Published? Or Not?

Poem/article on a blog, website or online journal? What about church bulletins, little-circulation newsletters or your own website?

Consider it published.

Read a good post here on this familiar quandary.

5 good places to find new work

1. Write this moment.com job board
2. Funds for writers newsletters
3. Worldwide freelance newsletter
4. Other freelance writers blogs :)
5. Writer Gazette newsletter

Looking for Volunteers

I'm writing an article on volunteering and would love to hear from anybody who has registered on an online volunteering site or has volunteered for an NGO in India.

Email me if you can help. Many thanks.

Examples of online volunteering sites would be this and this.

All talk, no write

While family pays me a visit this week, I've put aside my notebook, shifted the laptop elsewhere and turned the study into a bedroom. Ideas for articles and poems are hastily scribbled onto scraps of envelopes (can't find the notebook!) or relegated to 'I'll surely remember this later'.

The words still tumble out. With every postponement of a scribble, the withdrawal symptoms grow.

I read. I check the NW forum religiously. A stolen moment for an occasional post makes me feel I'm still writing.

I feel a little better.

And then I end up with a really bad cold - the worst I've had in three years. Giving up writing is apparently bad for my health.

A thought for today

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx

5 unusual places for article ideas

A new article is out in the Writing-World newsletter of June 2007.

Freebies for writers

E-books

• Newbie Writers Resource book (free e-book when you subscribe to the Newbie Writers newsletter)
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• The Lousy Writer's Guide to writing persuasively by Janice Jacobs
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• The Inspired Query - How to grab an editors wandering attention by Valentina Rae
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Planners and Calendars

• Writers Calendar - Organised writer.com
  
  
  
  (If you have any more to add to the list, please let me know.)

Free E-books - for June 2007 only

Erika Dreifus (of Practicing Writer fame) is retiring four of her ebooks at the end of June 2007. The books, in the meantime, are available to download, free of charge from Lulu.com.

Take advantage of this offer and save a copy of those books today. Having ready-made listings makes your life much simpler. All you have to do is verify them when you have a chance :)

You'll find all four e-books here.

1) WRITERS' MARKETS: Where To Sell What You Write When You Write About Writing
2) The Practicing Writer's Literary Contest Directory for Writers of Book-Length Fiction
3) The Practicing Writer's Directory of Paying Poetry Markets
4) The Practicing Writer's Directory of Paying Short Story Markets