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Got a question? Get an answer.

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 [...]

Something to get you writing

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 better

January is “Teach-Me” month. I’m enrolled in a 5-week creative writing course with Writescape’s Ruth Walker, an 8-week social media course with Sue Sutcliffe of aWEBthatWORKS.com and a 6-week freelance writing course with Ali Hale of Daily Writing Tips. Since I need to overhaul my website, build a social media platform and finish my novel [...]

Making promises you can keep

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 [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

‘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!

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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