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Whoosh...February 4, 2008...timewarp happened?
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Feb. 4th, 2008 | 10:57 am
Good Grief. Here it is, February of 2008! My Word! Or should that should be "My Lack of Words?" I HAVE been writing...just not here. At this point, I am not sure about all of the cool features that I have access to using LiveJournal. I do not know how to make this site available for others to read. I am certain that I am the only one who visits. It has kind of gotten to be "so what's the point," what with all of the other writing that I am trying to do. Argh.
I am a member of Suzanne Lieurance's Childrens Writing and Coaching Club. It's a great group of people and Suzanne is very knowledgeable and patient. We get an assignment once a week that helps us better learn the ins and outs of the industry. Then we discuss our work once a week in a Critiquing session. There's a lot more going on there, but that is the main focus for me at this point. I sent five or six poems to Writer's Digest for their December contest and five or six different poems to a contest sponsored by The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, also in December. Highlights Magazine for kids ran a contest in January for a short fictional piece about what life would be like in the future. I sent two entries in for that. I am working on a sci-fi novel for older readers about a girl who inadvertently finds herself in a parallel universe. It's fun writing it, but it's taking a lot of reading, thinking and planning to make it scientifically plausible. I love the work that Dr. Michio Kaku has done in that field. I bought four of his books and use those for my research, as well as the Internet. I have re-written a couple of folktales to send in to Spider Magazine. I am still not secure around cover letters, queries etc, but do realize that if I can't get a publisher/editor to read through those, then "so what" if my first couple of paragraphs in my piece "hooks" them or not. It's HIGHLY competitive "out there," and even though I feel that I have what it takes to get published, that doesn't matter. What matters is the moment when the rubber meets the road. It's pretty daunting and discouraging, but I am being nudged to write. Since I can't seem to get away from wanting/needing to do that, I will continue.
Muses, stay with me!
I am a member of Suzanne Lieurance's Childrens Writing and Coaching Club. It's a great group of people and Suzanne is very knowledgeable and patient. We get an assignment once a week that helps us better learn the ins and outs of the industry. Then we discuss our work once a week in a Critiquing session. There's a lot more going on there, but that is the main focus for me at this point. I sent five or six poems to Writer's Digest for their December contest and five or six different poems to a contest sponsored by The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, also in December. Highlights Magazine for kids ran a contest in January for a short fictional piece about what life would be like in the future. I sent two entries in for that. I am working on a sci-fi novel for older readers about a girl who inadvertently finds herself in a parallel universe. It's fun writing it, but it's taking a lot of reading, thinking and planning to make it scientifically plausible. I love the work that Dr. Michio Kaku has done in that field. I bought four of his books and use those for my research, as well as the Internet. I have re-written a couple of folktales to send in to Spider Magazine. I am still not secure around cover letters, queries etc, but do realize that if I can't get a publisher/editor to read through those, then "so what" if my first couple of paragraphs in my piece "hooks" them or not. It's HIGHLY competitive "out there," and even though I feel that I have what it takes to get published, that doesn't matter. What matters is the moment when the rubber meets the road. It's pretty daunting and discouraging, but I am being nudged to write. Since I can't seem to get away from wanting/needing to do that, I will continue.
Muses, stay with me!