Category: Musings
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Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday, self. This is going to be your year … to enter the Golden Heart contest, to start seeking an agent, to get serious about your writing career. You never intended to be pushing 40 and not have a published novel under your belt. When you were in high school, you thought you’d have […]
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Why is it …
I want to know why I seem to get more writing done at Starbucks than I do in my own home. I guess it’s the distraction factor. At Starbucks, the TV is not on (though there is music), so I don’t get sucked into the lives of those poor hapless guests on “Jerry Springer,” and […]
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Definitely more work than I thought
Got my critique back this afternoon, and I was right: The manuscript definitely needs some help. I’m not going to lie: It was a bit unnerving to see all that “red ink” on my pages. But it was also edifying, because she said a lot of the same things I’ve been thinking. Just the other […]
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Excited for my meeting
The next meeting of my RWA chapter, Northern Arizona Romance Writers of America, is on Saturday, and I can’t wait. We’re going to have a guest speaker, Linda Style, talk to us about layering stories and subplots. It should be interesting. It will pose a challenge for my diet, because restaurant meals always do. But […]