Here are the latest newsletters from Write Mentor:
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Available
for sign up anytime:
The 12 month
novel course is for those who need encouragement from first spark
to first draft.
This course is for
everyone, from novice to pro. We’ll build a supportive community
who will cheer you on, will offer to share chapters with you and
form potential critique partnerships.
Every month, we’ll have a
special guest on for a chat on that month’s aspect of novel
writing.
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Spark
Mentoring
Spark Mentoring is always
available if you need extra help or support each month. We have
made the Spark mentoring package even better by including access
to our 12 month novel course and the self-editing course with
Kesia Lupo for all Spark mentees - do contact me if you wish to
access either of these and are a current spark mentee. If you
wish to sign, hit the link above for all the details.
WriteMentor
Magazine April 2020
Our second WriteMentor Magazine
for Children's Writers is published online. At only £3.00 or
£9.99 for an annual subscription, this issue includes an
exclusive feature from author, actress and former CBeebies
presenter Cerrie Burnell; an interview with Sam Copeland on
balancing life as an agent and an author; insights from authors
Perdita and Honor Cargill about writing as mother and daughter;
and advice from David Higham Associates agent Christabel McKinley
on writing a submission letter. You could be reading all this and
more - so grab your copy! We can't wait for you to read it.
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Children's
Novel Award - The Results
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Picture Book category winner: Faruq and the Wiri
Wiri by Sophia Payne
Novel (CB/MG/YA) category winner: 49 Sisters
by Sue Cunningham
Well done to both Sophia and Sue for winning the
relevant categories.
And the overall winner, and recipient of £500 and
trophy, is:
49 SISTERS BY SUE CUNNINGHAM
Read the full post and see all of Alice's videos here.
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Available
for sign up anytime:
The 12 month
novel course is for those who need encouragement from first spark
to first draft.
This course is for
everyone, from novice to pro. We’ll build a supportive community
who will cheer you on, will offer to share chapters with you and
form potential critique partnerships.
Every month, we’ll have a
special guest on for a chat on that month’s aspect of novel
writing.
DO YOU WRITE MG/YA? AND WANT TO IMPROVE
YOUR WRITING CRAFT?
Emma Read, Lindsay Galvin
and Alexandra Sheppard will lead their own 6 week
courses, taking you through the main elements to make to make
your novel really stand out and to learn craft aspects that will
help, not only this novel, but every one your write.
The course outline is here, and each week will focus
on a different aspect of writing craft. The tutor will provide
notes on these areas at the start of each week to give you an
opportunity to fine tune your own work, then you’ll post it up a
task for tutor and peer review.
In the final week, your tutor will be joined by a
top literary agent, to look at the most important part of
your novel: Page 1.
Agents:
Lauren Gardner, Chloe Seager and Jo Williamson.
Limited to 12 places – first come, first served.
Dates:
12th May 2020 – 16th June 2020
Day/Time: Tuesday evenings 8-9pm (UK, London time)
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WriteMaster LMG - Starting
12th May 2020
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£99.00
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WriteMaster UMG - Starting
12th May 2020
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£99.00
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WriteMaster YA - Starting
12th May 2020
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£99.00
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Spark
Mentoring
Spark Mentoring is always
available if you need extra help or support each month. We have
made the Spark mentoring package even better by including access
to our 12 month novel course and the self-editing course with
Kesia Lupo for all Spark mentees - do contact me if you wish to
access either of these and are a current spark mentee. If you
wish to sign, hit the link above for all the details.
WriteMentor
Magazine April 2020
Our second WriteMentor Magazine
for Children's Writers is published online. At only £3.00 or
£9.99 for an annual subscription, this issue includes an
exclusive feature from author, actress and former CBeebies
presenter Cerrie Burnell; an interview with Sam Copeland on
balancing life as an agent and an author; insights from authors
Perdita and Honor Cargill about writing as mother and daughter;
and advice from David Higham Associates agent Christabel McKinley
on writing a submission letter. You could be reading all this and
more - so grab your copy! We can't wait for you to read it.
Further
mentoring opportunities
We've been asked to share a
great opportunity for Children's Writers for mentoring. Full
details are on the link below - deadline is 1st June 2020:
madeleinemilburn.co.uk/mentorship.
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Final word from the Jedi Master…
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We had another busy week at
WriteMentor, announcing the results of the Children's Novel Award
and running our first Online Writing Weekend.
Both, it seems from feedback, were great successes and I'd like
to thank again everyone involved!
This week, I've been thinking a lot about the reasons why I
write.
It's not necessarily an easy craft to take on, or an industry
which is particularly kind to those trying to break in.
Financially, it's not particularly rewarding (unless you're one
of the lucky few) and it can have a big, detrimental impact on
your physical, mental and emotional health.
That said, the reward of writing a new thing is so intoxicating.
A dopamine release like no other. A cascade of neurochemical
reactions that cannot be beaten.
And that's the real beauty - no-one can write like you. It's like
your DNA. It IS your writing DNA.
You can give a million people the same pitch or premise, and I
guarantee you - would put my mortgage on it - that none of them
will even be remotely similar over the course of a novel.
Similarities perhaps, but like humans who share almost all their
DNA, it's each of our uniquenesses and differences that sets our
writing apart.
In fact, I know from reading, you can even identify writers you
know well, simply from the genetic markers in their prose. And
that's worth remembering when you worry about a certain trope
being overdone - you can still make that unique and fresh and new
by injecting more of the one thing that you have, that others
don't - YOU!
So hold that thought this week as you sit down to write - you are
special, not just because you choose to face and overcome the
myriad of conflicts and obstacles that block your way to becoming
a published author, but because every single word you type is
special and wholly you, and not one person could do what you're
doing. It might be crap (in your opinion - it probably isn't),
but you're doing it and that very act of defiance, rushing into
the heart of the most terrifying antagonist possible - your own
self-doubting reflection on the computer screen - and still
writing those words…
Well, that is one hell of a reason to write!
Go get that dopamine.
Writing can be lonely…but it doesn't need to be.
May the Force be with you!
Stuart
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