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Friday, 30 July, 2010: Check your links. Again.Publishers and agent: needing them, finding them.
Friday, 9 July, 2010: Check your links. Essay: We're all in this together. New seminar on comma usage.
Friday, 25 June, 2010: Need a higher GPA? Not a problem. Essay: Free Publicity for Your Book
Friday, 18 June, 2010: Clean up your act and Why Online Education Will Never Work.
Friday, 16 April, 2010: Social media is great, but it's not the reality. The editor as benevolent dictator.
Friday, 9 April, 2010: Newspapers online, Circa 1981 (and funny TV news story about it too. We revisit Bob Pollock's essay on writing for money or for fame.
Friday, 2 April, 2010: Two new courses in Crime Novel and Short Story writing and also in Novel Writing. Steve fails at ball. The Media is NOT the message.
Friday, 19 March, 2010: New course in Crime Novel and Short Story writing. Steve may become a Twit. (Watch how you spell that.) Even George Carlin had just Seven: 119 words not to use.
Friday, 5 March, 2010: Possibly the most screwed-up Writer/Publisher lawsuit ever. Essay: Some basic HTML code you can use in blogs or converting from Word files.
Friday, 15 January, 2010: The Google Goop and how you are being ripped. Essay: Writers Emergency Assistance Fund.
Friday, 8 January, 2010: Finding yourself on the Internet. Essay: Social Media, clever marketing tools or giant time-suck?
Friday, 1 January, 2010: Plan Your Writing, Write Your Plan. Essay: Verifying Sources.
Monday, 2 November, 2009: National Novel Writing Month. Essay: What is the Dialogue of Experimental Literature?
Monday, 26 October, 2009: Shield laws, agents' response times. Some cute links.
Monday, 19 October, 2009: The winter of our discount tent, Trees and Ted Turner and yet another new course. Check it out!
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009: Fall change of colors, e-books and Kindle, Two new courses.
Monday, 1 June, 2009: Battery backup, World Doom. And five new courses.
Tuesday, 14 April, 2009: The Web's Wild Ride
Monday, 16 February, 2009: E-books
Monday, 9 February, 2009: Living in a Dark House
Monday, 2 February, 2009: Taxes, school prices increase, no news is—well—no news.
Monday, 29 December, 2008: Planning your 2009 writing. Funny freelance writing songs (so why are we all weeping?).
Tuesday, 23 December, 2008: Apology and don't use jargon. Last-minute gift idea. Prices to increase.
Monday, 15 December, 2008: Lori Hall Steele makes her final deadline; WritersCollege.com keeps up its support a while longer. Funny YouTube song about writers and magazines that go broke.
Tuesday, 2 December, 2008: Tell us about your writing in these times, Two new courses.
Wednesday, 12 November, 2008
Steve loses his hard drive—and his mind. School News: Prices to increase.
Tuesday,30 September,2008
The Economy—if we can still use that term. Save Lori's House succeeds. Interview: Shelley Pearsal's latest novel is "I'm All Shook Up."
Wednesday,17 September, 2008: Help Save Lori's House, Essay: Free Publicity for Your Book
Wednesday,3 September, 2008: Writers Don't Get No Respect, Essay: The Future of Journalism?
Monday,14 July, 2008:Sixty Candles, New courses, Your News,Add to the list.
Monday, 30 June, 2008: Two new courses, Feature
Courses, Bob Parson's 16 rules, Steve's rules (and yours?), Who's been published?
Monday, 2 June, 2008: Would you rather buy a Mercedes or a book? Musings on ghost writing.
Monday,
4 February, 2008: Writer's
Block, Who's been published. Questions needed.
Friday,
21 December, 2007: Steve's
Thieving History. Featured
Seminars. Need
Your Help with Q&A. Your
Writing Successes
Friday,
14 September, 2007: Typewriters and keyboards. Upgraded
web site. Do you have bad links to us?
Friday,
3 August, 2007: more on Writer's Market 2008. Essay
on the media.
Friday,
27 July, 2007: Various rants, Featured courses redux,
WM 2008 is out.
Friday,
13 July, 2007: Minor
annoyances, scheduling
our writing
Friday,
15 June, 2007: Florida phoning:
how to update travel guides. Savage alligators, exploding
dirigibles
and,
worst
of all, miniature golf courses going condo. Disaster everywhere!
Friday,
June 8, 2007: Steve explains that
he was not in the witness protection program, merely sailing.
Get
your
screenplay
course
while you still can. More.
Friday,
30 March: Two
new courses, Writing
and discipline, Who's
been published.
Friday,
9 March, 2007: HDTV or a library card?
Dealing with publishers. WriterAdvice contest.
Friday,
2 March, 2007: More
mail from the IRS. Using "tells" to
flesh out your characters.
Friday,
23 February, 2007: Paternity, publicity, profit; poetry
in all forms of writing; preparing book manuscripts, I'm from
the government and I'm here to help you. Friday,
16 February, 2007: Resumption of newsletter. Updates
on classes, web site, me, more.
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