Great List of What Not To Write

Check out this site for a great list of problems to avoid. It’s bound to make you think, even if you’re not obviously in violation of the rules.

What to post on your website

Thanks to AnnaSophia at EveningFades for posting this link (see title of this post) on Agent Query. It’s a link to a nice article on what to post to your professional author’s website. While I do not yet have a publisher or agent, I will still be able to use some of these tips for Dixon Artistry. Hopefully I’ll use all of them eventually. ;D

Excellent Article on Pitching

Check out this article on how to pitch. For that matter, check out http://shywriters.blogspot.com./What a great idea for those pale, furtive creatures who never see the light of day, let alone other people. You know the ones, they’re called “writers.”

Mourn Their Courage: Chapter Two Flogging Complete

I think I got off light, so if anyone still wants to put their two cents in, contact me via my blog. I’m delighted with all the stuff Sandi and her other readers found and helped me correct. At least that’s one less read-thru I’ll have to do as I can now take their suggestions and follow them throughout the novel. I really recommend the process to anyone out there, but especially those folks who are blinded to what their novel needs.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival!

Mooncakes, here I come! I just have to decide if I’m going to make them or buy them. Anyone who knows me is well aware how often I bake. I’ve probably made more cookies in the past year than I’ve baked in my entire life, so I think my child and I will go to the Oriental market up the street later today and see if they’re open and stocked with leftover mooncakes. ;D

I’m not lazy! I’m a writer, I don’t have time to bake. Or cook.