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Someone pointed me to this via Romance Divas, and I thought it was definitely worth passing on. The June 4th entry titled "What Theater Taught me About Dialogue" is excellent.  Some of her suggestions make so much sense, but I never would have thought of them on my own.

I had three goals for the week, and as of today, I've got two down and one to go ( Read more... )

It has been one week since I've looked at my Gallery of Lies beginning.  It's been on my mind, and I've been thinking about new directions to go with it, but I have not actually done any rewriting for it yet.  I don't think I will until after Tuesday.  I'm planning to tell the Yetis about my storyline and get some advice before tackling it again-- ( Read more... )

I've been vaguely following the Cassie Edwards plagiarism scandal, and I shared about it tonight at the Yeti meeting (writers' group).  Then I got home to find a post on Romance Divas announcing that the scandal has made Newsweek.  Here's the link to the article:  http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1  It's not really a laughing matter--having ( Read more... )

I thought I had experienced boughts of writer's block before, but after the last couple of days, I have changed my mind.  My first real experience with writer's block started the day before yesterday.  I have begun the horrendous process of revising the draft of my romantic suspense novel, Gallery of Lies.  (Shay, I am so feeling your pain.)  When ( Read more... )

First, my RWA membership packet came in the mail, which was exciting.  It didn't have anything in it that I hadn't already read online and they had already e-mailed me my confirmation notice, but it was still great to get the packet and know everything's official on paper ( Read more... )