So Willing has sorta taken a back burner. Not really, but kinda. Wow, that makes such great sense, doesn't it? Oh yeah. Ok, well, anyway, I'm still working on Willing and still working on the sequel, Undoing, but now I've got another project too. Crazy, huh?
Ok, here's the truth. I'm scared about what the email from Debbie Marrie is going to say when it comes and I don't want to touch Willing or Dominic or Nic until I read that rejection or whatever it might be. I'm hoping it's not a rejection but who knows? Karen Schurrer from Bethany House told me in her rejection letter that my characters were one-dimensional and she thought it was going to have too many coincidences. So maybe it's not as good as I thought it was - and I didn't even think it was that good! Oh well. What happens, happens.
Anyway. I've started writing a Chicken Soupy type book. Lots of short stories. Right now I'm submitting them to various magazines, hoping for a column. The title of the column/book is "Loving the Unlovable" and all the stories are about camp. They all have the central theme of showing Christ's love even when that is hard to do. I've got 7 so far and I have a break this week so hopefully I can write a lot more!
Right now, my favorite is one about Dewey and Noah. It paints such a good picture - I really like it. Ok, well I'm gonna go now. I think I'll go finish Race to Witch Mountain, the movie I was watching last night.
Ok bye!
Monday, July 5, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Home from Blue Ridge
Whew! This is exciting. I've had a blog before (and will continue to post on it) but it is more for mundane everyday stuff. This will be a blog for my writing. At least, more so than the other one.
I just got back two days ago from Ridgecrest, at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Try saying that five times fast! Anyway, it was a blast. Here's some things I learned.
1) I have not arrived. Try jumping in a lake. Do I walk on water? No. I am not nearly as good as I think I am.
2) I'm not that bad either. A good bit of the advice that they gave in the classes, my book employs successfully. Some not. But it gave me renewed hope.
3) I finally found a genre for Willing to Die. Turns out it is supernatural military suspense. Go figure.
4) I learned how to write suspense, sitting at the feet of the master, Steven James. I'm serious, if you haven't read his Patrick Bowers thrillers, go to your public library right now. Or better yet, the bookstore, as you're going to want to keep them when you're done. I know I'm beating myself up for not buying the Knight as well.
5) Improv is amazing. I love improv.
6) Editors and agents are not as scary as they seem to be - at least not the ones at this conference.
7) And, finally, I learned that this is my dream. I want to write and I love to write. Therefore, I am going to write until my imagination runs dry - and that shouldn't be any time soon.
Now, I am feverishly rewriting so that I can submit and I'm not even feeling overwhelmed.
Word of advice. If you do a complete overhaul of your manuscript, save it to a hard drive. You never know when your computer is going to crash two days after a conference. Praise the Lord that Philberta Bones from the HP online chat with a technician service was able to help me restore my computer and save my files.
And that, friends, is all for now.
michelle
I just got back two days ago from Ridgecrest, at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Try saying that five times fast! Anyway, it was a blast. Here's some things I learned.
1) I have not arrived. Try jumping in a lake. Do I walk on water? No. I am not nearly as good as I think I am.
2) I'm not that bad either. A good bit of the advice that they gave in the classes, my book employs successfully. Some not. But it gave me renewed hope.
3) I finally found a genre for Willing to Die. Turns out it is supernatural military suspense. Go figure.
4) I learned how to write suspense, sitting at the feet of the master, Steven James. I'm serious, if you haven't read his Patrick Bowers thrillers, go to your public library right now. Or better yet, the bookstore, as you're going to want to keep them when you're done. I know I'm beating myself up for not buying the Knight as well.
5) Improv is amazing. I love improv.
6) Editors and agents are not as scary as they seem to be - at least not the ones at this conference.
7) And, finally, I learned that this is my dream. I want to write and I love to write. Therefore, I am going to write until my imagination runs dry - and that shouldn't be any time soon.
Now, I am feverishly rewriting so that I can submit and I'm not even feeling overwhelmed.
Word of advice. If you do a complete overhaul of your manuscript, save it to a hard drive. You never know when your computer is going to crash two days after a conference. Praise the Lord that Philberta Bones from the HP online chat with a technician service was able to help me restore my computer and save my files.
And that, friends, is all for now.
michelle
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