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25 Things I Want To Say To So-Called "Aspiring" Writers

This is awesome and pretty much everything I try to say in my video blogs. Take it heart, lovelies!

 

25 Things I Want To Say To So-Called "Aspiring" Writers.

Video blog: The Truth about Publishing– Submitting your work

The next in my video blog series, The Truth About Publishing. This week, how to submit your work to editors and agents, and some advice on the most commonly made mistakes. The one last piece of advice I forgot to include in the video: Be patient. Publishing is a slow, slow business, and you emailing and asking about your submission ten minutes after you sent it is only going to move you closer to that form rejection letter.

Enjoy, and Happy Submitting!

Video Blog: Terms you need to know if you’re in publishing

Someone asked me if I’d do a video blog about publishing vocabulary. I picked some very general, simple publishing terms for this video, which ended up being almost 12 minutes long. If you have something you’d like me to talk about in another video, leave me a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

I know, I still look tired and I’m having a …hair…day.

Enjoy!

Video Blog: Terms you need to know if you're in publishing

Someone asked me if I'd do a video blog about publishing vocabulary. I picked some very general, simple publishing terms for this video, which ended up being almost 12 minutes long. If you have something you'd like me to talk about in another video, leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do.

I know, I still look tired and I'm having a …hair…day.

Enjoy!

And now a word from the management

This week I was turned into an incubus of viral plague for a day or two, which got me all backed up on Grad School work. Add that to the fact that my nose would give Rudolph a run for his money, and I can't promise there will be a video blog this week.

I will try, but no promises.

Video Blog: Rejection Letters

Here's my second video blog, in the series which I'm calling "The Truth about Publishing". It's all about rejection letters.  You can see our production values have increased a little (meaning I like to play with Windows Movie Maker)

So tell me about your rejection letters — the worst, the best, the strangest. Leave in the comments.

 

Wow! Thanks!

Well, based on the site stats from yesterday's blog post (and WordPress is awesome in that they let me see individual post stats too), it seems you liked the video blog post. I even got a dozen or so hits on the thing on YouTube. Collectively probably one of my most viewed blog posts, right up there with the 'five stages of getting an agent' post in November.

Which is great, because I really had an awesome time doing it. So I guess I'm going to continue doing them, as long as I have stuff to t...

Video Blog – watch at your own risk :)

Okay, so I decided to give video blogging a try. I'm pretty happy with it, but it is nearly 9 minutes long. What can I say? I write long, I talk long.

Today's video blog is about what it means to be a 'Professional Writer'.

If I get good feedback, I'll do more. Maybe even if I don't, because this was a blast! Enjoy!!

 

Getting over myself

When I was younger, I loved the color pink. Pink bedroom, pink pillows, pink pink pink. I was Pinkalicous before Pinkalicious.

And when I became a teenager and older, I stopped buying things that were pink and wearing pink and painting the walls pink. Because pink had become too young for me, no one would take a girl who liked pink seriously. That was for little kids.

And then I got over myself.

Granted, I'm past the 'girl' stage of my life. Past the 20′s where the most important thing is to be ...

Schedule for NJSCBWI June 8th, 9th, 10th Conference « Writing and Illustrating

Check out who's presenting at 2:25 pm on Saturday and again at 11:10 on Sunday…. (hint: ME!!!)

Schedule for NJSCBWI June 8th, 9th, 10th Conference « Writing and Illustrating.