Hiatus: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc (Dictionary.com) Well, life has a way of making us take a break in lots of things. Life has interrupted my blogging patterns this week, but I hope to be back soon! My apologies! In the meantime, check out my favorite blogs on my links page!
Confessions of a Kinsella fan…
I admit it. I love Sophie Kinsella books. I do. They are my top choice for plane rides and late night reads. When I need a mental break, I pull out Confessions of a Shopaholic, Can You Keep a Secret? or Undomestic Goddess. My latest is probably one of my favorites, “Remember Me?” I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I love Kinsellas’ voice and specifically, her heros. The heorines always have a thousand quirks that ususally rub me the wrong way. Maybe its because I can’t sympathize with the desire to pay “thousands of quid” for a pair of shoes…But her heros. They always make me swoon somehow....
Latest Manuscript News
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: contests are invaluable to writers! First, it gives you deadlines to work by, and then it forces you to get your manuscript out there. I entered “A Long Way From Home,” my NaNoWriMo manuscript, into the Novel Journey’s “Out of the Slush Pile” contest that they are running all through 2010. I went online the moment I woke up on the day they were to announce the winners on the blog and was saddened to see that I was not the winner for the historical category. So, I get ready for work and trek into the office. Then, I pull up...
The Challenge
In Michael Hyatt’s blog post on Wednesday (Thomas Nelson), he wrote something that really resonated with me: “Embrace the challenge. Getting published is not easy. Instant success is not the norm. And even if you got it, it wouldn’t be good for your character development. What happens to you in the process is as important as what ultimately happens to your book. You will need this same tenacity again and again.” This is so true and something I’ve come to realize in the past year. I’ve never been afraid of a challenge. I’ve loved to ride the more temperamental, unpredictable horses and learned so much in doing so. In college,...
Goal-Setting: Bring on 2010!
As I look back at 2009 and all it held for me as a writer, I’m reasonably pleased. I joined American Christian Fiction Writers and Oregon Christian Writers, joined a critique group, attended my first writers conference, endured a handful of manuscript rejections, delighted in one agent’s ms request, started up my website and bi-weekly blog, wrote an entire 78,000 word novel in six weeks, re-edited my original work in progress. Phew. Before 2009, I hadn’t taken on writing as a serious priority. I’d written dozens of short stories, outlines and drafts of other projects and re-written In Dawn’s Shadows several times. But with college, job searching and getting married,...