On Twitter, @BookEndsJessica posted that she would accept queries over last weekend only. If you follow me there, @slweippert,  I RT'd it for you.

Got the response, I can now proudly add Jessica Faust at BookEnds to my list of great agents who have rejected my story.

Sigh, the trudge continues...

I had hoped to get some serious writing after finals, but life is conspiring against me. Today is Monday, and I haven't written anything yet, because the weekend was busy, then I slept in this morning, this afternoon I  had to get kid-let from school early and take him to his counseling appointment, which meant that he was home so writing will not ( Read more... )

I will be so happy when this term ends and I get a week and a half or so break.  I have a story that's just itching to be written, and finding the time has been headache-inducing to say the least. Today it took bribing the kids with pizza and unrestricted video games to have approx three hours of writing time.

Not all of that was writing, some of it ( Read more... )

As I read my friends page this evening, I read Catherine Schaff-Stump's post on writer disappointment called  In for a Penny .

My favorite part:
"It's nice to have the award. It's nice to feel validated. But you know why people get awards? Because someone has decided to give someone an award. It's not necessarily a validation of quality (it can be, ( Read more... )

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Yes, it just happened to me. I sent out the story that the editor liked to an agent recommended to me by a writer buddy, and today I rec'd their email telling that they weren't sufficiently enthusiastic about June n Peaches to be its advocate ( Read more... )

To take my mind off the June n Peaches story in the hands of others, because obsessing is rarely a good thing, I started a fun little project that is completely different. No wizards, no cats, no bad government agency, none at all. This is in a different world, where a crazy physics Professor invents a weather machine and proceeds to get his ( Read more... )

Yes, I am posting other people's great thoughts. That's because I look up to these people, and my life goal is to write as well as they do. On both occasions, their thoughts hit me powerfully and had to share.

Originally posted by seanan_mcguire at Thoughts on Writing #46: "Easy" Is For Other People.
The time has come for the forty-sixth essay in my fifty-essay ( Read more... )

Hunnybun took a stab at this synopsis thing, and except for not including the ending, what'cha think? Would you pick up this book ( Read more... )

Well, not really, actually I still feel pretty good about my story being close enough to great to be worth the time making great. I do have a tiny concern that it is too short at 68,851, but those who read it like it and don't complain about the length. Maybe enough happens that it feels like more, or something. *fingers crossed*

What I'm still ( Read more... )