I'm sorry to hear there's been pain. You have my empathy as I've been limping along due to my knee issues and using gel cool packs to battle the headaches. Thank you for the reminder of the peppermint and eucalyptus essential oil, byt the by. I'll have to see about a side trip to Whole Foods, Trader Joes or Sunflower and see what it yields.
Thanks for the luck with Carina. I got a pass on a shifter story I submitted but the revise/resub allowed me to expand the story by over 20K words and it was all the better for it. The initial R&R as well as the pass, were incredibly detailed and enthusiastic about the work. There was true regret in not being able to offer contract and sincerity in the invite to sub something else, so I'm looking forward to it and hope to work with them soon. My only concern is that the editor that I worked with on the R&R is going through some things and off her game. I hope that when I get around to getting my subs in (three in total), that she's back on track and ready for a new author.
Can you tell me more about your experience at Noble Romance Publishing? They're on my short list for my upcoming stories and I'd like some personal insight. We can take this to email or private message if you like. I know it's better to be as private as possible in feedback, even when it's nothing but positive.
Plot bunnies are indeed evil things. I have a historical menage nagging at me and I hate the idea of doing a historical. I don't retain dates and such well and the whole thing makes me self-conscious, yet the idea won't go away. I've already struggled through working in a genre I didn't like for a charity piece that then didn't go where we'd hoped. But that's okay, I'm revising it for a call at Carina and hope to have it be my first work with them. But having struggled through a steampunk, I know that only woe lies down the historical path, yet still, there it is. Sigh.
If I recall correctly, Friday Five is a meme of five questions answered by the participants. Thursday Thirteen is a list of 13 things each week that are completely up to you. Today I did 13 songs from my writing playlist. I tend to do excerpts of 13 paragraphs from a WIP or as a guest blog from fellow authors. I did one recently on natural sleep aids since the insomnia has been doing its thing. So it's anything you wish at the time. I love it. It can be a bit of work if I remember last minute, but it's worth it and has built a loyal readership. I also appreciate the fact that it's reciprocal. I go and visit a T13 and they visit me so I can get as many eyes on my page as I'm willing to visit other pages. They might not all comment, but the majority do visit based on my stat logs.
I can see how twitter really allows for mass communication and challenging communication at that. I just haven't caught the hang of it. I've had conversations with a few fellow authors from different loops, but I don't always know how to jump in and what to say to whom. I do want to pick it up though, I can see how valuable it is just from how much I use facebook. I just gotta pick it up and get a handle on it.
Do you workout at all? I'm exhausted but I still need to workout before I get to head to bed and I'm listing to the left about it. *smile* I'm still going to do it, but I reaaallly don't want to. In my defense, most of it is that I don't want to go into the other room. I'd rather workout here so I can finish watching this show. But even if I bring my hula hoop out and do it, I'm supposed to ride the bike for at least ten minutes, so I'm stuck going in there regardless. It's my own fault, I should have done it early today, but the insomnia has me used to middle of the night workouts and I fall into that habit with the least provocation.
Hmm, if I trade time on the bike for dancing and then do a full bike workout tomorrow, that evens out right? *wink*
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Date: Fri, Apr. 29th, 2011 06:26 am (UTC)Thank you for the reminder of the peppermint and eucalyptus essential oil, byt the by. I'll have to see about a side trip to Whole Foods, Trader Joes or Sunflower and see what it yields.
Thanks for the luck with Carina. I got a pass on a shifter story I submitted but the revise/resub allowed me to expand the story by over 20K words and it was all the better for it. The initial R&R as well as the pass, were incredibly detailed and enthusiastic about the work. There was true regret in not being able to offer contract and sincerity in the invite to sub something else, so I'm looking forward to it and hope to work with them soon. My only concern is that the editor that I worked with on the R&R is going through some things and off her game. I hope that when I get around to getting my subs in (three in total), that she's back on track and ready for a new author.
Can you tell me more about your experience at Noble Romance Publishing? They're on my short list for my upcoming stories and I'd like some personal insight. We can take this to email or private message if you like. I know it's better to be as private as possible in feedback, even when it's nothing but positive.
Plot bunnies are indeed evil things. I have a historical menage nagging at me and I hate the idea of doing a historical. I don't retain dates and such well and the whole thing makes me self-conscious, yet the idea won't go away. I've already struggled through working in a genre I didn't like for a charity piece that then didn't go where we'd hoped. But that's okay, I'm revising it for a call at Carina and hope to have it be my first work with them. But having struggled through a steampunk, I know that only woe lies down the historical path, yet still, there it is. Sigh.
If I recall correctly, Friday Five is a meme of five questions answered by the participants. Thursday Thirteen is a list of 13 things each week that are completely up to you. Today I did 13 songs from my writing playlist. I tend to do excerpts of 13 paragraphs from a WIP or as a guest blog from fellow authors. I did one recently on natural sleep aids since the insomnia has been doing its thing. So it's anything you wish at the time. I love it. It can be a bit of work if I remember last minute, but it's worth it and has built a loyal readership. I also appreciate the fact that it's reciprocal. I go and visit a T13 and they visit me so I can get as many eyes on my page as I'm willing to visit other pages. They might not all comment, but the majority do visit based on my stat logs.
I can see how twitter really allows for mass communication and challenging communication at that. I just haven't caught the hang of it. I've had conversations with a few fellow authors from different loops, but I don't always know how to jump in and what to say to whom. I do want to pick it up though, I can see how valuable it is just from how much I use facebook. I just gotta pick it up and get a handle on it.
Do you workout at all? I'm exhausted but I still need to workout before I get to head to bed and I'm listing to the left about it. *smile* I'm still going to do it, but I reaaallly don't want to. In my defense, most of it is that I don't want to go into the other room. I'd rather workout here so I can finish watching this show. But even if I bring my hula hoop out and do it, I'm supposed to ride the bike for at least ten minutes, so I'm stuck going in there regardless. It's my own fault, I should have done it early today, but the insomnia has me used to middle of the night workouts and I fall into that habit with the least provocation.
Hmm, if I trade time on the bike for dancing and then do a full bike workout tomorrow, that evens out right? *wink*