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Newsletter Merit Badge

I know it can be hard work putting together a newsletter for Writing.com. Heck, I'm a permament editor for the Drama Newsletter and I've guest stints in the Short Story/Action & Adventure newsletters. Coming up with interesting topics, doing the research, and selecting editor's picks can be time consuming. I find I usually have to start work on a newsletter about two weeks out. I select my topic, research it, write it up, and after I edit it, I have my proofreader at work edit it to. Then I try to select picks that are revelant to my topic.

Knowing all this is involved, I try to give out a Newsletter Merit Badge every week to that editor who did an outstanding job. This week I have my merit badge out to Vivian who did a great job on the Short Stories newsletter this week. Her topic was critiquing stories and she made a lot of points that I try to hit on in my review as these are points that editors and agents that writers query look for in the sample of the writing.

Write on, Viv!
Steph