Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Real literary life moves into Second Life

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Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

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Have you explored Second Life yet? This virtual world is now three years old. Writers and publishers are taking notice.

The Gardian's "Braving a new world" discusses the literary world of Second Life:

Recreating the legendary Parisian bookshop within a virtual world may seem like a bizarre idea but, somehow, it works perfectly. I walk through the doors and into a room lined with bookshelves filled with brightly coloured spines, armchairs and stools tucked into cosy nooks and crannies. The Shakespare and Co motto - "Be not inhospitable to strangers / lest they be angels in disguise" - is in pride of place above a doorway. It is arguably a little more tidy than the original, but then most things in Second Life are. It is also a bookshop with a sense of atmosphere, the kind where you feel that maybe you'd like to sit down, kick back and browse for a while. It conveys both warmth and purpose - features that many virtual world buildings lack.

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