by Charlene Teglia | Mar 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
Everybody should read Lord of the Peeps! The Gandalf Peep just slays me. And if Tolkien just doesn’t do it for you, you can have fun with Peep scientific experiments.
If my typing today is particularly bad, blame Thomas Cat. He has to sit on my lap. If I don’t let him, he lays on the keyboard. Maybe he needs some Peeps to play with.
Back to The Story. I’m now worried that I have far too much action to resolve in the word length and it may end up, um, bigger. Well, my rule is it takes as long as it takes to tell the story. I don’t want it underdeveloped. So it may run the maximum limit of a Quickie or it may go novella length. Either way, a far, far, far cry from a short story!
Happy Easter weekend, everybody.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 25, 2005 | Uncategorized
Got an email from my editor that the official release date and ISBN for Dangerous Games are coming soon. Drool. Slobber. BTW, the official final form excerpt and blurb will go on the site shortly, the webmaster (husband) has been really busy.
Plotting away on both my official BIAW project and another story that showed up unasked for. I had to write down the concept, of course, lest I forget it, and file it in the appropriate folder so that I can find it when I’m ready to work on it.
I have to say the experience of writing Spell is pretty helpful on the next story of the same size. It helps me see where the turning point scenes should go, approximately, and reminds me that I don’t write my initial scenes in order so I shouldn’t expect them to be sequential. Which is good, because so far none of ’em are. For some reason this process seems less messy in a novel, but that’s probably because with this short length to work with I am terribly conscious of the structure, and with a novel I know I have plenty of room. Also, it just seems like if it’s short I should be able to write it in order. Ha. I think I spent half the time on Spell figuring out what went where.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
I need to stop visiting Shannon’s blog. She’s a bad influence on me. I’m going to turn my next newsletter into a tabloid! If you want to appear in an Elvis sighting, alien abduction, or other entertaining news bit, send me a message with the Contact form. And then don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter or you might miss the result!
I wonder if I could get sued for having Dorothy the Dinosaur go on a rampage and eat The Wiggles…maybe if I called them The Squiggles instead…
Back to BIAW.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 23, 2005 | Uncategorized
Back when I first decided it was time to get serious about my writing and sending it out, I did something that made an enormous difference. I vowed that every day I would do one thing to advance my goals. It could be reading an article on the business, a chapter of a book on the craft, writing a query letter, a page of a story, anything. As long as it was something that would move me forward, it counted.
The BIAW group I’m in now has the same philosophy; anything you do to move towards the goal counts. It is absolutely amazing how those little daily efforts pile up. It’s so easy to think that if you don’t have four hours or even one hour every day to devote to your goals, that you might as well not bother. Whatever time you have, use it. It matters! Five minutes can mean the difference between a day that ends in frustration because you’re no closer to your goal than the day before and satisfaction because you did one thing, however little.
This thought brought to you by the fact that so far today’s achievement is putting stuff into an envelope and getting it addressed correctly. Small thing, yes, but it’s a small step in the right direction.
Death of comments: we’ve given up the spam war. Even though they can’t post now, spammers are using up a lot of bandwidth trying and there’s a price tag attached to that. If I exceed a certain limit, I have to upgrade the type of webhosting account I have and while I’m happy to do that for readers, I’m not doing it for spammers. So for those of you who would like to comment, use the Contact form on my site and the comment will be posted manually.
by Charlene Teglia | Mar 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
My column on erotic romance is up on RTB. Click on the columnist button to read it!
BIAW continues and I’ve been doing Taking Care of Business stuff. I’m entering Yule in a contest which involves printing and forms and so on. I’ve got an RT ad coming up for Rockets, which involves a 60 word blurb (that alone took me about an hour, I think) and other details I have to put together. Businessy business.
In the Funny Things category, my toddler has been doing lots of “playing mom” things lately that are just too endearing. Yesterday, she kept trying to put her stuffed lion in the backpack we use to carry her in, but it was too heavy for her to lift. I dug out my old Coleman backpack, much smaller and lighter, stuck lion in the back of it, and helped her put it on. She ran around packing her lion for the rest of the afternoon, absolutely delighted with herself.
The downside is that she thinks lion needs to be fed…Good thing we bought two of ’em when she attached to the first one and that they’re washable.
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