Coming faster now
With just a little more than 8,000 words to write to hit the 90K mark needed for a single-title contemporary, I’m finding words are just pouring out of my head an onto the pa
They got it!
I just checked my delivery confirmation via the U.S. Postal Service and nearly had a heart attack: No record of that number on file. It turned out, I incorrectly entered the tracki
It’s in the mail
This time, I mean my Golden Heart entry — all 246 pages of it, plus the disk with my full MS on it. I dropped it off at the post office sometime between 11 a.m. and noon. It fe
2 pounds, 13 3/4 ounces
That’s how much my Golden Heart entry weighs. It’s 36 pages of 6-page synopsis and 210 pages of the first 42 pages of my MS. How do I know how much it weighs? Easy —
Down but not out
Today I thought I was ready to print my full MS for the GH entry. Unfortunately, it was the first time I’d noticed that all my pages were 1.5-spaced instead of double-space
Limping along
That’s what my blog is doing … I haven’t been giving it as much attention as I should, I guess. Unfortunately, I haven’t been giving the NaNo the attention
Still plugging away
No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth … even if it might seem like I did. I’ve been busy, busy, busy trying to balance my writing life with the day job a
I might be nuts …
… But I did decide to go ahead and sign up for the NaNoWriMo. I figured that, if nothing else, it’d spur me to finish the last 40,000 words I need to write on “Bl
Shipped off
Hmm. I just realized I made it sound like my Golden Heart entry is in the mail. Sadly, that’s not the case. I did, however, send in my query, synopsis and first 5 pages of MS
Getting serious
I saw a link to this contest over the weekend and decided that since it’s pretty much what I’m already working to compile for the Golden Heart, I might as well go for i