I'm proud of myself. Today I took a giant leap and entered the Pitch Wars contest, a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns choose one writer each, read their entire manuscript, and offer suggestions on how to make the manuscript shine for an agent showcase. WOW. So I believe I have a …
The Psychic Sunburn
Writing </ I got my short story published today, and the magazine sent me an email to let me know I will receive this hard copy. I am truly honored. Maybe, I tell myself, I can finally call myself a writer. My ultimate goal is to finish the revisions on my memoir - but the …
Baby Give It Up
Caution, this post is meant to be therapeutic for me. Yesterday and today were one of those days lots of us have, where you feel like whatever you do isn't right. And since I am blogging about writing, I feel like nothing I've written is any good and I should just 'give it up'. Again, …
Victory!
In late October, or early November, after I came back from the Florida Writers Conference, I decided to use Submittable to send out a couple of my chapters as short stories. A couple of the entries were free, a few of them cost under $5. Altogether, I sent out twelve entries. People in my writing …
The Struggle
I am struggling. Oops, I used the "ING" word! And I've only written three words. Dave, the wonderful editor who has patiently tried to teach me how to write, is surprised by how many times I use words that end in "ING". I thought the editor was (oops I used another word I'm supposed to …
Pause, then rewind
Hey everyone. Perhaps some of you wondered why I haven't posted anything in nearly a month. I haven't forgotten - life just got in the way. Oh and I joined a couple of online writing groups and next thing you know, there were more interruptions than I knew what to do with, and didn't have …
