Archive for September, 2008
The Wrong Idea
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I saw something today that irked me. Before I get into what it was, and why it irked me, let me preface this by saying that the person who posted the remark is not someone I dislike. Nor is [...]
Kisses
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to get two characters together for the first time. You ponder all the different ways that first kiss could go…
So I’m writing these two characters and I’m coming up on the kiss, and suddenly, I’m not sure how I want it to go. Since I was in [...]
In My Head
Characters tend to take up a lot of space in a writer’s head. At the moment, I have so many of them in there that sometimes they argue with one another about who has the right to push to the fore and be written today. This can be a little confusing to me, as [...]
Voice
Perhaps I was hasty in my assessment of my rejection letter. Perhaps that letter was necessary in a karmic way to bring me to a different place with my story Silver Linings. When Mary Winter pointed out to me that I’d used the passive voice in the beginning of Silver Linings, I gasped. I [...]
Rejection
I awoke this morning to an email from a Wild Rose editor who rejected Silver Linings. It didn’t depress me. In fact, I found it really interesting and it raised some intriguing questions for me.
The first thing that I found interesting is that she said the “first 11 pages gave nothing but back story and [...]
The Name Game
So the other man in the menage didn’t wanna talk to me. He was letting Jared do all the talking. However, I think he’s been hanging out with Jen’s characters because when I was in the shower this morning, he explained to me that he was pissed. He’s not a Tim. He’s not an Austin. [...]
Shut Up!
Sometimes my characters talk too much. Here’s an example of this. The menage story started to take shape because the heroine started talking to me about one of the two heroes. She really likes him. He’s really hot. She drooled over him a little and then fell silent. So he started talking to me. He [...]
Query This
So, by now you know that I submitted a short story to Wild Rose Press. What you don’t know is that I had to write a query letter for it. Now, my experience with query letters is pretty much nil. I never needed one to post something on the internet, but now we’re talking real [...]
