Nine years today since Rob died.
I hope you are having fun where you are
and learning lots.
I love you.
I hope you are having fun where you are
and learning lots.
I love you.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
How to Write the Perfect Book Proposal
I'm actually having a really good time with this book proposal. I've set aside a big chunk of time this afternoon to work on it. (The kids are having a play date.)
Jeff Herman's "How to Write the Perfect Book Proposal" is well-defined and everything seems so straight forward that it looks like a breeze. (snort -- We shall see.)
But for now, off to my chiropractor appointment.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Closing Grief Shadows Blog?
Attention Any Readers of the Grief Shadows Blog:
At the conference I just attended this weekend, I was given "permission" to not write in this blog anymore. What would you guys think of me combining this blog with my Insane Parents Unite! blog?
Grief spills over into all sorts of places in your life. I've tried to keep my writing about grief segregated to "Grief Shadows" but often the posts seem to cross over. Or I'm writing about my kids and a Rob Thought plops out.
It seems kinda silly to write (or not write, as the case may be) in both blogs, if I'm not consistently leaving posts in Grief Shadows.
What say ye all?
At the conference I just attended this weekend, I was given "permission" to not write in this blog anymore. What would you guys think of me combining this blog with my Insane Parents Unite! blog?
Grief spills over into all sorts of places in your life. I've tried to keep my writing about grief segregated to "Grief Shadows" but often the posts seem to cross over. Or I'm writing about my kids and a Rob Thought plops out.
It seems kinda silly to write (or not write, as the case may be) in both blogs, if I'm not consistently leaving posts in Grief Shadows.
What say ye all?
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Off to the Conference!
I'm off to the Willamette Writers Conference in Portland for a long weekend and I'll be pitching my idea to a handful of people.
Let's hope I interest some people in Grief Shadows: Young, Pregnant and Widowed.
I've got about 120 pages of written material and 10 - 20 "pages" of pictures, art work and clippings to add in as a publisher would allow. I'd like to write another hundred pages to add to the manuscript. To fill out the edges, so to speak. To round out the topics and bring in my voice a bit more.
My critique group suggested that instead of straight essays of memories, I should weave in a 2nd person narrative that gives the reader hope and direction. That's the other hundred pages.
Good Luck to me!
Let's hope I interest some people in Grief Shadows: Young, Pregnant and Widowed.
I've got about 120 pages of written material and 10 - 20 "pages" of pictures, art work and clippings to add in as a publisher would allow. I'd like to write another hundred pages to add to the manuscript. To fill out the edges, so to speak. To round out the topics and bring in my voice a bit more.
My critique group suggested that instead of straight essays of memories, I should weave in a 2nd person narrative that gives the reader hope and direction. That's the other hundred pages.
Good Luck to me!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Book Update: The Conference is Loomin!
The other day I spent a huge amount of time typing up my manuscript and tweaking the format. Willamette Writers Conference is this weekend so I'm freaking about preparing for that.
I've researched agents and publishing houses and printed out a selection of the manuscript and took it to our critique group Monday night.
Group was great. It's a strange mixture of inspiration, discouragement, and hope. My book is still very rough draft and the whole structure needs to be changed. It is written in chronological format right now, and it really needs to be organized thematically instead. I need to write another hundred pages or so, and there are other subjects that need to be addressed.
This all can't happen by Thursday, of course. So, mostly I'm working on the hook and my pitch. I also want to finish researching and spinning my pitch to specific agents and their houses.
I'm heading out of the house to get a chiropractor adjustment, and then back to writing.
And maybe making some yogurt.
I've researched agents and publishing houses and printed out a selection of the manuscript and took it to our critique group Monday night.
Group was great. It's a strange mixture of inspiration, discouragement, and hope. My book is still very rough draft and the whole structure needs to be changed. It is written in chronological format right now, and it really needs to be organized thematically instead. I need to write another hundred pages or so, and there are other subjects that need to be addressed.
This all can't happen by Thursday, of course. So, mostly I'm working on the hook and my pitch. I also want to finish researching and spinning my pitch to specific agents and their houses.
I'm heading out of the house to get a chiropractor adjustment, and then back to writing.
And maybe making some yogurt.
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