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3/27/08
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3/24/08
"Paranoia" by Susan Wingate, Places in Literary Magic Writing Contest!
It was one of those crazy nights when sleeping was not an option, when the moon pulled me out of bed like a magnet and made me sleepwalk my way to the computer. The cats helped. They sat in bed watching me paddle out from an eddy of bad dreams.
Downstairs, the hum and buzz of my laptop set my mood spinning - a mood that grew from a start out of sleep, from a fear that emanated in my toes spreading like ague through my bones...
The News:
"My poem entitled, PARANOIA, places 2nd in the 2007 Literary Magic Writing Competition."
In writing, I'm a gilnetter. My writing net is cast long and wide and looky, looky what happens!
You can read PARANOIA at the Literary Magic website. Hope you enjoy!
-Susan.
Downstairs, the hum and buzz of my laptop set my mood spinning - a mood that grew from a start out of sleep, from a fear that emanated in my toes spreading like ague through my bones...
The News:
"My poem entitled, PARANOIA, places 2nd in the 2007 Literary Magic Writing Competition."
In writing, I'm a gilnetter. My writing net is cast long and wide and looky, looky what happens!
You can read PARANOIA at the Literary Magic website. Hope you enjoy!
-Susan.
3/13/08
Holy Moly, Have I Been Busy!
1. By the end of 2007, I'd retained the services of booking agent, Paul E. Cooper.
2. By January, I'd been hired as a contributing writer for the Seattle publication of The Builder's Journal, a national magazine.
3. Took a holiday mid-February only to return home with a nasty version of something that must've morphed from the plague.
4. Went to the most intense short story workshop I've ever attended at the end of February.
5. Got a bite on my 2nd novel, Bobby's Diner, from a publisher; got offered a contract and, almost as quickly, the deal fell through.
6. Finished an article to The Builder's Journal on target and well before my deadline.
7. Within the past two weeks, wrote approximately 10 poems and 2 short stories.
8. Submitted queries and proposals for Bobby's Diner to about 30 publishers.
9. Had coffee with the publisher/editor of Whit Press who happened to be in town.
10. Got my packet off to the people organizing this years BookExpo in LA.
11. Met last night with my Creative Women's Group.
12. Tonight will meet with my poetry group.
13. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow..." (Shakespeare) will arrange for an evening of Literary Fiction at the Library.
Whew! I think that's all. Of course, I'm squeezing in the preparation of our taxes somewhere too.
We're all pretty dang busy, aren't we? But, we must find time to write.
Think about it: if you write one page a day, just one a day, you'll have a novel finished by the end of a year. I cranked out a 4,000-word short story in 5 hours. If you consider your work in quantity by words, that equates to 800 words an hour - that's close to 3 pages an hour. So! By the end of a year you'd have an eleven hundred page book. Okay, that's really a tome, isn't it?
Now, think about it like this: If you got out 800 words a day (or 3 pages), you'd have a 300-page book in about 4 months.
Need motivation? Call me, email me but contact me. I'm happy to give you the boost you might need, the one to get your fingers typing or your pen to the paper - however it is that you work.
Sincerely, Susan.
2. By January, I'd been hired as a contributing writer for the Seattle publication of The Builder's Journal, a national magazine.
3. Took a holiday mid-February only to return home with a nasty version of something that must've morphed from the plague.
4. Went to the most intense short story workshop I've ever attended at the end of February.
5. Got a bite on my 2nd novel, Bobby's Diner, from a publisher; got offered a contract and, almost as quickly, the deal fell through.
6. Finished an article to The Builder's Journal on target and well before my deadline.
7. Within the past two weeks, wrote approximately 10 poems and 2 short stories.
8. Submitted queries and proposals for Bobby's Diner to about 30 publishers.
9. Had coffee with the publisher/editor of Whit Press who happened to be in town.
10. Got my packet off to the people organizing this years BookExpo in LA.
11. Met last night with my Creative Women's Group.
12. Tonight will meet with my poetry group.
13. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow..." (Shakespeare) will arrange for an evening of Literary Fiction at the Library.
Whew! I think that's all. Of course, I'm squeezing in the preparation of our taxes somewhere too.
We're all pretty dang busy, aren't we? But, we must find time to write.
Think about it: if you write one page a day, just one a day, you'll have a novel finished by the end of a year. I cranked out a 4,000-word short story in 5 hours. If you consider your work in quantity by words, that equates to 800 words an hour - that's close to 3 pages an hour. So! By the end of a year you'd have an eleven hundred page book. Okay, that's really a tome, isn't it?
Now, think about it like this: If you got out 800 words a day (or 3 pages), you'd have a 300-page book in about 4 months.
Need motivation? Call me, email me but contact me. I'm happy to give you the boost you might need, the one to get your fingers typing or your pen to the paper - however it is that you work.
Sincerely, Susan.
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