Party Time!

I think everyone else that attended ACFW conference probably blogged about it a week or two ago, so those most curious about what went on already know. But here’s the sort-of-short Valerie Version–how it seemed to my eyes. Maripat and her son dropped me off at the Denver Marriott Tech Center Wednesday afternoon. Even though…

Have you noticed that when I’m writing well and things are moving along smoothly in my little world, that I also blog well? But as soon as I hit some glitches, I don’t want to talk about it. I guess I just want to report the good stuff. So it’s a good thing that there…

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…

Today’s count: 2906 Krin’s life has not improved since yesterday. Please (shhhh) don’t tell her how much worse it’s going to get, okay? She’s already got enough problems. The dauntingness of three nights and days on these abysmal rocks shot through me. I raised my head to the sky and shouted as loud as I…

I cleared 30K today! **Happy Dance** Today’s chapter came in at 2457. The fairy kittens are recovering from being accidentally drugged: I picked up Pico and dropped her; her wings fluttered out and she hovered in front of my face, indignant at the mistreatment. Good. She could fly. I repeated the process with Boots and…