I spent five years of my post-high school life hunched in coffee shops with other writers scribbling stories in battered notebooks. Now, years later, there is a place for folks like me.
Run, don't walk, over to Keri Smith's homemade journal creation project, Wreck This Journal--a space for writers to play with their notebooks and find some community-minded folks as well. (Thanks, Jeffrey Yamaguchi)
Want to build a video to promote your book? Novelist Brenda Coulter is offering some down and dirty hints for building movies that will help you find readers for your book. Read "How To Build a Book Trailer" to get started. Heed her warning: "As I have explained to everyone who has asked, this is something that anyone can do, although not everyone will want to do it when they find out how much time and effort is involved." (Thanks, Galleycat)
If you have any time left over after wrecking your notebook and shooting a booktrailer, be sure to write a 500-word memoir--you could win $1,000 for your troubles. SMITH Magazine has the scoop: "For a chance to appear in Opium Magazine and win $1,000, you can enter its 500-word memoir contest. (Opium’s the co-obsession of SMITH’s wonderful World Tour Compatibility Test scribe Elizabeth Koch)."
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