Over at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, the ladies are having a contest about bad break-ups. I had one before I met my wonderfully loving husband and on a fluke, I entered. Guess what? My entry is there!!! I cannot believe it!! I won't tell which is mine, but wow!!
ETA: I really love #7 (not mine) -- I love it when a woman gains "revenge" :evil grin:
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Professional Reader Available
You know, I love to write; really, I do. [As much procrastination and moaning and groaning I do, it's hard to tell, I know.] I've only been seriously pursuing this goal since May and, to be honest, there are days when I just feel my creativity lagging. Like it's lost somewhere inside this gray mass I call my brain or oozing out of my ears.
Take NaNoWriMo for instance. It's not a difficult task. Write for a month (duh). Well, I didn't complete it. I had no concrete hopes of reading 50K but man, it would have been nice. In my defense, I was working on a potential freelance job for a week (I didn't get the job, btw, but that's okay). Now though, I'd rather read the stack of books on the floor beside my bed.
Wouldn't it be nice to get paid to read books or manuscripts because right now, that sounds like heaven. [Stupid brain -- grrrr]
Take NaNoWriMo for instance. It's not a difficult task. Write for a month (duh). Well, I didn't complete it. I had no concrete hopes of reading 50K but man, it would have been nice. In my defense, I was working on a potential freelance job for a week (I didn't get the job, btw, but that's okay). Now though, I'd rather read the stack of books on the floor beside my bed.
Wouldn't it be nice to get paid to read books or manuscripts because right now, that sounds like heaven. [Stupid brain -- grrrr]
New Discoveries
As I while away my moments reading blogs instead of writing (I know, I know), I wanted to comment on two I'm enjoying.
Mel-O-Drama (aka Melissa Francis) is a client of my good friend Deidre Knight. Now, I've been stalk, er, reading Mel's blog for a couple of months and I have to say she's a woman after my own heart! She's a hoot (which means funny for those of you outside Dixieland); she despises frat boys (though she lives smack dab in the middle of Greek-dom in Oxford); she lives in Oxford, home of my grad school of choice (Ole Miss) and William Faulkner. SEC football will not be something we agree upon but aren't all stalker-stalkee relationships volitile?? :grin:
Work in Progress is another recent addition to my daily 'must reads.' It's so exciting to read about other authors and their journey to representation (or publication). Me, I'm journeying toward 'the end' (as my word meter would show). And for now, that's a great goal to have.
Mel-O-Drama (aka Melissa Francis) is a client of my good friend Deidre Knight. Now, I've been stalk, er, reading Mel's blog for a couple of months and I have to say she's a woman after my own heart! She's a hoot (which means funny for those of you outside Dixieland); she despises frat boys (though she lives smack dab in the middle of Greek-dom in Oxford); she lives in Oxford, home of my grad school of choice (Ole Miss) and William Faulkner. SEC football will not be something we agree upon but aren't all stalker-stalkee relationships volitile?? :grin:
Work in Progress is another recent addition to my daily 'must reads.' It's so exciting to read about other authors and their journey to representation (or publication). Me, I'm journeying toward 'the end' (as my word meter would show). And for now, that's a great goal to have.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Great Deals
I subscribe to Publisher's Lunch (the free version) and each week, I look forward to Wednesdays so I can read about the new deals in publishing. This week is no exception:
Great -- two more authors to stalk!! {Kidding, natch.}
Brooke Parkhurst's BELLE OF NEW YORK, about a beautiful Southern debutante who comes to New York and lands a job in the mosh pit news room of a highly conservative cable network while reveling in the hedonisitic pleasures of the city, based on the blog Belle in the Big Apple, to Sarah McGrath at Scribner, by Bill Contardi at Brandt & Hochman (world).
Margaret Lazarus Dean's THE TIME IT TAKES TO FALL, about a young girl coming of age in the 1980s in Florida, where her father works for NASA on the space shuttle Challenger, to Marysue Rucci at Simon & Schuster, at auction, by Julie Barer at Barer Literary (NA).
Great -- two more authors to stalk!! {Kidding, natch.}
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Still Here
I'm still here; no real writing progress this week. I blame sickness. I feel better than I did last week so hopefully I can close out NaNoWriMo with 10,000 words. I was never under the illusion that I would hit 50,000 but I can be happy with 10,000. 'Just write' isn't really my writing style. I cannot turn off my internal editor. I have to go back and read what I previously wrote. Which, in all honesty, is okay. I'm just going to keep working at it and hopefully I'll finish before my one year anniversary.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Good Grief!!
Well, I've finally finished editing and critiquing for the potential freelance job. Talk about stressful!! I have no idea how editors do it! Then again, they already have the job..... Now I'll sit on pins and needles (and stress and bite my fingernails) until I find out if I got the job.
I did do some other reading over the weekend; I finished Julie Cannon's Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes. Such a sweet story. I plan to check out the sequel 'Mater Biscuit from the library when I'm done with some other books on my nightstand.
Oh, yea, and I'd like to write too. I would do that tonight but it's Prison Break Monday! Maybe I can write during the commericals. We'll see.
I did do some other reading over the weekend; I finished Julie Cannon's Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes. Such a sweet story. I plan to check out the sequel 'Mater Biscuit from the library when I'm done with some other books on my nightstand.
Oh, yea, and I'd like to write too. I would do that tonight but it's Prison Break Monday! Maybe I can write during the commericals. We'll see.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Progress? What progress??
In the world of NaNoWriMo --
I read this weekend instead of writing (Kathleen O'Reilly's The Diva's Guide to Selling Your Soul and Cathy Pickens' Done Gone Wrong). Both good reads, leaving me to wonder if sequels will be written.
And on the other hand, this week I'm working on what I hope will be a freelance job. So, yeah me! I'm really excited about it though nervous as well (because I want the job!!).
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5,490 / 50,000 (11.0%) |
I read this weekend instead of writing (Kathleen O'Reilly's The Diva's Guide to Selling Your Soul and Cathy Pickens' Done Gone Wrong). Both good reads, leaving me to wonder if sequels will be written.
And on the other hand, this week I'm working on what I hope will be a freelance job. So, yeah me! I'm really excited about it though nervous as well (because I want the job!!).
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