It’s Our 3rd Annual “April Fools’ Headlines for Writers” Contest – Join in & Win Prizes!
Updated: 2012-03-30 14:26:54
April Fools Day is upon us and it's time to have some fun. Create entertaining, clever and witty headlines that would appear in an Onion-style newspaper for writers and post it in any of the ways mentioned below. That's it! That's all you have to do. To make it extra special, I'll up the ante: Enter this competition in any of the four ways below and spread the word of it by mentioning this blog post and I'll enter you into a drawing for a free copy of the 2012 Writer's Yearbook, which features The Top 100 Markets for Book & Magazine Writers. In fact, I'll give away 5 of them so we can have 5 winners. Details here. Read more
Learn what a memoir is and how to create memories with today’s tip of the day taken from Writing Life Stories by Bill Roorbach, with Kristen Keckler. What is a memoir? Memoir … Read more
Learn what it takes to achieve success in children’s book publishing as well as essential information about the publishing industry from You Can Write Children’s Books by Tracey E. Dils. Read on … Read more
Today’s Tip of the Day comes from Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript by Chuck Sambuchino and the WD Editors. The following excerpt teaches you how to submit short stories and gives tips … Read more
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, The Renegade Writer About Us Free Query Packet E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments The Renegade Writer’s Nondiscrimination Policy And , Have You Ever Been Discriminated Against as a Writer A few weeks ago , a writing buddy of mine , Ollin of Courage 2 Create , was discriminated against by a fellow writing blogger because he’s gay Say what I always considered writing one of the most accepting and non-discriminating industries : If you can write , you’re golden . I mean , as a straight , white , fortysomething woman I’ve written articles for minority college grads , gay men , moms well before I became one myself and kids . As long as I had good ideas and could write them up in a compelling way , no one cared
You walked into the emergency room. This simply couldn't be happening. Just a few hours ago you were playing cards with your friend, listening to your favorite song on the radio—the song that defined your friendship. But now, as you make your way to the nurses' station, that song was playing again. Only this time, it felt different. Read more
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten shares his thoughts on writing, reporting and how, exactly, to capture the meaning of life Read more
In learning how to end your novel with a punch, it's important to know what you can and can't do to write success novel endings that attract agents, publishers and, most important, readers. Here are the dos and don'ts of writing a strong closer. Read more
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
The Renegade Writer About Us Free Query Packet E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments How to Get the Most Out of an Interview Are you a nervous interviewer If so , when you have a source on the phone , chances are you rattle off your list of questions shotgun-style and then hang up the phone with . relief While it’s important to work from a list , when you stick to it too closely , you’re missing out on some potentially great quotes and . information I always advise writers to make a list of interview questions just to keep them on track and make sure they get their most important questions answered , but then be open to what the source says and ask additional questions where . needed For example , I recently
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , March 25, 2012 April A to Z one week remaining There's only one week to go before the April A to Z challenge and I am delighted to say that I have tons of great interviews to post in April . It will be a jam packed month where I have more than one post on some days . At the time of writing , there are also over 1200 other blogs that are taking part in the challenge so we really are spoilt for choice . Take a look at my post list and the other blogs joining in Maybe you may want to join in yourself . I'm really looking forward to it . I hope you enjoy it as much as I will . Amateurs interviews with amateurs from here Blogs interview with Coopdevil Choice of
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , March 25, 2012 0 level' rules for Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 Before the blog post , I'd just like to announce that I've released a Lone Tiger Review it is Stormin' Sonic by Jonathan Green and Marc Gascoigne . Take a look at that after reading this post . I've just been introduced to Dungeon Crawl Classics from this blog and I loved their idea of character creation each player starts off with 2-4 0 level characters and sends them on a mission that gets most of them killed . nbsp And so this appealed to my nature of fiddling with game systems . I ws thinking about how this could be applied to AFF2 fiddling with AFF has been done before You can still choose
One of the challenges with wikis (or at least with Mediawiki) is figuring out how to title pages that all belong to the same product or group. I spent a bit of time researching best practices with this and didn’t come up with a clear answer. I tried to also figure out why I’d never come across this page titling conundrum before. Here’s the problem. ... more »
The Renegade Writer About Us Free Query Packet E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments The Special List That Will Boost Your Confidence and Productivity I have my mentoring clients fill out a form for each session . Many clients tell me that what they love most about the form is answering the question , What did you accomplish in the last week Why Because many days we feel like did nothing but spin our wheels , but when we write a list of what we got done , it’s always more than we think . Nothing boosts your confidence more than feeling productive I was talking about this with a client today and she came up with the idea of a daily What I Got Done” list . Instead of simply crossing things off your to-do list as you
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
The following is a guest post by Mick Davidson, a technical writer with 20 years of professional writing experience. Before I get started I’d like to thank Tom for giving me this opportunity to bang on about why I think wikis are the future for technical documentation. Like many writers, up to a few years ago I was plodding around using backwoods technology, stuck with ... more »
: The Renegade Writer About Us Free Query Packet E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments New Free Teleclass for Writers : Becoming a Confident Freelance Writer A March 2012 teleclass has been scheduled Becoming a Confident Freelance Writer , taught by Diana Burrell and Linda Formichelli : Date Friday , March 30, 2011 at 12-1 pm ET Note that this is East Coast time please check for the correct time in your time zone . : Topic Building Your Confidence as a Writer Are you afraid to get your work out there Does rejection send you into a tailspin Do you sometimes despair that you’ll never make it as a freelance writer Lack of confidence is something that holds many talented freelancers back . In this confidence-boosting
: The Renegade Writer About Us Free Query Packet E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments Renegade Writer Contest : Win 3 Mentoring Sessions with Linda Formichelli My next Write for Magazines e-course starts on Monday , April 9 and I’m running a contest to boost signups while giving a big Thank You to my students First , the details : Write for Magazines is an 8-week e-course that’s helped students break into magazines like Spirituality Health , Woman’s Day , Pizza Today , Washington Parent , Flight Journal , Black Health , and more . The Premium version with 8 weeks of e-mail support costs 240 meaning for just 30 per week I’ll answer your course questions and critique your assignments . And the Basic version of the
: : . Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , March 18, 2012 Before paragraph 1 : Choices you might have to make before your adventure . Bob wanted a more realistic skill score for Crypt of the . Sorcerer Your adventure begins on paragraph 1. That is when you are thrust into the dangerous world to face many trials and tribulations . However , in some gamebooks , your success or failure may have already been determined . And that is because you may have been making choices about your character in the rules section of the book . Most writing on gamebooks focuses on the story itself and how the rules interact with that story . What you have to do to roll up' a character is usually relegated to a
The following is a guest post by Akshay Bardia, a technical writer in Mumbai, India. Technical communicators work odd hours of the day as we cater to clients in different parts of the world. So, you could find yourself yawning on the Tokyo shift, worrying about the traffic on the way back in the normal shift, or dozing off during the West coast shift. If ... more »
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Wednesday , March 14, 2012 The April A to Z is going to be a gamebook bonanza I want Robin Hood and minotaurs and Napoleon and Dwarves and giant lego bricks and EVIL and cowboys and knights and space ships and tanks and ogres the SUPREME BEING and Sean Connery . Next week we'll do some really crazy . stuff Stoked is not a word I would have considered using to describe my self about blogging , but I would definitely use it to describe how I feel about this year's A to Z challenge Why Quite simply , I got carried away . In a good way , really . My theme was the A to Z of why gamebooks are great and I was going to write a few articles and include a few interviews . Then
The following is a guest post by Lopa Mishra, a technical writer in Mumbai, India. At a college reunion party recently, someone asked me what job I’m pursuing. On replying that I’m a writer, a friend jumped in to clarify that I’m a “technical” writer. My friend considers that technical writing has nothing to do with creativity, contrary to “plain” writing which is a highly ... more »
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , March 11, 2012 New Tunnels and Trolls solo Good news everybody I have released another Tunnels and Trolls solo Khazan City Chaos I wrote this book from the central idea of trying to get your character to spend lose as much money as possible . This short 56 paragraph solo involves you pursuing some bandits to Khazan City in order to recover some royal treasure that you have stolen . Unlike a lot of gamebooks , you start this solo with loads of equipment and shed loads of cash . As well as the mission , you have plenty of opportunities to spend your money on magic , equipment , training or just the finer things in life . Of course , you don't need pot loads of
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your