Have you ever just had “one of those weeks”?
Yeah, well, I’m there. I had all these plans, but they went NO WHERE. I need three of me, I swear.
Anyway… There were enough people interested last week to start up a Critique Blog Hop. Every day I sat down to contact everyone to start this week, but, well, you know how life gets in the way. Sorry about that.
I even had all the rules typed out, but they are stuck in a “cloud” that is spiraling forever and not opening when I click on it, so I can’t post them now all pretty like.
So, for next Sunday, if you want to join up, comment below and leave your blog address in your comment. I will paste them all together in a blog hop list that everyone can paste into their own posts if they like.
Next Sunday, be prepared to post your first 250-ish words from your current work in progress on your blog (250 and until the end of that sentence)
We will all hop around and critique. I’ll post a rules page (all about being nice and stuff) as soon as I can get into that stupid cloud.
Oh! I’ll also create a button that you can place in your widgets or somewhere easy to find so we can click on it and easily find your post if we don’t get to you on Sunday and you post something else.
Sound good?
Oh, also, if you can think of a catchy name for the blog hop, let me know. If no one can come up with something by Sunday afternoon, I’ll make up a button that says “Sunday Snippets Critique Blog Hop” but I’m totally open if someone can come up with something catchy-er.
Join up and let’s get critiquing!
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Emdash – represented as two hyphens. In this time of computers, most programs automatically convert the double hyphen to an emdash. Depending on the publisher’s preferred style, they will have a space before and after the emdash “—” or “ — ” in the finished book.
Quotation marks and Apostrophes – many word processing programs have a feature for smart quotes or straight quotes. (For those who don’t know what I mean by smart quotes, those are the curly ones.) I have never encountered a publisher that has expressed a preference either way, but I can tell you that as an editor who is also a typesetter one of my biggest pet peeves is straight quotes. And let me tell you why… Even though it is possible for me to do a simple “Find and Replace” to convert straight quotes into smart quotes, it causes several formatting problems for me. First off, quotation marks sometimes end up facing the wrong direction when they follow punctuation that is not a period, requiring that I go in and manually turn them around. Second, in the case of apostrophes—as opposed to single quotes—when those occur at the beginning of a word, as in the case of dialect ( ’em, ’twere, ’twas, etc), the program does not recognized the convention and flips it around as if it was intended as a single quote, again requiring the typesetter to go through the entire manuscript manually correcting. These aren’t so difficult to correct, but they are definitely easy to miss, thus making them a headache of the highest order when they introduce errors into an already edited manuscript.
First of all, congrats to last week’s winner Grandfathersky
So, who’s coming this week.
Are you going to be nice this time?
My name is Kastil Eavenshade, and I want Pimpage…lots and lots of pimpage.
Craft?
From the legendary times of the Victorian Age to the rugged reaches of outer space, the romance novels have done nothing to spark Patricia’s want and hope of finding that one special man to call her own. She’s knee deep into her thirties, near depression, and drowning her sorrows in pints of premium ice cream. When she falls for a waiter named Matt in her favorite restaurant, her insecurities do their best to thwart her plans of true love. It isn’t until she picks up one last romance novel that she realizes life cannot be lived within the ink splattered pages of an author’s fantasies. She has one chance to set her life straight and snatch the one man who gets her: mind and body. Will Patricia take it?
Why do all these authors sound like robots when you ask them that question?
No no no! Not this time. You don’t have a book to give away.
Like Jennifer said, my name is Deborah M. Piccurelli and I am an author who writes about controversial issues. My goal is to help stop heinous acts performed by evil people. I plan to give a portion of the proceeds from every book published from here on out, to a charity that works against them. It is one way for me to contribute to Kingdom work.
Jennifer M Eaton 