Freelance writer Marsh wins awards

The Enquirer - Freelance writer Marsh wins awards:

Enquirer contributor Betsa Marsh won several writing awards from the recent competition sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writer Central States Chapter, consisting of more than 20 states including Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.

This is the kind of thing that gets stay-at-home moms thinking that maybe they too can write. They sit down at their kitchen tables with their laptops and churn out a series of trite stories saying nothing new. They then spam editors with their crap, burying, suffocating, the work of real writers.

Amateur writers are why small mags struggle and why nobody takes unsolicited subs seriously.

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