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Can Not Vs. Cannot

November 25th, 2008 by (Michy)

The definition of ‘cannot’ is: can not. Yet, the way you write it is a style issue, and it is one word: cannot, meaning can not.

How’s that for quirky English?

This isn’t a hard and fast rule, but it is what’s considered an acceptable usage style. If you go by the major style guidebooks–MLA, APA, Gregg, Chicago, etc–you will see that they all recommend using ‘cannot’, the one-word version of ‘can not’.

I frequently see writers use ‘can not’, but ‘cannot’ is the more proper style usage. Be sure when you’re editing and writing to use the one word version.

That said, I do sometimes, on the internet in my very informal blogs, use ‘can NOT’ when I am seeking to emphasize a point on the ‘not’ part of the phrase. This is rare, and again, I only do it on very informal blogs when writing online, because, as I’ve told you in another blog post, NEVER use all caps for emphasis in professional writing.

So – Can Not vs. Cannot – hands down, ‘cannot’ wins!

Keep writing and happy editing!

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Some days…

November 25th, 2008 by (Michy)

Boy, I tell you, some days I wonder about my decision to homeschool.

Sometimes, my son, who is currently 14, and is hoping to survive to 15, is being homeschooled by me, with some help from my family too. Most days, things go semi-smoothly. WE can usually finish an entire day’s worth of lessons in a few hours, leaving him some time for free reading and internet play. He loves to read about paranormal things.

But some days…

What do you do on the days he just refuses to do his work? Just refuses.

Ah, well.

We had originally planned on putting him back into public school this next coming up year. I’ve been giving him some random tests to see how he’s doing as far as the standard for grade level here in our city, and he’s doing okay on everything except math, so that shouldn’t be too bad for putting him back.

But the more I read… the more I learn about public school… the more things I see, the more paranoid I become. We nearly lost him to the youth detention center two years ago for jumping down some stairs and spinning his lanyard around his head. Can you imagine?

It’s a very strange world we live in, and I am so thankful I am not a child in this world.

I’m babbling this morning, mostly, and I probably need some more sleep, but I’m really concerned about the decisions ahead of me with my son and schooling.

So we are researching private schools and church schools now… there has to be other options, right?

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Refresh Christmas and Think Ahead

November 25th, 2008 by (Michy)

Last year, I put up some Christmas articles at the last minute, so they really didn’t do all that well. I was hoping they would pick up some page views this year, so I figured I’d give them some help by getting a link out there to them back to the articles.

You guys who have been with AC for more than a year should be looking at this too… for just a few minutes worth of time, you can ‘refresh’ last year or even the year before’s Christmas content. All you need to do is drop the links on a blog or two, since blogs are generally indexed at least once per day, and often more than that, slap them up on a Squidoo lens, or wherever you usually post your content… the search engine spiders will find your links, look at your older articles, and they can actually bump up in the search returns. It’s sort of a way to ‘refresh’ your older content.

Refreshing takes a lot less time than writing a new article, and it does pay off in more ways than one, including helping to get your average page views per article up, by increasing views on older articles.

If any of you want to leave some comments or read my last year’s content, I surely wouldn’t mind! Here they are:

Last Minute Christmas Gift Ideas
Christmas day is just around the corner, and you’re checking your list, checking it twice, and realized you forgot someone especially nice. Now what?
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First Christmas Together Gift Ideas for Her
Buying gifts for family and friends is hard enough when gift cards and specialty baskets are acceptable, but what do you buy for the romantic or love interest in your life, when your relationship is still new and this is your first Christmas together?
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Unique and Inexpensive Homemade Christmas Tree Decorations
Decorating for the holidays doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Not only can you save money by making homemade Christmas tree decorations, but you can start a new family tradition, have fun, and ensure your holiday decorations are unique!
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Tips to Stop Overeating This Holiday Season
Overeating is frequently one of the top complaints about the holiday season. This article can help you enjoy all your favorite meals during Christmas without overeating!
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If you have Christmas articles FROM LAST YEAR, feel free to leave a live link to them in the comments. This year’s Christmas articles, you can promote fresh, so please don’t leave them here on the blog this time – let’s refresh some of last year’s. Also, on a different domain for an additional linkback, consider going to this thread on my writers forum and and leave the links to your last year’s or this year’s Christmas articles in that one thread. The forum is indexed multiple times per day, so your link will get picked up by Google and other search engines pretty quickly, and hopefully you’ll get some traffic coming to your older Christmas articles from last year or the year before.

Now, if you don’t have Christmas articles for upfront pay already in the queue for review, if you don’t hurry, you’ll lose the maximum page views. By the end of this week, Christmas articles for upfront pay will likely be too old to get major page views from this year. You’d have to put them up display only. So my recommendation is to finish up all your Christmas content you plan to submit for upfront payment ASAP and get it all submitted before the end of this week.

After this week, it’s time to start focusing on two things: end of year, the New Year.

Right behind that, we have Super Bowl and Black History Month – both of which you’ll want to start writing about within the first week or so of the New Year.

Remember, being a writer for content sites and blogs means keeping one step ahead. While everyone else is celebrating Thanksgiving, you will be writing about Valentine’s Day. Just the way it is.

Keep writing!

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Fantasy Publishers, Open Submissions

November 25th, 2008 by (Michy)

I find it interesting, in my search for agents, I stumbled upon a large publishing house that accepts science fiction and fantasy novels without being agented.

I was surprised.

Of course, my novel that I am looking to submit to an agent is not a fantasy or a science fiction novel, so it doesn’t do me any good for this novel I just finished, but the new novel I’m working on is in the fantasy genre.

I laughed to myself thinking that it’s highly possible if I finish this book I’m working on writing now and submit it to this publisher, I might end up with this book published before the one I’m seeking an agent for!

Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

Nah, not going to happen. First, I made the decision that I don’t want to become famous for fantasy writing. I do hope my fantasy books are good, but they aren’t my main desire or dream for my writing, so I don’t want those to be my first major-published books.

Secondly, it’s egotistical of my to automatically assume this well-known publisher would even want my fantasy book anyway! Though… I do think they are going to be a big hit!

Anyhooo, just some agent and publisher rambling here.

I was very impressed and surprised and excited to realize there are major publishers out there who do still take unagented submissions.

The publishing world isn’t all that intimidating, after all, is it? Really?

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Dreams Don’t Work Without Action

November 25th, 2008 by (Michy)

Early this morning, the series finale for the series Roseanne played on Nick-at-Nite. I will admit to having loved that show so many years ago. For those who have never seen it or don’t remember it, I won’t go into details, but what I want to remind you of is the fact that Roseanne, on the show, was a writer – sorta. Back when the kids were little, Dan built her a ‘writing room’ in the basement, complete with bookshelves to put her manuscripts on, a typewriting, legal pads, pencils and an electric pencil sharpener even.

And then, her life goes on.

The last show of the season, she reveals that the entire ’show’, her life, had not be ‘real’ but rather had been her ‘memoirs’, so to speak, her life, but she rewrote it the way she wished it had been.

Well, back 20 some odd years ago, when I first watched the last episode, I liked it (though I know many hated it), but watching it again last night, now that I actually am a writer too, and coaching other writers to follow their dreams, the final monologue of that show really struck a chord with me. I think it will to some of you writers who read me too. So instead of drifting back to sleep for a few more hours, I decided to get up, search for the monologue text online and share the important parts of it with you.

If you are a writer or have dreams of being a writer one day, please continue reading this post.

Michy’s excerpts from Roseanne’s final monologue:

“Everyone wonders where creative people get their inspiration. Actually, I’ve found it’s all around you.”

And it is. Everything in my life inspires me to write. I can drive down the street and see a cat run across the road and up a tree and there’s an idea for a poem running through my head. I can’t count the number of times I’ve come out of a shower to jot something down, some idea I had while in there. My friends, my family, everyone I’ve ever met – they inspire me to write.

“A lot of times nerds are really artists who just listen to the beat of a different drum… “

The reason I left this part in is because, in this life, this world, I’ve never felt ‘normal’. So whether you’re a nerd or a geek or a dork or your fat or thin or tall or short or smart or struggle or rich or poor or happy or sad or healthy or disabled or straight or gay or black or white or purple or blue… if you feel as though you are ‘different’ in some way, maybe, just maybe, you’re an artist.

Use your differences to your advantage. You have them for a reason. Write about them!

“So in my writing, I did what any good mother would do. I fixed it… “

I find this line poignant. Think about it. If you were to write your child’s story, anything, to give them the perfect life, wouldn’t you do it?

“My writing’s really what got me through the last year [sic]… “

My writing is the only thing that has gotten me through my entire life, but especially during the darkest, hardest times, my writing saw me through. Without it, I don’t even want to think about where I would be now.

“In choosing life, I realized that my dreams of being a writer wouldn’t just come true; I had to do the work.”

If I can give one piece of advice to someone who has some dreams of being a writer, this quote is it. Writing is glorious, wonderful, beautiful, amazing, life-changing, and the best thing that ever happened to me… but it’s work. It’s hard work. And if you want to be a writer in any way other than in name, such as making a living as a writer, getting a book published or signing that big contract or getting that big freelancing gig – whatever your writing dreams are – you have to be willing to do the work.

“And as I wrote about my life, I relived it, and whatever I didn’t like, I rearranged.”

Oh, I have so done this. Write about it, but make it the way it never was, the way it should have been, could have been. Writers can control the universe… at least, the one within the confines of the pages of their book and in their minds.


“I made a commitment to finish my story even if I had to write in the basement in the middle of the night while everyone else was asleep.”

I said in yesterday’s post how I wrote, sometimes late into the night, early in the morning, right through dinner… my eyes burned, my back ached, my feet swelled and I was drained, but I wrote.. constantly.

Are you willing to put that type of dedication into your dreams?

Can you make the decision, today, right now, in your own heart, to finish your story, no matter what?

And finally:

“But the more I wrote, the more I understood myself and why I had made the choices I made, and that was the real jackpot.
  • I learned that dreams don’t work without action;
  • I learned that no one could stop me but me.
  • I learned that love is stronger than hate.

And most important, I learned that God does exist. He and/or She is right inside you, underneath the pain, the sorrow, and the shame.”


So, make your jokes about Roseanne, the series, the woman… but this monologue… to me… is powerful stuff.

And this is why I write. This is how I feel. It was my thoughts, inside my head, on a television show from over 20 years ago, a show I watched, but it meant nothing to me until 5am this morning.

She ended it this: I think I’ll be a lot better now that this book is done…

I know that feeling, first hand.

Do you?

Think about it. How will you feel when you’re book is done?

Love and stuff,
Michy
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Naysayers & Negative Nellies

November 23rd, 2008 by (Michy)

My grandmother used to use that term, “Negative Nellie”, anytime we didn’t want to do something or we thought it was too hard. When I wanted to be a writer, back when I was a kid, I ran into a lot of naysayers who I then allowed myself to turn me into a Negative Nellie where writing is concerned.

With the holidays coming up, thoughts turning sometimes not so pleasantly to having family around for the next 6-8 weeks, I started thinking about younger years, yesterday, growing up. I wanted to be a writer when I was a kid. I had forgotten for a time that being a writer was ever a dream I’d had as a child, because it wasn’t encourage or supported. Admittedly, at one time, I wanted to be a painter/drawer too. Funny that, since I really wanted to do that so I could illustrate my books.

Still, if I had said, “I want to be a journalist,” and then went to college and majored in journalism, and then got a job on a paper or magazine, that would have been okay with the naysayers.

If I had wanted to be a columnist or a staff writer for a publication, and I went to college, got a degree in some type of technical or non-fiction writing or English, got a job on the ground floor and worked my way up, the naysayers would have been okay with that too.

But that’s not what I wanted. I wanted to be a writer.

So what happened?

Well, I was told, basically, that writing was a hobby, not a job. I liked writing poetry. There’s no money in poetry! (this is mostly true) I liked telling stories. There’s no money in telling stories! (as Rowling if there’s money) I liked writing.

There’s no money in writing!

Well, for long years, I believed that. I went to college, got a job, advanced in my career. I made decent money eventually, but man, there was a time in my life I was borrowing eggs from one neighbor and potatoes from another just to scrape together some dinner and having to borrow a few bucks to have gas to drive to the job interview while raising two kids alone.

Eventually, though, I did struggle out of the grind, landed a decent job in one place, climbed upward, upward, upward… and then walked away from a major corporation to start a freelance career.

I’ve never looked back.

The only regret: I wish I’d stared writing sooner.

Everything happens in time though.

I wouldn’t be here now if I’d continued to believe the naysayers. I was single when I first started freelancing on my own, but very shortly after, I ended up in a relationship with someone who said he supported my writing, and in fact, he did read it and tell me how good it was, but when I had to put time into my writing, because I was spending so much time writing. Writing was all I did. Well, that and editing, but to me, they sorta go hand in hand. Anyway, I would wake up and immediately start writing and I would write through dinner, through the night, sometimes not even stopping to go to bed.

Yes, sometimes I would crash and burn for a time, exhausted from the writing, but I was THAT determined. My partner at the time was not a true partner in the sense of working together toward a common goal. I was constantly chastised for spending too much time at the computer, too much time writing. “Do you want me to succeed or not?”

Apparently, not. He cheated on me with someone else, and quite frankly, I was too busy writing to notice much. He eventually left, and I turned that into more writing – more fuel and fodder for my stories and poetry.

And then, finally, I had gotten out the years of frustration and pent up emotion… and I was able to settle down to a regular routine. The income was slow coming in, but once it started rolling in, it just kept coming.

And I haven’t looked back since.

Today, I’ve replaced my corporate income, and then some. I have four minor books published (still hoping to get a major publisher and sign with an agent by the end of 2009), and I do what I love every day of the week, from my home, surrounded by family who loves me and supports me – now.

I made a choice. I had to decide what I was willing to give up for the sake of my writing. See, my tagline, “I am a writer. It’s not what I do; it’s who I am!” is more than just a tagline. It IS who I am.

My choice was: write or die. So when it finally came to that point, the naysayers meant nothing to me anymore.

Thanksgiving, last year, I presented my mother with a copy of my fourth book. She flipped through it and said, “You’re strange.”

I said, “You know, my friends and the folks on my writers forum, they don’t think I’m strange. They think I’m talented.”

My mother said, laughing, “Well, they’re strange too.”

Now…. If I can keep writing after a conversation like that, are naysayers really an excuse to stop for you?

There IS money to be made as a writer. If you want to make it as a writer, the naysayers will mean nothing to you but a challenge to prove them wrong.

So this holiday season, when the family asks you, “So… what are you doing with yourself these days?”

Proudly stick your chest out, smile with a twinkle in your eye and declare, “I am a writer!”

Make no apologies for following your dreams – ever.

Keep writing!

Oh, and if you’re looking for an interesting idea for a gift for your family this Christmas, something special just for your kinfolk, check out this great idea Amy Browne had for her family by clicking here.

Love and stuff,
Michy
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And the winner is….

November 21st, 2008 by (Michy)

This was, by far, the most difficult short story contest to judge that we have had yet. The entries this time were absolutely fantastic. The judges and I discussed the finalists until we thought we would go crazy.

Interestingly enough, the first place winner was selected as first place by three of the four judges and was selected as second place by one of the judges, and after I read it, I have to agree with their decision.

When we judge short stories, there are two things that usually knock the stories out of the running, even when the writing is really mechanically sound. Those two things are: 1) the story didn’t tell a full, complete story and 2) the ending left the reader flat.

For the first one, we had this happen with a few of the entries this time. They were well-written entries, the story was compelling in the beginning, but then we were left with a sense of, “Uhm, what was the point of that?” One of the stories, we all agreed, was very well written, it was cute, but we couldn’t figure out what the ’story’ was. It was more like it was a scene from a story, but not a full story itself. Keep that in mind. Stories for this contest need a beginning, a middle and a solid ending, and they need a point.

We don’t want you to just relay a scene or something that happened; we want you to tell us a full, complete story that leaves us satisfied.

The winner of this contest did just that and had pretty solid mechanics and formatting too. It was a worthy entry and I’m proud to announce it as the winner. When I went to look up who wrote it, I was even prouder.

But I’m getting ahead of myself….

Let’s start with our honorable mentions.

All honorable mentions will receive html code to proudly display their honorable mention status on any website they choose. They will all also receive one free copy of the anthology when it goes to print, in addition to their free copy they receive just for entering.

Honorable Mention #1:

Eric Patterson, a new member of our little forum here, wrote (I think) three really strong entries into this contest, especially for a newbie to the board. He obviously has been writing before he came to the board and he definitely has a spark. I liked his story about the twins, but then, anyone who knows me on a personal level knows I’m a bit biased about twins. I liked the story about the little girl too. The judges scored him right up there and he was so close to having one of his place third that it came down to a near argument amongst the judges.

Eric, you are definitely worthy of an honorable mention, and something tells me that you are going to be a fierce competitor in future contests. Your writing mechanics are sound and your stories are full and completely and you did have some interesting uses of the theme. If there is room in the anthology after I’ve compiled all the winners, one of yours just might be offered a contract.

Most Creative Use of Theme

Laurie Darroch-Meekis has really begun to come into her own. Her writing for the contests just gets better with every entry. I think what I like the most about Laurie’s entry this time around was the use of the theme. It was absolutely clever. We have a theme of fire and ice and she uses red hot fire peppers and Popsicles. How clever is that? The only problem with this entry was that it didn’t feel like a full story to the judges, but more like a scene. However, all the judges and myself included, absolutely loved the clever use of the theme, so Laurie definitely is worthy of an honorable mention for the best use of the theme!

Honorable Mention #2:

This place belongs to newcomer Andi Caldwell. Both of her entries were excellent stories and with just a little bit of work on mechanics, this new fiction writer is going to come into her own. I hope she enters future contests, because both of her entries were strong and one came within two points of placing in this contest. Watch out for this one. She’s going to be tough competition next year; I can feel it.

Honorable Mention #3:

This one belongs to George Kramer. I like George’s stories. I like his creativeness and there’s a little bit of wit behind the stories too, some ‘hidden humor’ there. He had more than one entry in the contests, and I’ll tell you right now, mechanics are hurting him more than anything, because the stories all are pretty good stories. George, you did a fine job this time around.

Lastly, let me mention Tanya Katerina Noegel. While she hasn’t placed this time and the judges didn’t select her for an honorable mention, I want to personally say something about her writing here. It’s the last contest of the year, so I’m taking some liberties to sort of ‘remember’ here, Tanya is a fine writer. She has good mechanics, her stories are sound, her writing is good. one of her stories from a past contest is in the offer pile to make an offer for publication to her, after we’ve compiled the stories that won, if there’s room in the book for it.

Now, let’s get to the winners.

In third place, we have:

Entry #622, Healing Scars, by Jo Brielyn (man, I had to hunt for that pen name, girl!)

This story was good. It was tender, touching, moving – sad but with a happy ending too – the ONLY reason this story didn’t place higher is that the judges felt the ended cheated us just a little bit in that it didn’t come to a ‘conclusion’ but more just ‘ended.’ Congratulations, Penny!

In second place, allow me to announce:

Entry #7789, Love Burns, by Lucinda Gunnin

What a twisted story, so sad, and yet, so believable. This story could easily be expanded to a novel or even a made-for-TV movie, it was that compelling. Two of the judges said they would have liked a less ’sure’ ending. For example, what if she was buying the gun to kill herself instead of them, ending it only with the line, “Do you understand now why I need the gun?” and then adding the part about daddy being right. It would have left it open to wonder – was she killing them or herself?

But that was totally a matter of opinion, and just as the story is, it was still a very strong contender with an excellent beginning, middle and ending that did not leave the reader flat. Excellent job and congratulations to Cindy!

And now…

The final winner of the 2008 Accentuate Writers Short Story Anthology Contest, in first place, by a nearly unanimous decision is:

Entry #703 – Untitled for Now – Lindsay Maddox

With some minor mechanical issues, that a really good proofread would have and should have fixed (shame on you Lindsay!), this story was STILL easily the best ’story’ of the contest. It just goes to show, a superb story can make up for some mechanical errors. What a touching and beautiful story and a nice way to use the theme in a very unobstrusive manner – very good use of the theme, good story with a beginning, middle and very solid ending that brought everything back around full-circle.

This story had it all, except a title. Of course, the judges and I have been calling it Winter and Blaze, but we’ll work with Lindsay to get a title she’s happy with before we compile it for print.

As the first place winner, Lindsay will be the final author to get her name on the front cover of this particular anthology. Congratulations Lindsay!

And congratulations to all of you who entered this contest! We will begin compiling all the winners together and figuring page counts, so please don’t give up hope – we will likely be making offers to some of the other entries if we have room, so all hope hasn’t been lost if you didn’t get included but entered.

If you didn’t enter or place this year, don’t give up! We have a poetry contest going on right now, and you can find it here. Also, over the weekend, we are working on the rules and the announcement for the first quarter anthology for next year, 2009, and we already have the themes ready to go! It’s going to be an exciting contest next year! Those of you who follow this blog will get first look at the themes for next year’s first book!

Congratulations to everyone who stepped out and took the chance! You are all winners! Everyone who entered will get their names listed in the book too – but more on that later.

Again, congratulations!

Now, I guess I should post this and put everyone out of their misery.

I love you guys!

Love and stuff,
Michy
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2008 Final Short Story Contest Finalists Announced!

November 19th, 2008 by (Michy)

Well, my forum members have been waiting, no so patiently tonight, for me to announce the finalist. I have to apologize for the late announcement, but I pretty much blew off the entire day to – sleep – yes, sleep.

Darned meds.

But I’m here now, and we’ve sat around the IM conference tonight and we’ve narrowed the finalists down to 8… yes, EIGHT finalists.

We’ve also determined the honorable mentions, for the final announcements, but those won’t be until later this week.

Oh, later this week? Yes, the winners and honorable mentions will be announced on Friday.

For now, here are our finalists for the very last short story anthology contest for Accentuate Writers for 2008.

drum roll please……..

In no particular order:

7789 – Lucinda Gunnin

0078 – Eric Patterson

622 – Penny Molinario

692 – Susan Sosbe

703 – Lindsay Maddox

772 – Tanya Katerina Noegel

3008 – Andi Caldwell

9990 – Daniel Thrasher

Yes, I know I told the judges to limit it to seven finalists, but they are as stubborn as I am, and we ended up with 8.

I will come back and fill in the names in a little bit, but you should know your own number. If you want to cross reference, here’s the semi-finalists announcement.

Congratulations to everyone who made it this far and to those moving on.

The winners will be announced on this blog on FRIDAY of this week. Yes, you read that right – Friday.

Good luck to the lucky eight!

ETA: Names have been added! Links coming soon!

Love and stuff,
Michy
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Editing Schmediting

November 18th, 2008 by (Michy)

Do you know, after spending a year writing a book, and tweaking it some as I went along, and editing some while I wrote, I have now finished the book, and all that is left is the need to edit it and perfect the formatting so that I can print it and send it off.

So what do I do?

I put it off.

I simply do not want to edit this. I’ve spent a year writing it; I should be done now. I don’t want to see the book again. blech.

I know I have to finish editing it though. I wrote the last part of it so fast that I really didn’t check for typos and things. Also, there was a slight change from the anticipated ending to the ending I actually wrote – making it much better – and that change requires me to go back and change a couple of small things inside the story too. I’ve made notes, but I just need to do it.

Anyone have some motivation to make me WANT to edit this thing?

Anyone?

Please?

Love and stuff,
Michy

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Congratulations to Everyone Writing for Partners!

November 18th, 2008 by (Michy)

Yesterday, a lot of AC content producers received an email that they were added to the pool of writers who will be considered for partner calls.

I’ve written for partner calls in the past, and have found them to be easy, fun, and interesting.

I just wanted to pop in quickly and say congrats to all who were selected for partner call writing!

Good for you!

For the rest of you who haven’t been considered yet or who are new and don’t know what partner calls are yet:

A partner call is a C4C (the box on your My Account page), where calls for content are list, but the call is not intended to be published on AC, but rather on a partner site. These partner sites work with AC to find matched writers who can write content for their website. Sometimes you’ll get a byline and sometimes you won’t, so be sure to read them carefully.

Another thing to look for is whether or not AC is going to target just you or more than one person. If it’s just you, then as long as you do a good job, you’ll get paid. If it’s not just you, you might better snag that one quickly before someone else does.

Big important note: be sure to submit them on time. I’ve been in and out of the hospital/doctor’s recently, and because of this, I turned in two targeted partner calls late by about 6 hours, and I haven’t received a single targeted partner call since. I’ve written twice to ask why, but have no received a response. I can only assume it’s because I was late. Don’t make this mistake.

A few people have asked whether or not AC will email you when you get a targeted call. My experience has been that when you individually are targeted, Partner Admin will email you and let you know it’s there. But there’s also targeted calls sent to groups of CPs or for things that aren’t partner calls. To ensure you get notified of those in a timely manner and don’t have to check you account every five minutes, do this:

1. Log in and go to My Account

2. On the left-hide side, there’s a link for “Email Preferences”. Click that.

3. Once there, check the ones about C4Cs:

AC Calls for Content™ Alert
Receive an email every time an Associated Content call is targeted to you.

Partner Calls for Content™ Alert
Receive an email every time a call from an Associated Content partner is targeted to you.

4. Click “update”, and you’re good to go.

Anyway, that’s my thoughts for the day. Again, congrats to all who were picked to write for partner sites.

Love and stuff,
Michy

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