Get a book published

just joined this.

how many social networking/goal setting sites can I join. I should make a list, and realize where the majority of my effort goes… which ones should I spend more time with? Which ones, did I join, and never do anything with?

Facebook
Myspace
Etsy
43Things
WeBook
Blogger
LiveJournal…

Academy of American Poets
Walt Whitman Award
A prize of $5,000, publication by Louisiana State University Press, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson is given annually for a poetry collection by a U.S. citizen who has not published a book of poems in a standard edition. Submit a manuscript of 50 to 100 pages with a $25 entry fee between September 15 and November 15. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for the required application and complete guidelines. (See Recent Winners.)
Academy of American Poets, Walt Whitman Award, 584 Broadway, Suite 604, New York, NY 10012-3210. (212) 274-0343, ext. 18. CJ Evans, Awards Associate.
www.poets.org/awards

I want to take my negative past history, and focus on the positive ways I have grown, developed, and coped. I think of it more as a how to for living in simplicity and comfort, even when the world doesn’t always cooperate.

It’s the kind of self-help notion, that is not dependent on catastrophe, but can certainly add brightness to the rough spots.