Know any Michigan-based Writers?
Know any writers (or writer wanna-be's)? Please pass this info on...
Detroit Working Writers - a Detroit 300 Centennial Organization - will be hosting a one-day Writers' Conference and COMPETITION in Macomb County this year, on September 15. Seating is limited.
Entry Deadline for the Competition is July 15, 2012.
The competition is open to DWW members
and writers who reside in the State of Michigan; only unpublished
work may be submitted. May submit as many entries as you like in
five categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism and
scriptwriting. Three prizes awarded in each genre: first place $100,
second place $75, third place $50. Winners will be announced at the
conference. Note: there is an entry fee.
Go to http://www.detworkingwriters.org and click on the "From Passion to Profession" icon for details and registration forms.
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(just FYI to my MCC friends: I will be facilitating two workshops at this conference - one on Micro Fiction, and the other on Social Media for Writers.)
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Hello Linda!!!
I'm a writer (poet, op-ed pieces, blogs and business letters). I've been writing for fun since age six---I'm now almost ten times that age. I'm getting ready for retirement in the next few years and writing professionally would be a great second career. What would you advise???
Good afternoon Linda. I forwarded the weblink that you posted to a Michigan/Woman Business Owner publisher that I have worked with and she said that she was quite interested. I hope you hear from her. She does some great work, Marian Nelson of Nelson Publishing. I think there is some possible synergy there.
I hope to see you soon. Best of luck.
Randi Lou
Hi William! Thanks for contacting me.
"Writing Professionally" is a big, huge world - are you a fiction or non-fiction writer? What genre of fiction draws you?
Or are you interested in business writing / copy writing / content development?
There are many wonderful authors who began writing in the second half of their lives, so I would advise you to write what you love, learn all you can of the writing craft, and go after the markets you think would be interested in your work.
If you can answer the questions I posted, I may be able to give you more direction...
Make your Day Magnificent!
Linda
Thanks so much, Randi!
I would love to speak with her about DWW in general, and hope that she might be willing to promote the Conference - or at least the competition - through her publication.
Hope all is well with you, and please let me know a few days in the first weeks of May that might work for us to get together and catch up!
Make your day magnificent!
Linda
Hi Linda!!! Good questions to ask. On the practical level I'd write anything that made money. On the emotional level I'd love to write newspaper articles or do a blog (I'm a regular op/ed/blog contributor to Crain's Detroit Business, Bridge Magazine (a political/op-ed on line magazine founded by U of M regent Phil Powers) and Governing Magazine) OR write Science Fiction....hmmmm....maybe a "blog reporter" in the 23rd Century---what would that be like???(By that time we'll all have nano-implants connecting us directly to a BIG mainframe---just think your password and you're on line!!!---Maybe a short story here???) Thanks for the response. Please keep in touch---particularly if you know of any writer's workshops that are coming up. Thanks.
Hi William - sounds like you have a good start with the op-ed and blogging you are already doing. So, now, just like the rest of us, it's time to get out, network, and let people know what you've been doing and what you want to do.
I think breaking into the trades is a challenge, but you have clips from Crain's, etc, so use them to your advantage.
LOVE the idea of a "23rd Century Reporter" who writes historical reports on stuff that happened in the 21st century... could be very amusing and enlightening. Go for it!
Do take a look at the DWW Conference and Competition....
http://www.detworkingwriters.org, click on the logo for "From Passion to Profession"
Make your day magnificent!
Linda