Azalea Moone's Blog, page 14

Learning resumes...

Not to say that I'm not always researching and learning. Just saying that I have some new things to look up and think about.

Well, unfortunately, Road to Nowhere was rejected but with specific reasons why. So I'm going to tweak the ms and send it out to a different publisher. Before then, I'm learning how to strengthen my writing, especially in one specific area, before sending it back out.



On another note, that I've probably said before - please pardon the repeat if I did, I'm doing final prep...

NaNoWriMo... this year I'm ready...

I'm pretty sure I'm ready, anyway. LOL

I've added to my outline. I have 5 scenes!! Wow haha. I also popped on the Nano site and updated a few things on there. Still no clue what to name the damn book so I guess it's untitled for now. It may take the name The Watering Hole but I'm really iffy on that title.

Anywho, what is this WIP Wednesday I see some fellow authors doing?? Ah, it's way to share what your working on. Huh.

All through November, during my Nano writing, I'll be sharing little snipp...

Will I make it?

Well, I just took up a different project which seems to be quite addictive. So, we'll have to see if I make it for NaNo this year hehe. But the Nano project is just eating me alive to be written too so I'm not too worried about Nano still. Except for the word count. That's what I'm worried about.

Can't remember if I posted a link to my profile there. mchick-101 if you are participating, add me to your buddies if ya want :P


Maybe I should finish up one of my other WIP's before starting on a...

Humph...

I'm feeling kinda' shitty. Don't know if it's still allergies or this damn cold that's going around. So I haven't been writing, nor editing for that matter. Been hella' busy in real life too, though, and I haven't had time to think. LOL

But I have had time to dream... or at least imagine my next project. Yeah, I have wayyy too many WIP's going at one time. But this idea is for NaNoWriMo. There's a whole scene playing out in my head. I'm just hoping I can find 50k words for it during the month ...

The muse or the market?

Random thought:

I had a question a while ago asking if I write on my muse or for the market. And, honestly, I could care less if what I wrote had a 'market'. I write solely on my muse and always have. My muse cries out hot m/m romance. It used to cry out horror and vampirisms, etc...
Yeah, talk about a change.

So write on your muse. There may just be a market for just about anything. Even if it's a small market, hell you could write about hippie space pirates who hunt mutant squirrels on planet ...

New layout!

New layout is here. That was easy :)

The pretty little Twitter birdie isn't actually linked to my twitstream yet though, so don't click it or you may be sent to internetz hell! Haha, I kid, I kid. Actually, it may say "page not found" LOL

Anyway, I submitted a partial yesterday for Road to Nowhere to Loose ID. *fingers crossed*

And I wrote close to 10k words this week for an anthology submission out at Storm Moon Press that's not due until April; but, hell, I figure why the fuck not, ya' know.

Ot...

Random thoughts...

A few random thoughts for the day:

1. I'm changing the layout again... prepare for utter destruction!! Mwahahaha!

2. NaNoWriMo is coming up. I wasn't feeling up to par last year so this year, I'm taking the plunge into the NaNo waters. Seriously, I'm not a novel writer. I've always enjoyed writing shorter stories 1,000 to 25,000 words so reaching a novel goal seems extremely compelling to me haha.

I do have an idea fleshed out and, since writing an outline before hand is allowed, I'm going to t...

Whut the... holy crap... I don't... huh?

Being as I'm new to writing romance altogether, seriously I used to cringe at romantic tales, I'm learning all too quickly the ins and outs, dos and dont's. Not just to romance writing but writing in general. Damn, I don't think I sucked when I was writing Denial LOL. But hell, my grammar and sentence structure... whut the fuck??

I made an editing/writing checklist today for myself. It lists everything that any one beta has ever noted in my work... grammar issues, punctuation has been a...

Cough, hack, sneezes...

Sickly sickly me... and family :( means no writing. I just can't wrap my head around it, hehe. I've been editing though, and beta reading... That still proves difficult when my head feels like it's spinning and going to pop.

But I'm still on the ball for publication. Well, except for the fact that uncertainty is building over me again like a freaking cloud. Should I? Shouldn't I? What the fuck??

Here it is again, the submission schedule:

Submit Road to Nowhere in Sept 2011




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