Dear Fellow Writers...

Gratitude and Role Models

Well, I can’t believe it. I did it. I actually did it. I completed the final rewrite on Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids for Writer's Digest Books and I am so grateful…and humbled.

Wow. That…Was…A Lot…Of Work. I spent about twelve out of the past fourteen months pouring everything I’ve got into that book. I didn’t even know I could work that hard! I also can’t believe how much didn’t end up in the book, even though I agree with most of the choices made so far.

And I hope I don’t make it sound like I am done. Ha! Not by a really long shot. There is no “done” in book writing. There is only what comes next. Though I am done with my share of the writing, making sure others who want or need Writer Mama actually find out about it, is the phase that is about to begin in earnest. But I’m not complaining. For me, marketing is the fun part.

I am not the only one who deserves credit for Writer Mama either. I recruited a village to help raise the book from non-existence into the two-hundred-and-seventy-five-page baby it’s going to be when it waddles out into the world. I took polls, conducted interviews, attended conferences, read and read and read, asked plenty of questions and even so, could not cover everything or talk to every single writer mama. Which is why I am so grateful for the Internet, because the dialogue can continue after the New Year at my new blog site, which I will announce in January.

Also Writer Mama’s development has been supported by a bevy of friendly professionals at Writer’s Digest. They have been coming at it from all angles—editorial, proof-reading, sales, marketing, cover design and layout—just to name a few. And columnist Kristin O’Keeffe was a huge supporter and a great friend throughout the entire process. But now it’s time to say I did my best, let it go into the capable hands of Michelle Ehrhard at Writer’s Digest, and say to myself, enough. (That’s the tough part, for me.)

So this month’s issue is about an appropriate topic for me: gratitude and acknowledging those who make us feel grateful. As this month rolls on I know I’m going to be thanking all the people I am grateful for in my writing career and in my life. And at the top of my list are the columnists who make Writers on the Rise the terrific online zine that it is! How about you?

In our November issue, you’ll discover the folks our columnists appreciate, as well as get some great writing and publishing advice, as usual. Our featured writer, columnist Cathy Belben has sold dozens of articles and essays without querying. Read why and how you can too. In lieu of our author interview this month, we’re going to make a big to-do about our 2006 columnists. So let’s get going! I bet you’ll be feeling ever so grateful before you finish this issue.

In the writing spirit,

          Christina Katz

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Table of Contents:

Features:

On Not Writing Queries, A Love Affair with Words by Cathy Belben, This Month's Rising Writer

Columnists, Adieu Bidding Farewell to our 2006 Columnists!

Columns:

Ask Wendy by Wendy Burt

Fit To Write by Kelly James-Enger

Turn Your Writing Hobby Into A Writing Career by Gregory Kompes

Got Tech? by Sharon Cindrich

Conference Confab by Kelly Huffman

Good Reads For Writers by Cathy Belben

Sustainable Office by Susan C. Clark

Polish Your Prose by Elizabeth Short

Lively Writing Tip and Exercise by Kristin O'Keeffe

Closing Words by Sage Cohen

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WOTR-Related Announcements & Gleanings

Cheers and Applause

Upcoming Classes with Christina Katz Download the 2007 Class Schedule

Contributor Appearances & Events

Support WOTR (Anytime of the year!)

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WOTR-RELATED ANNOUNCEMENTS & GLEANINGS...

It’s time to vote for us! Please send an e-mail to Writer’s Digest and sing all of your praises for Writers On The Rise. We would love to see our name on that Top 101 Websites List again! Consider what you appreciate about us and send it to writersdig@fwpubs.com.

Fun Stuff: If you think you are the only one whose work gets rejected, think again, and then click on over to www.rejectioncollection.com. This site offers comfort for the rejected writer's soul.

Columnist's News:

Cathy Belben's article on her post-mortem plans to visit the Body Farm appears in the October/November issue of BUST magazine.

Sage Cohen has been named editor at T Ching, an online community for tea lovers.

Kelly James Enger's book, Ready, Aim, Specialize is being reissued by Marion Street Press in November 2007.

Kristin O'Keeffe received an offer to publish an article in Highlights for Children magazine.

Download Christina Katz' Winter/Spring 2007 class schedule at http://writersontherise.com.hosting.domaindirect.com/classes.html. Course descriptions will be posted around mid-November.

Christina's sister-in-law Lisa Perry and her nephew Emerson Perry contributed our lovely fall photographs from Virginia. Enjoy these Photos from Floyd.

A Wish For You: The rain is coming down, the leaves are twirling towards earth, the sky is gray and forboding. I wish you a November full of self-reflection and self-appreciation. I'm sending you a clap of encouragement on the back for all that you have accomplished this year and all of your efforts that will follow this time of turning inward. May you appreciate all that you are and all that you do to futher your writing career!

Ask Wendy

Your Publishing Questions, Answered

By Wendy Burt

Q: Who has most influenced your career?

A: Definitely my dad. He’s also an author (12+ books and probably a thousand magazine credits) so I’ve always had someone to consult with, complain to, or share my successes with. He’s talked me through rough patches, encouraged me to ask for more money, explained the intricacies of the publishing world and sold my books for me. He was also the first expert to speak at my very first writer’s group, a talk that immediately catapulted me into sending submissions (and selling some!) to magazines.

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Q: What are you most grateful for in your career?

A: Wow. Tough one. Probably three things: 1) Being able to work from home so I can be with my baby; 2) Being able to actually make a full-time living at what I love to do; and 3) all the free help I’ve received along the way in terms of advice, job leads, markets, etc. I feel pretty fortunate that I didn’t have to spend thousands of dollars on crash courses in writing or editing. I got a lot of support and education along the way from editors who were willing to take a risk on me and share their experience and knowledge.

Wendy Burt is a full-time freelance writer and editor in Colorado Springs, Colo. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Writer, Writer’s Digest, Byline and Family Circle. Autographed copies of her two books, Oh, Solo Mia! The Hip Chick’s Guide to Fun for One (April 2001, McGraw-Hill) and Work It, Girl! 101 Tips for the Hip Working Chick (June 2003, McGraw-Hill) are available through http://BurtCreations.com.

Featured Writer On The Rise

On Not Querying, A Love Story About Words

By Cathy Belben

Dear Random Magazine Editor:

Enclosed, please find a copy of my article Totally Unsolicited Manuscript, which I hope you will consider for publication in your magazine. At the risk of appearing lazy, presumptuous, cocky, or naïve, I am submitting this piece without querying first because I’ve had much success with this method in the past, having published dozens of articles without once asking an editor before sending the manuscripts. I hope you’ll help me continue this tradition by using Totally Unsolicited Manuscript in an upcoming issue of Random Magazine.

Sincerely,

Cathy Belben

I would never really send this letter, but it’s not unlike dozens I’ve written asking editors to consider completed essays, short stories, and articles that I’ve enclosed. I began submitting unsolicited work without querying in 1982, when I sent a poem to Co-ed magazine. As an eighth grader with no writing credentials or knowledge of publishing protocol, I didn’t know I was supposed to query. But it didn’t matter then, apparently, and it still doesn’t seem to matter.

After publishing dozens of pieces without writing a single formal query, I’ve come to believe that it isn’t entirely necessary. Perhaps there are editors out there right now ripping at their hair thinking please, lady, do not tell writers this, but they can relax—I’m not advising everyone to stuff envelopes with their journal entries and stories about The Best Christmas Ever. I am suggesting, however that writers take a chance on “cold submissions” and learn some of the lessons I’ve learned from the practice:

I’ve learned to be a better writer because I don’t query.

Here’s what I mean by better:  I write what I feel like writing--what I’ve learned, experienced, been amused, repulsed, fascinated, entertained or absorbed by. I write first, say everything I want to say the way I want to say it, and don’t worry about the opinions of an editor or an imaginary audience. I just put my ideas into words and find that without limitations, I am more honest, funny, and risky. This is as true with my professional articles, such as “You Go Girl” (School Library Journal, July 2004) as it is with my humor pieces (“Sex Up Your Halloween Costume,” Bellingham Weekly, October 2004), both of which I submitted to editors without querying.

I’ve learned that I write more because I don’t query.

At any given time, I am working on 5-6 distinct pieces of writing. Today I have in progress a short story, a memoir, a how-to article, a humor essay, a personal narrative, two book reviews, and two professional articles. Not a single one has a publisher, but as I write my humor essay about attending a naked yoga class, I’m thinking about how it might fit the smart, sassy tone of BUST or the quirky McSweeney’s website. I might send “Library Lady in Lalaland” to Library Media Connection or another professional library journal. Right now, though, I’m writing because I love working with words. If I were writing for a particular editor or audience, I wouldn’t be generating nearly as much material.

I stress less because I don’t query.

Rather than wait, nerve-wracked, for the editor of Bicycle Paper to respond to a query, I went ahead and sent her “Hey! That’s My Bike!” and she published it. A year later, I capitalized on her familiarity with my work by sending “Our Lady of Crash and Burn.” Again, she used it. Rather than sit around stressing out about whether or not an editor will respond to a query, I’d rather spend the energy reworking an essay until I’ve said everything in the best way I’m able, then submit it to a publication I think is a good match, and begin work on a new piece while awaiting word.

If you’re interested in experimenting with some “cold submissions” of your own, try this: draw a circle and divide into pieces, like a pie. Label each slice for an area of your life, like “family,” “yoga,” “reading,” “competitive Jell-o wrestling,” or whatever currently occupies your time and thinking. Then brainstorm about each arena of your life. You’re likely to generate lists of potential writing topics. Select one, begin free-writing, and when you’re ready, select the format that’s going to be the best framework for the information—or choose to use the same material in a variety of ways; like I’ve done with “Library Lady in Lala Land,” which has taken the form of a reading list and a professional how-to article.

Despite addressing my example letter to Random Magazine, there is nothing random about where I submit my work—I do research where it’s likely to get published, and I encourage you to do the same. During the weeks you’re writing a piece, visit the bookstore and zero in on magazines that address the subjects you’re writing about or match the tone and approach of your writing. Browse the internet, and when you find a site you like, follow its links to get additional ideas about places to submit. Familiarize yourself with the content and format of the publications. Read their submission guidelines, but ignore the word “query.” Write a sassy, confident cover letter, and then send off the best version your work.

Now go home.

Sit down.

Relax.

And start again.

Cathy Belben lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she earned early fame for her award-winning fourth grade essay, “What the flag means to me” and later wrote bad rhyming poetry for the Whatcom Middle School Warrior Express. She recently survived a year in Hollywood writing for the show Veronica Mars. She’s returned to her normal life as a high school teacher and librarian, a triathlete, a weightlifter, a yogi, a dog’s mom, a cat’s slave, an artist, a napper, a nanny and an auntie. She’s thankful every day for everything.

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Fit To Write
In Search of a Mentor
By Kelly James-Enger

I labored alone as a fulltime freelancer for nearly a year before I attended my first writer's conference, Magazine Editors and Writers/One on One in Chicago, late in 1997. It was a relatively expensive event but promised the opportunity to hear from eight national magazine editors about what they were looking for from freelancers—and to meet with four of them face to face for a ten-minute pitching session. That conference led to a $2,000 assignment that more than doubled my investment, but it led to something else as well—the realization that there were plenty of successful freelancers out there.

At the time, I was the only person I knew who was working as a fulltime freelancer, but I came home with the names of dozens of experienced writers. They'd written for dozens of national magazines. They'd published books. They'd supported families for years on their freelance income. And they weren't that different from me! Even though I felt unworthy to truly consider myself one of them, I now had evidence that success was possible in the field I'd chosen.

Do you have a mentor? It needn't be one in the traditional sense of giving and receiving advice. Look for someone whose career you admire or wish to emulate, and see if you can figure out how he (or she) got where s/he is today. And remind yourself, if he or she did it, why not you?  

Author, speaker and consultant Kelly James-Enger is a certified personal trainer and the author of books including Small Changes, Big Results: A 12-Week Action Plan to a Better Life (with Ellie Krieger, R.D.) and Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money. Visit http://www.becomebodywise.com for free articles about freelancing and more information about her.

2006 Columnist Appreciation

Well, Writers on the Rise certainly has grown over the past year and has touched the lives of thousands of writers. I want to thank all of our 2006 Columnists for not only doing such a terrific job, but also dealing with an editor and publisher (me) who was pushed to the maximum of her workload capacity, juggling all that she usually does in addition to writing a book and caring for her family. The upside of all of this was that, in addition to already working with a group of amazing contributors, I met Sage Cohen and invited her to join us as Assistant Editor, bringing her considerable editorial and writing skills to Writers on the Rise to help keep us keep growing and flourishing.

When I started Writers On The Rise, I set the goal of making us the best read among writing zines for writers online. I wanted every reader to feel uplifted, informed and supported in their writing journey, because I think that this is precious commodity for writers both new and seasoned. I believe that there is such a thing as intelligent, respectful and practical encouragement, and that information is so much more beneficial to individuals when presented in a genuinely helpful tone.

I was concerned once I began working on Writer Mama in earnest that WOTR would suffer because my attention had necessarily turned towards a new "baby." But when I read this issue, I was blown away and so incredibly grateful. We have more than surpassed my original intentions and I am touched by the way our 2006 contributors have embraced the professionalism, sincerity and generosity that I originally conceived.

Thank you so much, 2006 Columnists. You are:

• Wendy Burt, Ask Wendy
• Kelly James-Enger, Fit to Write
• Gregory Kompes, Turn Your Writing Hobby Into a Career
• Sharon Cindrich, Got Tech?
• Kelly Huffman, The Conference Confab
• Cathy Belben, Good Reads for Writers
• Susan C. Clark, Sustainable Office
• Elizabeth Short, Polish Your Prose
• Kristin O’Keeffe, Lively Writing Tip
• Sage Cohen, Closing Words

You have done a truly wonderful job. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with Writers On The Rise readers. I know that everything you have given will come back to you tenfold. I am sending each of you a small gift as a token of appreciation for your contribution.

Next month, I will introduce our fifteen, yes, that's right 1-5, columnists for 2007. Thank you for reading Writers On The Rise.

In the writing spirit,

          Christina Katz

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Turn Your Writing Hobby into a Writing Career

Creating Harmony

By Gregory A. Kompes

As you turn your writing hobby into a career, there will be moments when all the pieces of your life don't fit together. You won't yet be making enough money from your writing to leave your day job. You'll have trouble finding time to write because of demands from friends and family. You'll wonder if it's possible to find balance between your obligations and your writing.

There will always be moments when one part of your life demands more attention than another. The solution isn't finding balance; it's creating harmony.

Take a moment and listen to your favorite piece of music. Mine is the Academic Festival Overture by Brahms. There are moments where one instrument takes the lead, bringing out the melody. Is the melody alone? Rarely! Other instruments in the background create harmony and structure. Sure, the solo line can stand alone; you probably find yourself humming your own favorite lines, but listen to how much more interesting the tune is with all the other players behind it. Here's an important realization: the same instrument doesn't always have the melody.

Our lives are just like orchestrated music. Sometimes our writing gets to take the melody, at other times something else does. There are even moments of discord. Those are important, too. The challenges we face and the experiences we have all make our writing life richer and our writer's voice our own.

We are the conductors of our harmonic lives. All the demands, challenges, and people are the instruments. We decide which player gets the melody line. If we're conscious that all the players in our lives deserve their moments to shine, and we allow them those moments, harmony will ensue and our writing careers will be enhanced by the music.

Gregory A. Kompes (www.Kompes.com) is a writer and manuscript consultant. He is the author of the #1 Bestseller 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Places to Live, The Endorsement Quest and The Everyday Gay Activist. Gregory is the editor of The Fabulist Flash, an informative newsletter for writers, founder of LAMOO Books and Coordinator of the Las Vegas Writer's Conference. The author holds a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, NY, and is currently a Master of Science in Education candidate at California State University, East Bay.

THE BACK PAGES

Because we're not done yet!

Cheers and Applause

Writing and Publishing Success Stories

JOANNA NESBIT published “Black and White with a Touch of Red” in the November issue of Entertainment News Northwest.

LORI RUSSELL’s feature story, “Art in Collaboration: New Galleries Blend Creativity and Community” about the growing art scene in the Columbia Gorge, her profile “Sharing Her Gift” about artist Charlene Morrison and “Eco-friendly School Ranks in Top 20” about an Oregon school winning a Green Guide award all appear in the Winter edition of Columbia Gorge Magazine. Lori’s article “Awesome Oregon Outdoor Adventures” appeared in the October issue of Ruralite magazine and the November edition will feature her article, “Gathering for Good Food and Good Company.”  

LAUREN FRITZEN published "Fairhaven Toy Garden – Timeless Toys to Grow the Imagination" in the November issue of Entertainment News Northwest.

The Conference Confab

Places To Meet and Greet Industry Insiders

By Kelly Huffman

Writers in Paradise

January 20-28

The setting is the tranquil seaside campus of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where accomplished authors like Dennis Lehane (author of Mystic River) gather with professors, poets and even an HBO writer for eight days of workshops, readings and the occasional cocktail party. The roster of presenters includes NEA and Guggenheim recipients, along with rising young literary stars. There’s enough talent here to help propel your writing to the stratosphere—provided you’re accepted to the program.

http://writersinparadise.eckerd.edu/index.php

Guatemala Writing & Yoga Retreat for Women

February 10-17

Spend eight delicious days writing and practicing yoga in the Sumaya Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz Pueblo on the shores of Lake Aitlan in Guatemala. Writers and yoga practitioners of all ability levels are welcome at this supportive retreat, where handmade chairs and hammocks set the pace for the world-weary writer.

http://www.writingretreats.org/Retreats/International/Guatemala/index1.html

Kelly Huffman is a freelance writer based in Seattle. She contributes reviews and arts news to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the website Theatermania.com, and writes for the local lifestyle publication Destination Issaquah.

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Take a peek at their outstanding Bios. I think you will agree that Writers On The Rise has a pretty darn impressive line-up of contributing writers. Feel free to contact any of our columnists via their personal Web sites.

Christina also hopes to meet you in-person at a 2007 writers conference! If you would like her to propose a topic for your event, visit www.christinakatz.com.

Good Reads For Writers

The Highest Tide By Jim Lynch

Reviewed By Cathy Belben

Polish Your Prose: Omit Unnecessary Words

By Elizabeth Short

Everyday speech—peppered with body language, changes in pitch and pleasingly roundabout phrases—differs from well-written prose, which is clear, concise and (sadly, perhaps) devoid of corporeal cues. On the page, a reader tracks your gist word by word; when writing wanders, the reader's attention does, too.

To omit unnecessary words in your own writing, look for extra padding (for example, “in order to” or “the reason is”), then whittle down or eliminate wordy phrases. When combining two or more sentences, some rearranging may be required. An added bonus: like most forms of polishing, this technique yields a smaller word count. In the example below, relative savings on a 1,000-word article would be 276 words!

Elizabeth Short is a freelance writer, editor, and graphic designer with a passion for helping small businesses clarify and broadcast unique marketing messages (www.write-design.biz). Her freelance articles have appeared in numerous publications including Family Business, Pacific Yachting and The Bellingham Weekly. Elizabeth divides her time between Bellingham, Washington and southeast Alaska where she and her husband commercial fish on their salmon troller, Bertha R.

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Lively Writing Tip & Exercise

Hero Worship: Love 'em, Learn from 'em & Leave 'em

By Kristin O’Keeffe

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

~ One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

Ten years ago, I read this line—the first sentence in One Hundred Years of Solitude— and I fell in love. How can a writer, I asked myself, convey so much in just 26 words? Layered and complex, this one short sentence manipulates time so creatively and so effectively that readers are in two places at once: in front of the firing squad and with Aureliano and his father discovering ice. The result? With just one sentence, Márquez managed to knock Toni Morrison off her perch as my writing hero and teacher and claim the title for himself.

Sound familiar? You, too, have read something so astounding that you adopted the writer as a teacher and a hero? Maybe not Márquez or Morrison but another writer?

During my impassioned years (1996-2000), I obsessively studied Márquez’s work. I read everything, copied pages by hand from One Hundred Years of Solitude, and contemplated his sentence structures, word choices, imagery, and rhythms. I read his books silently and out loud. I dreamt about him. I even hung his photo above my desk for inspiration.

Then one day in 2000, I realized I no longer needed Márquez, at least not as a teacher or a hero. In the process of learning from him, I’d developed my own voice, rhythms, and sense of time. I was ready to let go and continue forward on my own.

Now take out your journal or a new blog entry and spend a bit of time writing about your heroes. Who is your writing hero? Why did you choose this particular writer? How do (or did) you learn from him or her? Are you as obsessive as I was with Márquez (come on, you can admit it)? Do you copy sentences in the night? What is it that you want to learn? How does the process work for you?

Kristin O’Keeffe (formerly Kristin Bair) is a writer living in Shanghai, China. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Larcom Review, Permafrost, Hair Trigger, The ELL Outlook and PortFolio magazine. In recent years, she has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Boston College, University of New Hampshire, Endicott College, and Montserrat College of Art. Recently, she launched a new website and blog to chronicle her experiences in Shanghai. Visit http://web.mac.com/kristinokeeffe.

Closing Words

On Believing What We're Told

By Sage Cohen

At the White Eagle after the reading, Jason spoke of the first time he heard himself referred to as a poet and how this single reference planted the seed of identity he still carries today. For me, it was Mr. Cwanger, my 6th grade teacher. He told me I was smart and gave me a ruler and a thesaurus with my name in it for reading the most books. Mr. Cwanger's validation gave me permission to start learning how to live inside the idea of being someone who was capable of achieving.

When I wrote the conclusion of my five-page paper on The Once and Future King in 10th grade, something happened. Through the act of writing, I stumbled upon a truth I had not previously understood about the book and about the human condition. I got a kind of electric feeling up and down my spine as I typed the final words; it was my first glimpse of the possibilities of transcendence behind the curtain of the labor of writing.

My father read that paper sitting in his favorite chair in the living room. When he was finished, he paused and then shook his head slowly back and forth. This scared me. Maybe I had misjudged and it was a terrible paper after all. Then my father said with a quiet reverence, “My darling daughter, you are a writer.” And I believed him.

I often marvel at how the words of even a casual acquaintance can influence our direction and ability to claim our lives. Words can be the magic carpet that takes us beyond the limitations of our self-image into an entirely new possibility. But words can also bring that carpet to a screeching halt of self-doubt.

What have you been told about your writing over the years by your teachers, friends, family? How has it influenced what you believe you are capable of today? Who has fueled your magic carpet with belief in your capacity as a writer? Is there an old, limiting story line whose time has come for the recycling bin? (Alison Kramer was just jealous of your literary prowess; that’s why she said you didn’t know a metaphor from a molehill!)

Why not take a moment to clean out the filing cabinet of your memory––find a very special place for those moments and people that reminded you how fabulous you are, and get rid of the rest! This will give you much more space for receiving all of the good news and positive feedback that await you.

Sage Cohen is assistant editor of Writers on the Rise. As founder of Sage Communications (www.sagecohen.com), she has been writing and editing corporate marketing communications for a decade. Sage also serves as editor of T Ching (www.tching.com), the premiere online tea community, and writes a monthly column for Black Lamb. Her poetry, essays and fiction have been published in journals including Poetry Flash, Oregon Literary Review, www.blueoregon.com and San Francisco Reader. Sage recently won first prize in the Ghost Road poetry contest. Visit her online at: www.sagesaidso.com.

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