We try to think of everything, but no one’s perfect. Here’s your chance to get the answers you can’t find in our contest guidelines. If you have a question about Whispered Words, post it here. We’ll get you the answers you need. Or contact us at querycontest@wcdr.org. Let’s get you started with a couple of [...]
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22 Sep 11
Something to get you writing
18 Sep 11
Writing prompts. They’re a little tickle, a tease a place to put your pencil tip on the page. From now until November 30, check in regularly for new prompts. Why November 30? That’s the deadline for the Whispered Words prose competition. I’m one of a trio of contest administrators trying to coax out your best [...] A little education is a good thing; a lot is even betterMaking promises you can keep
7 Jan 11
If giving your pen (or keyboard) more exercise was one of your resolutions, buddy up with another writer. I meet weekly with a friend for a couple of hours of dedicated power-writing. Another friend and I share a couple of pages of fresh words by e-mail every week. Whether it’s an appointment for some bum-in-chair [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions
6 Jan 11
‘Tis the season for resolutions. Time for a deep look inside. Time for change. I’ve got a few promises to self. One, a new blog. Another, a finished manuscript. Third, a publisher for said manuscript. And a few of the regulars: improve my fitness, lose a few pounds. For most people, resolutions are merely piecrust [...] O brave new world! That has such people in’t!
13 Oct 10
Blogging. Should be easy for a writer, right? I guess we’ll see. For me, it’s a little like the grand old maps scribed on parchment, penned with a quill and ink. “Beyond here, there be dragons.” For those old cartographers, the blurred edges of the map represented the unknown, the uncharted, the yet-to-be-explored. They imagined [...] |
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