Posted by Christine on Sep 11, 2007 in Randomness |
I just read on another’s Blog (Jennifer Jackson) that Madeleine L’Engle passed away this weekend. Her books where important to me in my youth as they were to many others. I fondly remember Meg, Charles Wallace (and his mitochondria), the twins, and all of her other characters who are imprinted on the memories of growing up. As some of the first fantasy or science fiction I read they influenced me to love the genre. Thank you to Madeleine L’Engle for your imagination and for being an inspiration to many generations of young people and writers. I wish comfort and peace at the memory of there mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to her family. Her work lives on to build the ideas of goodness and love in the many generations of reader that will encounter them. To learn more about her work visit her site L’Engle . I can’t wait to share her stories with my...
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Posted by Christine on Sep 11, 2007 in Randomness |
Hello friends. I wanted to tell you about a few new things I have been busy with. First off I joined Facebook. So if you are on Facebook please feel free to make me a friend. I would love to have you in my friends list. Also I have begun an account with Thisisby.us it is a site where I can post writing and they will pay me for it IF people read it. You will be able to see my posts here and on Facebook. If you have time please go read, vote for and comment on the writing I post there. I look forward to seeing you on Facebook, maybe I will throw a sheep at you. Also I hope you will enjoy my posts on Thisisby.us. Have a great...
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Posted by Christine on Aug 5, 2007 in Publishing, Scottsdale |
Well, I have been working at my other job – the one that pays me :). I have a confession or two to make. Confession the first. I haven’t written anything in about two weeks. I haven’t really done anything writing related since I sent out my short story to the contest a week ago and before I sent it all I was working on was editing and cleaning that. The second confession. I have decided to revamp my story. Things will be changing that will totally reshape parts (but not all) of the plot. I am going to be doing some major rewriting. In truth I am kind of glad that none of the agents I sent to requested a partial because I think that the story is going to be even better when I am done with the rewrites I am currently imagining. So why haven’t I been writing? Because this is intimidating. Pretty much the only thing in the story “safe” from revision is the names of the characters. I worked way to hard coming up with all those names. It is intimidating to realize that I am going to basically say lets ditch what I have and start from scratch. Yes, there will be things I keep but in reality I am starting from scratch. My goal – To have a viable draft of my Manuscript ready for agents by the end of October. That gives me three months to rework my novel. So over the next 10 weeks I am going to try to post an excerpt for you once a week. Be prepared, these will be rough, I would love idea and feedback as you read...
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Posted by Christine on Jul 27, 2007 in Randomness |
Yesterday I put my first short story in the mail. It is a 4,989 word short story set in the same world as the Lexi story but taking place months before Lexi’s story begins and in a completely different place. I won’t say it is unrelated but the two are not so closely connected you need to read one to understand the other. Anyway I won’t know the results for several months, but no matter what the results are I am happy that I sent the story and it is going to be read by someone. I will make sure I post when I find out the...
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Posted by Christine on Jul 15, 2007 in Publishing, Scottsdale |
I’ve made quite a few over the past week. Decisions that is. So What are they: 1) I’ll be attending a writing conference in October. I’m very excited about this as it’s the first time I’ve ever attended a writers conference. 2) I’ll be putting all queries on hold till after the conference. I expect to learn a lot there that will help me in the query process and so I think I’ll wait till I have that information 3) I’m going to submit a short story to the contest at the conference. I have written it (see the post below) and am in the editing process. 4) I need to write more. Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time doing research and working on “about writing” stuff, but spent little time actually putting words on paper. I miss that. So having made all these decisions I plan to turn my attention to writing more. I’ve barley started the sequel to Coradonna Lost and I think I’d like to work on that more. The problem of course with working on a sequel is that if I never sell the first book I’ll likely never sell the sequel so it may be a gigantic waste of time (in terms of financial’s). However the story wants to be told and it rumbles around in my head at night as I fall asleep, and often other times as well. So I’ll write it and see what happens. After all, even if I’m never a writer in the published sense of the word I’m always a story...
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