Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online January Challenge – Review Yourself! Here are the winners: 1st Place: David Cook – Review of his short film: Board Games (Prize: Save the Cat! software; the 1st Place review is posted below) 2nd Place: Cara Holman – Review of her short story: “The Ten Best [...]
THE FEBRUARY CHALLENGE: HAVE A “HEART” Writing Prompts are effective triggers to get your writing-engine going! Use them as an exercise to start your day, a vehicle to get out of a rut, or an idea to spark a new project. In honor of American Heart Month, the February Challenge is to write a story [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online December Challenge – Holiday Traditions! Here are the winners: 1st Place: Barbara Watkins (Prize: A medium-length one-reader iScript; the 1st Place story is posted below) 2nd Place: Adam Bein (Prize: Save the Cat! Strikes Back by Blake Snyder) 3rd Place: Shella Udoh (Prize: The Pocket Screenwriting [...]
THE JANUARY CHALLENGE: REVIEW YOURSELF Write On! Online’s monthly contests are designed to encourage you to give those writing muscles a workout. Write a 300- to 400-word review of something you have written. It can be a review of your screenplay, book, poem, short story, article, song, or essay. It’s a fabulous exercise in writing [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online November Challenge РWrite Your Turkey! Here are the winners: 1st Place: Lisa Marks (Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript; the 1st Place story is posted below) 2nd Place: Susie McEldowney (Prize: Save the Cat!® Strikes Back by Blake Snyder) 3rd Place: David King [...]
THE DECEMBER CHALLENGE: HOLIDAY TRADITIONS Write On! Online’s monthly contests are designed to encourage you to give those writing muscles a workout. As 2009 comes to an end, let’s celebrate! Write 200 to 400 words on your favorite holiday tradition. It doesn’t matter what you celebrate – Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years, Winter Solstice, or [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online October Challenge – Boo! Write on a Genre that Scares You! Here are the winners: 1st Place: Cara Holman Favorite Genre: Non Fiction; Genre that Scares Her: Fiction (Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript; the 1st Place stories are posted below) 2nd Place: Aimee [...]
THE NOVEMBER CHALLENGE: WRITE YOUR TURKEY Write On! Online’s monthly contests are designed to encourage you to give those writing muscles a workout. Sometimes the best ideas are ones that started out as bad ones. Pick what you think is your worst idea, and write a short story. You may end up with a hidden—or [...]
We received some wonderful – and creative – submissions. Thanks to all who entered! Congratulations to the winners of the Write On! Online September Challenge – Getting to Know You. 1st Place: Fiction: Elizabeth Beeson Non-Fiction: Lillian Lewis (Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript; the 1st Place stories are posted below) 2nd Place: [...]
THE OCTOBER CHALLENGE: BOO! – WRITE IN A GENRE THAT SCARES YOU Write On! Online’s monthly contests are designed to encourage you to give those writing muscles a workout. For last month’s contest—”Getting to Know You”—I recommended fiction writers take the non-fiction challenge and vice versa. This month, writing out of your comfort zone is [...]
Debra Eckerling is a professional writer and coach with expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking, as well as social media and live networking.
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The leader of Write On!, Debra has been a professional writer for more than 10 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual - and live - writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
