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🌸 Here's your exclusive sneak peek at what's blossoming this season at The Muse 🌸
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As usual, we're offering our newsletter subscribers early access to our updated deals page! In celebration of renewal and regrowth, we're offering 20% off select classes that will help you reflect, rewrite, and hold yourself accountable.
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Discover the power of reinvention with Jayne Ann Krentz and Mike Krentz!
Writing is an ever-evolving process, and sometimes, reinvention is necessary. Whether you're exploring a new genre, experimenting with different voices, or delving into unique characters and plotlines, understanding your core story will be your compass.
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✍️ The risks and benefits of reinvention
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✍️ How to navigate the evolving literary landscape
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✍️ Strategies for finding your place in the marketplace
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Plus, students will have the opportunity to receive feedback and advice from Jayne and Mike by sharing excerpts from their works-in-progress.
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🧹Six Spring Cleaning Ideas for Writers
- Organize Your Writing Projects: Sort your writing projects by genre, length, or completion stage. Use folders on your computer or notebooks to keep them organized.
- Delete Unused Files: Clean out unnecessary documents or drafts from your computer, including old ideas or duplicates, to free up space and streamline your files.
- Back Up Your Work: Ensure all your writing projects are backed up using cloud storage services like Google Drive or Dropbox to prevent data loss.
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- Update Your Writing Software: Keep your writing tools up to date to benefit from performance and security improvements that can enhance your writing process.
- Clean Up Your Writing Space: Declutter your workspace by removing unnecessary items and keeping only essential materials within reach to improve focus and productivity.
- Review and Revise Old Writing: Take time to revisit older projects, looking for opportunities to revise and improve them with your current skills and insights.
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Get the Green Light 🚦 Enter The Plaza Prizes!
The purpose of The Plaza Prizes is to discover, publish, and promote talented new writers. All of their 20 literary competitions are open internationally and they award cash prizes to the winners and publish those they shortlist.
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We encourage all of our Muse writers to seek out submission opportunities so you can share your stories with the world!
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Congratulations to short story competition award-winner and Muse student, Tamako Takamatsu!
Tamako has been a member and student of The Muse Writers Center for four years, consistently attending Fiction Studios by Mike Krentz, Michele Young-Stone, and Michael Khandelwal, just to name a few! She is one of our international students, Zooming in from Japan for classes despite the time difference. To describe her as dedicated would be an understatement. Below is a summary of her award-winning short story from The Plaza Prizes!
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“Demons And Monkeys” navigates the point of collision between tradition and modernity using a marital tale set in Japan. Its language is tight, its plot hints at the enormity of history and the clash of cultures pushing against each other. But it is its careful descriptions of a Japanese husband and wife that really makes the story sing off the pages. What I think works in this story is the marriage and the conflict between husband and wife. She is, I think, the more interesting character between the two. I mean “I am the daughter of samurai” is a killer line (it should be the title, I think). But, really, this was an enjoyable short story.
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- Remy Ngamije, Founder, chairperson, and artministrator of Doek. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Doek! literary magazine.
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Only Four Days until Mikey & Michael's Concert & Birthday Celebration 🎉
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Join us on Saturday, March 23, from 4-6 p.m. at the Push Comedy Theater for an afternoon filled with music and celebration!
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A big Thank You to our Muse Grantors & Sponsors!
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