Polish your prose or poetry, then check this website for free contests for writers.

http://www.freelancewriting.com/writing-contests.php

Hardly a word, eeek. But reading it gives me a chilly shiver. Is there a mouse near, or something more threatening? Here are a few tips for evoking feelings (that will come through in our sensory texts – see the Feb. 9 post).

Words, Concrete, and Stacking Stories: 3 Tips for Writing Emotion in Fiction | A Writer’s Touch
http://awriterstouch.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/words-concrete-and-sta
cking-stories-3-tips-for-writing-emotion-in-fiction/

This is the sort of news story that makes me want to write the “backstory.” What sort of news story inspires you?

Police: Disparate factors led to fugitive’s arrest http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268773/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=N59UMkRW (from @AP)

 

 

 

Check out the Projects page if business news is more inspiring to you.

Would you want your book published this way?

Sensory Fiction: Books That Let You Feel What The Characters Do : All Tech Considered : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272044748/sensory-fiction-books-that-let-you-feel-what-the-characters-do