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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Glimmer Train [mailto:noreply@mail.glimmertrainpress.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 01, 2012 1:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> reader<br>
<b>Subject:</b> New Writer contest opens today. Bulletin 70 follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">The <a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=10&F=H" target="_blank">
Short Story Award for New Writers</a> (1st place wins $1,500) deadline is November 30.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000.<br>
<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=391&F=H" target="_blank">Writing Guidelines</a>
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">Winners will be announced in the February bulletin, and contacted directly one week earlier.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1">NOTE: Power outages and worse have impacted millions in the eastern U.S., and writers have asked if the
<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=29&F=H" target="_blank">
Family Matters</a> deadline will be extended. Yes: we understand that power is expected to be back up in a week so the deadline has been moved out to November 12th. We wish you resilience and good lu<img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg">ck
as you recover from the terrible chaos. <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To forge a relationship between your characters and your readers, focus on what makes a character vulner<img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg">able. This is of
the utmost importance. Your focus can be on phys<img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg">ical or emotional vulner<img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1030" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg">ability,
but it has to be intimately tied to the character.—<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=474&F=H" target="_blank">Bret Anthony Johnston</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=467&F=H" target="_blank">Natalie Sypolt</a>: There wasn't an epiphany, but a gradual understanding that to really be a writer, I had to get beyond my fear
and write the truth. I don't know that I've accomplished this yet, but I am trying. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=467&F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=469&F=H" target="_blank">Josh Henkin</a>: They observe, often quite astutely, the characters that orbit around them and the world that these characters
inhabit, but that's all they do. They don't act, in other words. They don't make choices, when choice, or moral agen<img border="0" width="1" height="1" id="_x0000_i1032" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/glimmertrain/spacer.jpg">cy, is at the heart of good
fiction. (<a href="http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=10675702&N=512&L=469&F=H" target="_blank">more</a>)
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