July/August 2003, Vol. 24, No. 4 Table of Contents

	Columns
2	..... Editor's Note
4	..... Marketing Helps, by Janet Elaine Smith
	Wanna Be a "Groupie"?
5	..... Massaging the Muse, by Lynne Remick
	............ A Writer's Fairy Tale
6	..... Effective Screenwriting, by Jerry McGuire
	............. Caution! Is Your Script Guilty of Directing? If you suspect that your screenplay is too strong in the directing department, careful study and maybe a rewrite are needed. Far too often, directors and producers complain, "This script is telling us HOW to make the movie. We don't want screenplays written by amateurs who think they know everything about the motion picture production business!"
8	..... Photography Techniques, by Ronald D. Kness
	............. Flash Photography Knowing how to use both your built-in and external flash will improve your flash photography immensely. In this issue, we cover some common problems that can be overcome by using your flash, some problems causing by using your flash, and some solutions oh how to minimize the effect of those problems.
10	..... Computer Business, by Robert Anthony
	................. Copyrights for Your Electronic Works Original works that are fixed into a tangible form of expression are protected by federal law and by international law in most countries. In other words, the publisher or creator of original material retains ultimate control over the use of such material—meaning that your work cannot be duplicated or used by anyone else without your explicit permission as the creator of that work.
55	..... For Beginners Only, by Tim Waggoner
	..... Time's Wasting Away—Make Time to Write It's the writer's eternal complaint: "If only I could find more time to write." As if time were something that was lying around somewhere, waiting to be stumbled upon, if only one had wit enough to know where to look. Experienced (which is often a synonym for cynical) writers sneer, if only mentally, when hearing an aspirant to their holy order mutter those words. "If you can't find the time, then you're never going to make it as a writer." This is logical enough on the surface: if one can't find the time to produce words, then there's nothing to submit for publication.
58	..... Words...Tools Of Our Trade, by Betty Garton Ulrich
	.............. Are You Wresting with That Piece of Fiction? Every once in a while I read a really exciting book about writing (and I've read many over the years!). Readers of this column might remember that some time ago I touted David Kaplan's book, Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction.
60	*..... Writers' Journal* Market Report,** by Laurie Graziano
	Computerization follows us through every waking hour of the day, and most of our days are made simpler through the use of e-mails and faxes. It is a faster, more convenient, and sometimes less expensive way to communicate. But there are limits on the use of such tools in the writing industry. Markets: Town & Country Magazine, Mid-American Review, Pig Iron, Sound & Vision, Indiana Review, Creative Nonfiction, Tin House, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Campus Life, Equities Magazine, Hope Magazine, Sports Illustrated For Kids, Cimarron Review, Rain Crow, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner.
	Feature Articles
12	..... Getting In Through Sports, by Richard Huff
	............... Sports Writing Is a Surefire Way into Journalism The best way to launch a journalism career isn't by attending a fancy writing school, but rather by getting in through the sports pages. Many budding journalists waste years—and money—toiling in journalism graduate programs when they would be better off writing sports.
14	..... Professor's Advice Made Me a Funnier Writer, by Terry Loncaric
	............... Simple and Direct Is the Path to Writing Humor It was the best advice I ever received as a writer: A professor in college told me something was missing in my writing.
16	.....The Editing Partnership, by John S. Bennion
	............... One Writer's Thirteen-Year Experience In 1983, Ron Woods began work on a young adult novel. Six years later, he sent the manuscript to Philomel, where it eventually crossed the desk of Tracy Gates. Since then, she has worked as an editor at Crown, a senior editor at Knopf, and now as executive editor at Viking Children's Books. Throughout those years Ron and Stacy have conducted a correspondence over The Hero, which was published March 2002 by Knopf. A conversation of that length of time over one book is unique, to say the least, and what they learned by working together can help other beginning writers know what editors and readers want. During their visit to the Writing for Young Readers Conference at Brigham Young University, I interviewed Ron and Tracy.
22	..... Put Some Passion in Your Proposal, by Carole Dean
	................ Pursue Grant-Makers with a Passionate Proposal Reading proposals is a passion of mine; it would have to be, to read over 500 proposals a year and view over 1000 corresponding tapes. I have been doing this for the Roy W. Dean film grants since 1992. Filmmakers always want to know how to improve their applications, so here are a few tips.
23	..... Promotional Pearls, by Nadja Bernitt
	................ A Panel Discussion from Mystery Writers of America Conference—May 1, 2002 Grand Hyatt Mid-town, New York Book sales are tied to reviews, and without endorsements the best book in the world will stagnate—this is the consensus of the MWA panel that presented "Promotional Pearls from the Pros."
41	..... Memoir Writing, by Jan Murra
	Bringing Memories to Life In everyone's life, if one is lucky, there's a moment, a person, a place that is pure magic. That memory lives on, tucked away in a bubble of time. For me, that magical place was a farm in France—the moment, the nearly ten years we lived there.
43	..... What Do You Know?, by Lynn Bradley
	Knowing "You" to Know Your Characters My novels are set in Houston. After living here most of my life, I know Houston. I know its seasons, its moods, its secrets and its streets, mean and otherwise. Is that the "writing what you know" that I've heard from many writing instructors? Certainly.
	Fiction
	January 2003 Fiction Contest Winners
27	.....Purty Picture, by Michalyn Longie
	First Prize Winner of January 2003 Fiction Contest
28	..... Iced, by Karen Cecil Smith
	Second Prize Winner of January 2003 Fiction Contest
30	.....Sam's Silver Lining, by Hilary C. T. Walker
	Third Prize Winner of January 2003 Fiction Contest

	More Fiction
33	..... Broken Glass, by Karen S. Cook
	Honorable Mention Winner of 2002 Short Story Contest
36	..... Four Silver Pesos, by Lee R. Stoiser
	Honorable Mention Winner of 2002 Short Story Contest

	February 20, 2003 Write-to-Win! Winner
38	..... "Can you imagine," by Jeff Delashmitt

	Poetry
45	..... Every Day With Poetry, by Esther Leiper-Jefferson
	................. "Haiku: Staying Outside the Box" A Shaker hymn begins, "'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be kind." Shakers comprised a "Millennial church" and practiced a strict, simple lifestyle, in addition to being celibate. Like Shakers, syllable count poems also appear strict yet simple; but unlike the Shaker sect, whose members eventually went extinct, many kinds of haiku are penned today. Haiku is definitely not celibate: alliances abound, though practitioners of one style may at times decry the offspring of another!
52	..... Esther Comments On..., by Esther Leiper-Jefferson
	................. The Winners—December 2002 Poetry Contest This proved to be a very good competition overall. High quality entries held hardly a misspelling, and an impressive number of poems exhibited carefully crafted rhyme and meter. Many formal pieces show up at the winners' level. Beside the First, Second, and Third Prize entries—discussed shortly—three Special Mention poems are rhymed narratives. Two speak in the first person, one about a man who does more than his share and one about the bone-weary labor of parents picking cotton while their child, high on a wagon, "falls asleep in a sea of white." The third narrative tells a fairy tale in rhymed couplets featuring a princess, spiders, and a water demon. The first two narratives are serious, but the third one positively romps along.