Want to make it as a writer? You'll need help. But
how can you get linked into all the helpful resources available to writers?
Below are some of the many resources available.
In this package from well-known editor, writer, and
agent, W. Terry Whalin, you'll get an amazing amount of recourses and
information! Click here to check out this huge amount of helpful writing
resources! Proposal Secrets
More than 90% of nonfiction books are sold through a book proposal and sample chapters. One of the best tools I've discovered to answer the most common questions about proposal creation and the publishing process is an Ecourse from Terry Whalin called Proposal Secrets. Just click this linkto learn more of the details: http://www.webmarketingmagic.com/app/?Clk=2260407
Exciting news! W. Terry Whalin's book: Book Proposals
that $ell: 21 Secrets to Speed Your Success is now available as an e-book!
No more ordering the book then waiting for it to arrive--get it right now!
Plus, the electronic edition includes more features and four bonus e-books.
For more information and to order, click here:
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Here's an "Amazon Short" on
writing query letters. Normally Amazon Shorts cost 49 cents, and you
download them electronically. I haven't read this one, but I
know Noah Lukeman's reputation and he is highly regarded in the writing
community. This should be very good. And the price is
sure right! Check this out:
Here's an e-book about writing e-books!
I haven't read this one so I can't give a recommendation, but it looks like
a good one: How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook...in as Little
as 7 Days by Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale Click Here!
Novelist Randy Ingermanson has
recently produced his fiction writing courses called Fiction 101 and
Fiction 201. These are available as e-books or with audio. I
have Randy's Fiction 101 and while I have not read it all, what I have
read is very close to the course I sat in on that Randy taught at the 2005
Colorado Christian Writers Conference. It is very good and helpful.
Randy says he plans to produce Fiction 301 and 401 in the future.
For more information, or to order Randy's courses, click here:
Click
here to see Randy Ingermanson's fiction courses!
American Christian Fiction Writers
offers membership and an annual conference. Find them at
www.acfw.com.
November is "National Novel Writing
Month"! Ready to take the challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in one
month? For details, visit
www.NaNoWriMo.org.
For aspiring novelists, check
out Randy Ingermanson's site at
http://www.rsingermanson.com/. For plotting help, he's especially
well known for his "Snowflake" method--find it on his site. If you're
thinking you might have to be a rocket scientist to plot a great novel, you
may be right. Randy really is a rocket scientist (physicist)!
He also has a fiction-writing e-mailed newsletter so be sure to sign up for
that. Here's a sample of his writing...just a couple of his novels.
W. Terry Whalin has a huge web
site with oodles of information for writers. He has written a whole
bunch of books and has worked as an editor, most recently as fiction
acquisition editor for Howard Books. He is the author of Book
Proposals that $ell, a book I highly recommend if you're writing a
non-fiction book. Find his web site at
www.right-writing.com .
Notice that he has a search function on his site, so you can search for
information on the topic you're especially interested in (for example, search
"book proposals"). Mr. Whalin also has an e-mailed newsletter for
writers that you can sign up for and a blog you can check out.
Terry Whalin also graciously provides the "Writing Tip of the Day" you see on
my home page. Thanks, Terry!
I enjoy the free
bimonthly
e-magazine for Christian writers. It includes articles on writing and links.
www.SpiritLedWriter.com
Marlene Bagnull, Directorof the Colorado and
Philadelphia Christian Writers Conferences. Offers conferences,
seminars, classes, and links.
www.WriteHisAnswer.com
Writer's
Digest magazine. I highly
recommend this magazine for every writer.
Christian Communicator
Christian Writers’ Institute, P.O. Box 110390, Nashville, TN 37222-0390. 20-page
monthly magazine. Subscription: $25/year. 1-800-21-WRITE
Advanced Christian Writer
Eight page newsletter for
published book authors, Christian Writers’ Institute, P.O. Box
110390, Nashville, TN 37222-0390. Subscription: $19/year. 1-800-21-WRITE
The Writer
Kalmbach Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612 1-800-533-6644
I highly recommend this magazine for every writer.
(Link
currently unavailable.)
Cross & Quill
Christian Writers Fellowship International, 1624 Jefferson Davis Road,
Clinton, SC 29325-6401 1-864-697-6035
www.cwfi-online.org
Pen & Sword
A free newsletter from The Amy Foundation, P.O. Box 16091, Lansing, MI 48901 1-517-323-6233
www.amyfound.org
When you have one or more pieces ready to
submit for publication, you will need a market guide.
Christian Writer’s Market
Guide. A must-have for
anyone writing for Christian markets. The Writer's Market has
only a handful of Christian publishers compared to this volume. Updated
annually. I highly recommend this book.
Writer’s Market
by Writer’s Digest Books, 1507 Dana Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45207
www.writersmarket.com
For
instruction in screenwriting, check out the Act One Writing for Hollywood
program at www.ActOneProgram.com.
The book billed as "Act One: The Book." If you want to make a difference
in Hollywood--whether as a writer, or simply as a Christian, you need to read
this book.
This competition may have
been discontinued: Faith and Values Screenwriting Competition sponsored by Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers
Conference, LifeWay Ridgecrest Conference Center. P.O. Box 128,
Ridgecrest, North Carolina, 28770. (828)669-8022.
www.lifeway.com/christianwriters. Additional information:
Ambassador Communications Inc., the home of Christian screenwriting and the
Christian Screenwriters' Newsletter, invites you to enter the 1st Annual Faith
and Values Screenwriting Competition, honoring the best in faith-based TV Series
Pilots and Feature Length Screenplays. The winners will receive cash and sponsor
prizes, and will be considered for representation by WGA agent TERRY PORTER of
AGAPE PRODUCTIONS. In addition, the winning scripts will be read by FOX
FAITH, JENKINS ENTERTAINMENT, NUMENOREAN FILMS, REVOLUTION MEDIA, DISTILLERY
PICTURES, PURE FLIX ENTERTAINMENT, DUSTSTORM PRODUCTIONS, L.A. PICTURES, and
SAYLORS BROS. ENTERTAINMENT. To enter the contest, please log on to
http://www.ambassadorcommunications.biz/faithandvalues.html or email
info@ambassadorcommunications.biz or call 204-292-4095. The deadline for
entries is January 15, 2007.
The folks at National Novel Writing
Month now offer "Script Frenzy" writing month in April! Write 100
pages of script in 30 days. Details at
www.ScriptFrenzy.org.
Robert McKee's Story Seminar.
He's gruff. But he's knows his stuff. His seminar gets down to the
nitty gritty of how to build a story. Take his seminar, or read his book,
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting.
I felt his seminar was pretty much his book performed live. (I attended in
Las Vegas, December 2005.) If you take the seminar, I'd highly recommend
you read the book first--I got far more out of the seminar because I had read
it. Find information on the seminar at
www.MckeeStory.com. Robert McKee is well-known in Hollywood and his
seminar is considered the premier training for screenwriters. Great for
novelists, too.
Here's the book:
At Robert McKee's Story Seminar, I purchased
the software program they recommended for writing screenplays: Final
Draft: Just add words.
Looking for a program to help you build your web site? I use
Front Page and
I can highly recommend it.
I
register my Domain Name and get web site hosting through GoDaddy.
Their prices are competitive and their service and products excellent.
I can highly recommend them.
I don't know a lot about this company, but I
believe it would be a good one to check out for your web site needs:
I love the free tools I can add to my web site offered by Bravenet. Add
a bit of humor to your site with thier daily cartoon or a touch of history with
their "This Day in History." Add a hits counter or any number of other
free items. Just remember they're always trying to sell you something, so
make sure you get the free one (or the one you want).
This is the same company I use to send my
Dianne E. Butts About Writing E-zine
and my Butts About It.com E-zine (
www.ButtsAboutIt.com ). Check them
out here:
Many of you ask about agents and how to tell if an agent is
reputable. Here are some sites with good information about agents as well
as information on particular agents. I highly recommend you check out any
prospective agent before you sign on with him or her. These sites should
help you do that:
Novelist Randy Ingermanson's Mad
Genius Writer e-zine and his web site, both of which he started in January
2007, have been re-combined with his Advanced Fiction Writing e-zine and
web site where they were previously to January 2007.
www.advancedfictionwriting.com His marketing e-zines were
archived when they were published as Mad Genious Writer E-zine, but I
haven't been able to located them on his Advanced Fiction Writing site.
(If you find them, please let me know where they are.) I found them
extremely worthwhile. Sign up for his free Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine
to receive his marketing column included with that. Randy is also blogging
at
www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/index.php
The Christian Writer's Guild offers
mentoring through a two-year writing course and the annual "Writing for the
Soul" conference in February in Colorado Springs.
www.christianwritersguild.com
November 15th is national "I Love to
Write Day." For more information go to
www.ILoveToWriteDay.org.
Christian Writers Fellowship
International, 1624 Jefferson Davis Road, Clinton, SC 29325-6401 1-864-697-6035
Amy Foundation, P.O. Box 16091,
Lansing, MI 48901 1-517-323-6233
www.amyfound.org Encourages "Church Writing Groups" and hosts
contests with large cash prizes for published pieces.
An organization for
women writers interested in writing on western topics, both fiction and
non-fiction, is "Women Writing the West." See the Resources page or
their web site for more information on their annual conference in October in
Colorado Springs.
http://womenwritingthewest.org/
Many conferences offer tapes of workshops presented at
conferences. Contact the conference director and request tape lists and prices.
Colorado Christian Writer’s
Conference – Contact Marlene Bagnull, 316 Blanchard Road, Drexel Hill, PA 19026
1-610-626-6833 mbagnull@aol.com Besides conference tapes, Marlene has her own
teaching tapes.
The Christian Communicator
/ American Christian Writers, P.O. Box 110390, Nashville, TN 37222-0390.
1-800-21-WRITE
My
own "Writing for Publication" tapes.
Includes all the basics on three 90-minute
audio tapes plus handouts booklet. $24.99 + $3.00 S & H. (CO residents add
2.9% tax.) Send orders with check to Dianne Butts at P.O.
Box 901, Limon, CO 80828
dbwrites@juno.com
www.DianneEButts.com
The Christian Writer's Guild
offers mentoring through a two-year writing course and the annual "Writing for
the Soul" conference in February in Colorado Springs.
www.christianwritersguild.com
From
the trusted folks at
Writer's Digest
magazine.
At-Home Writing Workshops,
Marlene Bagnull, 316 Blanchard Road, Drexel Hill, PA 19026 1-610-626-6833
mbagnull@aol.com Fiction and non-fiction courses offered.
American School of Christian
Writing, P.O. Box 110390, Nashville, TN 37222-0390 1-800-21-WRITE
Christian Leaders, Authors &
Speaker Services (CLASS) offers training and an annual conference in October
in Glorieta, New Mexico.
www.classervices.com Directed by Florence and Marita Littauer.
Should I Become a Writer?
How Can I Decide? 10 pages
The Basics for Beginners:
How to Find Markets, Submit Your Manuscripts, and Keep Track of it All
8 pages
How Do I “Show, Don’t Tell”?
8 pages
Conquering the Dreaded Query
Letter: How to Write Query and Cover Letters
12 pages
How to Market Your Reprints
12 pages
Pamphlets
are 8 ˝ x 11. $3.95 ea + $1 S&H (.50 ea add’l). (CO residents please add
2.9% tax.)
“Writing for Publication”
Seminar. Presented by Dianne,
includes all the basics on three 90-minute audio tapes plus handouts booklet.
$24.99 + $3.00 S & H. (CO residents add 2.9% tax.)
Send order with payment to
Dianne E. Butts, P.O. Box 8784, Pueblo, CO
81008
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Hermitages--self contained, air-conditioned hermitages for work on your
manuscript or just take creative time for yourself. Available any length of
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