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Short story competitions & contests arranged in date order
Short-Story-Competitions.html
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Poetry competitions arranged in date order
Poetry-Competitions.html
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Non-fiction competitions cover articles, essays and the like. There's not many around, but you never know - the next one could be right up your street.
Non-fiction-Competitions.html
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Performing arts. These are competitions for playrights, script writers and the like.
Performing-Arts.html
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These rolling competitions accept entries on a monthly, quarterly or other regular basis.
Rolling-Competitions.html
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A listing of current children's writing competitions. This will include both Short Stories and Poetry as and when I can find them.
Children's-Writing-Competitions.html
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Written a book to be proud of? It could be worth entering it for one of the book writing prize competitions.
Book-Writing-Prizes.html
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Storms of life can leave you battered and shipwrecked from your writing. Whatever the crisis, the resulting chaos can dam up your ability to create. It’s difficult, sometimes nearly impossible, to be creative and inspired when you’re in turmoil - emotionally or physically. You feel drained. As if the ability to write’s been sucked out, leaving you empty. Words that once bubbled forth, vanish.
Writing-Again-After-Life-Upheaval.html
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One thing is true of all stories. They all have a beginning, middle and end. Film scripts typically run from 100 to 120 pages with each page representing about a minute of screen time. Within these script pages there will be five vital events.
Scriptwriting-The-Five-Key-Points-of-Story-Structure.html
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Writing For Children and Teens. Part of the writing process is experimenting. Writers differ on their opinions about outlining--some love it, some hate it, and some are mixed.
Writing-For-Children-and-Teens-Should-You-Outline-Your-Story-Before-Writing-.html
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How focused is your creative writing? How consistently do you write? How far do you get with the creative writing projects most important to you before losing momentum?
In his article "How To Be More Focussed" Dan Goodwin tells you how.
How-To-Be-More-Focussed.html
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You want to write a mystery novel, you have a terrific idea, you know who kills whom and why. You have a great detective and think the killer is ...killer. Where do you start? "How To Write A Mystery - The Right Beginning" shows you how.
How-To-Write-A-Mystery-The-Right-Beginning.html
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For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things: Character, Conflict and Resolution
Does-Your-Theme-Contain-Character,-Conflict,-Resolution-.html
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5 Ideas to Confidently Unleash Your Creative Writing Skills
5-Ideas-to-Confidently-Unleash-Your-Creative-Writing-Skills.html
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Creative Writing Ideas
Creative-Writing-Ideas.html
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Ten Writing Tips For Budding Authors
Ten-Writing-Tips-For-Budding-Authors.html
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First Step in Publishing Short Stories - Reading
First-Step-in-Publishing-Short-Stories-Reading.html
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Here's the story of how to become a Freelance Travel Writer in 10 (not-so-easy) Steps.
Become-a-Freelance-Travel-Writer-in-10-(not-so-easy)-Steps.html
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Six-Simple-Steps-to-Sensible-Editing.html
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Other writing articles for your delectation
Other-Writing-Articles.html
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Names-in-memoirs-use-real-or-fictitious-.html
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I keep the chapters of my novel in separate Word documents but I want the page numbers to follow on from chapter to chapter. How do I do this?
Numbering-chapters-when-in-separate-Word-documents.html
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Do you know any FREE writers competitions for kids?
Do-you-know-any-FREE-writers-competitions-for-kids-.html
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My stories keep getting rejected. What advice can you offer to help me deal with this?
Dealing-with-Rejections.html
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I have downloaded and installed a program but the desktop icon doesn't seem to have come up on my desktop. How can I create an Icon so that I can use the program?
How-Can-I-Create-a-Desktop-Icon-For-a-Newly-Installed-Program-.html
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Is there any way to stop spam e-mails if you don’t have a firewall?
Is-there-any-way-to-stop-spam-if-you-don't-have-a-firewall-.html
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How can I make sure my computer is protected by a firewall?
How-can-I-make-sure-my-computer-is-protected-by-a-firewall-.html
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What is Spyware and do I need it? Is it really harmful to my computer?
What-is-Spyware-and-do-I-need-it-.html
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How do I work in several Word for Windows documents at one time?
How-do-I-work-in-several-Word-documents-at-once-.html
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I've been reading Harry Potter and want to know: how do you actually pronounce 'horcrux' and 'horcruxes'?
How-do-you-pronounce-'horcrux'-.html
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When entering a writing competition, if not mentioned, should a short story have a title?
Should-a-competition-story-always-have-a-title-.html
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Does Microsoft Word have a simple way of getting answers to questions?
Word-'Help'-System.html
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I have a tremendous fan called Viagra. He writes to me every day sometimes 20 times. How can I set up a Spam box for him to leave his messages in?
Outlook-and-spam.html
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What is de-fragging? How and why should I do it? What happens when I de-frag?
What-is-de-fragging-.html
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Can I keep very large documents, say 50,000 words, on my computer?
Handling-large-documents-in-Word.html
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Where do deleted documents go from Word, and can they be recovered?
Where-do-deleted-documents-go-.html
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If a web site says your cookies are disabled which reduces the functionality of the site for you: what do you do?
Cookies-disabled.html
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Printing labels. If I go into Envelopes and Labels and select Labels, I can never sort the correct sizes out as I don’t speak metric. Can you help?
Envelopes-and-Labels.html
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In MS Word how do you get rid of something (a box or window) that suddenly overlaps a previous one on screen? How do you recover a piece that suddenly disappears off screen?
Disappearing-boxes-and-windows-in-MS-Word.html
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When opening several Word documents, how can I select them from the file index collectively rather than individually?
Opening-several-Word-documents-at-once.html
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Links.html
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Software for writers.
Software-for-Writers.html
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Books for Writers. Improve your writing with one of these excellent tomes.
Books-for-Writers.html
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A selection of writing courses to suit everyone.
Writing-Courses.html
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An introduction to the fascinating world of e-publishing.
Introduction-to-E-publishing.html
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Writers, here is a selection of my own articles on the art and craft of writing, both articles and creative fiction.
Merv's-Articles-for-Writers.html
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What is RSS? A long boring explanation of what it is, where it is, and why it is. I suggest you just get the basics of how to access RSS feeds and skip the rest.
What-is-RSS-.html
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A galaxy of magazines for writers (well five anyway), the UK seems to have a dearth of them. None of my visitors seem to know of any others or they'd let me know (hint).
Magazines-for-Writers.html
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Details of WritersReign Short Story Competition and link to download the entry form and conditions of entry.
WR-Short-Story-Competition.html
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Here are the WR Competition Winners. Read the winning entries.
WR-Competition-Winners.html
