For those of you who might be wondering about the results of the contest I finaled in last spring, I just found out I’m not the winner. Or the followup! Congrats to:
First Place – Sally Apokedak
Second Place – Chris Mikesell
Third Place – Rebecca Grabill
Who knew that I work best without distraction? It’s been quiet in the shop today, and my chat buddies have mostly been off-line or busy themselves. I processed 10K on the revision. **BOGGLES** Honestly, it was 10K that didn’t need a lot of work, but now I’m right up there where the big changes are…
In my last post I mentioned the successful pitch session I had with an editor at conference. I’d come armed with my one-sheet, the one-page synopsis I’d written during my pre-conference ‘conference’ at Maripat’s house. I also had along the new first chapter of the novel. So the editor looked over the one-sheet and asked…
Maybe we call this editing. I’m never sure how to define the difference between editing, revising, and rewriting, but I believe I met a rewrite when I was last working on False Perceptions. At least I threw away vast chunks of story and rewrote them. This, however…what I’m doing these days to Marks of Repentance…
You may remember (if you have no life of your own, at least) that back in early May my very wonderful bosses got me cable modem at work, and that I had to upgrade my computer to Win98 to make the modem work. Because this old beater computer has no USB ports and no CD…
I finally achieved some forward motion in *that chapter* of Quest, with just shy of 1K added today. Chapters in this book run anywhere from 7K to 10K. This chapter is currently pushing 8K, and it’s not quite ready to wrap up yet, but the motives and actions are at least aimed towards the resolution….
When writing a novella collection with three others, all living in various parts of the continent, we face the problem of how to coordinate our stories. Of course, we can send a lot of emails. We could even talk on the phone if we wanted (I’m not a phone kinda gal!) We could chat via…
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Aw – sorry you didn’t win!
I was wondering. I’m sorry you didn’t win, but congrats to those who did.
Aw! I’m sorry you didn’t win!
Hey, I’m okay by it. I mean, I’d love to have won, but really, I’m okay. I’m looking forward to getting the critiques back from the two professional acquisitions editors who judged the contest. That is also a prize worth a lot.
Hi Valerie,
You’ll get the critiques back in a week or so. I’m still cleaning up after being at conference.
And remember that being a finalist was a big deal! You were in the top five out of 41 entries!
Camy