Well it’s been a pretty positive Easter holiday. Finally went through the notes from the book doctor at the Writers’ Workshop Getting Published day and applied those to the Green Magic synopsis, covering letter and Chapter 1 (plus handled the … Continue reading →
Well, it wasn’t an entirely successful three months. On the positive side, I did get a few interim goals done, the kind that kept cropping up during the period. I just didn’t make much headway on the main goal, progressing … Continue reading →
As one door closes another opens, isn’t that how it’s meant to go? Heard yesterday I didn’t make the Quarter Finals/Third Round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Judging by the two Vine reviewer reports, one in particular just didn’t … Continue reading →
Yesterday I attended a Writers’ Workshop event, which was interesting as I’ve not been able to make their weekend events in York. There was some interesting food for thought and I took lots of notes. I had a useful book … Continue reading →
Not much to report this time as working on Squidoo has blanked out any free time for the WIP. There’s a lot of keyword research that has to be done to try to get Google traffic. The initial positive results … Continue reading →
Squidooed again to some extent in the last few days, but I now have 5 lenses published, plus one in progress. Meanwhile, the requirement for a one page synopsis by the publisher still has me stumped. I’ve struggled mightily in … Continue reading →
I think I might have broken my steady record of posting on ROW80. Up to last Sunday inclusive I had always made the deadline, even if I just got in on the last day. But I don’t see a link … Continue reading →
After a mammoth concentrated effort, I finally managed to post my first ever Squidoo lens! I am so so pleased to have finally done this given the interface which is not WYSIWYG so it turns out to be laid out … Continue reading →
Gosh! Darn and other expletives. Well, time to check in with ROW80 and unfortunately apart from some further research on a Squidoo lens, including identifying creative commons pictures and roughing out where they go in the lens etc., not much … Continue reading →
The last few days have been spent battling with Squidoo. I enjoy the creation of words but all the palaver with html to get pictures positioned and captioned, not to mention resolving copyright issues. Lots of extra tasks are piling up … Continue reading →