"You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it." ~ Ursula K. Le GuinThis is what synopsis writing has been for me, in a step-by-step format ( Read more... )

A big fat Thank You!!! to everyone who responded to the super f-locked post yesterday. Your comments are fantastic & I really appreciate them & will work them into today's revising session.

And if you're just hearing about this now & still want to comment, I'd appreciate that, too! :)

I've found if there's one thing that gets people arguing faster than yelling "Twilight is the best book evar!" in a room full of Harry Potter fans, it's mentioning that your book begins with... the dreaded prologueI have a prologue. Actually, I've had two. The first one I cut up and inserted into chapter seven, which is exactly where it should have ( Read more... )

"All right, I'm ready!" ~ Anastasia
in the song "Learn to Do It" from AnastasiaYesterday I had the oh-so-fun moment of "Oh crap, how do I calculate my word count? And format my manuscript? And... and... and ( Read more... )

And Draft 2 of the Dreaded Thesis Essay is with my reader. Yay! Sometime in the next week I will know if I'm done-done or another revision away ( Read more... )

I sent off a rough draft of the Dreaded Thesis Essay to my reader last night. He's in the process of moving, so I get a week reprieve before he gets to it. Which means I'm back to revising one book, writing bits & pieces of two more, and moaning over how to write query letters ( Read more... )

I have a couple questions I haven't really found answers to regarding query letters and submissions, so I figured I'd throw them out to the general LJ population.

1) My name. Yeah, this sounds stupid, but this is coming from someone who once filled out her name wrong on the PSAT (long story short, always check to make sure you aren't filling in ( Read more... )