Win A Writing Award - And Discover The Valuable Secret Rewards

If you are serious about growing your fiction writing abilities, enter your tales for a writing award! You'll win useful money payouts and, when you persist, you will also strengthen your professional techniques.

To start with, you'll be competing against different authors, and many contestants are very professional. That delivers you a incentive to produce an awesome entry.

It's really easy to read your narrative before a story writing group or to discuss the story with your colleagues. They will happily find some thing nice to say about the story. However it's another thing altogether to offer your story for an unbiased critique by a specialist contest judge who is certainly not concerned about being pleasant to you personally.

In the event you gain a prize, you will know that your narrative has authentic value and that your own writing abilities are very competent. What's more, each time you write as well as enter a story you will strengthen your creative writing potential. It's a little like participating in a story writing university where the fees are trivial but you obtain real feed-back on your own expertise.

Yet another useful benefit you will probably experience by participating in a good story writing contest, irrespective of the cash rewards, is the adventure of the lottery. Could your story triumph or be rejected?

Every last writer would like to succeed yet unless we flop occasionally there's only a meagre pleasure in our triumph. How monotonous it would be if every single story we wrote gained a prize! True, our income might improve but we would die as creative writers.

To compose just to get hard cash can be a soul-destroying chore, as numerous hack writers have discovered to their cost.

The more stories you submit, the more expert you will grow in your own mentality. You grow to accept rejection and to shrug it off. Just about every commercial author gets accustomed to rejection. For each and every ten stories we create there will be four disasters. Just about every contestant suffers this pain. The finest remedy is to keep writing!

However, as you create a collection of prize-winning stories and discover them in publications, your own self-assurance swells. However you will additionally lock into a brand new group of other writers. You'll discover folk of congenial minds to your own. The returns that can be gained from a story writing contest are not wholly commercial.

You will grasp your real potential as a writer. And you will explore a fresh sense of pleasant self-fulfilment.

What's more, once you become noted as a successful writer, your local writing societies will discover you. They are forever looking for veteran writers to present lectures. You'll not get very rich but $100 for just one hour of pleasurable work is always helpful.

Not least, they will often assist you to market your own books as well. That is where the true cash rests in presenting and public speaking, at the back of the hall. Even better, if you write non-fiction books, folk will frequently give you their business details or address and ask you to call on their office. All of a sudden, you have a new client!

Of course, you don't need to market a book in the lecture room for this to happen. Just appearing on a lecture platform, recommended by your sponsor, can do it. In the event that you are a prolific winner of writing contests, it can bring you local fame plus additional revenue, possibly as a recognised mentor.

You will find that an informal network exists among the organizers of neighborhood organizations and convention organizers. A great public speaker or interesting writer is going to be spotted and their name circulated. Out of the blue, you'll be gaining lucrative offers from all types of organizations. Folks who attend your presentation may also pass on your details.

You could be invited to write for the local newspapers or some sort of writing magazine or perhaps be questioned by your radio program. That can bring about even more lucrative work.

Once that occurs, you will have stumbled on the true clue to award winning magic. It doesn't lie just in the money you gain in the writing contest. That's a useful perk. The buzz lies in your new self-esteem. Welcome to the society of satisfied scribblers!


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Dr John Yeoman, PhD Creative Writing, is chairman of the writing award centre Writers' Village. A university tutor in short story writing, he is a veteran competition judge. You'll find hundreds of wily plans to gain money prizes in his practical manual How to Win Writing Contests for Profit. Acquire it for free now at:
http://www.writers-village.org/writing_award