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A HUGE Honor Today
I still can’t wrap my head around this honor.
So happy, now I’m crying to be so honored by such a world wide literary organization. Happy Tears. This organization has writers from 105 countries united in Christ, many are Nobel Prize nominees, and United Nations literary chair holders.
Dear Authors,
The Ambassador De Literature award maintains qualitative literary ethics, it’s given with a dual purpose as below.
* To give focus on global talent
* To make sure all national micro talents are applauded and merged with the macro United world of literature
We have so far awarded, and identified talents in 28 nations. The people have been chosen with an unbiased approach attempting to cover all nations by Motivational Strips. We have honoured from small countries to big nations like from Bhutan to US. Our search for national talents of every countries continues and we will make sure that Motivational Strips will leave no stones unturned in finding national…
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Magazine Editors on Twitter: 20 to Know + Tips to Connect – by Carol Tice…
on Make a Living, Writing:
Magazine editors can seem so unapproachable. Am I right? You send them a query, and nothing.
But there’s one place where many editors seem to be easier to connect with: Twitter.
As someone who once got $6,000 of assignments from a tweet, I’ve always been a fan of trying editors on this platform.
If you call an editor, you know it’s going straight to voicemail, every time. Right?
On the other hand, asking a quick question on Twitter can be a useful workaround. Some magazine editors love Twitter, and turn out to be fairly approachable on there.
Interested to learn more? Let me give you my favorite question to tweet to an editor. I’ve also got a list of interesting magazine editors (online and traditional print) you might want to follow on Twitter:
Continue reading HERE
The Repeats
If you’ve ever edited a manuscript, you’ll know that it takes many drafts and lots of re-writing to shape said manuscript into a readable book. Amongst those drafts should be a pass that includes finding a word that is repeated so much that you could turn it into a drinking game.
I call these instances The Repeats; a list of words that I know my writing-self likes to cram into sentences, but my editor-self knows shouldn’t be there.
My personal Repeats list includes…
- Though
- Realize/Realized
- Took
- Stood
- Surprise/Surprised
- Doubt
These are the words that flow during a first draft and then survive the rest of the drafts because they’re so ingrained in my writing voice that I don’t even notice them.
When looking at these words amongst others, it’s easy to think that they’ve been used sparingly, but with a Repeats draft added during the revision process, it’s plain…
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6 Draft Checklist Ideas (And Why You Should Create Your Own)
Just as no two writers will write an idea the same way, drafting is a unique process as well.
Some authors may draft their MS in as little as five passes, others (raises hand) might have 20 odd drafts under their belt for certain works in progress.
When drafting is such a mammoth task, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. I’m not a planner for writing, but for editing and drafting, I find a plan makes all the difference.
To create such plans, checklists are my go-to, and when I’m close to the final draft stage, these are the six main things I scan for during a draft pass…
1. Repeats
I recommend every writer come up with their own Repeats List because we all have different words we use repeatedly. This advice also goes for phrases (I constantly use “looked as if”) and for movements. If every character is…
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A HUGE Honor Today
So happy, now I’m crying to be so honored by such a world wide literary organization. Happy Tears. This organization has writers from 105 countries united in Christ, many are Nobel Prize nominees, and United Nations literary chair holders.
Dear Authors,
The Ambassador De Literature award maintains qualitative literary ethics, it’s given with a dual purpose as below.
* To give focus on global talent
* To make sure all national micro talents are applauded and merged with the macro United world of literature
We have so far awarded, and identified talents in 28 nations. The people have been chosen with an unbiased approach attempting to cover all nations by Motivational Strips. We have honoured from small countries to big nations like from Bhutan to US. Our search for national talents of every countries continues and we will make sure that Motivational Strips will leave no stones unturned in finding national assets to merge them with International literary family. We will not be honouring the ADL with writers who profess politics in the name of literature.
This is reason that every national literary icons love to be honoured with the medal of Ambassador De Literature. They know that it’s an authentic recognition given with relevance to only writing and developing world literature. Today we have a special writer who is not only an asset to her nation but the international literary circle. She has successfully published 16 books and two of them are best sellers. She has won numerous authentic awards such as Reader’s Favourite, Literary Titan and many more …
Motivational Strips global Administration takes happiness in conferring the medal of
‘AMBASSADOR DE LITERATURE’
To
Mary L Schmidt
Country: USA 🇺🇸
The merits that was evaluated for Mary L Schmidt is as below:
✔️National Literary asset of US
✔️ International Asset to global Literature
✔️ Recommendation from Lead Consultant Brenda Mohammed
✔️ Holder of global repute awards such as Readers Favourite
✔️ Global Exposure And Networking
✔️ Additionally an illustrator
✔️ADL Conveners Norms Met
✔️Verifiable certifications
✔️Immense encouragement to global writers through consistent interactions in Motivational Strips
✔️ Verified and accredited awards
✔️ Researcher
✔️Verified,Convincing and Approved by Motivational Strips Administration to the satisfaction of its Founder
Ref: ADL Story-Award Norms
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Speaking more about Mary Schmidt, she writes under the pen names of S. Jackson and A. Raymond. She is a retired registered nurse (since 2012); a member of the Catholic Church, and has taught kindergarten Catechism; she has worked in various capacities for The American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Cub and Boy Scouts, (son, Gene, is an Eagle Scout), and sponsored trips for high school music children. She loves all forms of art but mostly focuses on the visual arts; such as amateur photography, traditional, and graphic art as her health allows. She has written two bestselling books: the first is a memoir, “When Angels Fly”, and the other a book dealing with bullies, The Big Cheese Festival which is a picture book. She does her own covers and illustrations. Thus far she has published 16 books with five more in various stages of development.
She has won many awards as listed here:
When Angels Fly ~ 2018 International Bronze Medalist Reader’s Favorite
The Big Cheese Festival ~ 2017 Bronze Medal in the Children-Adventure Category at Readers Favorite Finalist
When Angels Fly:
New Apple Official Selection eBook Award 2016
Circle of Books Ring of Honor Silver 2nd Place Award 2016
Amazon Number One Best Selling Book 2016
McGrath House Indie Book Awards Finalist 2016
Readers Favorite Five Star Book Award 2017
Literary Titan Silver 2nd Place Award 2017
Book Excellence Award Finalist 2018
International Bronze Medalist Reader’s Favorite
The Big Cheese Festival:
Winner ~ 2016 Pinnacle Gold Award for Best Book in the Category of Children’s Adventure
Winner ~ 2017 Finalist IAN Book of the Year for Children’s Fiction
Illustrated Finalist ~ 2018 Purple Dragonfly Winners
She is married to Michael and he uses the pen name of A. Raymond to collaborate on the children’s books with her.
CC
Motivational Strips Administration
Global Headquarters
Location : Oman 🇴🇲
1, Shiju H. Pallithazheth
Founder
🇺🇸 USA Office
Sabrina Young
Forum Director
🇺🇸 USA office Administration
USA & Canada region
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2, Marc Oscar
3, Anne Thrope
Media-Co Ordinator
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Admins
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Admins
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European Countries Zone
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom Office
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3, Samantha Beardon
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Chief Advisor to Founder
1, Muhammad Shanazar
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Chief Advisor to Founder
1, Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén
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🇲🇦 Morocco Branch
North African Countries Zone
Moderator:
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Caribbean Countries Zone
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🇲🇽 Mexico Office
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🇬🇭 Ghana Office
West Africa Region
1, Waheed Musah
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Central Asian Countries Zone
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(Кайрат Дуйсен-Парман)
President-Advisory
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Brenda Mohammed
Lead Consultant
How to Grow an Email Newsletter Starting from Zero – by Christina McDonald…
on Jane Friedman:
An email list is your secret weapon for selling books—it is a direct connection to your reader.
But when I got my first book deal, I had no audience, no author Facebook page, and no email list.
I knew I needed to build awareness to give my book the best chance to succeed.
Here is my step-by-step guide to how I built my email list to 6,000 subscribers in one year.
Continue reading HERE
5 Awesome Marketing Sites for Authors
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Why Creativity Can’t Be Taught
“What is creativity?
During my research I found there are about as many definitions of ‘creativity’ as there are people. For example:
Henry Rollins says: “Starting with nothing and ending up with something. Interpreting something you saw or experienced and processing it so it comes out different than how it went in.”
Daniel Pink‘s definition is: “Giving the world something it didn’t know it was missing.”
The English Oxford Dictionary‘s definition is: “The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.”
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Now, according to ‘Psychology Today’ creativity cannot be taught. In 2011 they wrote, you can teach everyone how to use a hammer or knitting needles.
But knowing how to use a hammer or a knitting needle doesn’t make you creative. Visualizing, dimensionally manipulating or modeling the chairs you build in your mind’s eye won’t necessarily make you creative either. Whether material or mental…
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