What's NEW here at Sowpub....

Namely,

Your "Blast from the Past" section of the Hotsheet! As a relative newbie to this board (I've only been lurking for a few months now), I really appreciate reading these older "treasures" from Sowpub's archives.

Thanks for sharing these!!

p.s. Would you believe I'm being interviewed by the webmaster from homebasedwork.com for the "secrets of my success" for their newsletter? Sort of the same idea that Martin Avis has been doing. Wow. I told them honestly that I haven't been too successful yet (YET!!!!) but they're interviewing me anyhow....... I don't know how inspirational I'm going to be, but we'll (gulp) see!

Anya.

> Just a quick run down on what's NEW!

> I've been a little bit under the weather
> lately, but I've now recovered, and rarin'
> to go!

> If you don't know of it yet, Michael Ross
> has a new product out which we are happy to
> showcase here.... It's a tool, to make your
> writing a breeze.

> Well, it won't do the writing for you (I'm
> still waiting on that device - maybe that
> can be Dean Kamen's next invention!) - but
> it sure helps!

> What do you do if you're fresh out of ideas
> in your writing?

> One solution is to turn to Writer's
> Friend's list of headlines, cliches,
> quotes, and miscellaneous items. Just
> reading through these is often enough to
> help stimulate something new to say. You can
> also add your own favorite items too. (I've
> started to add one-liner jokes to the
> "misc." section too so I can use
> them to spice up my writings. :) )

> A word about cliches. If you mentioned
> you're going to use a cliche to your old
> high school English teacher, she would
> probably have thrown up her arms in
> exasperation!

> One thing they taught ME in high school was
> not to use cliches. But if you are writing
> persuasively, the goal is to move someone
> and COMMUNICATE. The great thing about
> cliches is that everyone knows instantly
> what you're talking about.

> So if you're writing to persuade, then by
> all means use cliches.... But please don't
> tell any English teachers, for their sake!
> :)

> Read more about Writer's Friend at
> http://www.sowpub.com/writersfriend.html
> Secondly - the 'Seedzine' starts in a week!
> This will feature Gordon Alexander's
> writings - subscribe now at
> http://www.sowpub.com/seedzine.htm

> More more more coming in the following weeks....
> So stay tuned. :)

> - Dien Rice