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Ready for Some Good News for a Change? Try HappyNews.Com

June 6th 2007 02:31

Are you tired of reading--or writing--bad news? Ready for something positive, uplifting, and edifying for a change? Feel like looking on the bright side? Want to walk on the "sunny side of the street"? Look no further: HappyNews.Com is a place you'll want to visit.

HappyNews.Com is a website where you'll read stories of optimism, kindness, heroism, people helping (instead of harming) people, and myriad other positive things happening around the globe. And one of the best things about this site from the writer's viewpoint is that they are seeking "Citizen Journalists" to "write about news important to their communities."

This is a great opportunity--particularly for those who may be interested in entering the field of journalism--to build a journalism portfolio, gain experience hunting down a story, perfect their interviewing and writing techniques, and meet those fascinating people who are on the front lines of the latest-breaking good news.

While the folks at Happy News don't pay up front for the stories they publish, they offer each freelance Citizen Journalist a tip jar and link to their website on each article posted to the site. This gives readers the opportunity to support the writer's contribution to the good news appearing on the site. (All tip jar payments are automatically transferred into the writer's PayPal account.) Every contributor receives a byline, as well as all the insider hints, tips, and advice they'll need to become a savvy, ethical, credible, competent, and libel-free news journalist.

This link will take you to the HappyNews.Com Submissions Page.

If you have any interest at all in either journalism or good news--or better still, both--check out HappyNews.Com!


Happy reading!
Jeanne



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More Fitting Quotes By Writers on Writing

May 11th 2007 03:24

Here are a few more quotes by writers on writing. Some are thought-provoking, some brutally honest, some inspiring, and some simply clever--but whatever your thinking about the art or the craft, you should find something here that will catch your fancy!

Here goes:

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of mind and he is born with it. ~Morley Callaghan~

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ~Mickey Spillane~

Autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. ~Quentin Crisp~

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko~

Books are...funny little portable pieces of thought. ~Susan Sontag~

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more books than he has read. ~Samuel Johnson~

Journalism is literature in a hurry. ~Matthew Arnold~

Literature is the question minus the answer. ~Roland Barthes~

Literature is recognizable through its capacity to evoke more than it says. ~Anthony Burgess~

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton~

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. ~Robert Graves~

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. ~W.H. Auden~

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost~

It's easier to write a mediocre poem than to understand a good one. ~Montaigne~

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. ~Marianne Moore~

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...in a man who has thought long and deeply. ~William Wordsworth~

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place--you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. ~Bernard Malamud~

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ~Henry David Thoreau~

When I stop (working), the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working. ~Tennessee Williams~

Words are loaded pistols. ~Jean-Paul Sartre~

Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. ~Alexander Pope~

All the fun's in how you say a thing. ~Robert Frost~

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

I do not understand this chronic illness. I wish I had gone to law school. ~Darryl Pinckney~

The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes. ~Agatha Christie~

I talk out the lines as I write. ~Tennessee Williams~

If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. ~Emily Bronte~

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ~Irvin S. Cobb~

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ~E. L. Doctorow~


Hope a few of these provocative thoughts have set your own creative juices flowing!


Happy writing!
Jeanne



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