June 2001

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Features
By Sid Fleischman
Draw in your readers with memorable opening lines.
Departments
Contributors
Letters
@Deadline
Dear Writer
Breaking into magazine writing; will an editor steal your idea?
Ethics
Net//Working
Promote yourself with a Web site.
Off the cuff
Letting your work simmer can bring surprising results.
Poet to poet
Record both the moment and the long term with a series of poems.
In the moment
By James Applewhite
Syntax
Use 'megaphors' and 'miniphors' to describe the extraordinary.
WriteStuff
Market focus
Greeting card writers bank on humor, puns and plays on words.
Bottom line
Effective ways to spread the word about your new book.
Classified advertising
Index of advertisers
Writers wanted
How I write
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