Friday Morning FYI – 1/23/2015

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is inspired by a query letter re-write I did just yesterday:

Once you’re sure you’ve figured something out, step back and look at it again. You may be surprised by what you discover.

 

Thanks for reading, and may we all have a blessed 2015.

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 1/16/2015

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is inspired by how I feel when I spend every free moment I have writing/editing rather than wasting time on something unproductive:

Procrastination is the nemesis of creativity.

 

Thanks for reading, and may we all have a blessed 2015.

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 1/9/2015

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI, my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

If you don’t know, there’s a twitter pitch event going on today. Using #SecretShop, you can pitch your novel (if  COMPLETE) to agents and editors. There are several of these that occur throughout the year using various tags (#PitMad, for instance). So this week’s FYI is dedicated to the people who will be pitching:

Opportunities come up all the time. Seize them, or someone else will.
 

Thanks for reading, and may we all have a blessed 2015.

{RDj}

Observations on #NaNoWriMo 2014

I wasn’t planning on doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Not because I thought I couldn’t win it, but because I was so deep in the editing of my manuscript I forgot it was coming up. Thankfully (I think), a coworker mentioned it on November third (yes, late), and thankfully I’d already thoroughly outlined my second book. So, a little consideration and a ‘What the heck?’ later, I put editing on hold and accepted the challenge.

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Friday Morning FYI – 12/5/2014

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI! My chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is inspired by yesterday’s #PitMad on Twitter (if you’re unfamiliar, #PitMad – short for ‘Pitch Madness’ – is a twelve hour period where writers pitch their books through tweets, and agents and editors Favorite to indicate interest):

Participate, support, encourage, or get the hell out of the way. This works for everything in life.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}