The title of my new ebook will be Procrastination to Print, how to stop mucking about and get writing. Thank you for all the suggestions, below is the process I used to select it.

So, being the creative soul I am (creative, not lazy, mind you) I thought I would throw the question out to you wonderful people in the hope of creating some friendly discussion, and hopefully that you may come up with better titles than I’m getting. AND, just so you know, there will be prizes.

Fancy a writing challenge?

If so, why not enter the Writing to Inspire Short SHORT story writing competition?

Well, the winning stories for Writing to Inspire’s recent ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition are now online. Click here to read them.

First off I wanted to thank everybody who entered our Inaugural ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition. I was suitably impressed with the response, enough so that I will hold another, but more of that later.

Well, with less that three weeks to the closing date of the Writing to Inspire ‘First Line’ Short Story competition, I delighted to say that the entries are rolling in at a steady and consistent pace.

Writing to a deadline is an important part of writing, especially if you are working towards publication, but if you’re interested in entering competitions it’s vital

Often, but not always, it is stated in competition guidelines that only a certain genre of writing is to be accepted. It could be sci-fi and fantasy for example. If the genre requested is not your usual style

‘Could have benefited from another read through.’ ‘Needs more work.’ Competition judges often use both of these phrases. In fact, I don’t think that

It occurred to me yesterday that since I’m holding the 2011 ‘First Line’ short story writing competition, with it’s deadline in June, now might be a great time to cover some writing tips relevant to entering competitions.