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Drabble workshop
Drabble workshop
Let’s Drabble
Welcome
This is taken from a workshop I ran at the eFestival of words. Sorry for any typos, but I hope you might find it useful.
Welcome to the drabble workshop.
Let’s start with a quick definition, just in case you’re not sure what drabbling is.
According to Wikipedia, “A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length, not necessarily including the title. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.”
Protected: Walt’s report from Willamette Writers 2012
Networking, from a talk by Sheila
Networking
(If I were giving this talk today, I would skip Gather and Nings, but you should always be on the lookout for more good sites)
Internet Writing, Marketing and Networking
If you’ve got an email address you’re on the internet.
If you’ve got a book out or an article in a magazine, you’re into marketing.
If you’ve got friends, you’re networking.
And if you use Google, you can do almost anything.
Protected: Book Design: Guest speaker Jennifer Omner
Protected: Agents and Editors: Jean’s report from Wordstock
Protected: Word weeding, from Jean Harkin
Notes from Sheila’s Self-publishing talk
Lulu Selfpublishing, from talk by Sheila Deeth
If I were giving the talk today, I would suggest you use Createspace. Who knows what I’d recommend tomorrow. But the steps are pretty similar (and change on a regular basis).
If you want to use Lulu, here are the steps (and links) as they stood a while ago…
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