Sorry about the long silence. Had personal issues that took center stage. 🙂 I actually did this. Fell asleep writing the other night. Awakened curled up in a chair in my living room, the mouse on the floor. I have been working on manuscripts–need to update my progress bars, in fact. I’ve also been…
Category: My Writing Life
Does Fear Hold You Back?
Years ago, I wrote six novels and in each one, I tried to conform to an idea of the “right” kind of romance novel. I would literally write it my way then go back through and smooth down the dialogue, remove curse words, tame any scenes of violence to a PG13 rating. I would actually…
Express in Language
“The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S’s: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.” Lawrence Clark Powell I think sometimes, we have…
Sunday Morning Surprise
I spent the morning in a place much like this one. In my mind. I’m talking the walled-in solitude feel of the place–my actual fictional world was a Florida marsh. Yep, I was sucked into the Writing Zone and when I came up for air, it was to answer a call from the hubby. I was…
Nibbles
Okay, I sounded kind of negative and kind of positive in yesterday’s post. Believe me, this is normal during the querying process. I went this route before. Truth is, I’ve had quite a few nibbles on DOTT and I feel good about that. With the kind of odds writers deal with, I should feel pretty…
Sharing the Good and Bad as Promised
Still chugging my way uphill. 🙂 This part of the journey has been shared here to keep up spirits of other writers doing as I am. The query process is difficult. For everyone. Rachel Vincent, my critique partner, said on her blog that I would either have the best sort of Christmas present or need lots…
Requesting a Little Magic
I need to be writing. The ideas have boiled up and are spilling over. I need a little magic to take away all these holiday, school break and work distractions. Before Christmas, I happened along one agent’s blog and got an idea of the astronomical odds. She received about 8000 queries this year. She only requested…
Most Excellent Holiday
Had a fantastic day with family yesterday. We laughed, shared food, presents and wine, then watched this movie. I’m so glad I bought it, because I enjoyed it enough to watch over and over. I don’t have that much clean-up today and I won’t be able to work until tomorrow on the paying job–so I’m…
Happy Holidays!
I’m going to take a break here and spend the next four days with my family. I’m hoping to squeeze a little writing in on Sunday, but I know better at this time of year. 😉 We’ll more than likely spend the day making sweets. Yum. I did receive one no on a query today, so…
Does This Happen to You?
“The will to keep trying is often the difference between success and failure”-Davie Sarnoff Ever pick up a popular fiction book by a favorite author and become so impressed by their style and talent with words… that icky self doubt comes creeping in to call? You start to look at your own work as kindergarten-like…