You heard it here first: For the first time in 2009, Writer's Digest is hosting a Valentine's Day writing contest. We're calling it the Red Heart :: Black Heart writing contest, and you can enter for free. Soon we'll have an official page with all the details, but here's the early scoop.
Brandilyn Collins has posted a discussion thread on her blog called Character Arcs -- Part I it will be interesting to follow the comments, too participate in, so I’m posting this link. I’m looking forward to learning through this discussion.
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I belong to this fantastic writer’s group called Sweet Hearts of the Rodeo and the group can be found at Writers University, which I have been a lifelong member since the late 90’s.
This is an intense study group that involves the reading and discussion of short stories as well as articles and books on craft. It is not for beginners. The focus is on literary and mainstream short stories, and the work requires a commitment of many hours a week. Word count is 1,500 to 6,500.