Today, I’m pleased to be a guest blogger on Seriously Write, talking about crit partners for our writing. I hope you get to check it out here: http://seriouslywrite.blogspot.com/2013/03/critical-thinking-by-heather-day-gilbert.html. And thank you all who checked out my Viking women post on Gina Conkle’s blog–I just saw your comments and responded! I appreciate you! Hope to do a vlog sometime soon on… Read More
Newbie Writing Mistakes Monday–From Slush to an Agented Rush
(T-shirt on cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/+i_am_an_editor_womens_pink_tshirt,29403353) So sorry for the bloggy break last week, I was out on a “working” spring break, cleaning and painting the house we’re moving into soon. I wanted to comment today on a post I read over at the Books and Such blog: http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/choosing-the-perfect-client-unpublished-authors/. Wendy Lawton says that agents “are seeing too many manuscripts too early. One editor… Read More
Newbie Writing Mistakes Monday–TAKING CRITICISM
If you’ve been writing for any length of time, and if you’ve let anyone other than your mom read your stuff, you’ve probably run into a little criticism. When I finished my NaNo novel with a dramatic yelp of joy, I knew it was headed straight for publication. No roadblocks. Just sheer, unquestioning acceptance by publishers. Because I was a… Read More
Here’s Lookin’ At You, NaNoWriMo
For those of you just warming up your keyboards, ready to start pounding out your novels for National Novel Writing Month, I wanted to do a little retrospective of my NaNoWriMo novel experience. It was January, 2007. Nope, I didn’t do it in the proper month. Nor did I even register with NaNoWriMo. But I did finish the book in… Read More
Getting to the Polished Product
I don’t know what I’m doing blogging, since I have to majorly, MAJORLY rewrite my first chapter of GOD’S DAUGHTER (my Viking novel, if you’re just catching up). BUT I want to share that I’ve joined a historical fiction critique group, and I love it. Who would have thought that this writer (who previously believed that all her words were… Read More