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FYI...Help is always available in the banner at the very bottom of the page!

However do not hesitate to YELL, PM...or even better tag @RJ Garside or @lesliedow or @Marilyn Muniz for help!

Welcome in many languages:
This means everyone is welcome.
Come in. Grab a cuppa your favorite. Tell us a little about yourself.

This community of writers become cherished friends as we write, edit. rewrite. edit. polish, final edit. Publish!

Come along the journey with us. You make this place better with your contributions.

I'm L R Davis. writer of non-fiction and fiction. Current WIP is a MG (middle grade) novel. I am writing short stories and learning my craft here at Savvy Authors.

Was introduced to Savvy Authors several years ago by Lea Schizas at Muse Conference Online. Both things changed my life. I felt welcomed. I have learned. I am learning more.

Welcome to Savvy Authors. May your life be rich with ideas, filled with friends and fulfilled by success.

Lyn

Our new site is based on Xenforo, a very cool forum out of the UK. We love Xenforo and hope you will, too! There is so much here but here are a couple of fun things to get you started:

1. Fully integrated chatroom
   1. Our new chatroom uses a Facebook-like chat look and feel. Its fully integrated with your friends so you can see when your buddies come online and chat iinstantlywith them. Join one of our pre-made rooms for sprints and hanging out.
   2. Want your own, private chatroom? Yep, you can do that too!
   3. Video chat! yep you can use video to chat with your buddies
2. Pathway to Quit your Dayjob
   Banners, Badges and Buttons..oh my! We have a badge, banner and/or button for all your writing achievements and earn points as your gain writing skills, achievements and give back to your Savvy community with our soon to be unveiled Quit your Dayjob tracker .
3. User tagging in all posts
   Type and "@" in front of your friends userIDs and have them tagged in your post...yes exactly like on Twitter! When you tag someone, they are notified that you have tagged them and sent a link to the post you tagged them in!
4. New Post Editor
   1. Cool post editor features with simple image insertion, state of the art copy-paste from MS-Word, Word count
   2. Recover changes via an edit history in posts
   3. The editor autosaves as you edit and will nag you if you try to close without saving.
   4. Use BB codes if you prefer!
   5. Paste directly from MS Word...yeppers this should work here!
   6. Quote multiple discontinuous lines from multiple posts! When looking at a post, select the content you wish to quote and click the "+quote" link at the bottom right side of the page. That adds the selected content to your quote queue, when you want to paste, click on an editor and the "Paste quoted content" link will appear....click the link, and et voila! your quoted content is pasted!
   7. Provide lots of feedback on posts, just use the rating system you see along the bottom of posts to give likes, hugs, rainbows and lots more!
5. Post your status...Let everyone know what you are up to. Just click on your name and a small overlay will appear where you can access your profile, private conversations and status updates.

Sarika submitted a new resource:

Patricia Green Mentoring Program - Mentoring Program

This is a 3-month individualized mentoring program to guide authors through the process of how to approach the beginning, middle, or end of the novel/novella writing process for a target work in progress.
We will schedule mutually convenient times to chat online and you will receive personal, private, specific feedback in writing.
Limited enrollment for up to 3 students. Thus includes: Unlimited access via email for brainstorming, coaching, specific questions and regular check-ins; setting...

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Children's Book Insider - Write for Kids. Change the World.

CBI Clubhouse

Write for Kids

by Jon Bard and Laura Backes


..in a place called New York City, a boy met a girl.

The boy practiced a form of magical wizardry known as “public relations”. The girl was a mystical creature known as a “literary agent”. She was known far and wide...

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Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators - The international professional organization for writers and illustrators of children’s literature

SCBWI

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, is one of the largest existing organizations for writers and illustrators. It is the only professional organization specifically for those individuals writing and illustrating for children and young adults in the fields of children’s literature, magazines, film, television, and multimedia.

Our mission is to support the creation and availability of...

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Entangled Publishing - romance books for Every reader

Founded by industry-savvy women, Entangled Publishing’s bold new business model combines powerhouse distribution with the agility of indie publishing, utilizing innovative digital strategies to connect with readers around the world.
Our revolutionary approach to publishing has led to phenomenal growth and success. The company opened for submissions in February 2011. Our first print titles released in August 2011, and we launched our first category romance imprint six months later. We now...

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Steady Motivation and Support At SavvyAuthors with Marilyn Muniz - Are you accomplishing what you set out to do?

Have you been trying different boot camps, or things like NaNo, only to fizzle out when the class or month is over?
Do you have difficulty staying motivated? Are you having trouble finding a steady support network for your writing?
Want a chance to win a critique or coaching with a SavvyAuthors Mentor?


Join us for a year long goals group, designed to give you the support, guidance, and accountability that will help you stay motivated over the long haul.


***NOTE: You will be joining an...

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lesliedow submitted a new resource:

Steady Motivation and Support At SavvyAuthors with Marilyn Muniz - Are you accomplishing what you set out to do?

Have you been trying different boot camps, or things like NaNo, only to fizzle out when the class or month is over?
Do you have difficulty staying motivated? Are you having trouble finding a steady support network for your writing?
Want a chance to win a critique or coaching with a SavvyAuthors Mentor?


Join us for a year long goals group, designed to give you the support, guidance, and accountability that will help you stay motivated over the long haul.


***NOTE: You will be joining an...

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lesliedow submitted a new resource:

Steady Support and Mentoring Especially for Children’s Writers with Irene Roth - Do you have a difficult time to stay motivated with your writing projects?

Are you trying to juggle too many things and just don’t know how to commit to your writing? Have you been trying to write and just can’t seem to get anything done?
Are you having a difficult time to find a permanent support for your writing? Do you have a difficult time to stay motivated?

Join us for a year long goals group, designed to give you the support, guidance, and accountability that will help you stay motivated over the long term—right past Nano and right into the winter and...

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lesliedow submitted a new resource:

Steady Motivation and Support At SavvyAuthors with Marilyn Muniz - Are you accomplishing what you set out to do?

Have you been trying different boot camps, or things like NaNo, only to fizzle out when the class or month is over?
Do you have difficulty staying motivated? Are you having trouble finding a steady support network for your writing?
Want a chance to win a critique or coaching with a SavvyAuthors Mentor?

Join us for a year long goals group, designed to give you the support, guidance, and accountability that will help you stay motivated over the long haul.

***NOTE: You will be...​

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lesliedow submitted a new resource:

RWA - Romance writers of america

Romance Writers of America is dedicated to advancing the professional interests of career-focused romance writers through networking and advocacy.
See what we're all about and learn more about this strong, dynamic association.

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Sarika submitted a new resource:

How to Write a Page Turning Novel with Steve Shrott - Learn how movies can help us write books that hook

Learn how movies can help us write books that hook

In this two week workshop, you’ll learn how to write a novel that hooks the reader from beginning to end.
Some of the subjects we’ll cover are--
Creating ideas that excite the reader.
Strategies for making your main character compelling.
What we can learn from thrillers.
How movies can help us write books that hook.
Case studies of top writers whose books are page-turners.
Why you must structure your novel, and how you can do it, even if...

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How to Add Humor to Novels and Short Stories with Steve Shrott - Do you want to write a funny novel or short story? Or perhaps you'd like to add humor to the book yo

Do you want to write a funny novel or short story? Or perhaps you'd like to add humor to the book you've already written? If so, then this is the course for you.


Some of the areas covered in this two week course, include--
The difference between funny and humorous.
What makes something fun to read.
The importance of character.
The three main places to use humor.
Specific techniques that will improve your ability to make your novel or short story
humorous.
Joke constructions and patterns...

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Zen and the Marketing with Deborah Riley-Magnus - Understand the Blissful and Beautiful Creativity of Marketing

We all know the love/hate, passive/aggressive relationship authors have with marketing, but there’s no need. All an author truly needs to do is make peace with marketing and learn to understand the blissful and beautiful creativity of it. Take a deep breath, lie back on the therapist’s couch and learn:
Marketing and Authors – A Love/Hate Relationship
How Creative can Marketing be?
Tools to Beat Marketing into Submission
Keeping your Marketing Momentum Alive and Productive

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Down the Marketing Rabbit Hole with Deborah Riley-Magnus - Learn Difference between Selling and Allowing People to Buy

It’s time for Authors to make peace with marketing, and one sure way to do that is to simply let loose and take the leap down that strange and surprisingly creative rabbit hole! Join me and learn:

The Difference between SELLING and ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BUY
The Efficient Author’s Marketing Flow Chart
The Lowest Hanging Fruit and the Powerful Secondary Targets
Easy Genre Marketing Expansion

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WordPress for Writers - A quality site needs three things: vision, content, and a web development framework

An author today can hardly get by without having some kind of website. If you don’t have the resources to hire a developer, then there’s a good chance that you might find yourself out in the Internet wilds, attempting to built a site all on your own.
A quality site needs three things: vision, content, and a web development framework. The vision is your mental plan for the site and ideally it should correlate to your author brand. Your brand will then lead you to find or create the graphics...

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Scrivener for Writers - Write Your Story the Way You Want

As writers, we’ve all spent time hunched over a keyboard trying to get our thoughts into some word processor. Word processors such as Word and Pages work ok when it comes to writing fiction but their focus is much more on processing your words (layout, font, headers, footers, etc) than on the creative process. Enter Scrivener.
Scrivener is the premier application for the creation of novels, novellas, and like works. It allows you to write your story the way you want and helps you integrate...

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HE SAID WHAT? - Writing Double-Duty Dialogue - Why do we need to learn to write dialogue?

“Why do we need to learn to write dialogue?” she asked questioningly. “I don’t know!” he shouted in a loud voice. “Take the class and find out,” he added, saying more.

Dialogue in fiction is more than just words on a page. It’s part characterization, part plotting, part pacing, and part voice—both the character’s and yours! Learn from award-winning, multi-published author Linnea Sinclair how to expertly craft the words that should be coming out of your characters’ mouths… and how to avoid...

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Novel Perspectives: for the Non-Nano-er with Sally Walker - Examine your storytelling process from start to finish.

Examine your storytelling process from start to finish. Whether you are a total newbie or an author of 30 novels, you can find tricks and processes that will challenge and freshen your productivity. No one wants to be a forgettable copycat. A change of approach to every aspect of your fiction writing may just be the spark you need at this moment in time. Take the journey will multi-published Sally Walker in ten steps to creating a novel.

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Story Ideas from Research (New) with Sally Walker - Plot events, characters and the solutions to problems

Plot events, characters and the solutions to problems with either concern lurk within the vast arena of research. Like the chicken-and-egg conundrum, you can learn how plotting and characterization can pin-point research needs, just as research can ignite your imagination, melding research and creativity into one concept. This 8-sesssion course will take you on a journey of problem-solving AND discovery.

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Fictionalizing your Holidays with Sally Walker - Riveting Stories Create an Emotional Response in the Reader.

Riveting stories create an emotional response in the reader. And there is no time of year with more potential for evocative material than the end-of-year holidays. This workshop will challenge you to evolve ideas “ripped from your own life.” From the mundane to the bizarre, you will learn how to document memorable experience and “what if” your fiction for either a poignant or hilarious effect.

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Titling is an Art with Sally Walker - Learn How to Proudly Give an Identity to Your Creative Work

Titling a work is like naming a child because it acknowledges the unique dignity of that being to both the creator and the world. "Untitled" hints of disrespect and confusion. Learn how to proudly give an identity to your creative work through five simple analytical steps then learn WHY you need a title for the world to latch onto your work in this workshop!

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Writing the Perfect Query Letter with Irene Roth - Afraid to write your next query? This class will make it fun and easy.

Do you struggle with feelings of fear and uncertainty when you write query letters because you are unsure of how to write a query which will be noticed and accepted by Editors? Do you submit articles just to receive a rejection letter and think that the way your query letter was written could be one of the main reasons for the rejection? Would you like to know how to write a great query and have a PDF file with a list of rubrics to write future query letters?
If you answered any of the above...

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Beginning WordPress with Pepper O'Neal - Understand Basic function of the WordPress Backed

This class will focus on understanding the basic functions of the WordPress backend. It will include: making posts and pages, adding images, copying and pasting from one post or page to another, creating links, connecting your social media links for Facebook, Twitter, etc., using plugins, widgets, and themes, creating parent and child pages, using menus, and customizing the look and feel of your site. In short, everything you need to set a website or blog and make it uniquely yours. The class...

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