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Top 10 Reasons to BUY
the BYLINES CALENDAR!
1. It's the perfect gift for any writer! Give a Bylines Calendar
for Christmas, birthdays, or for any occasion at all, and rack up the brownie
points. (You'll need them later, when they're famous and you're trying to bargain
your way out of having your youthful indiscretions included in their memoirs.)
2. It's a writing motivator. Stop listening to inner doubts, and reinforce
the positive muse inside. Read a story each week, which gives tips on how other
writers have overcome obstacles and achieved success. Look through their eyes
into the daily happenings in a writer's life.
3. It makes a great writing log. Jot down your writing-related accomplishments
each day, such as: "finished chapter four"; "sent out query on
toy museum to XYZ magazine"; "wrote poem about eyelashes"; "installed
new computer printer," etc. When you flip back through the pages later,
you'll be amazed at how much you've accomplished during the year.
4. Celebrate! Use Bylines to find writing-related holidays, such
as Biographer's Day, National Columnist's Day, Young People's Poetry Week, or
even Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month (shouldn't that be every month?).
Look up the date of your next writer's group meeting, and find a literary reason
to celebrate, such as a famous author's birthday.
5. Keep Track of Deadlines. Use Bylines to write down your DEADLINES,
in capital letters, in Red Ink!
6. Keep focused on the goal. Do you want to finish your book this year?
Send out 100 queries? Write one magazine article per month? Start a weekly column?
Research 15 new markets for your poems? Enter 10 contests? Jot down your writing
goals for the year in Bylines, on the page provided. Then do something
daily, weekly, and monthly to achieve them.
7. When the IRS comes knocking. Show them your Bylines calendar,
where you've written your daily log, as evidence to show that yes, you are a
real writer, and absolutely, you really do write regularly.
8. Jog that Memory. Went to a conference, but forgot the name of that
great speaker? Or met a writer at the conference with the same interests as
you, but misplaced her email address? Use the conference pages in Bylines
to jot down highlights of the weekend, such as new places to query, great new
websites, and contact names and addresses. Later, you'll always know where to
find them.
9. Expand your horizons. Learn about 52 hard-working writers who overcame
obstacles, gave up procrastination, and kept their rears in their chairs and
fingers on their keyboards. Read about their resulting successes in many fields
of writing. We provide their email addresses and link to their websites, so
you can buy their books, read their articles, contact them to be speakers at
meetings and follow their careers.
10. Hey, I'm a writer, too! Support the 53rd writer in the calendar,
too, the one "behind the scenes." (O.K., you may not think much of
this reason. But look at the other nine.)
Buy it now!
Click on the "Order Bylines" button on the left side of this page
11. BONUS REASON! If you're an agent or an editor, give
a copy of Bylines to EVERY writer you work with, to help motivate
them to continue turning out masterpieces. Be sure to mark their deadlines in
it BEFORE you give it to them. It just might help keep them on track!
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