Marissa De Luna's Blog, page 12
September 28, 2012
I love deadlines.
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Sorry I know it has been awhile. I appear to have done nothing in the month of September. Well not nothing exactly - I took a train around Italy from Bologna to Sorrento and had an absolutely amazing time. Nothing very Literary to report about. I noted the Keats -Shelley Museum in Rome but did not go in and I ate and drank far too much. By the pool in Sorrento I read The Vill...
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Sorry I know it has been awhile. I appear to have done nothing in the month of September. Well not nothing exactly - I took a train around Italy from Bologna to Sorrento and had an absolutely amazing time. Nothing very Literary to report about. I noted the Keats -Shelley Museum in Rome but did not go in and I ate and drank far too much. By the pool in Sorrento I read The Vill...
August 30, 2012
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer...
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
― Maya Angelou
When I started writing I had heard of self publishing or Vanity publishing as the case may be – and back then (although it was only a couple of years ago) It was definitely classed as more vanity than anything else.
Google was (still is) my all and so I found information on different POD companies and as many of you know I chose the hand holding Authorhouse. I don’t have any regrets. I went in with m...
― Maya Angelou
When I started writing I had heard of self publishing or Vanity publishing as the case may be – and back then (although it was only a couple of years ago) It was definitely classed as more vanity than anything else.
Google was (still is) my all and so I found information on different POD companies and as many of you know I chose the hand holding Authorhouse. I don’t have any regrets. I went in with m...
August 29, 2012
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.” - Zadie Smith
I haven’t blogged in so long I don’t know what I have and what I haven’t said. In brief I have had quite a few rejections now for The Bittersweet. Two with a positive feedback about the plotline and title and a note saying that my sentence structure needs to improve. I have to admit that this last comment traumatised me slightly – so after all my ranting of who has time for commas I have realised that if writing is my passion- if i...
I haven’t blogged in so long I don’t know what I have and what I haven’t said. In brief I have had quite a few rejections now for The Bittersweet. Two with a positive feedback about the plotline and title and a note saying that my sentence structure needs to improve. I have to admit that this last comment traumatised me slightly – so after all my ranting of who has time for commas I have realised that if writing is my passion- if i...
August 15, 2012
A creative man is motivated by the desire...
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others
Any Rand If you follow this blog you will know I try and start every new post with a quote- not always relevant but mostly. Today I feel thouroughly de-motivated and even though I wanted an 'editing quote' I thought I would look up motivational quotes instead. This one caught my eye- its not inspirational but it it true - definately about me and I am sure most writers out there. Although I recently rea...
Any Rand If you follow this blog you will know I try and start every new post with a quote- not always relevant but mostly. Today I feel thouroughly de-motivated and even though I wanted an 'editing quote' I thought I would look up motivational quotes instead. This one caught my eye- its not inspirational but it it true - definately about me and I am sure most writers out there. Although I recently rea...
August 10, 2012
The Moment comes when a character does or says something...
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him - Graham Greene
So a while back when I was struggling with Characters and making them real I googled what to do- of course I found a plethora of information out there in the world wide web and I am pretty sure I blogged my findings. What did I do- In short I:
Interviewed each character so much so that I even knew what meal they would order in a restaurantFound a c...
So a while back when I was struggling with Characters and making them real I googled what to do- of course I found a plethora of information out there in the world wide web and I am pretty sure I blogged my findings. What did I do- In short I:
Interviewed each character so much so that I even knew what meal they would order in a restaurantFound a c...
August 1, 2012
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success
Bo Bennett Well the submissions went out and can I just say in less than 24 hours I received one rejection. Oh the pain! Well it wasn’t so painful. There was a silver lining- basically the agent must have looked at my website as they said that whilst they were not interested in The Bittersweet they would be interested in seeing a submission for Detective Chupplejeep…. So watch this space – I am hoping he is my gol...
Bo Bennett Well the submissions went out and can I just say in less than 24 hours I received one rejection. Oh the pain! Well it wasn’t so painful. There was a silver lining- basically the agent must have looked at my website as they said that whilst they were not interested in The Bittersweet they would be interested in seeing a submission for Detective Chupplejeep…. So watch this space – I am hoping he is my gol...
July 19, 2012
Tweet Tweet
No I haven't purchased Tweet Right yet...I am going to. I was just perusing through twitter and I have stumbled upon the very popular Jeff Goins. Currently reading his website and some of the articles are excellent. I thought I would share with you:
http://goinswriter.com/get-more-followers/
Its about how to get more followers on Twitter- So watch this space (well actually follow me on twitter @marissadeluna) I may well be breaking the rules soon... because who wants to be boring?!
http://goinswriter.com/get-more-followers/
Its about how to get more followers on Twitter- So watch this space (well actually follow me on twitter @marissadeluna) I may well be breaking the rules soon... because who wants to be boring?!
July 18, 2012
we rate ability in men...
“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt” - Think Exist (sorry don't know who said this - it didn't say)
Well I cant believe I am at this juncture again. Well i can I have been harping on about it for the last however many months. So mwriting buddy proof reader has added all the comma's I needed and actually said that my punctuation is not all that bad apparently its the same mistake I keep making with dependant clauses!! hurrah- now if someone would tell me what...
Well I cant believe I am at this juncture again. Well i can I have been harping on about it for the last however many months. So mwriting buddy proof reader has added all the comma's I needed and actually said that my punctuation is not all that bad apparently its the same mistake I keep making with dependant clauses!! hurrah- now if someone would tell me what...
July 10, 2012
Choose a job you love
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
Confucius Well I like writing and that isnt going to pay the bills is it? Maybe one day. So this blog posts comes with all the ususal caveats...its not been proof read of even spell checked. Work has been absolutely manic I even had to wrok late yesterday - this is no good thing for an impatient writer- I think my impatience is getting worse. I am good to go with my submissions just waiting for my proof read first t...
Confucius Well I like writing and that isnt going to pay the bills is it? Maybe one day. So this blog posts comes with all the ususal caveats...its not been proof read of even spell checked. Work has been absolutely manic I even had to wrok late yesterday - this is no good thing for an impatient writer- I think my impatience is getting worse. I am good to go with my submissions just waiting for my proof read first t...
June 29, 2012
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. Julie Burchill
So how polished do you have to be when you send out submissions. Well of course your submission should be word perfect. Why? Well for one ,if you havent taken the time to be word perfect, punctuation and all, are you really that keen? how bad do you want to be publ...
So how polished do you have to be when you send out submissions. Well of course your submission should be word perfect. Why? Well for one ,if you havent taken the time to be word perfect, punctuation and all, are you really that keen? how bad do you want to be publ...
