A little late on the update today, but here goes. If you haven’t been following our Community Story, you can find the whole story to date by clicking on the Community Story page link on the left on the Day By Day Writer home page. For those of you following along, here’s last week’s addition…
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I have no idea where I am with my goals. I’m pretty sure I did three chapters this week, but it might have been four. I did work on my revision every day and reworked an entire chapter this morning, and that makes me feel good. But, insecurities and doubts have been looming behind me,…
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A couple weeks ago, I asked if e-books are the future, and linked to two articles that point to an answer of yes. Yesterday, I read an article in PC Magazine called “How to Make E-Books Successful.” In it, Tim Bajarin talks about what the perfect e-book reader should be, such as light, easy to…
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The next installment for the Community Story is below, but first here’s an update on my goals. I lowered my six-chapter-a-week goal to four chapters a week, but to be honest, I’m not sure if I met it this week because I don’t remember where I left off last week. Despite that, however, the revision…
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Names say so much about a person. When you get a call or email from a stranger, you immediately get an idea of what that person looks like in your head based on their name. Some names sound blonde to me, like Vicki (maybe because I have a friend from my teen years who’s blonde).…
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the SCBWI Houston Editor’s Day, where five editors — Simon & Schuster’s Alexandra Penfold, Beach Lane Books’ Allyn Johnston, Golden Books/Random House’s Diane Muldrow, Egmont USA’s Elizabeth Law and Sleeping Bear Press’ Amy Lennex — talked about what they look for when they’re considering a book to…
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I had often heard the advice of reading your writing out loud to truly hear the rhythms. I totally understood this for picture books and dialog for screenplays, but I’ve never felt the need in anything else I’ve written (unless I was trying to focus in the middle of lots of noise). But revising my novel, I decided…
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Thanks to Mand, who has contributed a nice new section for the Community Story. Who’s going to be next? Follow on the story from the end of Mand’s post in the comments. And now onto some fun links I’ve stumbled on. First up, Donald Maass, of Donald Maass Literary Agency, is giving away his book…
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It’s Community Story Monday again. But first, a check in with my goals. Last week, I shortened my revision goal of six chapters a week to four. Then in the week, I only managed three. But I got up early today — I’m not sure why I was having so many problems getting up on time…
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Literary agent Nathan Bransford knows his stuff when it comes to publishing, but apparently he knows the future too. On his blog, Bransford posted a message called “Why I’m Optimistic About the Future of Books” on Tuesday. Then today, TWICE.com, a website about the consumer electronics industry, has two stories showing Bransford might really have…
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