A Guide To Writing

New competition for unpublished novelists. Enter first chapter of novel and the winner will be published on the website for two months. Prizes include GBP 0 for first place. Prize is publication on the website. Deadline for entries is 25th March 2007.

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Rewards writers of any style with cash! ALL entries accepted. NO restrictions! Work of any style and of any length qualify! The more entries, the bigger prize! Winner takes all! Prizes include $0 for first place. Winner Takes All! Deadline for entries is 15th May 2007.

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Monthly poetry competition. Prizes include GBP 0 for first place. Prize is publication on the website. Deadline for entries is 25th March 2007.

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One of the best ways to inform your customers and potential customers about your business is by submitting press releases. The key to getting them published is grabbing the attention of the reporter. Follow the tips listed above and youll ensure your press release stays out of the trash can.

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For poetry manuscripts between 48 and 70 pages long. Prizes include $1,000 for first place. Deadline for entries is 30th April 2007.

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This swashbuckling adventure novel is an example of great creative fiction writing. Can one woman save a country? Can she do it as a lady musketeer and fencer in seventeenth century France, and can she and the musketeers grant a hero’s final wish? Check back often to see the next posting of the book.

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For true stories of divine intervention. Prizes include $100 for first place. $50; $25. Also publication. Deadline for entries is 30th April 2007.

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All types of fiction welcome; no genre or theme restrictions. Designed for new and emerging writers. Writers retain all rights to their work. 3,000 words maximum length. Prizes include $1,000 for first place. $500 second, $500 third. Deadline for entries is 15th May 2007.

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Author: Betty D. Roe, Elinor P. Ross
Hardcover:  672 pages
Company: Allyn & Bacon  (2005-05-06)
ISBN: 0205395104
List Price: $100.00
Amazon Price: $68.00
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What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book.

In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since School House Rock have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. Read If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It and:

Learn how to write better with classic advice from writers such as Mark Twain (“If you catch an adjective, kill it”), Stephen King (“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs”), and Gertrude Stein (“Nouns . . . are completely not interesting”).

Marvel at how a single word can shift from adverb (“I did okay”), to adjective (“It was an okay movie”), to interjection (“Okay!”), to noun (“I gave my okay”), to verb (“Who okayed this?”), depending on its use.

Avoid the pretentious preposition at, a favorite of real estate developers (e.g., “The Shoppes at White Plains”).

Laugh when Yagoda says he “shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days” who insists on maintaining the distinction between shall and will.

Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common senseconvey Yagoda’s unique sense of the “beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language.”

Author: Ben Yagoda
Hardcover:  256 pages
Company: Broadway  (2007-02-13) (2007-02-13)
ISBN: 0767920775
List Price: $21.95
Amazon Price: $12.96
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