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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Edit Brilliantly"It is perfectly okay to write garbage -- as long as you
edit brilliantly." --C. J. Cherryh  I'm entering another contest. My story,
No Place For Love, will be entered into the Maryland Romance Writers: 2010 Reveal Your Inner
Vixen Contest, Historical category. And I hope to get Winds of Betrayal ready for the Northwest
Houston Writers: Lone Star Writing Contest by the first of next week if time permits. Hopefully one (or both  ) can place again--wish me luck!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Writing "Writing is work, but it's also
a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them." --Rosamunde
Pilcher When do you give up on a book?
How do you know when your plot is not working, or your characters are just flat? That your current project is going nowhere?
After the first chapter? The first 100 pages? Your first
critique? When do you say enough is enough, lay
down your pen and shove your masterpiece into a drawer never to see the light of day again?
Or do you? Do
you keep on keeping on regardless of that nagging feeling in your gut telling you this book your toiling over is unpublishable?
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
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ContestsI have severely neglected this blog for weeks--sorry. I would
love to say I have been busy concentrating on my writing, but that would be a big, fat lie. I have been distracted with
another project. Although I did manage to enter a few contests. And yesterday I received word that two of my stories
placed in one of the contests. Woohoo, for me! 
Winds of Betrayal won first place in the Adult Romance category of
the Absolutely Write-1st Annual First Page Contest and The Viscount's Potion placed second in
the Adult Paranormal category in the same contest. Enough distraction and back to writing.
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