Today is the last day before Thanksgiving vacation starts for my kids, which means it’s the last day before vacation starts for me too. This year we plan to just celebrate the holiday as a family with a little turkey breast dinner (we don’t eat the dark meat so I buy one of those …
Category Archive: Editing
Aug
05
2010
Moving On…
…or forward, but never backward. I’ve sent my query out to three new agents. Three seems like a reasonable and manageable number to me. So, it’s out in the world again and now it’s time for me to sit tight, cross my fingers and toes, say a little pray. Hopefully I’ll hear positive responses soon, …
Aug
03
2010
And…Done. Again.
I think I’ve finally finished the revisions I started based off of both the critique I got from my RWA chapter members and also from the Agent that read my ms. Whew! That was a huge job!! I went into these revisions with a clear idea of what needed to be changed, added, deleted, scenes …
Jul
26
2010
Agent Feedback!
Finally! It actually hasn’t been that long, it only feels like forever to me. I heard back from the one agent that had my full ms today. Overall, I think the feedback was of a positive note. They didn’t say that it sucked or that I should find a day job, so that’s positive, right? …
Jul
18
2010
Critiques and the Creative Process
Critiques are a mandatory part of the creative process. There’s just no two ways about it. If you want to get better at what you do, you have to learn from what you’ve done wrong. It’s simple, right? Except when that means putting yourself – or your work, as the case may be – …
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