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What's Your Finger Doing?
This newsletter is about keeping your finger on the pulse of WDC during the holiday season. While you probably don't have a lot of time to devote to your craft, it's important to stay in touch on some level.
Not only should you check the Contests page for prompts and inspiration, but take a look at The Hub too. Click Community in your left column and choose The Hub. There's a ton of info there, did you know? The Bulletin shows what site contest is currently running so you can hop over and be inspired to write and compete for big rewards.
There are also writing prompts, links to recent activity on the site and links to new items on the site. So after you check your email for great stuff like reviews and awards, take a peek at The Hub and the Community Newsfeed to see what's hopping at WDC. The holiday season offers a lot of fun going on in our community. Special contests and activities are being hosted and many themed pages inspire you to write. Even our Messenger feature has puzzles to solve and win gift points.
So, try to participate when time allows and get to know more members of our community, and find new items that might inspire you.
As always, Write On and see you next year!
This month's question: What inspires you during the holiday season? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback! |
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Excerpt: At first, I hated my parents for leaving me and sending back this book. It was as if they went off to live their lives and posted a photo album of the trip. A sort of "they went to Wonderland and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" kind of experience. But then my parents were not normal and neither am I.
Excerpt: "I warned you!" she screamed. "I warned you not to go traipsing around in the fields when you have work to do!"
Sarah's mother appeared unable to contain her anger. She reached for the strap hanging by the old refrigerator.
Excerpt: Staring out the window of the small city bus, I shift in my seat. I haven't been out in public for quite some time. My right hand squeezes my left, but the tremors continue.
"Mommy, why is that lady shaking? Is she cold?"
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Excerpt: "Attention! Attention! All peeples must listen. This petition is from the Queen of Tiny Peeple Town please come now, all must gather around."
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This month's question: What inspires you during the holiday season? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Short Stories Newsletter (November 8, 2023)" question: Do you consciously think of word order when writing?
Damon Nomad  : Entertaining and informative newsletter. No, I never think about the word order when writing. Well not quite, when I am drafting I think very little about word order. As I start to clean up I try and focus on this and when I get to editing I try even harder.
Lilli 🧿 ☕  : To be honest, I only think of word order when I'm editing. Otherwise, I get distracted and lose where I was going.
Great newsletter and certainly 'food for thought'!
Elfin Dragon-finally published  : The only time I consciously think of word order when writing is when I write poetry. When I edit my stories and novels I may then consider my word choice, but I rarely consider word order.
Beholden  : Yes, I do think of word order when writing. It's the flow that matters and a lumpy or unnatural word order can ruin a piece. But I don't go by any rules. I trust that, if it sounds right to me, then it probably will to the reader (who usually isn't nearly as picky about such things as I am).
oldgreywolf scribbles  : On short-story worldbuilding: Worldbuilding is separate from story writing. If you overplan it now, you've got a consistent scenario for later use, even if it's just to be expressed in recalled memory fashion.
On planning word order: Not in the first draft (I just slop, uh, slap, ideas down); however, yes when editing and editing and editing and . . .
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