Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

Google lawyers recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Paul McFedries, creator of the famous Word Spy site, demanding he remove ‘google’ as a verb from his Wordspy lexicon. More info: Slashdot

For those of you who participated in National Novel Writing Month and who (like me) still haven’t finished editing their novels, you can now find extra inspiration on the NaNoEdMo site, which challenges writers to edit their novels in one month. Even if you didn’t do NaNoWriMo, you could still twist this around to suit [...]

Writers Weekly recently launched
message boards for those looking for interview subjects as well as those posting info about freelance jobs and paying markets. Looks like an excellent resource addition to an already great resource for freelance writers.

The BBC is looking for a poem for Britain “in the spirit of the classic hymn Jerusalem.”
The shortlist will be announced on National Poetry Day on 9 October. You can find the rules on the BBC’s Essential Poems page. Open to British Isles residents only, max 16 lines, deadline May 31st.
No cash prize, sadly, but [...]

Those familiar with Inkspot may be interested in my journal entry today about why I sold Inkspot, and why I left it.

My clearest memory of poetry education was spending what seemed like days in my high school English class on The Red Wheelbarrow by e. e. cummings. We discussed, dissected, analyzed until I never wanted to see a red wheelbarrow or a poem ever again. As a result, I was never much of a poetry reader [...]