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My IrrationalitiesMy IrrationalitiesSharing the ups, downs and irrationalities of my life as a caffeine addicted romance writer Articles
Writers....
2007-12-08 16:51:00 I just have one question... WHY ARE YOU HERE ON MY BLOG? IT'S SATURDAY!!! YOU SHOULD BE WRITING! GET BACK TO WORK AND STOP SCREWING AROUND! More About: Writers
CHARACTERS: The Good, The Bad, The Deleted
2007-12-07 07:59:00 I usually lose one along the way... Somewhere in the plotting process, a character or two gets eliminated. Sometimes they're absorbed by another character. Other times, I find I don't need them at all, so they're deleted. In my current opus, I have about eight all together in a 90k book. I started off with about ten. Of the two I deleted, I won't miss them. One was taking the plot in a More About: Characters , Good , The Good , Hara
Link Whorage 12/7/07
2007-12-07 06:53:00 Great writerly links below... Celebrate with my pal Gina Black. Her debut novel The Raven's Revenge is available NOW at The Wild Rose Press! Congrats, Gina!! Victoria Strauss reports on another scamming publisher. Check out enote's list of the Top 10 Most Manly Writers Ever. Here's an interview with Agent Janet Reid. This article from The Guardian about Mills & Boon is bound to have More About: Link
Thursday Thirteen #3
2007-12-06 07:43:00 Thirteen men who give me impure thoughts... 1. Clive Owen 2. Jason Momoa 3. Gerard Butler 4. Lior Ashkenazi 5. Takeshi Kaneshiro 6. Antonio Banderas 7. Denzel Washington 8. Daniel Craig 9. Sean Bean 10. Jim Caviezel 11. Gary Dourdan 12. Sean Connery 13. Russell Wong More About: Thirteen , Thursday
The Nine To Five
2007-12-05 07:47:00 Unless your characters are filthy rich, they have to work... What do your hero and heroine do for a living, and is their profession connected to your plot? If your character's job isn't connected to your plot, do you show your character working? If so how to you do that without slowing the pacing? It's a delicate balance, but nothing frustrates me more than to NOT see a character working in
Pulse-Pounding Tales From My Netflix Queue
2007-12-05 06:15:00 Mini movie reviews for Live Free or Die Hard, Driftwood, Rescue Dawn and Stir of Echos II... MY KEY: A+ (Outstanding); A (Perfect); A- (Almost Perfect); B+ (Great); B (Very Good/Memorable); B- (Good w/some flaws); C+ (Above average); C (Average); C- (Okay, but disappointing); D+ (Bad); D (VERY bad); D- (Dreadful); F (An absolute waste of time) Live Free or Die Hard (2007) Cast: Bruce More About: Netflix , Tales , Queue , Pulse
Industry Update: 12/5/07
2007-12-05 06:14:00 From Publishers Lunch... Fiction Deals: The Key: "nice deal," $1 - $49,000; "very nice deal," $50,000 - $99,000; "good deal" $100,000 - $250,000; "significant deal," $251,000 - $499,000; "major deal," $500,000 and up DEBUT: Debut -- Grant McKenzie's thriller SWITCH, about two strangers who are drawn into the same nightmare when their respective families are kidnapped and they are forced More About: Industry , Update
It's All About Geography
2007-12-03 07:16:00 Soon as you see the name you put the book down... For me, anything listing the "Amazon," "jungle," or "South America" will compel me to put the book back on the shelf. I don't like jungles and South America doesn't interest me. I get images of vines, poisonous insects and reptiles, tons of rain and unbearable heat. I hate it all and won't pay to visit in real life, much less take an imaginary More About: Geography
Link Whorage 12/3/07
2007-12-03 06:23:00 Great writerly links below... Mundania Press is now open for submissions. According to Anna Genoese, Por Vida Press is also open for submissions. It's a small, non-profit press, and it's her baby. And yes, authors DO get paid! An anonymous editor talks about Reader Reports and how they help determine whether a manuscript should be published. Now here's a scary one!!! This is a must read. More About: Link
Industry Update: 12/3/07
2007-12-03 06:00:00 From Publishers Lunch... Fiction Deals: The Key: "nice deal," $1 - $49,000; "very nice deal," $50,000 - $99,000; "good deal" $100,000 - $250,000; "significant deal," $251,000 - $499,000; "major deal," $500,000 and up AUDIO RIGHTS: Audio rights -- John Smelcer's THE GREAT DEATH, to Rebecca Waugh at Listening Library, by Alanna Ramirez, on behalf of Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group. DEBUT: More About: Industry , Update
Chica Sunday
2007-12-02 06:05:00 I'm posting over at Southern Fried Chica s today. Come visit! You can also check out this cool video montage of some of the most romantic movie love scenes below... More About: Sunday
NaNo: Yeehaw!
2007-12-01 06:10:00 I did it!!!... Now all I have to do is make sense of the 325 page mess I created. But guess what? It's more than I had a month ago. :-) More About: Nano
Does Your Protagonist Believe In God?
2007-11-30 07:26:00 Your reader doesn't have to know this, but you should... Why? Okay, I don't mean to get heavy or anything, but belief or lack thereof says a lot about a character. What he went through growing up. What sort of life he's living now. These are the things that shape the inner core and the God question encompasses everything in a character's life experience. My heroine believes, but my hero More About: Protagonist
YA Book Recommendation
2007-11-30 06:20:00 Remember when I whined a couple weeks back about the lack of YA romance novels from a male POV? Well I found one and it's fabulous!... It's BEASTLY. No, that' s the title. :-) Here's the book description as posted on Amazon: I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from More About: Book , Recommendation , Dati
Link Whorage 11/30/07
2007-11-30 06:09:00 Great writerly links below... Harlequin Presents is holding an Instant Seduction Writing Competition! Here's another writing contest, but on a smaller scale. Can you tell what happens at the North Pole on Christmas Eve in 75 words or less? Agent Jenny Rappaport tells writers: "I am not your mommy." Is the MWA Going Too Far With Its Self-Published Definitions? Author Lilith Saintcrow More About: Link
Thursday Thirteen
2007-11-29 06:19:00 Thirteen movie favorites... ROMANCE: 1. Somewhere In Time 2. The Outsider 3. House Of Flying Daggers 4. Stage Beauty 5. Strictly Ballroom PARANORMAL/TT/Fantasy: 6. Pan's Labyrinth 7. The Others 8. Frequency ACTION/ADVENTURE: 9. Casino Royale 10. 300 11. MI3 COMEDY: 12. Barfly 13. The Big Lebowski Get the Thursday Thirteen code here! The purpose of the meme is More About: Thirteen
WRITERS: The Voice
2007-11-28 07:15:00 There's this tiny but powerful voice in my head, one that's unlike the rest... Lets face it. Writers hear voices. Sometimes many at once. They're mostly the voices of our characters. Other voices come from the demons of doubt who mouth off at various times during the day, but we've become so accustomed to them that it's easy to shut them down. Then there's THE VOICE. It's very distinctive More About: Voice
Industry Update: 11/28/07
2007-11-28 06:00:00 From Publishers Lunch... Fiction Deals: The Key: "nice deal," $1 - $49,000; "very nice deal," $50,000 - $99,000; "good deal" $100,000 - $250,000; "significant deal," $251,000 - $499,000; "major deal," $500,000 and up Debut -- Film director David Cronenberg's first novel, partially set in Toronto, to Nicole Winstanley at Penguin Canada, who wrote him "several months ago to inquire about whether More About: Industry , Update
STRONG MEDICINE OR POISON DART?
2007-11-26 07:35:00 Bad Reviews, Negative Contest Judges and Toxic Critique Groups... A bestselling author has launched a campaign to counteract negative online reviews by appealing to her loyal readers. Another bestselling author responded with a very thought-provoking open letter. Now readers and critics are duking it out. All writers have to deal with negative feedback, be it from reviewers, a critique More About: Medicine , Strong , Poison
Spine Tingling Tales From My Netflix Queue
2007-11-26 06:49:00 Mini movie reviews for Ghost Rider, Haunted, When Strangers Appear, and Isolation ... MY KEY: A+ (Outstanding); A (Perfect); A- (Almost Perfect); B+ (Great); B (Very Good/Memorable); B- (Good w/some flaws); C+ (Above average); C (Average); C- (Okay, but disappointing); D+ (Bad); D (VERY bad); D- (Dreadful); F (An absolute waste of time) Ghost Rider (2007) Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Peter More About: Netflix , Tales , Spine , Queue
Link Whorage 11/26/07
2007-11-26 06:01:00 Great writerly links below... If you're about to submit to an editor or agent, you may want to take a look at this. New York Times lists the 100 most notable books of the year. In another article a writer ponders why we read. Still another talks about movie deals between book publishers and Hollywood. Who's more powerful than a reviewer? Able to stop a manuscript from seeing the light of More About: Link
Industry Update: 11/26/07
2007-11-26 06:00:00 From Publishers Lunch... Fiction Deals: The Key: "nice deal," $1 - $49,000; "very nice deal," $50,000 - $99,000; "good deal" $100,000 - $250,000; "significant deal," $251,000 - $499,000; "major deal," $500,000 and up Debut -- Joyce Lebra's THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women More About: Industry , Update
Retro Sunday---Elliott Yamin
2007-11-25 06:53:00 Here's the best of Elliott Yamin on American Idol... Moody's Mood For Love Home Teach Me Tonight A Song For You If Tomorrow Never Comes If I Can Dream One w/Mary J. Blige Somebody To Love More About: Sunday , Retro
My Guilty Pleasure
2007-11-23 07:00:00 I have a secret... I love cheesy Jacqueline Susann books and movies. The Love Machine, Once Is Not Enough and my all time favorite: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS! This campy film was so bad that it was good. When I was a kid, my cousin, stepsister and I used pretend we were the three girls. I think this was a prelude to my desire to write my own angst-filled stories years later. It served to prime More About: Pleasure , Guilty
Strange Tales From My Netflix Queue 11/23/07
2007-11-23 06:25:00 Mini movie reviews for Perfume, Black Snake Moan, Hannibal Rising and Fur... MY KEY: A+ (Outstanding); A (Perfect); A- (Almost Perfect); B+ (Great); B (Very Good/Memorable); B- (Good w/some flaws); C+ (Above average); C (Average); C- (Okay, but disappointing); D+ (Bad); D (VERY bad); D- (Dreadful); F (An absolute waste of time) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (aka Le Parfum - Histoire d'un More About: Netflix , Tales , Strange , Queue , Tran
Link Whorage 11/23/07
2007-11-23 06:20:00 Great writerly links below... David L. Robbins offers some helpful advice for writers Agent Nathan Bransford details the anatomy of a Really Bad query letter The Mad Editor says: "If you’re going to Drink the Kool-Aid, make sure you like the flavor" Access Romance talks about humbling the romance heroine Victoria Strauss gives the 411 on a A New Agent Blog Bookvideos.TV isn't an S& More About: Link
Romance Writers
2007-11-23 06:01:00 The path to publication has never been simpler. Check out Meljean's Five Easy Steps to Writing Romance ... More About: Writers
Thursday Thirteen
2007-11-22 07:06:00 13 Writers I'd Love To Meet... Thirteen Writers (living or dead) I'd Love To Meet In no particular order: 1. Richard Matheson -- Bid Time Return (aka Somewhere in time); Stir of Echoes, I Am Legend 2 Stephen King -- The Dark Half, The Dead Zone, Misery 3 Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name 4 Friedrich Nietzsche -- On the Genealogy of Morality, More About: Thursday
WRITERS: Let's Dream BIG, Shall We?
More articles from this author:2007-11-21 07:50:00 Hollywood is chomping at the bit to bring your book to life on the silver screen... IF you could choose the two lead actors and a director for YOUR book, who would play your hero and heroine? For the director, think of a movie that had a style you loved. Find out who directed it, because it was his vision that put concept to film. Here are my choices: Hero: Gerard Butler (His work in More About: Writers , Dream 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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