Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Light-hearted twice in one week?
I’d better watch in case the Big Man has a limit per week, like a grocery store. ‘ Three light-hearteds for the price of one.’ or ‘ Buy one now and get another two free within a week– Time limit 12 hours,’ It was Ell who lit up my heart, and in the most innocuous way. I was working in the garden...
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Friday, April 28, 2006
Would you believe I've been trying to write a synopsis all week?
By all week, I know that you know that I mean figuratively. (There’s a convoluted statement for you. Let me think. How could I have done it better? ‘When I say all week, I mean figuratively. ’ Better still – have faith that the writers on Blogit understand the heading. Don’t be like the Quebec...
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Monday, April 24, 2006
AT LAST! I have been ASKED to write
Ell just called through to tell me of the email requesting my input. The request has made me heady with excitement. To think that I, whatsmyname, could eventually be asked to write for Amazon and Chapters. Think of the number of articles I can write now about how to get published. I could even do a...
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Monday, April 3, 2006
Canadian Author Alice Munro....
…admitted to having a devastating 10 year period of writer’s block and self-doubt. This information was in a Janice Kennedy article in today’s Ottawa Citizen. Apparently, 74 year old Alice Munro, a famous author who is ‘notoriously shy,’ has received lots of awards including Governor General Awards,...
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Honest, I did try
….but I just couldn’t. With the computer spread over the dining room table in bits and Ell muttering invocations to the computer Gods, I thought I had nothing else to do than sit down at the kitchen table with a pad and pen and – write; the way I used to. I was so looking forward to it that I was...
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Thursday, March 9, 2006
This Rejection Letter.......
……leaves me not in the least discombobulated, neither does the fact that I haven’t heard anything from any agent or publisher. Why? I don’t care any more. I have decided – or perhaps ‘finally accepted’ – that I am never going to make any money from writing and instead I’m going to have fun. The idea...
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Monday, February 27, 2006
As this was Winter Olympic fortnight, I had a good excuse for not writing,
…but, it just so happens that I haven’t needed an excuse. This week, I finished the chapter I started writing about a month ago. I haven’t lost as many words as I wanted to – from 10,712 to 5,432. This is only a loss of 4,280, and considering I want all the chapters to be approx 3,500 to 4,000, I...
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Sunday, February 5, 2006
Hyperbole and Fantasy?
It was an answer I gave to one of Tapsel-T’s comments that got me thinking about the above heading. Do I really, as I said, write Hyperbole and Fantasy? Looking up Chambers, I discovered the meanings:- Hyperbole – ‘ a rhetorical figure which produces a vivid impression by extravagant and obvious...
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Thursday, February 2, 2006
Screw Literary Agents, Publishers, Editors, Producers and Fortune Tellers
OK! So I cried into my beer for a few days and felt sorry for myself, just because a literary agent ignored my existence – big deal. I was never going to write anything else again which would cause me to be ignored, sneered at, scorned, dismissed and generally be brushed under the carpet by anybody...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006
It has taken me a long time, but I think I'm getting the message.
‘If you think your project is right for this or any other agency, write or email a query couched in straightforward language. Give the agent all the relevant information, if previously published, when and where, etc. But avoid the oversell. Talking about the book tour and the big contract in your...
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