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) [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! October Challenge – Tweeting Contest: “Describe Your Blog in 140 Characters or Less.” And, thanks, Rebecca Quinn, for choosing the winners! And the winners are … 1st Place: Mari L McCarthy – The Journal Writing Blog shares Journaling for the Health of It ™ tips, ideas and inspiration with writers [...]
The Deadline for the October Challenge Tweeting Contest is October 31. Describe your blog 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. Business manager and social media enthusiast Rebecca Quinn, who was my [...]
The October Write On! Challenge is a Tweeting Contest: Describe your blog 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. Business manager and social media enthusiast Rebecca Quinn, who was my guest on [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Summer Contest: Write a Fictional “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” Also, thanks, travel writer John E. DiScala (a.k.a. Johnny Jet), for choosing the winners! 1st Place: John Bezpiaty – John’s winning story is posted below! (Prize: A medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript) 2nd Place: Cara [...]
Remember those article and short-story queries you promised yourself you would submit this year? Now, you have an extra reason to sit down and work on them: The Write On! September Challenge: Short Fiction & Non-Fiction/Essay Query Contest. A query is the letter sent to a publication, used to sell an article, short story, or [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Write On! Online June Challenge: Query Contest – Screenplays & Teleplays. Special thanks to screenplay-query judge Tracey Jackson (Lucky Ducks) and teleplay-query judge Jeanne Veillette Bowerman (co-founder of Scriptchat), who selected the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners from the finalists! And to literary agent David Boxerbaum, who will [...]
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.
