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• Feature "Staying High After a Writer’s Conference"
  by Mary Ann Kerl
  
  
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Staying High After a Writer’s Conference

What a great writer’s conference I just attended!

Now what?

That's what I use to ask myself when I came home and had to face reality again. A few years back I learned how to keep myself "pumped up" after a conference. Below are six tips to keep on that "high" after coming home and avoiding the after-the-conference-ends blues. Any writer can do what I do.

1. Have coffee with a friend (or spouse) and tell him or her about the conference. Don’t let those good memories die. Or, you may even want to host a special workshop at your local writing group and share the tips with those who could not attend. You can even charge money for this. Many people are more than happy to pay a few dollars to find out what is happening in publishing. All you need to do is sum up your notes and tell them what the editors said at the conference. Simple. In addition, attendees no doubt will appreciate any Xeroxed freebie publisher’s guidelines that you picked up at the conference.
   
   
2. Study those guidelines you brought home from the conference. Generally, I get several new publications on my list of publishing credits that way. You can too. And, perhaps you bought some books. Read those. Study them. Analyze what made them get published. A writer  learns a lot this way.
   
   Right now I am studying one of Aladdin Mix’s book series in order to polish the manuscript I plan to send to the editor that I met at the conference. She said she would take a look at it!
   
   
3. Speaking of editors requesting materials, if you fall into that category, attack your work with zest. This is your chance to get your book into the hands of a real publisher. Also, you can avoid the slush pile. Simply make sure to let the editor know that your material was requested at the conference. If you didn’t have a book to pitch to an editor, begin writing one today. Then you will have something exciting to work on and something to pitch at next year’s conference.
   
   
4. Did the conference have a writing contest? If you entered, study your entries. See why you did (or didn’t) win a particular category. I have sold numerous entries that never won anything in a contest, but received feedback. Most judges know what they are doing and their comments can be highly valued. If you did not enter the contest, start writing now and plan to enter next year.
   
   
5. Consider your budget and see if you can figure a way to attend another conference before the year is over. That is what I am doing now. I can’t believe what a good time I am having trying to figure out where to go. (Anyone have any suggestions?)
   
   Or, if you feel you can’t afford another writing conference this year, consider a seminar. In my state, both Tulsa and Oklahoma City have a number of inexpensive one day writing seminars. This too will boast your writing spirits and help motivate you to write and send your work off and sell and promote it.
   
   
6. And, don’t stop there. Set up a time management plan to write every day, if you aren’t doing so already. Now you are on that high after attending the conference. Don’t waste it. Plan to use that energy. Sure, everyone is busy, but everyone has twenty-four hours a day too. If you plan to write, you will. And, I don’t think there is anything as wonderful as slipping into bed every night after writing something that day, something that can be published some day that other people can enjoy. Now, that’s what writing is about!

Don’t lose your enthusiasm about the conference. Enjoy these six tips. And, good luck! Who knows? Next year you could be a featured author there.

© 2010 Mary Ann Kerl

A freelance writer, Mary Ann Kerl also teaches online communication courses for the University of Phoenix. Over 2,000 of her articles and short stories have appeared in over 100 different publications, including Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Family Circle, Home Life, Children’s Digest and others. She sold 16 books to royalty companies, including Augsburg Fortress. Her latest book, Devoted to Economizing, is planned for release with AWOC.COM Publishing.

High - Over $500

• Convenience Distribution ™ - Guidelines:  Pays on acceptance.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Topics of interest to convenience distributors, including products, business and warehouse issues. 

• Florida Sportsman - Guidelines:  Pays on acceptance.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Saltwater fishing in Florida, both inshore and offshore with added coverage freshwater fishing. 

• National Geographic Adventure - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Exciting travel destinations and outdoor pursuits to accounts of cutting-edge expeditions . 

• Popular Mechanics - Guidelines:  Pays on acceptance.  Seeks nonfiction, columns/departments, photos/artwork. Subjects: How-to-do-it articles, Electronics/Photography, Boating/Outdoors. 

Medium - $125 - $500

• Faith Today - Guidelines:  Pays on acceptance.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Christian Canadian event, trend or issue of current interest. 

• FineScale Modeler - Guidelines:  Pays on acceptance.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Modeling technique. 

• Florida Wildlife - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Accepts simultaneous submissions.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Freshwater and saltwater fishing, conservation, outdoor ethics, hunting. 

• HeartLand Boating - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, columns/departments, photos/artwork. Subjects: Power boating, sailboating. 

Low - Less than $125

• Conceive Magazine - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, photos/artwork. Subjects: Fertility, conception, and adoption. 

• FellowScript - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, fillers. Subjects: Material specifically slanted towards the needs and interests of Christian writers. 

• Good News - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Accepts simultaneous submissions.  Seeks nonfiction. Subjects: Interest to evangelical/orthodox United Methodists. 

• Matters Magazine - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, columns/departments, photos/artwork. Subjects: Stories of life in our community Maplewood or South Orange area New Jersey. 

• Midwest Today - Guidelines:  Pays on publication.  Seeks nonfiction, fiction, columns/departments, fillers, photos/artwork. Subjects: Heartland news, sports, politics, entertainment, arts, religion, poetry, fitness, outdoors, travel. 

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