Writers Tribe Review

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Stories Winner

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:25 -0700

Thanks to everyone who participated in our “A Mother’s Love” 9-word stories contest! The story that evoked the strongest sense of longing is …….

T.C. Keith — “She heard the angels sing, she would do anything…”

Congratulations, T.C! You won a free ebook of “The House Beautiful” by Allison Burnett and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop. All you have to do is send us a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who shared their stories! Join us again this week with stories dedicated to the work of our troops:

PROTECTION

Write up to five 9-word stories on “Protection” by midnight next Friday (May 24) for a chance to win a free ebook copy of “East Bay Grease” by Eric Miles Williamson as well as $50 off any upcoming workshop through L.A. Writers’ Lab!

Share your stories on our contest page to win!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/9-Word-Stories/125106044313702?ref=hl

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Weekly Contest: 9-Word Stories Winner

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:18:36 -0700

Thanks to everyone who participated in our “Longing” 9-word stories contest! The story that evoked the strongest sense of longing is …….

Judy Scott - “My hope rises with each ring of the phone.”

Congratulations, Judy! You won a free ebook of “The 90-Day Rewrite” by Al Watt and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop. All you have to do is send us a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who shared their stories! (Ma Rk, you made me want ice cream for breakfast!) Join us again this week with stories on venturing into unknown territory or visiting familiar places, wherever your pen guides you:

TRAVELS

Write up to five 9-word stories on “Travels” by midnight next Friday (May 3) for a chance to win a free ebook copy of “The 90-Day Novel” by Alan Watt as well as $50 off any upcoming workshop through L.A. Writers’ Lab! The 90-Day Novel Tele-Course is starting again on May 6th, and the 90-Day Rewrite Tele-Course on May 7th.

Share your stories on our contest page to win!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/9-Word-Stories/125106044313702?ref=hl

Weekly Contest: 9 Word Stories Winner

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:01:39 -0700

Competition was great everyone! You all came up with such great lines! But a winner must be chosen…so after much deliberation, the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Greed” contest is…

Lori Jakiela — The executive shoveled cocktail shrimp into her Coach purse.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “Christopher” by Allison Burnett and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

LONGING

Stories must be posted on our contest page by midnight Friday (April 26) to be eligible: [http://ow.ly/hIDNK]

Weekly Contest: 9 Word Stories Winner

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:15:08 -0700

Competition was great everyone! You all came up with such great lines! But a winner must be chosen…so after much deliberation, the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Spring Fever” contest is…

Page O’Dare- Coated in Spring pollen, laughing together, they were smitten.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “Death By Sunshine” by Allison Burnett and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

GREED

Stories must be posted on our contest page by midnight Friday (March 15) to be eligible: [http://ow.ly/hIDNK]

Weekly Contest: 9 Word Stories Winner

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:40:56 -0700

Competition was great everyone! You all came up with such great lines! But a winner must be chosen…so after much deliberation, the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Hoax” contest is…

Valerie Alexander- Yes, I am a Nigerian prince. Transfer money now.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children” and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

SPRING FEVER

Stories must be posted on our contest page by midnight Friday (March 15) to be eligible: [http://ow.ly/hIDNK]

how do i submit a 9 word story?

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:08:54 -0700

Oh hi! I’m sorry, I just saw your message.

If you haven’t joined the 9-Word Stories contest yet, you can find it on our 9-Word Stories Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/9-Word-Stories/125106044313702?ref=ts&fref=ts

The theme & prize changes every week, with this week’s topic being: Rebirth

L.A. Writers' Lab - Unlock The Story Within

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:50:28 -0700

Unlock The Story Within

$95

When: April 6th, 10 am-5 pm
Where: The Promenade Playhouse (1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401)

Join us at the Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica for Al Watt’s one-day intensive workshop: “Unlock The Story Within.”

“Unlock The Story Within” is not a formulaic approach to story structure. Through this workshop you will discover how you are uniquely qualified to tell your story.

Through lecture, discussion and stream-of-consciousness writing exercises, Unlock The Story Within provides writers at all levels with the tools necessary to successfully bring their work to fruition.

The morning session involves a lecture followed by eight specially designed stream-of-consciousness writing exercises and one-on-one work with Alan Watt to illustrate the process of connecting to the underlying forces within your story.

Armed with this connection, the afternoon session involves a three-hour story structure workshop that will show you how to connect your plot to your theme.

NOTE: This is an excellent preparatory workshop for the 90-Day Novel or 90-Day Screenplay workshops.

In this workshop you will:

Discover what your story is really about
Turn your fears into allies
Understand how and why you are uniquely qualified to write your story
Identify the dramatic question of your story
Discover the universal dilemma at the heart of your story (this is the ‘source’ of the story from which all conflict and complications arise).
Isolate the specific want and need of your protagonist
Explore your hero’s transformation in the third act
Clarify the through-line of the story by tracking the ‘want’ through the plot points
Explore the back-story that informs your dramatic question
Allow your characters to begin to speak to you.

If you have a friend who would benefit from this workshop, please pass it on.

Register for Unlock the Story Within today!

Weekly Contest: 9 Word Stories Winner

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:03:20 -0700

Phew! Competition was fierce!, You all came up such with great lines! But a winner must be chosen…so after much deliberation the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Home” contest is ….

Deborah Grant - I’m a business nomad; my briefcase is my yurt.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “The House Beautiful” and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

LUCK

Stories must be posted on our contest page by midnight Friday (March 15) to be eligible: [http://ow.ly/hIDNK]

Weekly Contest: 9 Word Stories Winner

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:01:36 -0800

Drum roll please! The winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Joy” contest is ….

Brenda Bowen - The baby arrived at seven fourteen in the morning.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “The House Beautiful” and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

HOME

Stories must be posted on our contest page by midnight Friday (March 15) to be eligible: [http://ow.ly/hIDNK]

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Stories Winner

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:13:40 -0800

The winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories “Rage” contest is ….

Sean Patrick Little - “Hell hath no fury,” she thought, knife cutting deeply.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “Death by Sunshine” and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with a topic we can ALL relate to:

FEAR

~~Stories must be posted on our Contest page by midnight Friday (March 1) to be eligible: http://ow.ly/hIDNK

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:17:11 -0800

Thanks to everyone who participated in our “First Love” 9-word stories contest! It was hard to choose the winning story this week, but the prize goes to …

Mark Miller - He lost interest in everything but her. No regrets.

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “The Complete Works of Miles Treegum and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab Workshop. All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Join us again this week with our potentially blood-curdling topic:

“RAGE”

Share your 9-Word Stories on our contest page (http://ow.ly/hIDNK) by midnight Friday for a chance to win a free ebook copy of “Death by Sunshine” and the $50 L.A. Writers’ Lab discount!

Weekly Contest - 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:18:13 -0800

And the winner of the “Yearning” 9-Word Stories contest is:

Brittainy Chantal Cherry - “He was incapable of love, yet she still wished.”

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of “Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children” and a $50 discount off the L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop of your choice! All you have to do is send me a Facebook message at 9-Word Stories with your email address and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers) to claim your prize!

Thanks to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with stories that pull the heartstrings of your characters’ “First Love.”

Stories must be posted on our Contest page to be eligible: http://ow.ly/h4Pjq

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Stories Winner

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:46:10 -0800

That was a great week! We had about 60 stories submitted. Whew! The winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories JEALOUSY contest is ….

Amy Domaszek - “Stealing her from Steve tasted better than her kiss.”

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of your choice from Writers Tribe Books (http://writerstribebooks.com/) and The 90-Day Novel Press (http://lawriterslab.com/bookstore/), as well as a $50 L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop discount!

All you have to do is message me here at 9-Word Stories with 1) your email address, 2) your ebook choice, and 3) preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers).

Thanks to everyone who participated! Join us again this week with our new topic:

”YEARNING”

Writers Tribe Review Deadline

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:34:40 -0800

Our Jan. 31st deadline is fast approaching!

We’re accepting short unpublished works of: drama, fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, creative critical essays, graphic shorts, hypertexts, multimedia, original artwork, and photography.

If you would like to submit any work based on our first issue’s theme of Los Angeles, check out our submission requirements:

https://writerstribereview.submittable.com/submit

All entries must directly involve Los Angeles in some way to be considered.

We can’t wait to read your work!

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:28:29 -0800

Gasp! Last week’s winner didn’t post properly! Here are the winners of both the “War and Peace” and “Discovery” contests:

And the winner of the “War and Peace” 9-Word Stories contest is:

Sean Patrick Little- “After every war came the fleeting dream of peace.”

Congratulations! You’ve won a free download of Allison Burnett’s “Screenplays that Sell” video, as well as a $50 discount for the L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop of your choice.

The winner of the DISCOVERY 9-Word Stories challenge is …

Scott A Stewart - “The person he’d waited for was himself, all along.”

Congratulations! You won a free ebook of your choice from either Writers Tribe Books (http://writerstribebooks.com/) or The 90-Day Novel Press (http://lawriterslab.com/bookstore/). You also won a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop (good for our in-person classes and tele-courses)! All you have to do is message me with your email address, which ebook you would like, and preferred ebook format (.mobi for kindle, .epub for other e-readers).

Thank you to everyone who participated! I enjoyed reading all your stories. Join us again this week with our new topic: JEALOUSY (bum, bum, buuuum …)

All entries must be posted on the 9-Word Stories page: http://ow.ly/h4Pjq

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:03:01 -0800

And the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories contest with the topic of SECRETS is:

Brenda Bowen - I was freed by talking skeletons mother left behind.

Congratulations Brenda! You won a free ebook copy of “Diamond Dogs” by Al Watt, and a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop. All you have to do to claim your prize is message me with your email address and I’ll get that ebook to you ASAP.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest! Join us again this week with the new topic: WAR AND PEACE

Write up to five 9-Word Stories and post them on our Facebook contest page for a chance to win a free download of Allison Burnett’s 90-minute video: “Screenplays that Sell” as well as a $50 discount off any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshops! Here’s a link to our 9-Word Stories page: ow.ly/ftucM

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:59:53 -0800

And the winner of this week’s 9-Word Stories contest is:

Gigi Glentz - “I walk through the darkness only for the light.”

Congratulations! You’ve won a free video of Al Watt’s “Unlock the Story Within” one-day workshop and a $50 discount off of any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop (discount good for one year)! I’ll send a message your way with instructions to get your prize.

Thanks again to everyone who participated with their 9-word stories! It was hard to choose a winner from so many good stories. Join us again for this week’s contest with the topic:

“SECRETS”

Writing Workshops - starting Jan. 7th, 8th & 22nd

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:59:50 -0800

In less than a week, new L. A. Writers’ Lab workshops are starting up again! Space is limited but we still have openings in each of our courses. Check out the details here and see which classes work best with your schedule: http://lawriterslab.com/.

90-Day Novel Tele-course — Jan. 7th
90-Day Rewrite Tele-course — Jan. 8th
90-Day Play Tele-course — Jan. 8th
90-Day Screenplay Tele-course — Jan. 22nd

Hope to hear from you soon!

Weekly Contest: 9-Word Story Winner

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 09:12:05 -0800

The winner of this week’s “Christmas spirit” 9-Word Stories contest is:

T.C. Keith – “No gift-box could contain all of this love… :-)”

Congratulations! You’ve won a free ebook copy of “The 90-Day Novel” and a $50 discount off of any upcoming L.A. Writers’ Lab workshop (discount good for one year)! I’ll get that ebook to you pronto!

Thanks again to everyone who participated with their 9-word stories! Join us again for this week’s contest with the topic:
“THE JOURNEY”

Whether you’re looking back or looking ahead for the New Year, let’s celebrate the journey together: ow.ly/ftucM