Free Movie Screening!

For foreign film aficionados, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be showing a series of Korean director Lee Chang-dong's films from Thursday, January 3rd, to Saturday, January 5th. His debut film, "Green Fish," which follows a young man who returns home from military service and joins a criminal gang, screens at 5:00 PM on January 5th, and admission is free! Just click on the link, and scroll down for details.

Find the Fastest Respondiing Literary Agents

Do you have a manuscript and are you looking for an agent? Submit to the fastest responders first by checking out who has the fastest response rate at LitMatch - Literary Agent Directory, Response Times and Submission Tracking

From their blog:

"Up ‘til now, we’ve been focused on making the site as useful as possible for the individual user tracking submissions in our system. But now that we have a strong base of submission information to draw from, we’re proud to be able to add these statistics to our ever-growing set of literary agent research tools and offer them to our registered and unregistered users alike!
This upgrade covers all the basics, breaking down the responses for both agencies and individual agents, with separate stats for email and postal mail responses."

Writing Anger -- Some Helpful Insights

Writing about emotions can be more difficult than experiencing them. In Emotional Rollercoaster: Writing Anger, professional freelance writer Apryl Duncan makes clear the reasons why every writing teacher we've ever had says, "Show, don't tell."

Summarize What You Read For Fun And Profit

Brijit is a privately-owned, angel-financed online media startup with teams based in Washington, DC, Mountain View, CA and Beijing. Founded in 2006, they employ a distributed team of editors and writers.What they do is publish on-line summaries of magazine articles and TV news shows in order to provide guideposts to readers who simply don't have much spare time. Their goal is to make it easier for all of us to discover and access the world's best content, quickly and inexpensively. You can go to their website, search for topics that interest you to find a brief summary and a link to the article referred. Toward this end, they will pay $5 for your summaries of 100 words or less.

Killer First Lines

A good first line gets your attention by striking a nerve. In this informative article, Susan Sundwall shares some insightful pointers on writing a first line that will get your reader's attention and quickly pull them into your story, making them want to learn more.

Agni Literary Magazine

"Agni" is not only the name of the Vedic guard of fire. It's also the name of a print and online publication that accepts submissions of poetry, short fiction, and essays between September 1st and May 31st. The print magazine is published twice yearly, in spring and in fall, while their website is updated monthly with new, online-only, fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews. They pay $10 per printed (or printed-out) page for prose, and $20 per printed page for poetry (with $150 maximum). They will consider novel excerpts provided they are cohesive enough to stand alone.

Clean Sheets Erotica Magazine

If sexuality is featured in your writing, you may be able to market your work to Clean Sheets Erotica Magazine. They are accepting submissions for their upcoming Sex & Spirituality anthology, to be published next summer. They are looking for stories and poems that invoke spirituality along with sexuality. Stories should be less than 5000 words and can be much shorter. Payment is $50 per story, $25 per poem, plus 2 copies of the book. Deadline is March 1, 2008.