So. I’m contemplating redesign again – but not total, just a little bit. maybe. i don’t know. just something I’m mulling around. *L* I really like this layout, so perhaps I’ll just keep it longer.<\/p>\n
bah.<\/p>\n
Anyway! Got highly motivated this week! Yes! I read Steven King’s On Writing<\/i> and wow. Talk about getting inspired. WIth his typical down to earth style, I realized a whole bunch of things – not the least of which were:<\/p>\n He writes the same way I do. Or rather, since he was here first, i write like he does. *chuckles* down to the same 2 revisions and a polish!<\/p>\n You don’t have to have an outragous vocabulary to succeed! This is one of the things that I fear the most. When I tell a story, I tell it simply. This does not make it a bad story. In fact, it might make it a better story then if someone else had gone through and added a buncha 5 dollah words! So. I rock. In conjunction with that is that <\/p>\n The first word that comes to mind, no matter how rude, crude, simple, otherwise, is usually the best word for the job. Don’t say “have to deficate” when you *mean* “haveta take a shit, man.” <\/p>\n Adverbs are not your friends! but Even the masters such as King cannot get rid of all of them. *grin* And if it’s the tell tale of a novice writer to have so many adverbs? I’m doing better then I thought already. Whee!<\/p>\n And the scanned copies of his manuscript and then the handwritten edits? Mine don’t look so bad now. *chuckles* They are very, very similar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So yeah. I finished the book in 2 days, and then spent the next day and a half finishing the 1st draft edits on AbO. Yes. My handwritten edits are done! I now need to transfer them to the doc file, and get them to mom and TBF for their readthroughs. Both are total grammar police, and will catch all the ones I missed. They’ll also catch the plot holes, though I think I filed in all the glaringly obvious ones.<\/p>\n Not only that, but I began my research into agents to query. I’d rather find a professional to guide me through these upcoming waters of freaky publishing. So. As soon as the edits are done and off to the beta readers, I will be formulating query letters, and beginning my stack of rejections.<\/p>\n The short exerpt that I turned in for the local reader’s night wasn’t chosen, but mom had a poem chosen to read so I’m gonna try and find a sitter so that I can attend with her and listen to her read. <\/p>\n And then next year, I’ll show em. I’ll have a copy of AbO in my hands, and and thumb my nose behind my advance and royalties check.<\/p>\n [my buddy S would be so proud. THAT is confidence talking, hm? Yeah.]<\/p>\n In other news – my picture was in the paper thanks to mom. *grins* She announced my graduation, and there’s a picture of the whole family there with it. The pup’s bus driver wants to bring it by and have me autograph it for him. Hee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. I’m contemplating redesign again – but not total, just a little bit. maybe. i don’t know. just something I’m mulling around. *L* I really like this layout, so perhaps I’ll just keep it longer. bah. Anyway! Got highly motivated this week! Yes! I read Steven King’s On Writing and wow. Talk about getting inspired. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myriad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}