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Call for submissions: The Way of the Wizard PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marie Dees   
Saturday, 13 June 2009 18:17

Prime Books is looking for short stories about wizards, witches, sorcerers or magic users of the literal kind for an upcoming anthology, The Way of the Wizard.  Stories of less than 5000 words are preferred and payment will be 5 cents a word (max. $250) plus a share of royalties.  The submission period begins July 1, 2009 and ends March 31, 2010, so interested writers have plenty of time to work on a story for the anthology.

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Do you post your work on writing sites? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marie Dees   
Thursday, 11 June 2009 11:53

If so, have you found and read their "terms of service."  

Not the helpful FAQs they might have, but the down and dirty TOS in all its legal glory.  One writing site I that was recently recommended to me as a "safe" place to post my work says this:

However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for via the Service, you grant Aresta Enterprise a perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify and publicly display such Content on the Service.

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Indicating thoughts in fiction manuscripts PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marie Dees   
Saturday, 06 June 2009 18:41

I can always tell the fantasy writers on any critique site because they leave me little notes that I need to put the thoughts in my stories in italics. The use of italics to indicate direct thoughts has become popular and is one option available to writers. But it isn't the only correct way to show a character's thoughts. There are actually three options, all equally correct when writing.

 

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