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The Writing Show Newsletter - July 2008
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: Nancy Franklin in The New Yorker
- Writing Show Logo by David Schembri
- Writing Dialogue, Part 5: Tags
- Call for Submissions: Our 2008 Holiday Short Story Celebration
- British vs. American Punctuation: Inside or Outside the Quotation Marks?
- Bloodshed at Connecticut Book Party
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Sherlock Holmes (answer); billions and billions of copies (question)
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
- Writing Show Logo by David Schembri
- Writing Dialogue, Part 4: Compression
- The Most Frequently Discarded Books in UK Hotel Rooms
- Capitalization, Part 5: Historical Periods
- Our 2008 First-Chapter-of-a-Novel Contest
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Allegorical Narratives (answer); Sherlock Holmes (question)
In this issue:
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Now That's Writing: "The West Wing" "Posse Comitatus Episode by Aaron Sorkin
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This Month's Silly Picture: Our New Logo
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Writing Dialogue, Part 3: Mixing Dialogue and Narrative
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The Writer's Voice
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Capitalization, Part 4: After Colons
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Writing Show News
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Trivia Question: Allegories
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: If I Ran the Zoo, by Dr. Seuss
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. at a Book Signing
- Writing Dialogue, Part 2
- Attention: Crime Fiction Writers
- Capitalization, Part 3: Government Documents
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Canadian Books into Academy Award-nominated/winning Films
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B.'s Old Studio
- Writing Dialogue, Part 1
- Literary Haunts in Pictures
- Capitalization, Part 2: Time
- Make Your Writing Sparkle: Be Specific
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Line from a Play
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. with Husband Alan
- Point of View, Part 4: Deciding What POV to Use
- Writer's Challenge: Create a Ritual
- Capitalization, Part 1: Titles and Offices
- Announcing Our 2007 Holiday Short Story Celebration
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: "Anhedonia"
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: R.D. Wingfield, Night Frost
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B.
- Point of View in Fiction, Part 3: More on the Third Person Limited
- Famous Rejections
- Books into Movies
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: An Author Under the Gun
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in the 70s
- Our 2007 First-Chapter-of-a-Novel Contest
- Point of View in Fiction, Part 2: The Third Person Narrator
- Tips for Writing Great Dialogue, by Jeanne Lyet Gassman
- For Writers of Crime Fiction
- Fun Facts: Audiobooks Released in the U.S.
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Oranges in the Movies
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: "The Graduate"
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in 2000
- Our 2007 First-chapter-of-a-novel contest
- Point of View in Fiction, Part 1: The First-Person Narrator
- Cool Tools: Make a Multimedia Ebook with Sophie
- Writing Trick: Blocked? Try Free Associating
- Fun Facts: Where Novelists Set Their Stories
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: "In the Kitchen: The Egg Men: How breakfast gets served at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas," The New Yorker
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in the Eighties
- Our 2007 First-chapter-of-a-novel contest
- How to Write a Press Release, Part 3
- For Screenwriters: The Current State of the Film Industry
- Writer's Challenge: Build a Platform
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: "Being John Malkovich"
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Guest Host Mick Halpin with Son Conor
- Technique: Writing Historical Fiction
- How to Write a Press Release, Part 2
- Fun Facts: Largest Nonfiction Book Advance
- Writer's Challenge: Loglines
- When Good Advice Goes Bad
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Most Verbose Language
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal by Edgar Allan Poe.
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in the 70s
- Writing Trick: Cast Your Story
- How to Write a Press Release, Part 1
- Fun Facts: Bestselling Books in 2006
- Writer's Challenge: Writing Weekend January 20th and 21st
- Writing Show News
- Trivia Question: Bestselling Author
In this issue:
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in 2002
- Writing Trick: Placeholders
- Stuck for ideas? Try Images to Jump-start Your Imagination!
- Fun Facts: Earnings for Film and TV Writers
- Writer's Challenge: Test Your Writing
- Writing Show News
In this issue:
- Now That's Writing: Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in the Fifties
- Q and A: How do I make myself stand out when pitching to a publisher?
- To Verb or Not to Verb
- Fun Facts
- Writer’s Challenge
- Writing Show News
In this issue:
- This Month's Silly Picture: Writing Show Host Paula B. in the Sixties
- Write Tightly
- What Do I Do with My Ideas?
- Fun Facts
- Writer's Challenge
- Writing Show News