Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Delivered
s what FedEx says of Ornithology.
Yikes. This last week has been crazy. I’m hoping to sleep a little for once!
But after that, it’s all revisions, all the time. The good thing about entering the GH is it gives me a very firm deadline for when I want my revisions to be done–something I wouldn’t have […]
14 Comments » - Posted in Ornithology, Writing by CM
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
One Down
his morning, I mailed my first Golden Heart entry ever off. I spent way too much time on the synopsis, and I never would have been able to get even the final version–which I dubbed “doesn’t harm me”–right without numerous other people to help me out. Goodbye, Legalese!
Stupidly, I have decided to also enter my first […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Legalese, Writing by CM
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The Perils of Pleasure
here are very few authors that I’m truly rabid about. These are the authors where I go through the bookstore and face out copies of their work. I make sure there are plenty of copies on the new release table on the day it’s released. If I see someone browsing the section, […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Reviews by CM
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Nothing Significant
o, this is not a post about writing–at least not directly. It’s a post about my mother. Mrs. Milan, if you will. My mother is in town. During this time, she talked to someone I work with, and when that person asked her what she did, she shrugged her shoulders and hunkered down and said in […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Real Life, Romancery by CM
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Basically done.
lthough not. By “done” I mean that the bones of the story are in place. There is a lot of work to be done in those final pages–both in trimming some portions, expanding others, clarifying key emotions in important points.
And that doesn’t count the inevitable rewrite or three. But for now, I’m […]
