{"id":437,"date":"2006-05-27T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/27\/15-reasons\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:30:13","slug":"15-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/15-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen reasons to check out Absolute Write on their new host:<\/p>\n

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  1. They’re back on line and getting things reconstituted.<\/li>\n
  2. Like Forward Motion<\/a>, they’re geared to helping writers (here’s what they say on the front page: Welcome, writers! If you’re interested in freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, songwriting, or– well, you get the idea– you’re in the right place. Thanks for visiting the one-stop web home for professional and beginning writers.<\/strong> )<\/li>\n
  3. New writers have so many questions, here’s one place to turn to get answers that will help you learn your way around the business without getting ripped off.<\/li>\n
  4. Forums<\/li>\n
  5. Sections for all kinds of writing<\/li>\n
  6. Classes<\/li>\n
  7. Market listings<\/li>\n
  8. Store<\/li>\n
  9. Editorial Services<\/li>\n
  10. Writers Directory<\/li>\n
  11. Newsletters<\/li>\n
  12. Interviews<\/li>\n
  13. Articles<\/li>\n
  14. Columns<\/li>\n
  15. A place to associate with other writers like yourself or like you want to be<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’ve not spent a lot of time on Absolute Write (but I’ve lurked around the WaterCooler for James D. Macdonald’s monstrous thread on novel writing). The Water Cooler isn’t back yet, but they’re working on it.<\/p>\n

    Note to people with websites: This should be a lesson to backup your site somewhere off your usual ISP. I back my work up to my storage space at my ISP, but Absolute Write’s experience should serve as a reminder that you many not always have access to that material, so keep it in another location as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Fifteen reasons to check out Absolute Write on their new host: They’re back on line and getting things reconstituted. Like Forward Motion, they’re geared to helping writers (here’s what they say on the front page: Welcome, writers! If you’re interested in freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14893,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/14893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}