorSmart presents this hour-long seminar (#2 in the
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Gail Richards of AuthorSmart presents this hour-long seminar (#3 in the
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“Write it and Reap: Make Money Selling Your Expertise”
“An Editor’s 10 Secrets to More Persuasive Writing”
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Take seminars in the comfort of your own home. Repeat as often as you
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Journalists Still Finding Work
The Washington Post reports the following: “Since graduating last
month, 197 people, or 64 percent, of the 306 Columbia University
j-school students who have left have lined up work within their chosen
profession, a rep for the school says. However, that might not
necessarily mean actual paying jobs, as it includes internships,
fellowships and continuing ed. The Columbia rep tells Bercovici that
the 64 percent is higher than last year, and some students have gotten
job offers from places like The New York Times, NPR, CNN. Meanwhile,
CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism is claiming that 60 percent of the
45 j-school grads who finished last December now have full-time
editorial work, while another 15 percent are doing internships or have
been getting steady freelance work.”
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Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your Writing
answers many of the questions you wish you could ask an editing expert.
Whether you write books, short stories, articles, reports, or anything
else, learn more about how to write, edit, and sell your work.
Paperback: $14.95 plus $4.99 S & H (total: $19.94 US) E-book: $14.95
and no S & H.
To order go to http://tinyurl.com/lexp7n.
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Good News/Bad News
The bad news is that Johnson Publishing, the world's largest
African-American-owned-and-operated publishing company and publishers
of Ebony and Jet magazines, is in deep financial trouble and is asking
freelancers to write for free. The good news is that experienced
freelancers will not write for free, so beginners have the opportunity
to query the magazine and get published in a national consumer
magazine. Having a byline in a national consumer magazine will look
great on your resume and in your portfolio. In addition to needing
unpaid freelancers all over the country, the company may still have an
opening for a paid position in Chicago for a writer/copy editor at Jet.
See http://www.johnsonpublishing.com/assembled/careers.html.
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Write In Style: Using Your Word Processor and Other Techniques to
Improve Your Writing by Bobbie Christmas 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, Best in Division (Georgia Author of the Year Awards), and
Finalist in USABookNews Best Books 2005. Available at
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml.
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Read about the many benefits of joining the National Association of
Women Writers: http://naww.org/blog/benefits.
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Free Tools for Writers from Bobbie Christmas and Zebra Communications
Order PDF reports on correct manuscript format, how to form and run a
critique circle, how to identify weak writing and repair it,
self-publishing versus traditional publishing, and much more. Sixteen
reports are available, and the list keeps growing. Go to
http://zebraeditor.com/free_reports.shtml. Newest report: How to choose
the correct editor for your manuscript. Surprise! It may not be me.
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Keep up with Bobbie’s activities on Twitter:
http:twitter.com/BookDoctor4u
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Seven: Jobs, Contests, Grants, Agents and Markets
Arabella Magazine seeks writers
ARABELLA is looking to build the staffing and infrastructure required
to support our goal of becoming a premier national magazine with
presence in key regions across Canada. We would like to add to our
current team of excellent writers in order to address the full range
and depth of editorial content of the magazine. Must have a minimum of
five years experience writing in the media publications field or a
related industry and have a Bachelors degree or Diploma in a relevant
field. We are looking for writers who are adept at painting beautiful
and captivating pictures and stories with words while giving readers
insights and information that can be carried forward into their own
lives and homes. Our editorial focus is current, historical, futuristic
and environmentally sensitive. Our writers play a central role in
helping readers see how they can transform the ordinary into the
extraordinary! For more information see
http://www.arabelladesign.com/careers.htm.
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While we’re still focusing on Canada, Market Zone Productions is a
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-based publishing company that produces
high-quality specialty magazines for the education and agricultural
markets. It recently launched Western Farm Family (Manitoba) magazine.
For information see http://www.marketzonepro.com/westernfarmfamily/.
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Also based in Manitoba, Herizons aims to reflect a feminist philosophy
that is diverse and relevant to women's daily lives. The purpose of
Herizons is to empower women; to inspire hope and foster a state of
wellness that enriches women's lives; to build awareness of issues as
they affect women; to foster a spirit of co operation; to promote the
strength, wisdom and creativity of women; to broaden the boundaries of
feminism to include building coalitions and support among other
marginalized peoples; to foster peace and ecological awareness and to
expand the influence of feminist principles in the world. Herizons is a
non-profit organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. See
guidelines and payment information here:
http://www.herizons.ca/contribute
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Working Mothers Magazine
“Our readers include full-time, part-time and sidelined moms who work
at public and private companies of all types and sizes; who are
entrepreneurs; and who are self-employed. The best way to pitch an idea
that can work: Read Working Mother for content and tone.” You can get
full freelance guidelines and also download the 2009 editorial calendar
here: http://www.workingmother.com/?service=vpage/140.
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Dorchester Publishing, home of Leisure Books and Love Spell, is an
independent publisher specializing in mass-market paperback fiction for
romance, horror, westerns, and thrillers. Dorchester Publishing is now
accepting general submissions by e-mail. “Because of the many
submissions we receive, we must strictly adhere to word-count
requirements and the descriptions on our Web site.” For full guidelines
see http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SubmissionGuidlines.cfm.
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Memoir (and) “Prose, poetry, essay, graphics, lies and more”
The reading period for Spring+Summer 2010 (Issue 6) is now open! We
look forward to reading your submissions.
Memoir (and) publishes memoirs in many forms. We strive with each issue
to include a selection of prose, poetry, graphic memoirs (visit
www.guttergeek.com for reviews of graphic narratives), narrative
photography and more. No submission is too unusual or traditional to be
considered for publication.
In each of our two yearly reading periods, we select the most
outstanding submissions and award four prizes:
Memoir (and) Prize in Prose or Poetry
Grand Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100
Memoir (and) Prize for Graphic Memoir
Grand Prize: $100
There is no fee to enter. All works submitted are eligible to win. See
http://memoirjournal.squarespace.com/general-submissions/ for
guidelines.
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Butterfly Women Press
We are an indie publisher specializing in books written by women that
transform the world with their message. The National Association of
Women Writers will choose at least one book per year to transform the
world. Submissions for our 2010 release will close August 2009. See
http://naww.org/blog/butterfly-women-press for guidelines for
submission.
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Eight: Creative Writing Assignment – Get a New Point of View
Point of view refers to the main character in a scene and how he or she
perceives the action and dialogue. The following brief scenes contain
similar information, but the perception is that of the point-of-view
character:
Sally walked into the room, nodded to her mother, leaned over, and ran
her hands down the back of her mother’s white poodle. (omniscient point
of view—as if a narrator were watching the scene)
I walked into the room, nodded to Mother, leaned over, and ran my hands
down the back of her white poodle. (first-person point of view—Sally’s
point of view)
Melissa watched her daughter walk into the room, nod, lean over, and
run her hands down Fluffy’s back. (Sally’s mother’s point of view)
A woman walked into the room, nodded at Mommy, and wiped her sweaty
palms off on my back. (dog’s point of view)
For this assignment write a scene with an omniscient point of view.
Make the scene at least three paragraphs long, and put at least three
people in the scene. Show action and include dialogue. Next rewrite the
scene through the point of view of each character, until you have four
versions of the same scene.
This exercise helps you see which character has the best point of view
for each scene.
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Nine: Web Sites of Interest to Writers
Take the test: Twenty-five most commonly misspelled words:
http://www.businesswriting.com/tests/commonmisspelled.html.
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Six Things Readers Want from Your Author Web Site
http://www.authortechtips.com/2009/06/what-readers-want-from-your-author-website/
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Tools for writers plus free reports, information, and answers for
writers like you: www.zebraeditor.com.
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WordWeb offers a free dictionary and thesaurus for download. WordWeb
gives definitions, examples of usage, synonyms, antonyms, and common
phrases, including each word you enter. There is an option to integrate
WordWeb into the menu of several mainstream word processors and a
number of the free ones, as well. Numerous language dictionaries are
also on offer. The program is available from http://wordweb.info/free
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Researching agents and publishers? www.literarymarketplace.com is the
most comprehensive of all sources; however, there is a fee. You can
subscribe for a week for about $20. Perform all your searches in one
week, and it’s a bargain.
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Be sure to send us your favorite Web resources for writers to share
with your network.
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