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ARTICLES FOR STORYTELLERS |
Have You Developed
Your Unique STYLE as a Storyteller?
I know that in previous
articles I have urged
you to try some
storytelling techniques
that take you out of
your comfort zone. I
have even suggested
being somewhat
"outrageous." That is
all well and good, but
in this article I am
going to examine the
other side of the coin.
What do I mean? I mean
that we all have a STYLE
that is ours - who we
are uniquely. What I am
suggesting is to
continue to work on
those storytelling
skills that need
improvement, but all the
while being true to our
own self as a teller and
to our unique qualities.
To read more,
please click here ...
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The Irony of Patterns - interview with Charles Bonasera
Excerpts ...
Charles: As a psychotherapist
back in the Buffalo area, I began to focus not just on the problems that
people brought to me for help in resolving them but also on the life
patterns
that they developed as a result of those patterns. In fact, I just today
finished writing my newest book, “How in the Hell Did This Happen to
Me?”
which describes many of the patterns that people move into to compensate
for their difficulties. Most of the patterns were developed during
childhood and learned from parental figures and may have worked well.
Some of the patterns are healthy and useful to this day but others have
become unhealthy and no longer useful. My job, both in the book and as a
Consultant is to help people identify and change those patterns.
To read more,
please
click here ...
Encyclopaedic Storyteller - interview with Richard
Johnson
Excerpts ...
Richard: Well
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone
can edit and contribute to. The main philosophy is that information should be
freely available to all people. When I was young my parents spent a lot of money
on buying the Encyclopedia Britannica, an encyclopedia consisting of 24
expensive printed volumes. As a child, I learned a lot from them, but they were
written in fairly high-level language and were sometimes a little too difficult
to understand. The internet has changed the way study and learning occurs. Many
of us with the advent of the Internet, have expanded our knowledge of the world
with up to date fresh information. Wikipedia achieves this and it is all for
free! I believe that information presented as short encyclopedic articles and
delivered truthfully and without bias is a great educational method.
To read more,
please
click here ...
Money Streams - interview with C. Hope Clark
Excerpts ...
Hope: I started the newsletter first when the emails became too many to
answer. My previous life in the federal government was centered around finance,
grants and loans. So when I spoke to a group of writers in Atlanta about how to
write for the internet in 1999, the conversation somehow gravitated on how to
make a living, grants and other money issues. After the meeting, people started
emailing me. The newsletter started to cut down on duplicate emails (and allow
me to write). In two months, I had 1,000 members. Took me a week to design my
first web site and it loaded slowly (everything was dialup in 1999-2000 when I
started). I’ve since learned from trial and error how to prepare a web site. But
all I wanted to do was show people where grants were and educate them on how to
write without tunnel vision. People need to learn about the many money streams
there are in writing – grants, contests, publishers, jobs and freelance gigs.
Don’t put your eggs in one basket, so to speak. Some fans nominated me to
Writer’s Digest when their contest was new. I was surprised to learn I had made
the list! Now each year, FFW has seemed to have maintained that position, and
I’m tickled to death about it.
To read more,
please
click here ...
If you would like to be interviewed for this
column, please send an email to
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 Can
I help you? (1)
Excerpts ...
Can I help you?
Yes, you can, is your reply. Your eagerness to get my help would definitely
depend on your condition at that moment, and the extent of desperation which
is driven by the intensity of your problem.
We all need help
at some time. How soon that that help comes depends on your need and the
preparedness of the person offering help to provide solutions.
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God’s a Good Bloke.
Excerpts ...
“There is a problem here,” declared John, “Some people believe in a
benign God, one who, by giving us free will has to leave us to our fate.
In their world, all is at any given moment as it should be. Clearly that
is not the case.”
“Well,” shouted David indignantly, “Is God vengeful, angry and almost
despotic, ruling over us with a rod of iron?”
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PAYING MARKETS FOR STORYTELLERS |
 Paying
markets for the Story teller in the Asia Pacific
Region and Europe
Excerpts ...
The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly
accepts freelance articles and short stories. Submit full submission and
include a SSAE. Submit by hard copy, email or disk, but
check
format before sending. The minimum word length is 500 but this would
most likely pertain to small articles. Copyright remains with the author
but they hold NZ publishing rights. The average response time is 2 -3
weeks and payment is made on invoice. This
magazine has a circulation of over 105,000 weekly.
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please click here ...
Writing
Markets Column - USA - Science Fiction
Excerpts
Have you ever considered writing science fiction? Some people think of science
fiction as being too niche oriented, too narrowly focused on fans of the genre.
However, for writers wishing to hone their skills, science fiction can be an
excellent staging ground.
Because science fiction is far removed from day-to-day reality, you may find
yourself approaching your writing differently, and, in the end, surprise
yourself with the work that you produce.
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please click here ...
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 Piece
of Gold
Once there was a holy man who sat with his begging
bowl in hand at the entrance to a village. A peasant traveling down the
road into the village stopped to stare at the beggar. “Aren’t you tired
of being poor?” the peasant asked the holy man.
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please click here ...
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STORYTELLER'S NUTS AND BOLTS |
 A
Quick Start to Grammar Basics
Grammar is a part of writing that can intimidate many people, but becoming
familiar with a few simple grammar rules can help tremendously as you learn to
become a better writer. Here is a quick start to a few grammar basics
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please click here.
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Gemini's Child
Excerpts ...
Two of my all-time
favorite singer/songwriters are Gemini. My sister has Gemini twin
daughters. One of my son’s best friends is a Gemini. I have known a
few others through friends of friends and such too. There is one common
thread woven between all of them that I have never seen discussed in the books
that define the different zodiac signs. All of the Gemini people I have
ever known are hungry. Yes, they are verbally skilled and often love
music, but there is an underlying hunger in each of them. It is as if they
are searching for something, some missing piece of their life.
To read more,
please
click here ...
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Ibu Maluku: The Story of Jeanne van Diejen
... Many books about the East
are centred around the countries where either the British or French were
colonial rulers – India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, to name a few. It is rare to read
a story that is based in an Asian country where the Dutch were colonial rulers.
So, I was intrigued by this book the moment I laid eyes on it. The cover image,
The Bay of Ternate by Antoine Payen, gives that visual impression of what it
must have been like when Jeanne first arrived in Ternate.
To read more,
please click here
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With two
self-published novels under his belt (one of which was shortlisted for
the Portico Literary Prize) Bill Keeth recently self-published
Write It Self-Publish It Sell It ISBN 978 0 9558863 0 0 in response to other
writers’ enquiries as to what exactly is entailed in taking the
self-publishing route.
In this robustly written testament to his
achievement, the author encourages the reader to avoid the pitfalls and
emulate his personal success, relating, often in humorous fashion, how
he himself wrote, self-published and marketed his books (2,000 copies
and counting!) via book launches, booksignings and presentations, in
addition to placing them with the major bookstores and public libraries
‘Truly informative’ Billy Hopkins, best-selling
author of Our Kid.
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