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Thank you for welcoming me into your virtual home as the guest host of this week’s WDC For Authors Newsletter.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Greetings, last month we explored the 'difference' between being writers and authors, and from the feedback we've received, most of the members of our Community embrace the fact that by putting work 'out there' for readers to enjoy and comment upon, they aver that they are 'authors' of that work.
Now, how to get people to read your work ~ bring those who desire verse to your poems and those who desire stories to your mysteries or novels and those who desire fact and expository articles to your articles, and keep them coming back.
You develop your author's platform by writing and by letting people know what it is you write. Here at Writing.Com we have the opportunity to try different genres, explore verse and prose and factual writing, screenplays and lyrics, novels and ficlets. Your portfolio can provide a venue for your Muse Creative to expand upon genres or focus on one particular form you enjoy.
Then, when you're ready to submit your work for print or electronic publication, you already have a built in readership within our Community and you can drive new readers to your work within your portfolio.
How, by linking to your public portfolion URL. You've set up your portfolio, you have a bio that invites readers, and you have items with cool titles and tag lines or folders ready to open. Now invite the editors and publishers to whom you submit work for publication to view some of your public work on site. Remember to set items you may be considering for publication as 'private' or at the least 'registered users only' lest they be considered published and no longer available for first rights publication.
How to link to your portfolio, you will see from my signature here, and Storymaster has a detailed item that gives some of the added benefits - sharing your status as author with friends, neighbors, other readers, and potential agents, editors and publishers. At the top of your own Public Portfolio, you will find the URL that you can copy and paste to your signature here and elsewhere. You can highlight and right-click the 'http' line and copy to your signature on letters, emails, newsletters, bookplates or business cards, among others. Here's what it looks like - or you can type it in ~
http:manga_kate.Writing.Com
Then, once your readers (and potential publishers and editors and agent) have a direct line to your portfolio, give them something to read that identifies what you like to write ~ what you want them to see and what you can offer them for publication and promotional assistance. Give them once again the cool titles, the blog that speaks of more than this morning's breakfast (unless it's something totally zombie perhaps), and makes them want to come back to read more, and tell their friends.
Fellow Authors ~ consider the resources we have at hand to show anyone and everyone that we're authors with stories and verse and plays and articles to share with readers in our Community and some, with the general public.
Write On! Fellow Authors!
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
http://manga_kate.Writing.Com
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I'd like to share some of the resources, as well as some cool blogs and platforms that some of our authors have on site ~ enjoy the read, you'll be back for more, and perhaps they will incite your Muse Creative ~
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Thanks for all the comments with respect to Writers and Authors last month ~ we did raise a creative question to which I share the following questions and answers as offered by our Members in prose and verse ~ I hope you visit their portfolios and partake of the writing each Author has to offer for your reading (and reviewing) pleasure ~
From: monty31802
A good point on what makes a writer, you or me.
I write because I feel I must, no choice. Much of my writing never goes further than the paper that I scribble on but even that gives me satisfaction.
Great newsletter Kate.
From: Zeke 
From what I've observed, when a writer specializes in on genre and subject, the likelihood of publication increases because of the revision process.
From: Little Raven 
I believe that writing the genre that calls you is the only way to write well. You can write 1,000 novels in a genre that you have little or no feeling for and never see publication simply because you are not "feeling it". This is why I say never write to please anyone else, especially a publisher. Write only what is true to you. It's part of being honest as a writer.
From: Summer Day♥
This is very encouraging, even inspirational! It clears the whole 'writer, author' dilemma up a little. I hope to be an fit and healthy author one day!
From: diamond_hoop
First, thanks for plugging "Cave Dancing" - that was a pleasant surprise. Second, in answer to your first question, I think a narrower focus on our writing helps us improve, at least initially. After all, specialization breeds specialists. The same is true of publication for novelists, as their readers come to expect a certain type of material. Having said that, like all "rules" of writing, these are not 100%-ers.
From: LJPC - the tortoise
Hi Kate! I thought your NL was very interesting. I have one comment about this line: So first you write, then you revise (remember, revising is also writing), and when you feel ready, you share the story, poem, article, screenplay, novel, with your peers,
I usually write, put it in my port, and when reviewers have smacked me upside the head about all its faults -- THEN I revise.
Thanks for a good read!
Laura
From: Adriana Noir
Great NL,Kate! I think a broader range can be beneficial to a writer because the things they learn when exploring other genres and styles can always be applied to the one of their choice. Most genres overlap each other and include other elements, so its all beneficial!
From: NAYKD POET
Poetry
The art of poetry is to conjure thoughts profound
At times achieved by the mere use - of just one word
But in the end it’s to its readers to astound
Or to render it all - utterly absurd
Poetry may be reflective or devil-may-care
But for certain it comes from being aware
The tool of its conveyance need not be exact
For it is the essence of its message – sought to extract
Hence, should one encounter a poem or two
Be certain to this to do:
Enter with an open mind
Read with nay a pre-intent
Look within its words to find
Its essence - its nectar potent
From: Oceandweller
I have always concidered the difference between a Writer and an Author,the fact that an Author is published. I like your view on it though, mabe I have an Author in me after all. : - )
I thank each of you for your comments and encouragement, and insights!
Until we next meet,
Write On, Fellow Authors!
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
http://manga_kate.Writing.Com
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