Towse: views from the hill

August 2, 2006

[WRITING] [CONTEST] Gather/Amazon Shorts competition

Filed under: writing-market — Towse @ 11:43 pm

We’re thrilled to launch our newest Gather.com writing competition in which unpublished authors can compete for the opportunity to have their work featured and sold on Amazon.com through the Amazon Shorts program.

Introduced last summer, Amazon Shorts offers an entirely new way for customers to enjoy their favorite authors and to sample the work of new authors through exclusive short-form literature, sold on Amazon for $0.49 each. Amazon Shorts have no printed editions and are delivered digitally.

Starting today, Gather.com will offer a first of its kind opportunity for non-published authors to participate in Amazon Shorts alongside bestselling authors like James Lee Burke and Jacquelyn Mitchard.

Today through Saturday, September 30, Gather members can submit 2,000- to 10,000-word original entries. Each month, the three highest-rated entries, along with a fourth entry selected by the Gather Editorial Team, will have the opportunity to be sold on Amazon.com!

How It Works:

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One month’s gone. Only two more to go … Because you can only submit one entry per period and you can’t submit in two consecutive periods, you have one ONE chance to submit something between now and the end of September.

Have at it.

[URL] [WRITING] Story Starter and the 1st Story Starter Contest

Filed under: URL,writing — Towse @ 11:39 pm

The Story Starter provides 298 million ideas for writers of novels, short stories, mysteries, horror, science fiction or silly stories. If you have never written a story, The Story Starter will give you ideas that will help you get started. If you are a writer who has gotten into a rut and can not think of something interesting, The Story Starter can help you too! The Story Starter randomly generates 298 million ideas (no kidding). It is also great for teachers who want a fun activity to encourage their students to write.

And! Story Starter is running the 1st Story Starter Contest

Brief rules (for more detail, check the site).

No entry fee. Deadline: midnight (EDT) 18 August 2006

1. Each story MUST contain one of the lines from The Story Starter. The line must be exactly as The Story Starter generates it.

2. Write a story using one of the millions of The Story Starter sentences. The story can contain no more than 300 words, including your title.

3. The winner will receive a $25.00 Amazon Gift Certificate. If this contest works out well, we’ll increase the prize next time. :) The winner’s story will also be shown on The Story Starter site.

4. In addition to the winning story, other stories may be used on The Story Starter site.

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August 1, 2006

For those of youse who use HaloScan to handle your blog comments

Filed under: Uncategorized — Towse @ 3:29 pm

I was just checking the HaloScan blog and noticed this:

And the biggest change—email notification of new comments is now 100% free! So be sure to go and activate the free email notification if you haven’t already done so.

I’ve always had a click in my toolbar that took me to HaloScan so I could check to see if there were new comments. Sometimes people comment on posts that are way off the current screen and I’d miss those comments otherwise. I may still keep doing that. Getting e-mail every time someone leaves a comment may get old after a while. But, hey! I have the option.

Who should play Saddam Hussein in the made-for-TV biopic?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Towse @ 5:27 am

My vote for a couple months has been, and still is, this guy.

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