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Dan Goodman
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Hi. I'm Richard Wagamese and I'm a Canadian First Nations writer with
four novels and a memoir published through Doubleday Canada. I'm also
an award-winning journalist. I'm posting this as an invitation to
everyone to visit my new website devoted to storytelling and writing -
specifically, Spontaneous Oral Storytelling and how it can galvanize
your writing process.

See, I write and sell First Drafts of all my manuscripts, newspaper
columns and radio and tv commentaries. That's right. First drafts.

The website at www.e-lectronicindian.com tells you how I can do that -
and how you can too!

Please feel free to visit.

Richard

I'm looking for others opinions on so-called 'creative writing' courses
available.

I've always enjoyed writing and now I want to take more steps with doing
something about it.

I requested information on 'The Writers Bureau' as it 'appeared' to be
the most comprehensive during my Google search marathon! I have received
4 mailings from them over the course of 6 weeks, they just seem
'desperate' for me to part with £300 and bombard me with testimonials,
which frankly anyone could make up for marketing purposes. They also
seem focussed on the earnings you could make, which surely to a true
creative writer isn't the motivation!?!

I'm not certain which area of 'writing' I would like to partake in,
though have written 'pilot' episodes of situation comedies, a 90 minute
stand up comedy routine and some short stories at my leisure over the
past 6 years. I would like some opportunities to flex my writing skill
and get opinions from people in the know and with the security that
nobody is going to 'rob' my material.

Guidelines: <http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Submit1.asp>

Needs poetry ($30/poem), fiction ($.05/wd up to 6K wds), flash fiction
($0.05/wd up to 1K wds), book reviews, interviews.

Use online submission form. No previously-published material, unless
specifically requested. Submit no more than one submission at a time.
Utilizes a "two-issue break" when publishing contributions from
previous contributors. Has a submission calendar detailing when they
are closed for submissions.