Happy Birthday to me…I just found out that my manuscript has finaled in the contest I entered in April. It’s still a long time until September when the winner is announced, but meanwhile my 25-page opening sequence is being evaluated, along with the entries of four other unpublished writers, by acquisitions editors in the market I would like to break into.
The complete list of finalists can be found here.
I’m kinda excited! 😀
Thanks, Mar, for the loan of your muse. The only reason she’s helping me at all is because she heard there’s a polar bear on her tail, and she’s trying to stay ahead of it. I haven’t bothered to tell her that Inuit is (mostly) harmless, because I’m not perfectly sure that’s true, and because…
It’s been easier to justify all the writing I’ve done this weekend with the fact that it has been pouring cats and dogs. It certainly wasn’t conducive to yard work or anything like that. I believe this was the first Easter sunday in our history where we didn’t go to church. Jim had been up…
Although I’ve got a lot on the go these days, I’m managing at least an hour on Tempest most mornings. Today I crossed the 40K milestone, and I should reach the official halfway point of my current outline later this week. The outline keeps growing, though! That’s good, I believe. The two scenes I’ve written…
It’s been a crazy week, and I’m suspecting the whole month may look this way. At the moment the first week of the Effective Viewpoint Workshop is finishing up at Forward Motion. We’ve got 18 participants getting into hands-on exploration of the tools of point-of-view. So sure, we may still wind up using multiple third…
Nine days of writing (less one sick day in which I did nothing useful) has netted me about 19K. I’m still on a decent track, if I can average 2600 a day. Today I did 3300, so it’s doable. The story is fun, contemporariness notwithstanding. I have been finding many entertaining ways to make my…
So I’m pretty good at procrastinating, altogether. I’m still playing with my shoot-from-the-hip novel, Connect the Dot, on the Palm most mornings at work. Poor girl. She’s in over her head. And I’ve made progress on Marks also. But in the spirit of many hands making light work, I’ve been working hard with Maripat in…
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What? I’m the first to post congratulations!!!
I’m so happy for you, Val. Now, get cracking on that baby, cause you might be getting a request from NavPress or Zondervan. 😀 And polish that winner’s speech… 🙂
Mir
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is so very cool. I am so happy for you. May the time pass swiftly and productively for you.
And I can say I knew you back when. Don’t forget us little peoples when you are famous 🙂
Debbie
Aaaah! Yay! Woohoo! Yeah!
Congrats!
Wonderful! Hearty congratulations. Way to go, Valerie. Good luck in the next phase.
Congrats Val. You’re right, September is tooooo far away. Wish I could use the comments from the reviewers and do one more pass at revisions. Sigh.
Congrats! That is very exciting news. Don’t worry about September being far away. Just think how much writing you can do before it arrives!
Yay! *does happy dance*
I’ve said this before, but it’s worth saying again. Congrats!
(holding your hands, jumping up and down and squealing)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aren’t you excited?
Congratulations! Proud of you!!!!
Yay! So exciting! Good luck!
Aw, thanks, you guys! I just got my scores this morning…and like Chris said, it would be great to be able to do one more pass before it goes to the next level of judging. However…it has to stand on its own, now. And I need to get on with the rest of the revision. Once I can concentrate again!
Congrats!
And happy day-after-birthday! It turns out that we share a birthday. It’s a good day to have been born on, don’t you think? =)
w00t!
It bears repeating–awesome!!!!
Congrats again, Valerie!
Camy
Whoooooo hooooooo! Good for you Val. Hope you win.
*hugs*