Get The Book!

By now, most of you know that AbsoluteWrite is one of my all-time favorite sites for writing. Their forums should be renamed the Freelance Writer University, for the high degree of information, education and wisdom offered by seasoned writers there. If any of you have spent any time at AW, however, you may have noticed a private member's only room for greeting card writers. To gain access to that particular forum, you'll have to purchase the owner's (Jenna) ebook on greeting cards, which you may do here. For a mere $9.95, not only do you get a very helpful book, but you get further insight from actual writers making a living in the greeting card industry once you access the boards. I recently did so and have already received an impressive ebook and have been given a warm reception by all of my new friends on the forum. I highly recommend the book and the forum to all of you seeking to penetrate the industry too.

For those of you who are into writing contests, I got an interesting email from a company called FanStory.com. It appears to be a membership site which runs several contests a month for various prizes. As well, they offer feedback on all of your submissions, which you may find useful. For more information on their contests, fees, etc. you can access their site here.

Hopefully, you've all been keeping up with Michael Stelzner's Blog (Did you know that Michael's website offeres a forum too?) on Writing White Papers. I found some helpful advice on writer's block there a couple of weeks ago. My favorite was the one on setting low standards for yourself and just writing whatever crappy stuff comes to mind...okay, that's not exactly what blogger, Susan Weiner, said, but you get my drift, lol. I've been using this advice lately and have managed to hammer out quite a few pages of really bad writing that I'm proud to say now exist for the rewrite. I actually set my timer for like an hour and just write non-stop before taking a break and it works!

Gotta get back to work now. I've been building a website and writing a book (both regarding women entrepreneurs), which keeps me pretty busy these days. Thanks to everyone for stopping by and have a great weekend!

~BabyBlogger