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Archive for September 8th, 2007

The RikMeme

In Blogs, Other Stuff on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 1:36 pm

So Rik’s tagged me to do something that’s gonna take some time.

Here’s what it is, in a peanutshell:

So there you go: three jobs I ran away from. Now I want to hear from Scavella, Rob and Julie – tell everyone which jobs you ran away from. Your prize for revealing all on your blogs will be to nominate three other lucky people to play this fun game.

Gee, thanks, Rik. Whoop-ti-do.

I’m tagging Howard, Scotty, and Dick for three people on three different continents.

Here goes.

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K, here’s the plan

In Prose, Writing on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 4:52 am

Step 1: Start shopping the books (you’ll find their synopses on this page, and you can read bits and pieces of them if you ask me for the password) around agents and maybe publishers. (Well, start shopping the first one anyway. Try finishing the second, and polishing the third and fourth.) Yes, I want to be Published. Sosumi.

Step 2: Rework the opening so it doesn’t let go. It wasn’t bad before but in this day of punchy internet writing–

Step 3: Post a sample of the new opening on blog for feedback. Yes, from you. I’ll leave it there for a while — say a week — and then, poof.

Feedback not only welcome. Feedback actively sought.

Cheers.