Month: January 2008
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Working on New Stuff: Weirdness
It’s weird to be working on something outside my comfort zone. Novels for adults=Fine. I can handle that. So far I’ve finished two first drafts. I could put in as many curse words, as much violence, as much sex as I wanted. But it’s so weird writing something geared toward a younger crowd (my guesstimation…
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Title In Question
Recently, one of my good writer friends has been having trouble coming up with a good title for her young adult novel. Recently, at a critique meeting, one of the critiquers said that she did not like the title of my book…that she would not pick it up off the shelf. Burn? you ask. Eh,…
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Unpacking Books
It just goes to show that people do not care about your stuff as much as you do. I’ve been unpacking boxes upon boxes of books. Normally, this is not a burden for me because, in most cases, it’s like discovering the books I’ve meant to read for years all over again. Sometimes it’s like…
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Goals for 2008
All right then, time for the big goals for 2008: 1. Revise and submit FJR2. Complete rough draft of Children’s Novel 1.3. Complete rought draft of Children’s Novel 2. (It’s a series.)4. Complete rough draft of La Llorona Novel.5. Complete rough draft of Members of the Club Novel. All in all that’s 260,000 new words…