My sister and I were talking about our wonderful kids today. I looked at my 2 yr old, and for a moment, it seemed as if his face shifted and I saw what he’d look like twenty years from now. Very strange.I watched Jet Li in The One the other night. Great movie. I find […]
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been ten days since I last posted.For my birthday my mom took me to a movie. We saw Untraceable.Very good, scary. I think Diane Lane did an awesome job playing her character. And I was actually able to guess a future plot point in the movie.It actually was foreshadowed in
I’m slogging away at revising my manuscript. Is slogging a word? Anyhow, it’s weird. When I’m writing the first draft, everything is magic.Then I go back and reread it and everything is crap. That’s right. Plot holes, long sentences, things that don’t make sense.I see why editors want revisions so much.And yes, I know that
There’s a crapometer blog that you can send a few pages to. Elektra publishes it and lets people comment on it.Book End LLC is holding a contest for the first 100 words of your manuscript.Pix’n Pens is holding a historical short story contest.Good luck!
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So I’m supposed to write a cover letter, which I believe is similar to a query letter. And I have to make a blurb. It hurts, it really hurts, trying to sum up my story in an exciting way using only five sentences.What I’d like to know is: who created the query letter? Whose idea
So after reading several authors’ websites I discovered ACFW and RWA. I joined. And then I discovered writing contests and critique partners. Then guess what I did? That’s right. I entered some writing contests. Romance Writers of America have hundreds of different chapters and each chapter usually holds some kind of contest.The first one I
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