Being the aggregated mumblings of a tinny tosspot of the wordy variety...

(last revised: 2/1/06 )

The big news: we've moved to mailman, instead of listserv. So plenty of the notes and comments here are out-of-date. To join the list (or do almost anything) go to <http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/writers>. And enjoy your writing.

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Here there are to be found moon mists and lazy sunshine dripping down through the blinds and other mysterious afflictions of the fictional and poetic sports... Enjoy yourself, and write!

tink

Tomorrow's News--Our Own Contests of the Future

Table of Contents

  1. Frequently Asked Questions
  2. The Writer's Pages
  3. Exercises
  4. The Brainstorms' Exercises
  5. The Writers' Techniques
  6. Some Pieces about Japan
  7. Some Pieces by Mike Barker

Today's Highlight--Interactive Adventures, Round Robbins, and such!

The Interactive Adventures of...WRITERS!

The Web Gets Bigger

  1. A Collection of Reviews of Books About Writing
  2. Our Own Collection of Interesting, Useful, or Otherwise Fun Url's  Call it A Writer's Virtual Library...
  3. Got something to submit? push here The Brass URL Keeper

See Also

  1. Those Wild and Crazy Writers' Bios

  2. A Collation of Writers' URLs

  3. To market, to market!
  4. Tink's Images

  5. Strunk and White
  6. looking for FAQs?

Search the Writers' Pages:

Yesterday's Light in the Dark--Contests Past...

  1. Halloween Contest 2001!
  2. Halloween Contest 2000!
  3. A Contest At The Borders of Infinity
  4. The Halloween Horrors!
  5. The Spring Fiesta Contest! Ole!
  6. Erotica for Valentine's Day?
  7. Short Stories? Write!
  8. The eMJay Awards 1998 -- or how WRITERS get persona quirks...
  9. Shivers and Ghosties and Drool, Oh my! (Halloween 1998!)
  10. Flinging Words in the Summer Sun?
  11. The EmJay Awards!
  12. Drabbles of Writing! 100 Words does the trick!

The Writer's Pages

(really outdated, but until I have time to rewrite them...)

  1. Welcome to WRITERS - Frequently Asked Questions

    2. The one page introduction to WRITERS 
  2. You are now subscribed to the WRITERS list

    3. An introduction to listserv 
  3. Command confirmation request

    4. The message about confirming your subscription 
  4. ADMIN: Checking Your Mail Options
  5. What Happens if you go over the daily limit


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phone: (617)253-0119
fax: (617)258-8736