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   Write ON! Writing Contest~

  THE SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE: GETTING TO KNOW YOUWrite On! Online is pleased to announce our latest series of contests, designed to encourage you to give those
writing muscles a workout. There will be an exercise for both the non-fiction and the fiction-writer … and a
winner in each category. Since any exercise can do wonders to get you in writing-shape, I encourage the fiction writers to try the non-fiction exercise and vice versa.GETTING TO KNOW YOUNon-Fiction: Choose someone you see frequently, but do not know very well: your mail carrier, a local store owner, your significant other’s best friend. Spend a few minutes, interview him or her, and write a 300 - 400 word profile. It can be personal or professional. Just take the time to learn something about that person and share it through your
writing. This is also a great way to practice interviewing skills and interpersonal communication.

Fiction: Choose someone you see frequently, but do not know very well: a bank teller, the barista at your favorite coffeehouse, your new neighbor. Study this person, and then write a 300 - 400 word character
profile based on what you see - or what you think you see. Who is this person? What does the body language tell you? What’s his or her story? Be as conservative or outrageous as you’d like. Just be creative and have fun! This is a wonderful way to create characters for use at a later time.PRIZES1st Place: Both winners will receive a medium-length (or 21,000 word) one-reader iScript, and have their stories published on Write On! Online 2nd Place: Both winners will receive a copy of

Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript by Chuck Sambuchino, compliments of The Writers Store 3rd Place: Bookkeeping Basics for Freelance
Writers by Brigitte A Thompson (Non-Fiction) Save the Cat !® by Blake Snyder (Fiction)  Submit your 300 - 400 word profile or character study in the body of an email to writeononline@yahoo.com by
Wednesday, September 30. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, in the
October Write On! Newsletter.

Welcome new songwriters Maddi Simmons, Simay Dilcan from Turkey who
e-mails “Sorry I only have 3 songs in English, all my others are in Turkish…”  We’ll just have to post a turkey song or two!!!  It’s coming on turkey time again.  And soul full (his song has Soul in the
title…) Gary Koehler from the US of A.Thanks to Phylis Marconi for keeping me inspired.

Thanks to the Melvin
Community Center for
donating all those cups.Thanks to the Suazo family for helping our S2SMelodic Director have a place to live in the USA.

RAVES & CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION

*Christopher Coppola, whom we met while making a MobiFlick at his PAH Fest Chicago 08, has been nominated to The
Huffington Post as  someone who uses New Media to change the world in a positive way.  Because of him, I now know how to edit video, have a Flip Mino that I use religiously and bought a HD camera.  He deserves Raves & Celebration!!! *Singer/Songwriter Sarah VonderHaar was chosen to be one of the artists included in a rewards program for Gogurt.  At www.gogurt.com you can download her songs All Mine &
Everything I’ll Be. 

*Our own Maestro Schroeter had his co-written song titled Heaven On Earth win 2 songwriting contests & the song will be performed at the second annual New York Peace Festival.*Ruth L. Ratny celebrates the 20th year anniversary of her Reel News newsletter out of Chicago.  A great read.  She also had her full length screenplay place as a finalist in the Chicago Screenwriters Network’s 1st Annual Screenwriting Contest.  Thanks for keeping us posted as to the film scene & KUDOS on the win!

*My own query letter won a 3rd place in the Teleplay category at the Write On! Query Letter Contest.  Thanks again Debra for the book & card.  Everyone send in a submission to the above writing contest.  Let’s give Debra, a Chicago native out in
California who is doing a good deed for us writers, a flood of submissions.

 The 12 Most POWERFUL WORDS To Use In Writing Copy:1. YOU 2. MONEY 3. SAVE 4. NEW 5. EASY 6. LOVE7. DISCOVERY 8. RESULTS 9. HEALTH 10. PROVEN11. GUARANTEE 12. FREEThese 12 words contain 10-100 times more value and
more ‘punch’ than almost any other word in the English language.  It’s communication with an IMPACT!

So when you write your band newsletter, promote your latest tour or CD or song—put these words in the headlines.

We need Holiday songs.  Please visit the website, LOGIN and
upload your holiday songs.  We’ll e-mail you upon receipt.www.Songs2Share.com  ~ Roberta  

Songs2Share.com Move The Music - Forward

Songwriters Will No Longer Be Paid Like They Used To 

February 15, 2009

We’ve Found Our Specialty 

Songs2Share staff agree that we are now a song licensing company focused on LOVE SONGS!!!  Everybody sings them.  A lot of movies use them.  So we are seeking them out and will be known in the industry as the best love songwriters in town.  Check your song catalogs songwriters+  Everyone has a love song or two.  Visit the website, LOGIN and upload your love song submission.  We’ll e-mail you when we receive them.

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A Songs2Share Celebration

We just finished up negotiations with the Robert’s Gym Board, in Roberts Illinois = and they are very happy to have S2S hold our first concert in their building!   Mark your calendars for June 28, 2009.  We’ll be closing out the Roberts celebration of Ford County’s 150th birthday. We are also exploring the idea of small house jams.  We have a staffer who wants to do drumming circles and this will help keep her entertained!

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VIDEO

Apple is believed to be wrapping up a feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company’s servers for playback anywhere without eating up your own storage space.  =  We’ve added video to our marketing program.  Videotape everything.  Buy a good camera.  Video is here and very saleable!
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New Songwriter ~ Annie Jackson is working a song with S2S.

Josh at Ji! Designs made us a great animated banner and is now working  a header/banner for our MySpace sites. 

Thanks and a hug to each one of you.   

A Songs2Share Event January 15, 2009   Issue #2 “It’s where the music took us…”                     Robbie Robertson/The Last Waltz

 Marsha Sinetar wrote a book titled “Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow”.  Over the past 2 years I’ve discovered I love working with songwriters, helping them polish their songs until they are the best we both feel, that they can be.We realize that a 20 piece orchestra will make them sound different, even better, but we’re after making a good song, not always a giant production.  All the songwriters I’ve worked with thus far have come away feeling the song was better after some revision, than when it was submitted.  I’m in the process of getting together a before and after catalog of S2S songs.  There are a couple of songwriter testimonials posted at the Songs2Share.com website under the VISION button.  So that’s what we’re going to be about this year—doing what we love.

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 Karl & I made a MobiFlick at the PAH Fest Chicago 2008.  We spent nearly 7 days making a 6 minute video at Columbia College.  We told my brother Harry’s story about finding the sunken Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan.  It was truly an intense learning experience. This was the first time either Karl or I had ever split a scene or used video editing software.  And now—well, we just bought our first High Definition Video camera and are looking to record Songs2Share songs being performed. We also want to tell stories with video.  We want to document what we do.  We want to interview musicians and songwriters and make music videos too.So our License Agreement must change to reflect this new marketing tool.  We are now signing music videos to be licensed in hourly blocks.  The day is coming that everybody will have access to streaming video at their websites.***************************************************

Friendly Inspirations—Here are 3 monthly ideas for song lyric, poems, instrumental titles, photos, video, short story or anything they inspire you to create.  Use the title if you like & make something! 

1. The Hidden Factors—Hidden factors are emotions/thoughts/events you get from making a certain decision.  There are hidden factors walking in an ice storm.

2. Mama Crow—When I strip chicken skins or cook a turkey, I throw the scraps outside for Mama Crow.  She’s a big black crow that has little baby crows.  We’ve got a children’s song titled Mama Bird if you need one.

3. The Dosage—Do you watch TV, take pharmaceuticals, alcohol, smoke, toke, flirt, text message, etc = what’s your dosage baby!!!  Are you a love junkie?  What is the dosage that gets you off.

WELCOME ~ Maestro Guilherme Schroeter has joined Songs2Share as a Creative Assistant.  He has worked two songs with new songwriters.  It is an honor to have this classically trained pianist from Brazil on our team.  He is currently promoting his music in the Los Angeles California area and is available for concerts.  Please send us an e-mail if you can help him secure piano or composing opportunities or contact him at www.MySpace.com/guilhermeschroetercompose.   

 David MacMullan, Terry Edmonds, and Moa & Arenla & Imli Subong = new songwriters we are excited to be working with.  Thanks for adding to our song catalog.  We’re doing our best promoting your work.

 *Lori Hajost of www.artdesignassociates.com = Thanks for updating our Trixie and Danni Paris mascots.  The holiday attire added a festive feeling to our MySpace sites.  Perhaps Trixie needs her pink jacket on for the new website header—instead of the tank top!!!  We’re getting some winter weather in the Chicago area.  And you say you are not coming back dear cousin—oh what you are missing = -20 with the wind chill.  LOL

 John Wu—Again we want to thank John for sticking with us, helping us get the website updated to reflect our growth. 

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Songs2Share Inc. has moved.  We will be changing our e-mail address this month and will update you next month.  Meanwhile, contact us at Roberta@Songs2Share.com.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++          

LINKS:MICHAEL MASTERSON—GOALS—7 MINUTES OF TIPS ON GETTING GOALS ON PAPER FROM A MASTER MINDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqCriPkLG2Q InDie contact newsletter—he’s putting out some great stuff for artists & songwriters—includes a great house concert article –http://www.bigmeteor.com/newsletter/dec2008.shtml  SUBMIT YOUR SONGS OR SONGS IN PROGRESS FOR OUR MARKETING CONSIDERATION AT;
www.Songs2Share.com SUBMIT WELL PRODUCED RADIO QUALITY MUSIC AT:www.PumpAudio.com  - tell them Songs2Share sent you!!!   

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More Than Money

When I first opened the Songs2Share song store website, I expected to sell song licenses that would earn our songwriters residual royalties.  More than that has happened.  The first licenses we sold taught me there is more to this S2S song licensing program than money.  The songwriters want to know who licensed their songs, from what country, and could they look them up on the Internet and listen to their music.  They also enjoy hearing the success stories our song buyers have performing their licensed songs.   The original songwriters want to share this information with their family and friends - especially their music friends.  Knowing that another artist connected with their song enough to license and perform the song is as much of a thrill as receiving the monetary licensing fee.  So we make it a point to keep songwriters informed after the sales of their songs.  

Other Opportunities Surface

Working with songwriters and performing artists has opened the door to adding other services to our program.  We have posted a Song Opportunity Board at the S2S website thus creating community among songwriters and song buyers.  Some songwriters will exchange a sub-license to their song for a simple piano or guitar and vocal recording.  They will then use this recording to market their song and/or the recording itself if it is of radio quality.  This is a great way for artists to build their song catalogs, playlists and marketing media with quality songs that have been through the revision process, at no cost. The songwriter receives a recording of their song that they gladly spend the time, effort and funds to market.  A BONUS = the performing artist on the recording receives exposure from the songwriters’ and Songs2Share’s marketing efforts.  And S2S receives another quality song to post at the website for licensing opportunities.  A win-win-win situation.

Marketing Goals

Internet marketing is an art.  Songs2Share needs marketing experts to help us reach our goals.  We are currently sending our business proposal to established music companies who are in a position to partner with us and help us service songwriters and artists in need of song material.

What You Can Do   

Visit the website and upload 1 song for our review.  The more songwriters we post at the website, the bigger variety of musical styles we can offer our song buyers.  The more songwriters and artists we service, the better we look to the outside companies who are visiting the website to consider if our Songs2Share song licensing program fits in with their business goals. 

Always Available

We are always available to assist you in your songwriting or song buying needs.  Upload your song at the website and receive a complimentary critique.  If you need song material, visit the website and send us an e-mail requesting that material.  We are happy to send you an MP3 of a song in your genre so you can listen with your management team and decide if that song is the right one for you.  We are here to serve you – the songwriter and the performing artist. 

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