I have finished the edits from my classmates. All of them. For a novel and, um, a quarter of a novel. I have just one piece left.

Of course, that one piece is the edits from tainry, which pretty much means me going through the entire novel again ( Read more... )

Body feels better than yesterday, head feels worse ( Read more... )

Adventures in YA Contests has posted round two of the "Pitch Plus Five" contest. This time I'm entry 23. I beat out twenty-five other people to end up in round two, which is nothing to be sneezed at ( Read more... )

Too fragging hot today to do much. Fortunately, last night's find that I'm in the second round of the Pitch Plus Five competition shifted things around so that my priorities are (1) revising my first five pages, and (2) coming up with a 150-word "query pitch" (which are usually two different things). Which are both due tomorrow by 9pm PST. While ( Read more... )

I'm through to the second round of Adventures in Young Adult Publishing's Pitch Plus Five contest!!!

I need to stare at my first five pages, figure out how, where, and what I want to revise, and also come up with a 150-words-or-less query pitch by midnight Monday.

*Kermitarmspanicflail*

A couple days ago, Tamora Pierce announced on her tumblr that she was going to be a judge on the Adventures in YA Publishing "Pitch Plus 5" contest. So I went and poked around to see what it was, and basically, fifty writers of unpublished Young Adult novels got to submit their first five pages to go on the blog to be read and rated. All fifty ( Read more... )

I've got a project started of going through the foot or so of reviews from my writing classmates that're stacked on my desk, and condensing down the edits I want to make to my copy of each ten-page section. And a number of the edits are good and thoughtful ( Read more... )

Tuesday night Squiddle slept the whole night through for the first time ever! Midnight to eight a.m.! Alas, he did not repeat this venture last night. Tuesday evening he also thought Wonderful Husband and I sitting down to dinner was the funniest thing ever. He did not stop laughing for at least five minutes. Seriously. ^_ ( Read more... )

The college website was still broken (though again in a new and different way) this morning, so I hied over to the campus and registered in person. (My class starts on Wednesday, so I was no longer willing to wait on them fixing the site ( Read more... )

Ha! Have gotten better at using the pump, and tonight Wonderful Husband experimented with Squiddle and found that, yes, he will drink from a bottle. Squiddle also got taken in to my writing class this evening (I am not attending this term, but will start doing so again in January), and unsurprisingly had an adoring audience ( Read more... )