https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/On writing. Thoughts, ideas, observations. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/600006Good morning! I am working on a couple of articles regarding job seeking and networking. If you could take a few minutes and provide me with answers to these questions I would be quite appreciative. By responding to me you are giving me permission to use your comments and also quote you if I feel...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/597562I was looking over some old stuff on my computer and came across this exercise that I had completed. I have noted the page number but not the source. I thik it came out of one of Phyllis Whitney's books on writing for juveniles, but I'm not sure. Darn on that lack of reference. Anyway - here is...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/597078I found these links yesterday and though I would share them with you. They are really cool. http://www.libraryspot.com/ as far as a reference is concerned, I'm not sure it gets any better than this. http://www.ipl.org/ The Internet Public LIbrary. What a great idea and SO much information.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/597077Yesterday, finally, I received the following response from my email to Writers Market. I sent this because I had failed on numerous occasions to be able to renew my subscription online. I kept getting a blurb to enter a client ID which I didn't have and there wasn't a place to put one anyway. I...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/596751C are to take a look? I’m kind of learning about how to set up a blog on www.blogger.com and I’m having fun, though some of the technicalities I’m still working out. Check out my new blog about our house at www.hardyhouseblog.blogspot.com. I would love your comments and suggestions. As the blog...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/596423Do you have articles you have written that have either been rejected by a magazine or ones you just haven’t polished yet? Well, get them polished and updated because there is a place that will take them and it offers payment as well. Thanks to Ariala who introduced me to the company, Associated...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/595838Let’s hope the tenth time is the charm. I am planning to send a query out to another publisher for my book, The Sunbonnet Lady: Bertha Louise Corbett, the Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies. Her Life and Art. Okay, that’s a working title, but it fits the topic. This has been my baby for a number of...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/595646I don't know how writers, especially poets, can be so prolific. I have to work, work, work, rework, rework, and rework again before I get a piece of writing where I want it. I would like to be more that way. Are there tricks that you use? Do you free write a lot? Help me because I would like to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/595431Responses from (BetsyLewis, wiccan_she_wolf, Kabu, Ariala, MedicineFlower) A few days ago I posted wondering how many of the souls on blogit have self-published, or indie-published. I have repeated responses here. I hope this will help anyone looking to self-publish. I would like to collect...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/BetsyLewis360/595260Like Audre Lorde (see my poetry post), one of my all-time favorite black poets, Zora Neale Hurston is one of my all-time favorite black authors. (Actually, both of these authors are just my all-time favorites. It doesn’t matter what color their skin is. I just love them both. But in honor of...