About the book I'm working on, being mentored, and other assorted stuff.

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Because I'm not juggling enough shit, I decided to enter Pitch Wars. Part of that, apparently, is posting my bio in a place where the mentors can read it if they want to find out more about me. Because I agonized over this more than I've agonized over anything else lately, I'm sharing it.

If you want to take a look, it's over on my Wordpress blog ( Read more... )

scribble_myname tagged me for this meme, so what the hell, why not! It goes like this:

Pull seven lines from the seventh page of your WIP, then you're supposed to tag seven other writers.

My moral dilemma is always this: do I go with my double-spaced manuscript to get to the 7th page, or single-space it to see what happens?

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So, my kid and I saw Mad Max: Fury Road (in 3D!) today.

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I've been rewriting my NaNoWriMo novel from this past year. I let it sit for a while, then decided to rewrite it from multiple POVs. What started out as a 74k first draft is now a 110k second draft ( Read more... )

...I just signed up for a Novel Intensive through SCBWI (Society for Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) that takes place in a month and a half. I promised myself I'd do it, and... there. Registered ( Read more... )

I wrote a thing on anger and writing.

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Happy Friday, everyone. Time for some writing updates.

I've been brave and putting my work out there. I entered a contest called Pitch Plus 1, where you're judged on your novel's pitch and first page (up to 250 words). I made it past the first round and now my pitch and first 250 are up at the contest website. If you're so moved to leave a comment ( Read more... )

...some of my favorite writing resources.

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...also known as "I would love to write something for you."

In the moment, this seems like a perfectly wonderful thing to do, so I'm stealing it wholesale from scribble_myname.

So I love doing the holiday fics/posts every year, and I'm opening up the requests post again. Pick a date, whether fic or essay, a fandom or storyworld, and a prompt, and I will write ( Read more... )