Happy New Year
Happy New Year fellow writers we apologize for not writing any new articles but one of our New Years Resolutions is to post more articles for you to enjoy and hopefully find useful. To that end we hope that you and yours had a safe and holiday season and have made some New Year’s Resolutions of your own. And we would hope that you have made a New Year’s Resolution to write more, participate in writing contests and to subscribe to helpful writing resources newsletters. We have been working hard this past year creating websites and blogs, keeping up with our writing resources, reading writing newsletters and gathering more information to share with our fellow writers.
One of the best writing resources we have found for finding new writing contests, sources of publication and much more is the website and weekly newsletter put out by Funds For Writers. C. Hope Clark produces a FREE weekly newsletter for writers filled with inspirational stories and writing funding sources each week. She also has a PAID subscription that gives a lot more resources. I encourage you to sign up for her FREE newsletter and if you find it helpful then by all means scrounge up the $15 for a yearly subscription to the TOTAL FUNDS FOR WRITERS. She does have separate newsletters for Small Markets and Kid Writers. If you are hoping to find funding sources in a particular area she sells what she calls TWEETBOOKS for $1.99 each that are extremely informative.
Our other place to find funding for your writing projects has to the the KICKSTARTER website. If you haven’t checked out this website yet it will be worth your while to read through some of the projects currently asking for funding, read through some proposals and watch their videos. When you are ready then you can sign up on their website and create your own project page. Remember this is an All-OR-NOTHING funding source so keep in mind that you want to ask for the best funding amount that will accomplish your goal but not be too much that you run out of time before you reach your funding goal. You can always try again but you will have adjust your goals and create a whole new campaign. And, please, should you actually win your funding make sure you honor your Gifts that your offer in return for your funding.
Last, but not least, our sponsor, Jolene’s Books and More, has created a new website to launch a writing contest. It is called the Contemporary Limericks Contest. You will have to pay a small fee of $5 per individual for turning in 1 to 5 Limericks and the currently monthly cash prize is only $50.00 for 1st Place and $20.00 for 2nd place but the Top Ten Finalists will have their winning limericks placed into the Best Limericks of 2012 eBook that will be published on their website at the end of the year. This is a monthly contest with the first winners announced on March 1st. You can enter each month for the monthly prize. Now, you might be telling yourself, Hey, I don’t Write Limericks! I say, what do you have to lose? The limericks can be about any subject you wish. They do have to be family oriented or rated “G”. And what better way to practice writing than to actually try doing a few limericks. They are fun and can be easy to do. It is a great exercise for putting together a very short story and let’s face it as much as we love the written word, what can be more fun than putting together some rhyming words about your friends, family, pets, neighborhood or your favorite hobby. Just go to the website: http://all-about-limericks.jolenesbooksandmore.com and check it out!
