Don't have a lot of free time, so not here a whole lot anymore.

If I delete your pieces from my collections, no offense. Just too huge and unmanageable.

Might post a few things at some point, who knows.

Please watch my scraps....

I have been doing some writing, but I'm also starting to make some attempts at getting published. Therefore, if you want to see what I'm up to you'll have to look at scraps. That's where I'm putting my first drafts while I work on stuff.

I would really appreciate critique and suggestions for improvements on my scrapped stuff, as the only reason I'm putting it up here is to get help in editing and finishing.

I'm also working on my novel, but it's tough going. I have major crises going on both in my job and in my personal life -- too many and too depressing to detail here. Very draining. I'm off work tomorrow and my hubby has brought work home, so I'm planning on sitting in the room with him while he works on his homework and I write my book.

Tomorrow night I am going to dinner across from the American Pyrotechnics Association's big closing night fireworks display. Hoping I remember to bring my camera.

"I'm here and I'm on the mend."
-- Foo Fighters

Please visit my blog: [link]

I wrote my first novel last year for NaNoWriMo, and have been beating my head against a wall all year to try and make the damn thing not suck.

Recently, I read Stephen King's On Writing and it made a lot of sense to me. I've since come to the conclusion that the book sucks because I wrote it wrong. I'd never written a novel before, so I listened to advice and made outlines and character studies and yada yada yada. The result is inescapably, unsalvageably bad stuff.

So I've scrapped it.

There was one scene out of the whole ugly mess that I do love and will try to salvage enough to post here. Possibly as a short story, possibly just as is. Haven't decided yet.

Then I will be AWOL from here again for awhile. I have an idea for a second book, taking my best idea from my first book and a new idea and making them work together. No outlines, no plotting, none of that. I'm letting it come to a boil in my head, working out who the main character is, etc. Then I'll be off, hopefully gone for a month or two whilst I churn out a first draft. I hope to be done by end of October/beginning of November. Then I'll come back and hang here, do some short story prompts or contests, and recharge for a bit before I go back to edit.

The blog.... I haven't been regular, and probably won't be. I got ideas and then had no time to write them. I can't see that changing until October or later.

"I'm here and I'm on the mend."
-- Foo Fighters

Please visit my blog: [link]

Please visit my blog: [link]

So I've decided I need more writing help on my blog posts than what I can get from my friends. So I'm going to post them here a month later in order to get critiques on them.

If you want to read them as they are up to date, please keep going to the blog. Today I'm submitting the May one here (the first one). Next week I'll drop all the June entries, etc.

Please critique away.

"I'm here and I'm on the mend."
-- Foo Fighters

My blog: [link]

Please check out my new blog, as it is where I'm going to start depositing my more "serious" writing. Basically, this is intended as practice and/or building a portfolio to start an attempt at a freelance career.

Please check it out, and feel free to leave comments

"I'm here and I'm on the mend."
-- Foo Fighters