I've been working 12 hour days. Right smack in the middle of it all, my computer started crackling and zapping and popping and then went black.
Fried the mother board - while doing revisions for my Harpercollins editor on my sexy YA novel (Fall 2013 lead title - I'm slightly excited, but you probably can't tell!! Nope, I'm cool, calm and collected).
Took a day to get up and running again with another old laptop sitting under my bed, but yes I . . .Finally finished the kick-me-to-the-gutter revisions yesterday and TURNED THEM IN. Yes, I hit SEND on the email to my editor, then sweated a little, then ate 3 donuts (yes, indeedy!) and went to lunch with Caroline Starr Rose and Carolyn Kuehn.
Last Wednesday I was a guest speaker at WRITE ON CON the biggest, most incredibly awesome free online writer's conference ever. I was really thrilled to be a part of it, but afraid that I looked dorky or nervous in front of the camera. AND I realized later there was so much more to say about 3x5 card plotting. Here is the video to begin your tutorial!
I will be here again - soon I promise! - to talk more about Plotting Your Novel Using 3x5 Cards. Some GOOD stuff so check back in a couple of days while I pull it all together right here on my blog.
Meanwhile I'm going to eat some bon bons and read a book (I have 40 in my stacks that have been waiting patiently for me - me not so patient!)
BUT DON'T LEAVE YET! Here are some links to articles that I really enjoyed the past week:
This Product Prevents Literary Wedgies. Good for Multiple Uses. At "Writer Unboxed" blog. A blog you really should be reading daily!
Social Media Suicide at "Writer Unboxed"
If I can't go in Reverse, I'll go in Verse by Caroline Rose Starr
Magical Realism: Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary! With a book giveaway that doesn't end until September 5th so get over there, what are you waiting for!
"Does Publishing Kill our Love of Writing?" by Kiersten White
Enjoy!
~Kimberley
2 comments:
Revisions wipe the brain so very much more than the writing part does. So YAY!! You're done! (for now.)
Congratulations! I ate a candy bar to celebrate with you.
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