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1. Word of Success

a) "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein

b) "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

2. Editor's Note and New Authors

I am pleased to inform you that there are 11 new authors who have joined our IWW group during the month of December 2017. They are Karpaga Priya VJ , Shweta Joshi Dixit, Suyasha Singh, Muzammil Dar, Swapna Gopinath, Kavya Sharma, Faaizah Ghazi, Shubh Rana, Pooja Agarwal, Lavanya Nukavarapu, and Mansi Bhandari. A hearty welcome to you all to our group. Thanks for joining our community.

The submissions received late towards the end of the month could not be included in this issue. The chosen ones will be published during this month.

In this issue, I would also like to inform you an important message. I am planning to take a break for a while from 16th January 2018 till further notice, and during this period I will not be accepting any new contributions for publishing. However, the contributions received till 15th January 2018 will be processed and the chosen ones will be published. I am sorry for this inconvenience, but I need to take this break. When I am ready to accept new submissions again the newsletter subscribers will be notified first, and later it will be published on the website, too. So if you have not yet subscribed please go ahead and subscribe to get the message first.

3. New items published at IWW in December 2017.

Short Stories

(a) The Daughter, (b)Those Few Moments, (c) Asha, A Ray of Hope - Part I & Part 2, (d) A Mother’s Legacy, (e) Somewhere in Future, and (f) Six of Swords. These stories can be read on the main page. IWW Short Stories

Perspective

(a) Wow! Motherhood b) Galaxies.

These can be read on the main page Perspectives

Poems

(a) Unable to love myself, (b) Lost Winter, (c) My First Birthday, (d) Do Birds Cry? (e) Dear Lover, (f) What is there to lament, (g) Childhood, (h) The Bed, (i) Haunting, (j) Insanity, (k) Shall I quit? (l) Love at first sight, and (m) Strings.
These poems can be read on the main page Poems

Travelogues

Half a Day in Chandigarh.
This can be read on the main page Travelogues

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4. Literary News -

a) How to craft characters scene by scene http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/how-to-craft-characters-scene-by-scene .
b) Improve your writing. https://letterpile.com/writing/Words-to-Use-in-Starting-Sentences

5. Contests (Copy these links, paste each one of them on your browser and check for details.)

1) Short Short Story http://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions/short-short-story-competition Last date: Jan 15,2018

2) Your Story Competition http://www.writersdigest.com/your-story-competition

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6. Charity work.
Take a moment to check out Swanthana - For mentally challenged girl children

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7. Check out these books

a) A Christmas in Scotland Read this travel memoir

b) Cherished - story of a young girl's eagerness to seek the love of her parents. Cherished

c) The Second Choice @ Flipkart

d) Before the Sunset
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