Old Stuff!

Today I was cleaning out a closet in my parents home. I came across an old black tote bag with yellow handles. I remember a time when I'd used that tote bag to carry old copies of Writer's Digest Magazine that I hadn't had a chance to read. I pulled it out of the closet and unzipped the bag. To my surprise, instead of finding the old magazine issues, I found a copy of my Children's Book and a folder. In that folder were old story ideas, beginnings of stories and some assignments from a Creative Writing Class I'd taken quite a few years back.
I am excited to find this folder. I plan to get comfy in my favorite chair and go through the folder of goodies. There may be something in there that will spark my imagination and get me writing a new story! 
  I'm hoping I'll still come across those old copies of Writer's Digest Magazine because I always learn something new from them. Good Magazine to subscribe to as well as a great website! Take a look at writersdigest.com  when you have the chance!    Keep Smiling and Keep Writing!  : )  

So.....I'm thinking.......

I think I'm going to take a break from my novel edits for a few days and enter a couple of short story contests I've seen out here. Sometimes I think it's good to clear your head of what you're working on and wrap your mind around something else. When you're through you can go back to your current work with a fresh  open mind.
Keep Smiling!  : )

Keep On Writing!

Sometimes times get rough and you feel deflated.......take a day to sulk and feel bad if you need it and then.....get back to it!

It will all be worth it when someone reads what you have to say and likes it!!!
Keep Writing !   : )

Aurgh! I didn't make it ! ! !

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest stopped accepting entries in the General Fiction category. I read that at 11:22pm after working for the last 3 days and nights until the wee hours of the morning getting my final edits complete. I'd been checking back and forth because I knew they'd only accept the first 5,000 entries. I was about 10 minutes away from entering when I saw they'd "closed" it. They haven't closed the "Young Adult" entries yet, but my young adult novel is only 26,000 words and they have a 50,000 minimum word count.
I am extremely disappointed. I know they'll be more contests but for tonight............I'm crushed!

I'm working on writing contest entry!

I'm putting my blogging lessons on the back burner for just a couple of days. I'm working very hard editing a novel I wrote. It's called  "Couldn't Love That Dog More!"
I am preparing it to enter into a Writing Contest. The deadline is February 6th.  Please forgive me if I don't post as I should. I'll be back on track in a few days.

Keep Writing!   Wish Me Luck!          : )                         

Hello Reut & Zezebel!

Thank you so much for "following" my blog! I am really new to this site and blogging. I don't know how to move around easily. It takes me awhile to find out where I've been and how to get to you all and some of the other blogs and such. But I will figure it all out and get more comments and votes and follows to you all too!
  Thanks again and Keep Writing!   : )

Actually accomplished some editing tonight!

Hello to all of my Creative Friends!
 I'm happy to say that this evening I DID get some good editing time in. I worked this evening on my Young Adult story.  This is a story about a 16 yr. old girl who has had her drivers license for a month. While running a quick errand to the neighborhood store for her folks, she runs into the older brother of one of her best friends. He asks her to give him a ride and although he makes her nervous, she ends up giving him a ride because she doesn't know how she would explain to her girlfriend that she left her brother stranded at the store. Doing him a favor turns out to be a big mistake and she finds herself involved in a dangerous and life threatening situation.
I entered the Title and first 250 words of this novel in the Young Adult Novel Discovery contest. I'm hoping I'll place in the top five. (Winners will be announced during the first week of February.) If I do "place" I'll need to have this story in good shape. I wrote this story during the November Write A 50,000 word Novel in 30 days challenge, (NANOWRIMO).
Two writers sites to check out are www.lettersandlight.org
Another is Gotham Writer's Workshop. Google that and you'll find a school in New York which offers writing classes. They've got a great newsletter filled with great information as well as contest information I've read positive things about the school on the net but have not yet experienced their classes for myself so as in everything in life, check it out carefully yourself.
Keep Writing and Keep Smiling!