The writing cave

Filed in: friends and family | slice of life | writing    Tags: harry potter movie | motivation | random musings | revision | the dragon and the pearl | writing

Poking my head out for a minute…

Is the Harry Potter movie still out? I lost track of it after mum stood me up in Vegas to play the penny slots instead of going on a movie date with her dear daughter.

“Bah!” I could hear her saying. “You can watch Harry Potter anywhere.”

Back to the cave. I’m supposed to start fast drafting a novella today and I need to ship the D&P manuscript to Little Sis along with some form of bribe. Nothing edible. The last bribe was a disaster when the squeezable bottle of condensed milk busted open in the box. Don’t ask. Little Sis likes condensed milk — just not all over manuscript pages when she’s critiquing them. Maybe that’s why she panned everything from Chapter 12 on…

I think I’ll go see Harry Potter this weekend if I can get this novella drafted.

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Must get back to work!

Filed in: craft | miscellaneous | writing    Tags: motivation | revision | romance through the ages contest | silk and seduction | writing goals

I’ve been lazy since the honeymoon and the excitement of pairing up with an agent. Instead of revising, I’ve been spending my “writing” time beta-reading and critiquing. I’ve got two full manuscripts to do by this weekend!

But that’s just my excuse. I really need to get to revising “Silk and Seduction” by Nationals. Some good news is it finaled in the Romance Through The Ages contest. That means that “Silk” has finaled every time I’ve flung it into the contest arena.

It’s quite different from the other two. The characters are a bit more complex. I think I’ll learn a lot from the revision process this time.

So here we go…page 1.

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It is done!

Filed in: miscellaneous | writing    Tags: agent hunt | deadlines | easter | goals | requests | revision | submission

Happy Easter!

After a whirlwind week of polishing, Butterfly Swords is going out to the world. I have one snail mail version to send out (it’s amazing to see how many pages a full manuscript really is!) and the electronic ones have already been sent out.

Pray that the Red Line of Death doesn’t rear it’s ugly head.

For the rest of today, I hope to pack for my upcoming vacation, rest and think of nothing but soft bunnies.

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The End.

Filed in: Announcements | writing    Tags: goals | revision | writing

I typed “The End” today on Silk and Seduction (formerly titled Silk and Shadows).

*big sigh*

Tonight I’m going to celebrate…tomorrow I start edits on my novella. Going to give “Silk” a week or two before I open it again.

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