Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Decorative Bark and other Points about Legalese
ne of my earliest childhood memories is clutching my brother’s hand as we crouched under a desk, hoping the police wouldn’t find us.
Okay. That will give you a distorted view of the neighborhood I grew up in, and so let me give some context. One of the neighbor girls routinely teased me. […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Very Important Question
s it possible to write a synopsis without engaging in scurrilous lies?
12 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Shameless Self Promotion
just received notice that my badly titled manuscript, better known as Legalese, finaled in the Golden Network’s Golden Pen contest.
More importantly, I got some great feedback that will help me get the manuscript ready for the mother of all contests, the Golden Heart.
This has really been a week of great news–feel free to share […]
23 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Go forth and squee!
have to admit, there is nothing I like better than being right. And being able to tell someone “I told you so” makes being right even sweeter. I read the first scene of Goddess of the Hunt after it was first written, and made comments on it. Since then, I have […]
12 Comments » - Posted in Friends, Writing by CM
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Progress!
ook! In the last two weeks, I’ve gone from 361 pages, to . . . 361 pages! And it only took me 5,000 words to do it, too!
There’s a certain kind of unholy glee that arises as the pages pile on, and the number of words gets larger and larger. It makes […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Writing by CM
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Wet Noodle Posse takes on the Golden Heart
heck this out:
The Wet Noodle Posse–they would be the Golden Heart finalists from 2003–are not only posting Golden Heart advice all month, they’re also giving critiques away to commenters.
And if the commenter mentions being referred, they’ll give a critique to the person who referred them. Pretty cool, isn’t it?
