Well, not exactly. I’ve done a lot of work in the past year, from rewriting most of The Recruited to drastically cutting back Between Two Lives so I could turn it in for honors credit. But Facing the Music, my YA contemporary, is my first shot in nearly a year at working on something new on […]
November is only a month away, which means National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner. The forums have been rebooted, and novelists all over the world are updating their profiles and dreaming about 50,000. As for me, well, let’s just say that seeing the biggest writing marathon of the year looming around the
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. . . that I received another full manuscript request this a.m. I don’t quite know what to say, guys. Just when I start feeling down about my chances, something good comes along and lifts my spirits. Right now I’m playing the waiting game and keeping my fingers crossed. Any extra luck you have to
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For those of you in the writing community, or perhaps just the Twitterverse, you may have noticed that the past two weeks have been a whirlwind of writing contests. If you obsessively follow what trends on Twitter, you have to have noticed #PitchMadness or #PitMad swirling about on the site. To break it down for
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I just finished the first draft of my most recent manuscript FACING THE MUSIC, so I thought I’d take a leaf out of the lovely Savannah Foley’s book and deconstruct the process for the novel. Why? Because I love talking about what I think of my stories and why. If this isn’t your thing, feel
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Well, I’ve finally finished my rewriting/re-editing of The Recruited, otherwise known as ‘the novel I started querying a little over a year ago.’ I have to say that the story has changed a lot since then, thanks in large part to agent comments and phenomenal beta feedback. It has been a long few months–and by
So, even though I’m utterly swamped with . . . life at the moment, I’m still going to take an opportunity to update this blog regarding my writing for the past few months. Unfortunately, my thesis has been domineering my free time since mid-March. Ever since I met with my new adviser–who is total awesomesauce,
Okay, that may be a deceptively exciting title, but I can’t help it. Last night I received an email from the agency I’d given up hope on hearing from saying that they still have my 50 page partial and I’ll hear from them by the end of the month! That means if I’m REALLY lucky,
So, I promised an update a few days ago with regards to my querying progress. I guess you could say this is me delivering. 🙂 At any rate, I heard from the agent about my full request, and ended up earning another rejection. This person was very kind, and gave me a ton of good
So, I meant to update this blog at least twice as much as I actually managed to do over Nano. Which is to say, it would've been updated two times, since I managed one update over the course of a month. *facepalms* I am sorry, you guys. All I can say is that Nano, school,
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