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  Noticing Newbies  1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions  Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends! Your host this week bianca_b  Passionate about writing? Take your passion to new heights - with an online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, available only from top ranked National University. Choose workshops based on your interests. Work with experienced and published faculty. Prepare for a variety of career opportunities. Use a state-of-the art online system: Study where and when you want. Click here to get more information!  Confusion No… we are not going to talk about Electric Light Orchestra’s Confusion today. It is a beautiful song though, but that has nothing to do with my kind of confusion. As an author you can have plans – such as writing a novel in 30 days. I started writing mine and got confused. Why? Well… you can start with a good idea, write the story line down. I did that in the first days, so I had a guideline for writing my novel. But I am at a point now, where my main character can go into different directions. And that is where Mister Confusion puts his head around the corner. He tries to distract me from my goal, pressing thousands of different thoughts through my head. And I wrote some of them down and got confused, while the things I wrote down were not even possible. Unless an UFO comes and gets me of course…(LOL) So, as you might have noticed, it is not going well with my novel. And I guess that more authors are dealing with the same struggles I have, so I don’t feel alone. On the other hand I have respect for them who are still working on their novel, not disturbed by confusion in one or other way. But… when you are in a state like this, you have to watch out that you are not falling into Writers Block. Sure, you can let the novel that you are working on, be for the moment. But try to write, maybe work out one of the ideas that popped into your mind out, into a short story. Write a poem or two. Keep that mind going, but don’t focus on the novel. Then you’ll see that your mind is going to put things in place – your state of confusion has solved. In my case, the main character will get a tough time…. So I’ll leave you all now with something to read, I’ll get back on track with my novel. (And no…, I am sorry; my novel is not written in English)  This week’s highlights:
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