Well, sort of. There’s a nice article about me in the Dallas Speculative Fiction Examiner.
{ 13 comments }
I read every comment twice.
Thank you to every single one of you who played.
Every entry was excellent. There was no way I could choose ten on my own.
I went to Random.org’s True Random Number Generator, generated ten random numbers, and one of the ten was for a long-time reader here who had requested she not be considered in the drawing.
So I generated one more.
For the ten folks who won: You have won a one-year paid membership to SavvyAuthors.com. You may accept it for yourself, or offer it to a friend. You’ll be receiving an e-mail from me letting you know how to claim your prize. I’ll be using the e-mail you have used in your winning post. If you don’t receive your response from me by tomorrow, you’ll need to e-mail me here, let me know your name and your e-mail address, and the link to your winning entry, and I’ll resend the information.
Winners:
Rob F
Michael
Pam Hauser
Sarah
Charlene
Jenn
Sara Carrero
Alice B.
Dyre
Kathi
{ 33 comments }
My newsletter introducing the workshop I’m teaching for SavvyAuthors.com [LINK CORRECTED] started like this:
So.
In the midst of my current insane seventy-hour-a-week work schedule, I got this crazy question.
It was “How would you like to do a free writing workshop for our
site?”Now, in most cases, the answer to the question “How would you like to add about 70 to 100 more hours to your workload and not get paid for it?” would be “Not very much!”
In this case, though, I found two reasons that made me say yes…
And on my writing diary while making the same announcement, I said:
Finally, a COMPENSATION DISCLAIMER:
I’m not an affiliate of SavvyAuthors.com. I’m not making a dime from the workshop, nor will I receive any payment for recommending the site.
I’m doing this because I think it will be fun, and interesting, and challenging, and because it will let me meet some new folks.
And then Sharon, my primary liaison for the workshop, sent me a happy e-mail about how many people had signed up (231 the last I heard), and she told me I’d be getting some money.
To which I said, “I honestly didn’t know I was supposed to get any sort of compensation. The long e-mail I sent out and my blog post both made it clear that I WASN’T being compensated.
“So as nice as the money would be, I’ll have to turn it down. Use it for something cool. :D”
Her idea of cool was, why don’t I give it to ten of you as paid memberships for one year to SavvyAuthors.com.
And I agreed that would be pretty cool.
So.
HOW TO WIN
If you’d like to win a year’s membership to SavvyAuthors.com, just post here. Let me know the MOST USEFUL THING you’ve learned from my website, this weblog, or any of my courses.
That’s it. If you do that, you’re eligible in the drawing.
I’ll do the drawings NEXT WEDNESDAY (FEBRUARY 24th), which will give folks a LITTLE time to reply, and winners enough time to attend some of the workshops this year.
I’ll announce the winners on this writing diary.
[A NOTE: I am reading these entries. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. If you attempt to use this contest to claim that I recommended a product I have never even heard of, I will delete your entry and block you from the site. I don't tolerate spam. I have deleted one entry so far.]
{ 444 comments }
I’m teaching a “free or really, really cheap” writing workshop called Crash Revision: How To Revise Your Novel In 7 Days.
Mine is a general course, geared to writers in every genre—it’s not romance-specific.
My workshop is part of the 2010 Writers’ Boot Camp at SavvyAuthors.com.
I also have two items in the “book raffle,” though neither of mine is a book, and both are spectacular.
This short course starts on March 28th. You have to be signed up before then to be a part of it.
And some info on my workshop hosts:
SavvyAuthors.com offers tools and resources for romance authors at every stage of their career.
Finally, a COMPENSATION DISCLAIMER:
I’m not an affiliate of SavvyAuthors.com. I’m not making a dime from the workshop, nor will I receive any payment for recommending the site.
I’m doing this because I think it will be fun, and interesting, and challenging, and because it will let me meet some new folks.
{ 17 comments }
So here I am on Friday night, haven’t managed a weblog entry, haven’t managed to write fiction all week.
I’ve been absolutely buried in Lesson 14 for HTRYN. Could not figure out how to show people what they need to do related to revising Simple Time in their novel. I had the whole lesson outlined, thought I knew how I was going to present it—and then my presentation didn’t work, and I re-outlined, did clusters, did bullet points, wrote things, deleted things.
My whole week I spent on JUST that lesson. In the end, I had a breakthrough, and HOW I needed to present the issues of Simple Time became clear, easy, obvious. Like falling off a log.
But it cost me the whole week, so here I am on Friday night, when I’m supposed to be done for the week and taking a break, and instead, the migraine that has plagued me much of the week is with me again, and I’m pushing through on the demo for Lesson 13.
The lesson wasn’t the only wreck in the week—but it magnified the several other wrecks.
I have not abandoned the writing diary, the newsletter, the TalysMana novel and weblog, or any of the other things I’m working on. This week, though, every just fell apart.
I’m sincerely hoping to sleep for two straight days once I get this demo done. But right at the moment, it’s looking like a long night.
And I had so many other things I wanted to talk about this week.
{ 13 comments }
What Is A First Draft? I’ve added it to pages for new folks to find. It’s important. Please take a few minutes to read it.
{ 2 comments }
First, a note. The Write A Book With Me entries are going to be going to the TalysMana weblog after this entry. If you’re playing or following Write A Book With Me, be sure to bookmark the TalysMana weblog now.
Pocket Full Of Words will be going back to the essays, commentary on writing, and other things that I previously had here which have been neglected lately.
For tonight, though…
What Kind Of Day Has It Been
Tonight, Kettan discovered exactly what went wrong in Rengarde. Her actions in the What Is had consequences she didn’t predict…but she hasn’t yet discovered why. That’s tomorrow.
Got 843 words.
If you’re playing, how are your words coming?
{ 5 comments }
Yesterday Becky posted her first rough concept sketch for what the Fendle Warrior’s Heart would look like. I meant to come in here last night and post the link, but after writing 4000+ words of lesson, I was just too fried.
Today, though, I wanted to let you know her sketch is up. It’s SO much cooler than anything I was imagining.
And she’s open to comments at this point in the design process, too.
INCIDENTALLY…
I’m going to have a little contest for folks who are reading TalysMana. Becky and I are still working out the details on her end, but from my end, one reader is going to get to be in the book. (Probably to end up dying in some dramatic way…but still.)
If you’ve been dying to die heroically in a novel, make sure you’re signed up to receive the TalysMana chapters. Only story readers will be eligible for the contest, and details will be going out in one of the TalysMana e-mails soon.
{ 26 comments }
I wrote 4000 words on Lesson 13 tonight, and finished it, but I’m done.
Back tomorrow.
{ 8 comments }
Since ecto ate my post TWICE now, I’m going to keep this short.
Got a spiffy cliffhanger for TalysMana tonight, wrapped the scene, posted it, and some folks may even receive it yet tonight. Most of you who are up to date will get the latest installment on Friday. For everyone else, it’ll be along in due time.
Will Grey (now playing the part previously played by Bill Hawthorne) is paying off for me. He came through for me tonight, he’s showing me more of who he is, and I like him.
And Kettan made me laugh.
I got some subtle tension into the scene, too. That’s where I’ll be picking up when I start in tomorrow night…with the little thing that went wrong.
If you’re playing WABWM, I hope your story is coming along for you.
{ 12 comments }
