Got my critique back this afternoon, and I was right: The manuscript definitely needs some help. I’m not going to lie: It was a bit unnerving to see all that “red ink” on my pages.
The next meeting of my RWA chapter, Northern Arizona Romance Writers of America, is on Saturday, and I can’t wait. We’re going to have a guest speaker, Linda Style, talk to us about layering stories
This time, the check for the Golden Heart contest really is in the mail. I dropped it in the mailbox this afternoon. As I told the Boyfriend, that means I’m really committed. I must whip
Whipping my first manuscript into shape for the Golden Heart contest is turning out to be more work than I thought it’d be. I thought it’d be easier to do a little editing on Brad
Well, I did it: I wrote out a check for the $50 entry fee for the Golden Heart contest. There’s no turning back now! I’ve been trying to figure out how to make my hero,
Reading an article in a recent issue of Romance Writers Report got me thinking about the characters in the story I’ve been editing: Do I know my heroine as well as I know myself? I
I just might be a little bit of both tonight. In the past two days, I’ve only done the bare minimum: Read through a couple of chapters, trying to edit and polish them yet again.
… Or maybe not. Thanks to an impromptu write-in at Starbucks this morning, I had my work done early today. And that left time for not one but two walks before I headed to my
I spent some more time editing my Golden Heart entry today. The good news is that the pages I plan to submit, including the synopsis, total exactly 55, the required amount. The bad news? I