My goals this week…
It’s my birthday week… yes, I am turning older… a whole year older. How does that happen? In any event, if I don’t make goals for the week, things aren’t going to go as well as they could. Turning older takes thought and consideration. If I don’t have it written down, I just might think too much about the fact I am almost old…er. So, goals… Yes. Finish my UNSEEN CHRONICLE on Good Friday events. Its a long one… I thought it would be a quick 2K story… now pushing 4 and I am not done yet. I am not sure why I didn’t expect that....
Read MoreWow, that time already?
Tuesday we find out if I made it to the next round of ABNA… I am not sure if I’m more happy or shocked really. I can’t believe it’s already been a month but I am glad I don’t have to wait much longer. In other news, I think I have decided to record myself reading the first chapters of my novels, though this might be a super challenge since I have 6 kids in the house usually. I did my first pass tonight, on Runaway Choices, and it went okay. Only fumbled a few words… and snorted at myself in the recording. So maybe this is a terrible idea? Plus I am rotten...
Read MoreEditing Success…
I finished my first edit of RUNAWAY CHOICES last night and in the process I figured out a small little nugget I added in to the story to make it much better. I hope… Haha. Like all first, second and maybe even fifth drafts, it’s surely not ready for submission, publication or the general public. But it is ready for Beta Readers… a couple of whom were emailed last night with squeals of delight with the attached PDF file. I know there are things that probably don’t make sense to the reader, which is what Beta’s are for. Since I wrote it, everything makes sense in...
Read MoreWhat makes or breaks you?
Writer’s are funny creatures… by nature. We have to be to get through all these processes that bring us to the final goal… Publication. The writing, the editing, the querying, more editing, the procuring of an agent, still more editing… really, there is humor in it all. Though, maybe I am confusing humor with insanity. That can be debated later. When I see my fellow-friend-writer-folks going through one of the many processes… it always amazes me how each one reacts to the situations of waiting. Waiting will make you insane… if you aren’t careful. Been...
Read More6 Sentences….
Whoop! Whoop! *arseno hall hoo hoo hoo hoo* One of my three entries… or all three I submitted… will be in the next 6 Sentences compilation out in April 2010. I won’t know which one(s) are in Volume III until it comes out. But regardless, I am tickled pink, purple, orange, red… let’s just call it a rainbow of beautiful colors! I am just thrilled. The subjects of my three entries were: Life, Christmas and Motherhood. All three (I thought) were awesome and was very impressed I could tell a whole story in 6 Sentences. I almost wasn’t going to enter! But...
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Inspirational Fiction
