The 140 Character Conference is in New York June 15 & 16. Time for another Tweeting Contest. Describe yourself in 140 characters or less. On Twitter it is essential to get the most information out in the least amount of words. This challenge will help you hone that skill. Three winners will choose one of [...]
Congratulations to all who completed their April Challenge. Props to everyone who participated too! I hope you all did a fabulous job on Script Frenzy, Poem-a-Day, or whatever you took on for Your April Challenge! Four winners will receive a book from Michael Wiese Productions for posting and reporting on their big April goal. The more [...]
In our continuing effort to help writers jump-start their careers, Write On Online is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Write On! Query Contest. There will be four categories … and four winners: Fiction Book, Non-Fiction Book, Screenplay, and Teleplay Query. Winners in the Fiction and Non-Fiction Book categories will have their queries read by [...]
Writers, it’s check-in time. Declare your goal for the April Challenge. Watch the video here.
It’s April! Whether you plan to write a screenplay in a month for Script Frenzy, take the Poem a Day Challenge for National Poetry Month, or come up with something spectacular and ongoing to do during the month of April (see my April plan in comments), you can win just for declaring Your April Challenge! [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the February Favorite Screenplay Challenge. We know which movies were favorites at the Spirit Awards and the Academy Awards. Now we know which are yours. Congratulations to our 4 winners: Ben Lauter, Melody Lopez, Phillip Ramati, and Howie Young. Each will receive their choice of one of these books from [...]
Congratulations to Aaron Sorkin, Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner for The Social Network, and David Seidler, who won Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for The King’s Speech! You can read my coverage of Film Independent’s 26th Annual Spirit Awards here. What was your favorite film of 2010? Why? Email to Debra@WriteOnOnline.com by 2/28 and you [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! January Challenge – Excuses. And, thanks, Tina Haapala, Excuse Editor, for choosing the winners! 1st Place: Roberta Annicks – Read Roberta’s winning story – The Chocolate Cake Excuse – below (A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript (an iScript is a digital recording of a manuscript, read by an [...]
It’s Award Season! Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced this year’s Oscar nominations. Here are the Best Original and Adapted Screenplay nominees: Best Original Screenplay Another Year – Screenplay by Mike Leigh The Fighter – Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; story by Keith Dorrington & [...]
Happy New Year! Start the year off by getting all your excuses for not writing out of the way! The January Challenge is to write-up your Excuses, 200 to 400 words. Be creative or just tell it like it is. Excuses Editor Tina Haapala will choose the winners. First Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) [...]
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 15 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
