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Contest time again
Okay, it is that time again - it has been a couple of years since I entered in any writing contests. I know they can be great feedback for manuscripts you intend to send on to an editor, and there is that slim chance that if you make it to the finals in a contest, your chapter will be read by the judging editor and perhaps you will get a request. I also know that when submitting, contest placements can act as your resume for writing experience on cover letters.
So, as I sent out my NAL letter with my submission on Friday it seemed to me that my "resume" section was looking a bit old. So this week I will be working on enterint 2 contests: The Toronto Romance Writer's Golden Opportunity, and the New Jersey Romance Writer's Put Your Heart in a Book contest. I am not sure right now what I will be entering into those contests.
Let's hope I am disqualified as I have sold a book, lol! These contests are only open to unpublished authors.
Have a good one!
Lilly
So, as I sent out my NAL letter with my submission on Friday it seemed to me that my "resume" section was looking a bit old. So this week I will be working on enterint 2 contests: The Toronto Romance Writer's Golden Opportunity, and the New Jersey Romance Writer's Put Your Heart in a Book contest. I am not sure right now what I will be entering into those contests.
Let's hope I am disqualified as I have sold a book, lol! These contests are only open to unpublished authors.
Have a good one!
Lilly
Posted on 20 May 2008 by Lilly Cain
Writers block
There are days when I would rather do anything than write. Those are the days when I fear if I sit down with my laptop I am not going to have anything to say. That my characters will be silent. Or that I will endlessly self edit and in the end, I will hate my book.
Sadly, I have been there for some time now with Dark Harmony. I vow again and again to get it finished and out. I've mentioned in here before that I have torn that novel apart three times now. And it continues. So, I am making a plan. I need time where I have no choice but to write. That has been impossible for some time now as my ex has been away for weeks and I have had the kids 24/7 (which was very nice for a change, I must say, I've thoroughly enjoyed them). But they leave me too tired out to write.
So here's the plan. Tonight I am only going to have one child, as the older is going to a sleepover, so by 9:00 I want ot be reviewing. Tomorrow I hand both kids back to their father in the afternoon, so Sat night is writing night! No reviewing, no editing, WRITING. All new material to fill in where I've cut stuff out. Sunday morning - more writing. Sunday afternoon - Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada meeting.
I vow I will only do 1/2 hour of housework and will not use it as an excuse not to write. I will not watch ANY tv. I will not cross stitch, carve, paint or do any other crafts.
Now let's see if I can do it...
Lilly
Sadly, I have been there for some time now with Dark Harmony. I vow again and again to get it finished and out. I've mentioned in here before that I have torn that novel apart three times now. And it continues. So, I am making a plan. I need time where I have no choice but to write. That has been impossible for some time now as my ex has been away for weeks and I have had the kids 24/7 (which was very nice for a change, I must say, I've thoroughly enjoyed them). But they leave me too tired out to write.
So here's the plan. Tonight I am only going to have one child, as the older is going to a sleepover, so by 9:00 I want ot be reviewing. Tomorrow I hand both kids back to their father in the afternoon, so Sat night is writing night! No reviewing, no editing, WRITING. All new material to fill in where I've cut stuff out. Sunday morning - more writing. Sunday afternoon - Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada meeting.
I vow I will only do 1/2 hour of housework and will not use it as an excuse not to write. I will not watch ANY tv. I will not cross stitch, carve, paint or do any other crafts.
Now let's see if I can do it...
Lilly
Posted on 27 Apr 2007 by Lilly Cain
The Benefits of Desire
If wishes were fishes I'd live in the sea....
Writing, and therefor thinking about sex a lot can have a few very interesting results. Now if you have a "friend" that isn't a problem - you can take those results out on him! But if you are alone...it might lead to something rather depressing - you dwell on the fact that you ARE alone, or, it might lead to a heightened awareness of self and your sexuality. This can be a very good thing.
Your desire can make you more desirable. Is it pheremones? A little more sway in your walk? A heightened awareness of the men around you that in turn makes them more aware of you? Perhaps. Becasue of my writing, I have seen this effect up close and personal. The trick is to be in control of it.
I've actually had someone wonder if, since I wrote smut (of all the words she could choose!) if I was, well, loose. Nope, sorry! I told her not to be too dissapointed, she'd find someone to live through vicariously some day.
Lilly
Writing, and therefor thinking about sex a lot can have a few very interesting results. Now if you have a "friend" that isn't a problem - you can take those results out on him! But if you are alone...it might lead to something rather depressing - you dwell on the fact that you ARE alone, or, it might lead to a heightened awareness of self and your sexuality. This can be a very good thing.
Your desire can make you more desirable. Is it pheremones? A little more sway in your walk? A heightened awareness of the men around you that in turn makes them more aware of you? Perhaps. Becasue of my writing, I have seen this effect up close and personal. The trick is to be in control of it.
I've actually had someone wonder if, since I wrote smut (of all the words she could choose!) if I was, well, loose. Nope, sorry! I told her not to be too dissapointed, she'd find someone to live through vicariously some day.
Lilly
Posted on 25 Apr 2007 by Lilly Cain
Spring...
I know it is finally Spring when the weather warms up and my birthday rolls around. 
Yup, I made it through another, and it wasn't so bad this time. Trust me, I've had some bad ones! I've been forgotten, had a disaster at a resteraunt, was bored. To be honest, I don't think I've had an exciting birthday since I was a child.
Next year will be different. I will plan it myself. This year was nice enough as I spent it with family, but next year will be wow! I am going to plan something romantic, sexy, hot!
Dinner out, a show, a B&B, some wild lovin'. Now I have a year to find a date...lol!
Really, the best birthdays I've ever had were the ones I've planned myself. No one ever surprises anyone anymore, so why not?
Lilly
Yup, I made it through another, and it wasn't so bad this time. Trust me, I've had some bad ones! I've been forgotten, had a disaster at a resteraunt, was bored. To be honest, I don't think I've had an exciting birthday since I was a child. Next year will be different. I will plan it myself. This year was nice enough as I spent it with family, but next year will be wow! I am going to plan something romantic, sexy, hot!
Dinner out, a show, a B&B, some wild lovin'. Now I have a year to find a date...lol!Really, the best birthdays I've ever had were the ones I've planned myself. No one ever surprises anyone anymore, so why not?
Lilly
Posted on 23 Apr 2007 by Lilly Cain