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Tips
& More from Yours Truly on Process
A 2 min 42
sec video from a panel discussion "The Writer's Life: A
Report from the Field" recorded May 22, 2010 at the Writer's
Center.
Staying Focused: Writing and Researching
the Longer Book Project A PDF
of a handout from my talk at the Writers Center's Leesburg First
Friday series, March 5, 2010. This includes 12 Tips to Help You
Hang in There and Finish Your Novel; 12 Tips to Help You Get
the Most Out of Your Visit to a Library / Archive; and 10 Tips
to Organize a Book in Progress.
Use an Egg-timer
if You Must: The Five Minute Cure for Writer's Block
(Link temporarily down)
ForeWord Magazine Blog, Publishing Insider Column, March 4, 2009
One Dozen
Books for the Novelist's Bookshelf
(Link temporarily down)
ForeWord Magazine Blog, Publishing Insider Column, March 11,
2009
Podcast: "The
Writing Life: A Report from the Field," a panel discussion
at the Artlantic Festival at the Writers Center, May 22, 2010,
with Yours Truly, David Taylor, Alan Elsner, Kevin Quirk, and
moderator Jessie Seigal.
Creative Writers
Opportunities List Allison Joseph, moderator. Free e-mail updates about calls
for submissions for journals, anthologies, contests and more.
Twitter
Is by
C.M. Mayo Originally published in Literal:
Latin American Voices / Voces Latinoamericanas #17 The social network. Digital utopia
/ Las redes sociales. Utopía digital. Summer 2009.
Writers'
Blogs: What Works (& What Doesn't) by C.M. Mayo. The ForeWord Magazine
on-line Publishing Inside column for March 25, 2009 (Temporarily
down... new link to be posted soon.)
The Writers Center
Writing workshops, readings and a book store in Bethesda, Maryland.
Other
Writers Associations and Organizations
American
Independent Writers
This Washington DC-based organization (which used to be the "Washington
Independent Writers Association") offers many events and
an excellent (and economical) writers conference.
Lubuto
Library Project, Inc.
Help bring knowledge and enlightenment to Africa's street children!
This is a wonderful charity founded by Washington DC librarian
Jane Kinney Meyers.
Tameme
This is the bilingual (Spanish/English) press I founded. The
webpage has a terrific links
page with many resources for both writers and literary translators---
and also for anyone interested in writing in Mexico.
