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[Dec. 29th, 2008|11:54 pm] |
So, in March at a writing conference, I won a critique from a literary agent in a raffle. The critique expires on Dec. 31.
I've spent the last month getting my first three chapters ready (yes, the same damn cowboy story that I've been working on forever), showing it to my critique group and other friends, meticulously reading it over and over to make sure it's as perfect as possible. I emailed it to the agent about ten minutes ago...
...only to receive an Out Of Office automatic email reply. She won't be back in the office until January 5. |
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| common words |
[Sep. 3rd, 2008|10:50 pm] |
So, for the story I'm writing, I need to know how the air feels inside a greenhouse. My memories of being in one are very dim. So I Google it, and find a TON of information. Thermodynamics of a greenhouse sounds promising. I click.
Great... different types of greenhouse and airflow, wall temperature, all good stuff. But I notice that everytime the word greenhouse is used, it's prefaced by the word Martian. Is this a brand name? I click again.
Apparently, greenhouses can hypothetically be used on Mars as life support systems. Not exactly what I was looking for. |
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| Yee haw!! |
[Aug. 1st, 2008|11:05 am] |
I entered my cowboy story in a contest sponsored by the Tampa area romance writers. I didn't final, but I got some good critiques.
Out of 100, I got 88 points. Not great, but a B by my high school grading system. :) One judge gave me a 6 and another judge gave me a 10 (out of 10) for the same item. I know, fiction is subjective. I'll deal.
Their opinion of my writing and my opinion of my writing matched, so it's nice to know I'm not delusional. I'm good at beginning the story in the middle of the action, leaving the reader to wonder what's going to happen next. My dialog is fabulous (and it really is. I'm not being completely egotistical here). My hero is a weenie mama's boy. I need to fix that.
I was kinda tired of looking at this story (and I know y'all's tired of reading about it), but getting these reviews back have piqued my interest again. On the wagon train, ho! |
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| I am the Editing Queen!! |
[Feb. 23rd, 2008|12:02 am] |
I'm editing my novel. I am brutally cutting it up and while deleting is making it better and tighter, it's very sad that all my earlier hard work was for nothing.
Part of this is because I'm critiquing someone else's story, and I'm fixing everything in mine that I would have commented on in hers. (Hi, Mel, if you ever make it back here!)
*sigh*
Well, I still have draft versions if I ever want to read again what crap I wrote. |
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