Starlog

  • Q & A Panel “Getting Published”

    I know most of you are probably nowhere near NJ, but a few of you might be close enough to take advantage of this.  For those of you who can’t get there… If I can drag myself away from my Read more

  • ROW 80 Check in 10-26-2011

    What a week!  And it’s only Wednesday! I actually finished the first draft of my short story.  It ended up at 2,259 words.  I originally wanted it for a writing contest that was 1500 words.  I could probably cut it Read more

  • Omigosh! You have to try this!

    Like Kristina Stanley, who keyed me into this site… I may be behind the times and maybe everyone else knows about Wordle.  But if you don’t you just have to try it! You load something you’ve written into it, and Read more

  • Lesson Eleven from the Gold Mine Manuscript Red Line: Pre-Telling

    For an intro into where these tips are coming from, please  see my post: A Full Manuscript Rejection, or a Gold Mine? I’m not sure I completely agree with this from the angle  where it’s marked, but I’m mentioning it Read more

  • Row 80 Check in 10-23-2011

    Whew!  This was an action packed week!  I feel like a pest because I needed to post something almost every day.  Sorry about that.  Row80 alone creeps in 2 extra posts a week, and then the contests… Jeez.  Sorry for Read more

  • Help me decide on a beginning to my novel

    I’ve been thinking about a comment J Randolph said on one of my earlier posts for Row 80, where I said I had a goal this week of “choosing one of two possible beginnings” to my novel.  She suggested doing Read more