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Cathy C. Hallhttps://cathychall.wordpress.com/I write, write, write. Then I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. THEN I submit all those polished-up words out into the world and sell 'em. It's a plan that's worked pretty well.

Finding Highlights Writing Tips

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I had zipped over to the Highlights Magazine website to check on a contributor’s guideline or two when I came across this sentence:

“For more tips and information of interest to writers, visit www.HighlightsFoundation.org.”

Huh. I’d completely missed that little gem of a keeper. So, off I zipped to check it out. And when I clicked on Writer’s Tips, I struck gold! I was having so much fun, I clicked on the second spot that those helpful folks at Highlights suggested: Highlights for Kids!

I get the newsletter delivered to my Inbox and read it every month. Because if you want to write for a magazine, then you should know what that magazine publishes, right? And besides, I love those Hidden Pictures. And I can actually win some of those games.

So, maybe this won’t be the year I make a Highlights conference. But I can take advantage of the writing tips that all those gifted writers have shared over the years. And maybe I’ll strike gold with the next article or craft I send to Highlights.

That would be almost as awesome as finding all the objects in the Hidden Pictures.

Tooting My Horn Tuesday in Big Pulp

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I’m so excited! And I just can’t hide it! Which, to be perfectly honest, is the whole point of Tooting My Horn Tuesdays. (Um, yeah. That was a bad pun, but I had to pointer out. Aaaack!)

My story, “Mary Beth’s Prophecy” is now live over at Big Pulp. I really love that story, even though it is a bit twisted. I really like Big Pulp, too. Tons of great speculative fiction: a little bit of horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime, mystery, and a lot of twisted.

Speaking of twisted, the beneficent Mr. Hall often speaks of a woman who worked for his family when he was a tiny tot of beneficence. On Monday mornings, she would talk about how she’d gone out on Saturday night and got “her wig twisted.”

I’m so excited about “Mary Beth’s Prophecy” that I might go out and get my wig twisted right now.