Writing in Scotland » News http://www.writinginscotland.com News, views and comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:32:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Poet Laureate – The Scotia Bar August 2010 http://www.writinginscotland.com/2010/07/25/poet-laureate-the-scotia-bar-august-2010/ http://www.writinginscotland.com/2010/07/25/poet-laureate-the-scotia-bar-august-2010/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:32:28 +0000 Tony Dyer http://www.writinginscotland.com/?p=62 Closing date for entries 8th August 2010.

Heats take place from 11th August 2010.

Entry form and rules can be found at http://www.scotiabar.net/

]]> http://www.writinginscotland.com/2010/07/25/poet-laureate-the-scotia-bar-august-2010/feed/ 0 Nanowrimo 2009 starts 1st November at nanowrimo.org http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/17/news/ http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/17/news/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:42:25 +0000 Tony Dyer http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/17/news/ It’s here again. Starting on the 1st Novemeber 2009 and finishing midnight 30th November 2009, it’s your chance to join in with thousands of writers across the world and use Nanowrimo to get you writing in bulk. Fifty thousand words in thirty days, that 50,000 in 30 days.
Sounds a lot, but when you break it down it’s only 1667 words per day. If you type at a modest thirty (30) words per minute then that’s under one hour of typing a day for thirty days.
And on successful completion of your 50,000 words you can legitimately call yourself a novelist even though you’re currently an unpublished one.
They have a great site at http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and there are many other resources out there. Lazette Gifford has an excellent e-book that you can download from http://www.lazette.net/Free%20Stuff/NaNo.htm and it’s got lots of sound advice on being successful.
By The Way Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The title was selected with high hopes but who would have guessed that it would become an international phenomenon.

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]]> http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/17/news/feed/ 2 The Start of a … http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/11/the-start-of-a/ http://www.writinginscotland.com/2009/10/11/the-start-of-a/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:55:14 +0000 Tony Dyer http://www.writinginscotland.com/?p=50 Hello, and welcome to the WRITING IN SCOTLAND weblog that will look at all things writerly in Scotland. This will include readings, reviews, events, writer group news, contests, publishing news, etc.

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