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Reading Around In My Visits...Thought I'd Share with ROW80 Friends ...

Elizabeth May Writes featured 'Self-Editing Your Manuscript In Eight Steps' this week.  Take a few minutes, it's a worthwhile read.  Honestly, I adore my adverbs and -ing verbs when paired with a strong verb (that's what I call them...i.e. - from -  The dog was running wildly after the frightened hare - to - The hound gave chase, galloping wildly on gangly legs, shadowing the frightened hare's every twist and turn.)  I can't seem to help myself... The mix and match approach appeals to my senses.  (Smiles sheepishly...;}
Here's Wordle, a place you can upload your document and get a picture, a word cloud of the most common words in your text.  Interesting.... 

 
 What about you?  Do you limit your adverb and -ing usage?


Lindsay Buroker posts an interesting discussion about the feasibility of Indie authors maintaining a steady income source, and talks about competition in this growing field.

I happened across a book review site, Great Minds Think Aloud.  I purchased a new historical by Cecelia Grey based on a review I read there, and submitted my own historical for review.  Gosh!  That's a big step for me.  It's part of marketing, I suppose, albeit an uncomfortable part of marketing for me...

Goals...Goals... 

*  I edited one more chapter since Sunday's check-in.  Less progress than I'd like, but progress.  Getting The Third Fate into beta's hands by March 10 will be close....

*  Only worked-out one time!  This is unacceptable, and I need to get off my lazy kiester...heh heh.  Maybe today?! 
*  Social goals met. :}

*  Goodreads is a valuable outreach vehicle that I've not used well.  Many avid readers use this site, post reviews, and discuss books.  I plan to better utilize the opportunity this site affords me as an author.  Now if I can just figure out how... Ha!
*  Pinterest continues to pop up on my radar...This week I'll finally check out the hype.  Not only fellow readers, but also friends in my community are talking about this popular site.  
What's on your agenda this week?


~ Nadja