Friday Five for Writers

(This post has been inspired by the Friday Five.)

Five questions for the writer in you:

1. Who or what inspires you to write?
2. How do you look for inspiration when a block hits?
3. What is your favorite writing subject and why?
4. How do you infuse your passions and interests into your writing?
5. What other topics would you like to explore through writing?

You can post your answers here. Have a great writing weekend!

Writing Bliss Email Workshops

If you're too shy or too busy to attend a real live workshop, you might want to try Shery Russ's Writing Bliss email workshops. Writing Bliss is a series of email courses for writers. I've tried some of the courses myself and enjoyed them immensely. Some workshops are free and some require a course fee.

Penguin prize strips ethnic requirements

I picked this up from the Guardian:

The Decibel Penguin prize, an Arts Council initiative awarded to writers of "Asian, African and Caribbean background," has been forced to change its entry criteria after an intervention by the Commission for Racial Equality.This year's award will have no ethnic entry requirements, and will instead focus on "personal stories of immigrants to the UK."

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We're Almost Done

This is still on beta, but this is good to go. The picture and writing quote on the sidebar may change from time to time. (We like variations!)

Hang on.

Making the Big Switch

Today's Writer is moving to the new Blogger version soon. A new and better layout is also afoot. Stay tuned!

Worldwide Web Writers @ Google Groups

Last year, I created Freelance Writing PH at Google Groups. The mailing list was meant to ignite discussion on freelance writing in the Philippines and to share information on the business and craft of writing. In the course of 7 months and despite the 'PH' term, I kept getting subscription requests from writers based in different regions of the world. I did reject their requests and I admit, I felt bad having done so. It seemed like I was keeping them from sharing information which is what the Web is all about, anyway.

Thus, I decided to transform the local mailing list into a global mailing list. Yup, Freelance Writing PH is now Worldwide Web Writers. We've opened our doors to writers from around the globe and narrowed the focus to Web writing.

Join us?