Archive for February, 2006
Couch Potato Time
Do you ever just run out of gas? I guess that’s what’s happened to me. I have been either working on my blog, my query letter or editng my novel day and night since Feb. 13th, and yesterday I crashed. I laid on the couch and watched TV, which is something I haven’t done in a very long time. But [...]
My editing function
is a little buggy. I had posted one market twice, and when I went to delete it, is did some wacky stuff. The markets are still all viewable, but some of my older posts are cut off at the edge of the page, and things are in a big blue box.
Bear with me while I [...]
Monday Markets
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Here’s a contest for women
I have found over the last few months that I really enjoy entering contests. I like the thrill of hope, even though I don’t go in thinking I would win, just the chance and the deadline makes the writing more intense and exciting. But since I’m a broke writer, I never enter any that require a fee. [...]
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His skin is like chocolate, her’s peaches.
A woman browned by the sun, a man by heritage.
His skin is pale beige, her’s black as night.
If only we were transparent, see through,
peacefully living in a world where we knew
who we are has nothing to do with color.
~Denise Kincy
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I have the computer to thank….
for my decision to start writing. (real romantic, huh?)
I had always dabbled in poetry, had my first poem published in my high school paper. But it had never crossed my mind to write anything else. For one I was busy living life, then raising kids, working, and for another, my handwriting sucks! I didn’t get bitten by [...]
Like a typical female….
I am prone to changing my mind. I hope feminists who might be reading this won’t take offense, but I think most women will agree that this is a predominantely female characteristic.
Anyway, I have been working on revising the query for my novel. And I am determined to get it right, TODAY! So even though [...]
