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Volume 7, Issue 21 - May 27, 2007 ====================================================== FFW SMALL MARKETS FundsforWriters - Ranked one of Writer's Digest's 101...See more » Volume 7, Issue 21 - May 27, 2007 ====================================================== FFW SMALL MARKETS FundsforWriters - Ranked one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Editor: C. Hope Clark Mailto: Hope@FundsforWriters.com FFW Small Markets is an opt-in letter here at your leisure. Unsubscribe instructions are at the end of this letter. FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FRIENDS !!!!! ======================================================= IN THIS ISSUE ======================================================= 1. Editor's Piece of Mind 2. Wise Words to Live By 3. Article of the Week 4. Grants/Awards/Contests 5. Jobs/Markets 6. Ads and Opportunities 7. FundsforWriters Aids 8. Contact FundsforWriters SUBSCRIBE: 94631-subscribe@zinester.com UNSUBSCRIBE: 94631-unsubscribe@zinester.com ARCHIVES: http://archives.zinester.com/94631 ======================================================= 1. EDITOR'S PIECE OF MIND ======================================================= You can read FFW Small Markets online at: http://www.fundsforwriters.com/smallmarkets.htm --- SPONSOR OF THE WEEK: THE YEAR IS HALF OVER- are you where you want to be in your writing? Don’t panic – the glass and the year is still half full! Make your writing dreams sizzle this summer with online writing classes offered by Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell, an award winning professional freelance writer. Her online courses are affordable and offer the personal attention other such programs do not. One-on-one mentoring available. Full description of courses at www.writeforyou.biz or email Kerri at fivecoat@kcnet.com Kerri interviews authors, lists job leads, and gives practical writing advice on her blog for writers at www.kcwrite4u.blogspot.com ===== HOPE'S POOP... Today's one of those days I don't want to fool with writing editorials. You try staring at two to four blank editorial columns per week and see how long it takes for your muse to go on strike. Mine is busy, so I can't say block is a problem. She's up to her fanny in novel edits. One agent wants to read more chapters and another wants to see the entire manuscript. Teeth clenching time. Just when I thought the book was done, I catch myself rereading it, altering a word here and a mood there, second guessing what an agent may want my protagonist to say when the crap hits the wall. So asking my muse to leap from fiction to nonfiction and back again is hard - along the lines of shifting a transmission too fast. Kind of like your six-year old wanting to chat about her finger painting in school in the middle of your movie, just as the heroine is about to learn the hero really loves her. Like your spouse asking you to come into dinner when you are up to your elbows in planting a bush or changing the oil in your car. But you turn to your six-year old and listen to her story. And you wipe your hands and come to dinner. So here I am, Chapter 18 minimized for a while as I come up with profound words of knowledge to make you keep writing. But tell me...shouldn't it be the other way around? It would tickle me if you felt I was the six-year old, interrupting your writing to feed you my newsletter. You are writing your heart out, and in comes my email, asking you to take a moment away from that feature, that short story, a play or a novel you've hacked at for a year. Reading newsletters, emails, chats and forums should feel like a burden to you - drawing you away from the mission...from your writing. Interruptions for your muse who wants to hammer out those words before the inspiration drifts away. How do you feel about your writing? Maybe that's a good test. Would you rather read the email or write? So why aren't you doing more of what you want to do? Hope Clark "Hi Hope, As you see, I just renewed via the 30 dollar/five book package. Here is a list of the books I want...plus my TOTAL Funds renewal, of course. By the way, you really do astonish me - you managed to find a British competition I'd seen nowhere else, including a British service I pay for! All theSee less »