Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:09PM My company, Marketing Interactions, is keeping me very busy and I'm writing so much for the marketing programs of B2B companies that it's taken all my creativity for a while. That said, I've started a new story which is a women's fiction with light paranormal elements. Something totally new and different to stretch my wings and my imagination. There's a wonderful medallion involved
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:08PM I've been on a journey with my writing recently. I've discovered that I've been holding myself back, writing what I thought I should be writing, rather than what I wanted to write.
I'm currently working on a women's fiction story (yes, there's still a love story element) about a woman who thought she had the world by the tail, until her husband dies suddenly and she's left with a mountain of debt, a company stripped bare and a dilapidated motor home.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:08PM Once again, the time has slipped by. I've been playing with voice a lot. I've also been playing with different genres.
In working on the rewrite of a contemporary manuscript I'd written a few years back, I realized it needed suspense. There was a mystery in the background, but it had stayed in the heroine's backstory and never made it to the page.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:07PM I know it's been a while since I've updated the site and I apologize. I was...well, okay...wallowing.
I had done one revision, then was asked for a second one to infuse the style and voice I'd cut during the last revision to reduce word count. I did three chapters and then got feedback that it works and to complete the revisions and resend it.
You'd think I'd have been ecstatic, right? Well, I was. I'd finally nailed it. I could almost taste the delicious end to the process of writing a saleable book. Then my brain melted
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:06PM I know it's been a while. I wish I could say that I've been consumed with writing fiction, but that would be a stretch. Business writing for my day job - yes. Fiction, uh, not so much.
I've finished another rewrite of Caviar for an agent - trying to focus my style and am working on some other revisions for an editor request. So the writing is moving forward. But the style rewrite to get more of my voice in the story was very challenging.
Part of it is really getting into the character's POV and channeling the emotion onto the page.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:05PM March was a whirlwind month for me. A writing retreat and a conference that fired me up about my writing and then a work overload that left me scarce time to write.
But, that's life.
The trick for me is finding time to do everything I want to do. The hard part is that there are only so many hours in the day. But the upside is that although I haven't had much time to write, I've had a lot of time to think.
What else do you do on airplanes and when you find yourself stuck in the Denver International Airport twice in one month? Sheesh, it's starting to feel like a curse. And I love Colorado, but I don't have time.
Are you seeing a repetitive theme? Yeah, me too.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:04PM Well, it's been a busy month or so.
I've gotten a request from an agent for another revision on In Pursuit of Caviar. Which seemed totally daunting until I went to Bob Mayer's retreat in Hilton Head the first weekend of this month. I feel honored by the agent's attention and I think her input is valid and will add a lot of value for the writing, now that I think I can do it justice.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:04PM I've been busy revising my Golden Heart Finalist manuscript for an agent request. I've shortened and tightened and tweaked like crazy and it's on her desk. So, say a prayer with me that this rewrite is the one.
I'm in the throws of what started out to be a rewrite of another completed manuscript. I guess it still is, but all that's left is the original idea, the characters and the setting. The theme is also the same, but pretty much everything else has changed.
I did say rewrite. Right? Argh.
But there's something wonderful about the whole re-germination process.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:03PM Well, I've been sadly neglecting my web site lately, but it's not been intentional. I've gotten some interest in my GH Finalist manuscript, In Pursuit of Caviar, and wouldn't you know that the dang thing is too long.
I've been asked to trim it a tinge. Well, okay, more than a smidge. But there's something about the word "smidge" that makes this newest endeavorless daunting.
Actually, I'm finding the process extremely liberating. Suddenly, gestures I'd struggled with are extraneous and one word can do the job of two.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:03PM Growing a new story is fun. That thrill of the new project, new characters and situations. Finally, after the 5th rewrite of In Pursuit of Caviar - which is off to agents and editors, so cross your fingers for me - I'm ready for a new project.
I was going to continue with Floating Downstream, but last week, I picked up a manuscript I wrote five years ago and got pulled back into the story.