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BEFORE SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS OR E-BOOKS, please check our submission guidelines for writers (see page menu below). We accept only specific material related to writing, Fear of Writing, and the Fertile Material writing prompts.
IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR WORK AS A WRITING TEACHER, please first read the Online Course page. Do not send your CV as an attachment.
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Contact Us
About Milli Thornton: author of Fear of Writing & Online Course Presenter
About George Angus: Chief of Marketing for Fear of Writing and Milliver's Travels
About Susan Smith: FoW's Recommended Book Editor
Submission Guidelines
Etiquette 101: How to Contact a Writing Website
Grateful Thanks for Web Scripts and IT Support
Our Special Thank You to Clips Ahoy
Contact the Fear of Writing Staff
Milli Thornton
dba The Word Nerd
P.O. Box 9854
Youngstown, OH 44513
Phone: 830-832-1355 (we're on EST)
When emailing us, please contact the appropriate department:
Site owner, Milli Thornton:
Fear of Writing Gazette (newsletter):
Online Creative Writing Course Owner, Milli Thornton:
Online Creative Writing Course Presenter, Judy Clement Wall:
FoW's Recommended Book Editor, Susan Smith:
Online Arts Outreach / Texas Public Radio submissions:
Fear of Writing Clinic enquiries:
Writers' Muse Coaching Service:
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About Milli Thornton
Author, Site Owner & Creative Writing Online Course Presenter
MILLI THORNTON is the author of Fear of Writing: for writers & closet writers. She is lead workshop presenter for the Fear of Writing Clinic and her e-book, Become a Workshop Presenter, won first place in the e-book category in the 2004 DIY Festival. Milli runs local writing circles based on the 112 writing prompts in her book—known as the Fertile Material—and her mission is to put the fun back into writing.
She is also Course Presenter for the Online Course based on her book.
Milli was born in Wallace, Idaho and spent her childhood in Great Falls, Montana. At the tender age of 12, she moved to Australia in 1972 with part of her large family. She fell in love with Australia and lived there for 25 years, returning to the USA in 1997 to spend time with her mother.
After a year on the stormy Oregon coast, Milli moved to Taos, New Mexico for seven years, where she wrote her first book. After her husband sold his successful Taos business, she moved with him to the Hill Country in Texas.
After two years in Canyon Lake, where she hung out with “The Chicklettes” and the other Fertile Material writing goups she started, Milli returned to Taos, just in time for the first rain-drenched Taos summer in many years.
In January 2007, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi with her husband, Brian Williams, who was offered a role as an RF Engineer working on a cutting edge antenna.
In September 2008 Milli and Brian moved to Youngstown, Ohio, where Milli continued her fun project of learning screenwriting. Milli's first completed screenplay is a time travel/adventure/romance set in New Mexico.
Next in the works is an e-book entitled, How I Wrote My First Screenplay in 29 Days.
In the summer of '09 Milli took up travel writing and she travel-blogs at Milliver's Travels. (Got a travel story? Guest bloggers welcome! Milli considers stories written about your local area, not just exotic or foreign locations.)
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OTHER HELPFUL SERVICES FOR WRITERS: Writers' Muse Coaching Service
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TRIVIA TIME: The watercolor of the dog burning his manuscript on the cover of Milli's book was painted in 1999 in Taos, New Mexico by artist Steve Andrus, now of Andrus Gallery & Studio, Manteo, NC. Click here to meet Steve and read the story behind the book cover.
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More about Milli's book:
Fear of Writing: for writers & closet writers
More about Milli's e-books:
The Whiffy Secret / The Saga of Joelene the Bean / Budgeting Made Simple / Become a Workshop Presenter
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About George Angus
Chief of Marketing for Fear of Writing & Milliver's Travels
GEORGE ANGUS is an author, successful blogger and owner of Tumblemoose Writing Service. I'm very pleased to have the benefit of his marketing savvy for Fear of Writing and my new travel blog, Milliver's Travels. Getting the word out is always a challenge for any writer, and we need all the help we can get. You only have to look at how many people love to visit and comment on his blog posts over at Tumblemoose to see that George is one smart cookie. Welcome, George! — Milli
BACK IN THE early 90’s I was fortunate enough to have some articles published in the trade journals of my chosen profession (Emergency Medical Services). I had no idea at that time how important this was. I had a couple of years of successful writing projects and then I got busy operating a paramedic school and I ignored my writing career. 
If I said we’re going to fast forward 15 years then I would be skipping over an entire chunk of my life. It’s probably good enough to say that writing was always a tickle in the back of my brain, but I had the unwieldy combination of not knowing how to start laced with a bit of fear. Fear of what, I’m not sure. Success, failure, being laughed at, the unknown, who knows. Most likely all of the above.
So, last year I started taking hesitant writing steps and over the past ten months those steps have turned into leaps. I’ve been writing web content for a number of sites, I’ve gotten about 30 pages done on my novel, researched and obtained several freelance writing projects and opened my storefront on the World Wide Web.
I've written an ebook to help aspiring writers get started. It's called The Writing Experience and it's available over at Smashwords.
Cheers! ~ George
George Angus
Owner of Tumblemoose Writing Services
Author of The Writing Experience
Second photo is George with his daughter Madeline Skye (Maddy)
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About Susan Smith
FoW's Recommended Book Editor
SUSAN SMITH is Fear of Writing's exclusively recommended book editor. If you have a manuscript that needs editing—and if you enjoy working with a friendly professional who operates on perfectionism—we suggest you contact Susan for a quote. Below are Susan's credentials, which we're VERY proud of. — Milli
SUSAN MAKES HER MARK AT GRAMMATIKA
Michelle Strunge Moser, Supervising Editor at Grammatika.com, was kind enough to share her impressions of Susan for this feature.
“Susan scored 97 percent on the proofreading test,” Michelle said, “which falls in the 100th percentile. She is among the top three proofreaders we have on board. Yes, the test is HARD; no one has EVER gotten 100 percent correct on the test. She is also certified as a Grammatika expert copyeditor.”
With her outstanding test results, Susan was given a chance to help create a new Web course for the company's sister site. Grammatika provided a short sample for style: Susan matched it perfectly and sustained it for the entirety of the lessons she wrote for them.
“She is one of the most brilliant, versatile writers I've encountered in my nearly two decades in the publishing industry,” Michelle said. “I would trust Susan completely with any project I could throw at her. She writes with confidence and humor, drawing her audience in and making them feel at home in the most foreign of topics.”
The course Susan wrote for, performing punctually under a tight deadline, is called Essential Skills for Proofreaders.
“Your blog readers can find Susan's work at EditorialCourses.com,” Michelle added, “although they won't be able to actually see her work unless they register for the course itself.”
Both Grammatika.com and EditorialCourses.com are projects of the Michigan-based company, Copyright Editorial, LLC.
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Submission Guidelines for Writers
Before submitting your work to Fear of Writing, please read our submission guidelines below. We accept only specific material related to writing, Fear of Writing, and the Fertile Material writing prompts. Thank you.
IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR WORK AS A WRITING TEACHER, please first read the Online Course page. Do not send your CV as an attachment.
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Read Milli's article: Etiquette 101: How to Contact a Writing Website
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How to Submit Please submit by email, as a Word document in an email ATTACHMENT.
(This guideline applies only to writing submissions. If you are inquiring because you hope to work with Fear of Writing in a professional capacity, please see above.)
ONLINE ARTS OUTREACH / TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
This is a great way to get started and find out what's special and different about the Fertile Material writing prompts. Visit this page from more information: Story Podcasts for Online Arts Outreach.
FEAR OF WRITING GAZETTE
Visit the Subscribe page and read “How to be Featured in the Gazette.”
ARTICLES
Most of the articles on this Website were written by Milli. However, we'll consider your article if it suits the theme of this Website. We do not offer payment for articles. If you'd like to write an article for the fun of it—or simply to gain more writing experience without the pressure of submitting to a paying publication—visit the articles page for clues about what we like.
E-BOOKS
Milli is not currently accepting submissions for e-books.
THE SEQUEL
The sequel, Son of Fear of Writing, is still in progress and it's not too late to submit.
Please look through all of the categories below. The two at the end, in particular, are relevant to everyone who submits.
All short stories submitted for the sequel MUST BE BASED on one of the Fertile Material writing prompts from Milli's book, Fear of Writing.
Fertile Material Stories Milli asks writers to submit their Fertile Material stories raw, in order to show the power of the imagination when we write without fear of editing. Also, your Fertile Material submission does not have to be a complete story. Vignettes or unfinished stories are acceptable. This removes the pressure of having to come up with an ending, which can sometimes be enough to squelch the desire to get something written (an important feature of the Fertile Material that will be demonstrated many times in the book).
Seven Laws and Subliminals Participants of the Fear of Writing Clinic from 2001 to April 2005 took home a manila folder containing writing exercises on colored paper. You're welcome to submit anything you wrote on these colored sheets during the workshop. From May 2005 onwards, workshop participants did these exercises in the student workbook.
Fear of Criticism Participants of the Fear of Writing Clinic do this exercise and Milli has collected several for the sequel. She encourages further submissions of the Fear of Criticism piece.
Bio With each story Milli is including a biographical sketch of the contributing writer. You don't have to write a formal bio (in fact, she asks you not to). Simply pour out some "stuff" about yourself—such as a very brief background on your life, how and when you started writing, and what you're working on now writing-wise. Just put it all down higgledy-piggledy and she'll pull it together in ways that best suit the book. If you want, you can also submit your photo to be used on the Website (see others).
How to Submit Please submit by email, as a Word document in an email ATTACHMENT.
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Grateful Thanks for Web Scripts & IT Support
Milli Thornton and her IT Manager wish to thank JavaScript Source for several excellent scripts used throughout the site. JavaScript Source is an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of cut-and-paste JavaScript examples for your Web pages. All for free!
Milli Thornton and her IT Manager wish to thank ButtonGenerator.com for their attractive and easy-to-use button generator. We used the button generator to create the dog paw buttons on the Navigation Bar and also the Buy Now, Download, and Student Login buttons.
Milli Thornton and her IT Manager wish to thank eXtropia.com for the “Search This Site” script used on the left menu bar.
Milli Thornton wishes to thank her husband, Brian Williams, for his brilliant Site Template design and untiring IT Management for fearofwriting.com.
“I could not have built this site without Brian's help,” Milli said, when interviewed recently on Fear of Writing TV.
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Our Special Thank You to Clips Ahoy
If you've ever built a commercial Website and tried hunting down some usable clip art at 4 a.m., you will know the frustrations involved. All that beautiful clip art that you cannot use because your site sells things.
It once took me five hours to find a single image in the public domain that I could use on a page that sells products. Agggghhhh!
After almost a month of building this Website, I accidentally found Clips Ahoy and the wonderful Corey Wisla and Adrea Satre. If you're looking for great clip art with flexible policies, click on their logo:
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