Party Time: The Community Storyboard Is Back!

The Community Storyboard is back and ready for submissions!  Read the guidelines below or click here. ***************************************************************************************************** We’re back!!! After careful consideration and discussions with a panel of experts (we hear voices), we are implementing some not so drastic changes.  In the spirit of keeping this a fair and fun community for everyone, we have…

8 reasons why a Writer should join twitter. On the shortest day of the year a celebration of writing short

Bridget Whelan offers great reasons for why a writer should join Twitter. It’s not just to promote your writing. Perhaps, more importantly, it’s to build community.

BRIDGET WHELAN writer

I know writers and readers who embrace every kind of social media but still can’t stand the thought of twitter. I wrote this two years ago on another blog and I still think it’s true…
1) You exercise your writing and editing skills. It’s hard being pithy and witty in 140 characters
2) You can find out what’s happening in the publishing industry – many (most?) publishing houses, editors, publicists and some agents tweet.
Leading London agent Carole Blake (author of From Pitch to Publication) tweets. Chances are your favourite contemporary author tweets.
3) Feel part of it – I once got tweets from a dinner table at the Booker. It was fun to know what everyone was eating or being too nervous to eat (lamb) and who won before it was on the news.
4) Make contacts and friends
5) Increase your blog readership
6) Promote your writing…

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Writing and Personality: The Introvert Within

I've been thinking a lot about my personality type lately.  I've had the unhappy realization that even in a virtual world, I'm still an introvert.  It may be easier to project myself as an extrovert, as someone who thrives on being with large groups of people, but it ain't the truth about me.  My favorite…

July Camp NaNoWriMo

Hello, my fellow bloggers and blogettes! As many of you know, I am again throwing caution to the wind and entering another Camp NaNoWriMo writing challenge! I did one in April and was successful. That is, I reached my goal of 50 thousand words and actually had a beginning, middle, and end to the novel…

The Liebster Award

I have been honored with another award!  This one--the Liebster Award--comes from Olivia Stocum of The Claymor and Surcoat blog.  As an Irish friend in Latvia would say, "You like me, you really like me!" The rules of this award are simple (but lengthy):  first, thank the person who honored me (Thank you, Olivia!), list…

Unseen Friends

An eloquent tribute to our friends in the ether.

Legends of Windemere

They live close to our heart
Though we have never met
Friends from the ether
Connected by words
Read off the screen

Somehow we found each other
And decided to hang out
Creating bonds of virtual light
That dot the social landscape
Of the world of cyberspace

We share our pains and joys
Console the grieving and the sick
As if the distance is not there
Celebrate victories and milestones
With the sincerity of friendship

A family of the unseen
Is what many have become
Joined in words upon the screen
Which is enough
To forge friendships strong and pure

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It’s never the work of one…

Writings of a Mrs

So very true.

 

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It’s Awards Time!

I have to pinch myself. Sometimes I feel like I'm dreaming. I am a shy, sensitive introvert: someone who doesn't make friends easily, someone who feels more comfortable with furry four-legged critters than people. I'm often inclined to think that people have more reason to not like me, than to like me. That's just part…

Our First Post!

First post on the new Community Storyboard blog run by Ionia Martin and friends. Visit, read, like, submit, and repeat 🙂