The end of the year is upon us. This is the time of the year where we sit back and review the year that has past, and evaluate what has occured. What we have done in our own lives. As well as what has happened in the world around us. 2001 is a year where much has happened. Much has changed to make us see the world in a different light. Many many lives have been lost. Many before there time. We in the America can no longer feel safe in our own homes for fear of having something happen. Much has changed.
What has occured in your own life? With those that you know? With your work? With your writing? Now is the where you evaluate all these things. I will focus on your writing in this article. Sit down at your desk, and look back through what you have written. Read through them. Think back to what motivated you to write that piece. Look through them and see which can be fine-tined and made better. See which of them you have sold to markets for publications. What was different about these pieces that made them purchaseable by a market? Make notes. Perhaps you might want to go in this direction for future works. Every writer has niche. Some type of writing they are good at. If there are many bought pieces of the a similar type this might lead you to your niche. Try and focus on this. In next week's article, I will discuss looking forward to the year 2002. what can you do to get ready for it?
To all of my readers that celebrate Christmas this week, my family and I would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. May Santa bring you all that you wish for.
This week's market and contest of the week are:
Market of the Week
Editor: Cathleen Jordan
Website: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Address: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Cathleen Jordan 475 Park Ave South, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016
What do they publish: Stories up to 14,000. Fiction with ghosts, futuristic theme or suspense must contain a crime or the suggestion of one.
Payment: Pays 7c a word on acceptance
Contest of the Week
Sixth Annual Poetry Broadside Competition
Website: Contest Guidelines
Entry fee: $5
Prizes: $150 and the press produces a finely designed, limited edition, letterpress printed broadside of the winning poem.
What has occured in your own life? With those that you know? With your work? With your writing? Now is the where you evaluate all these things. I will focus on your writing in this article. Sit down at your desk, and look back through what you have written. Read through them. Think back to what motivated you to write that piece. Look through them and see which can be fine-tined and made better. See which of them you have sold to markets for publications. What was different about these pieces that made them purchaseable by a market? Make notes. Perhaps you might want to go in this direction for future works. Every writer has niche. Some type of writing they are good at. If there are many bought pieces of the a similar type this might lead you to your niche. Try and focus on this. In next week's article, I will discuss looking forward to the year 2002. what can you do to get ready for it?
To all of my readers that celebrate Christmas this week, my family and I would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. May Santa bring you all that you wish for.
This week's market and contest of the week are:
Market of the Week
Editor: Cathleen Jordan
Website: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Address: Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Cathleen Jordan 475 Park Ave South, 11th Floor New York, NY 10016
What do they publish: Stories up to 14,000. Fiction with ghosts, futuristic theme or suspense must contain a crime or the suggestion of one.
Payment: Pays 7c a word on acceptance
Contest of the Week
Sixth Annual Poetry Broadside Competition
Website: Contest Guidelines
Entry fee: $5
Prizes: $150 and the press produces a finely designed, limited edition, letterpress printed broadside of the winning poem.
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