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IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHERE THE LATEST WAPA IS THEN PLEASE BE PATIENT. ALL SUBSCRIBERS WILL BE CONTACTED SOON CONCERNING SOME BIG CHANGES. - ED.
Apologies
Being hit with technical difficulties this week (most
notably my phone line being down for 3 days), added to
a super-busy schedule, has resulted in the WAPA going out
today (25th August), 3 days late!
My apologies.
It's a rather short issue, but I think that's good once in
a while ;)
I would *really* appreciate contributors to the WAPA.
Take a look through this issue and look at the contents.
Could you offer anything? It doesn't matter if it's small!
I'll allow you a resource line too, and remember that
the WAPA not only goes out to 1300 subscribers but it also
goes out to writers and publishers who have ezines of at
*least* the same size.
VISUAL ARTISTS
This issue I'm making another request for visual artists
again. We need more! If you illustrate, take photographs,
or are into graphic design then send some samples in!
We need your work for calendars, posters, prints, books,
post cards, and greeting cards.
Submission guidelines at:
http://www.writers-and-publishers.com/info.html
Thank you.
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MANUSCRIPTS PLEASE!
If you have a completed manuscript for a book of a
mainstream nature then send it in and we'll review it! All
manuscripts will be read though cannot be returned. Do not
submit without first reading the rules for doing so!
rules: http://www.writers-and-publishers.com/info.html
email: mailto:publish@writers-and-publishers.com
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CRITIQUE CONTEST #2
"Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling
Your Work" by Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman & Michael
Larsen...
Take a peek inside the cover of this contest's prize:
(Just click"look inside" on the cover)
"This book teaches the marketing tools every writer needs
to know today." (John Gray, author of "Men Are From Mars,
Women Are From Venus")
Details in Contest Corner section of this issue!
Enjoy the rest of this issue,
To Your Online Writing Success!
Darren Andrews, Editor.
Publish or Epublish?
Many writers are confused about which is the best route
to publish. Of course, the answer is "it depends" ;)
The general rule of thumb is aim for the traditional
route first, the e-route second. Bob McElwain in the
featured article in the last issue touched upon the
reasons for this.
In this issue I've found an article and interview
by Claire E. White in which she talks to the very
successful Angela Adair-Hoy and M.J. Rose.
You can view the article and all the wonderful
resources at:
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/apr01/hoy_rose.htm
I am sure this will answer some questions for you,
Darren Andrews.
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Inspiration, Tips and Exercises to Help You Write Well
"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip
emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the
butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is
forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is
where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the
changes of his mind on the hop."
~ Vita Sackville-West.
Source: http://www.quotegarden.com/writing.html
(+) Writing Tip
Order of Adjectives
In English, we use adjectives to give more information
about nouns and pronouns, but you can't just use them
willy-nilly. There's a special order that we're accustomed
to hearing and if you upset that order, you run the risk of
distracting your reader from your content.
The order is: Determiner, Observation, Size, Shape, Age,
Colour, Origin, Material, Qualifier ... so you'd write
about those amazing little square antique black English
wooden book stands.
Contributor: Jennifer Stewart. Subscribe to her free weekly Writing Tips:
or start your
six-part Writing Course now.
(+) Writing Exercise We need your submissions! ;) (+) Wordhoard welkin - sky. Comes from the Old English wolcnu ('clouds'). Remember, you should always try to use the Wordhoard word in your conversation or writing before the next issue comes out in two weeks' time! ;) Please send all Wordcraft contributions here. (do not send attachments or large html emails - they will not be downloaded!) YOUR ARTICLES!
Read the latest articles at: If you want to submit an article, a word of warning: I reject most and give no explanation. Of course, most of them are non-writing-related marketing articles which I clearly state as being inappropriate on the submission page. For the rules and the form to submit your article, go here: http://www.writers-and-publishers.com/submit.html If - and I highly recommend it - you want to earn revenue from the writing course advertised at the bottom of your article page then sign up (free) to do so here: ---------TIP
CONTEST CORNER(+) Critique Contest #2 Top BEST-SELLING BOOK ON OFFER! (see end of this section) AUGUST CONTEST The reader who best critiques the sample below will win the prize. If you want to submit your own sample for a future contest then here are the rules:
Now the rules for the Contest... Make your critique as long or short as you will. Try to be as complete as possible in your critiques: consider the overall 'feel' of the piece as well as the finer critical points. Provide a balanced critique! Make your critiques more than just an edit. When submitting a critique you should end with your name, email address and/or link that you wish to be published under should you win! Your name/link will be mentioned in the WAPA if you win! Critiques must be in by 4th September 2003. Here's the Sample:
A cool breeze lightly brushed her cheek as they rode along.
In the distance gulls in graceful flight cried out their
lonesome call, and for a moment, she was lost in the
serenity of it all.
They made their way down the narrow, very rough roadway,
climbing with the switchbacks to a ridgetop that crested a
thousand feet above the sea. She was in awe of the great
expanse before her. It was rugged, windblown and fogdamp.
They rollarcoasted from timbered gulch to craggy headlands
and wheeled along the brink of knife-edged cliffs where
Pacific waves exploded with thunderous eruptions of surf
and spray. The truck jerked and swayed back and forth as
they made their way along the steep hill towards the ranch
house. She could barely see the rooftop of the house
nestled in a grove of trees to the right of the roadway.
Her mind wandered back to Bayberry where she grew up. Why
had things turned out so badly? She could still remember
the sorrow in her mother’s voice and the emptiness in her
father’s eyes.
THE PRIZE "Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work" by Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman and Michael Larsen... The winner will receive a print copy delivered to their doorstep! This book has sold over 1 million copies and I have a copy myself!
See the book at Amazon: MARKET WATCHTools, Resources, Services, Products and Opportunities to Help You in Writing, Publishing, Promoting, and in Generating Revenue and Traffic... (+) Google Adsense Google is a search engine and is now generally accepted as just about the best out there (knocking Overture off the number one position according to many Internet marketers). Now it's just launched a new program called Adsense. What is it? Well, basically you allow your site to display the AdWords (the green boxed ads to the right of the screen when you look at Google search results) of their advertisers and they'll pay you according to how many people click on those ads. Some believe this revenue model could be the beginning of the demise of affiliate programs! I don't know about that, but it is very simple to put in place and that will attract a lot of users. You join Google (free) and then just insert a piece of code into your site and you're done! They deal with everything else. I'm testing it in the WAPA. I hate unrelated ads, so this will be my bugbear. If it can be overcome then I might keep them and see how they perform! Find out more here: https://www.google.com/adsense/home If you've got a good traffic site this could be a way to start getting extra revenue in a matter of minutes! (+) Free sample ebook - 30 Days To Internet Marketing Success by Joe Kumar hot! Joe Kumar is 18. He came online just 2 years ago. He has made hundreds of thousands of dollars since his first ebook launched just a few months ago! His ebook is the hottest info product out there right now. Period. What's in it? Well, Joe went to all the top Internet marketing gurus and asked them what they would do if they lost their money, name, list and contacts and had to start from scratch - as if they had just come online for the first time. In his book "30 Days To Internet Marketing Success" Joe has each guru go through the exact steps - day by day - they would take to become successful in 30 days. Get a f re e sample of this ebook (content-limited) at: http://www.writers-and-publishers.com/sample30days.pdf Or go straight to the main site here. (+) New Way To Make and Receive Payments Online StormPay is set to become the new PayPal but with some interesting and welcome differences... (+) Writers' "Value" Link Exchange hot! "The World's only True-Blue, Real Link Exchanger that works!" A powerful PREseller, now your friends, colleagues, visitors, readers, and just about anyone else can find high-value, similarly themed sites, then exchange links to truly increase your link popularity, in a way that then engines love. Visit: http://value-exchange.sitesell.com P.S. If you want to use the value exchange as a way of earning commission on Sitesell products then sign up as an affiliate for free at: http://affiliates.sitesell.com (+) Would You Like To Be In the Top 50 Writing Sites? If you want to be in the "Top 50" then click here now. Or how about being listed on the "Best Writing Sites and Top Writer-Related Sites"? Get listed by clicking here. ANNOUNCEMENTS & REQUESTS(+) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FLOWERS FOR WOMEN is a new anthology that needs true stories that will inspire and move the readers all over the world. The first edition of the book will be in e book format, and the contributors will get a free copy of the book, with their byline and short bio . For guidelines, please visit http://liamet.tripod.com/ebooks There is no deadline so far. (+) Writing Instructors wanted I am in the process of expanding the writing courses offerings at Cacothes-scribendi.com. If you are a writing instructor and would be interested in teaching writing courses via email at CS, please drop me an email: mailto:katrinka2@earthlink.net To see a sample of what is already offered, go to: http://writingcourses.cacoethes-scribendi.com/courses.html How you design your email writing course is up to you. You set the times, fees, length and format. I do not require exclusivity, so if you're free to teach anywhere else. And of course, you own all rights to your courses. I'm looking to expand the course offerings so eventually Cacoethes-Scribendi.com can be a place where anyone who wants to write can find a course that interests him/her. I look forward to hearing from you... Rita Marie Keller, List Owner OnlyWritingArticles,
Cacoethes Scribendi Creative Writing Workshop (+) New Ebooks Published by WAPA Subscribers #1 Writing Basics by Liana Metal Subject: How to get published fast. A mini guide book for new writers, practical and easy. Get it from : http://liamet.tripod.com/ebooks #2 Bedtime Stories by Liana Metal Subject: Children’s stories/fiction/illustrated Six original stories for kids, or for the kid in yourself! Get it from : http://liamet.tripod.com/ebooks (+) Do You Own A Writing-Related Site That Makes $1000 or More Per Month? If so, a new site launching in a few weeks wants to hear from you now! It won't cost you a penny, and will bring you some great exposure! For more information email me and write that you are responding to this announcement.
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