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Stupid Spammers

08.18.2009

I recently wrote a post about my friend, Lea, and the anniversary of her passing. The post was more for me than anyone else. Crasty said: I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often! He commented again with: Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest. Really, [...]

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Tagged as: inappropriately amusing, personal, ventastic

No, Thank You

03.30.2009

I got my first no from an agent today.  It’s actually more frustrating than soul-crushing.  They didn’t say no to my writing or to my manuscript.  They said no to a one page description of my story. I’m going to work some more on that one page description.  It’s only bad when everyone says no.

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Tagged as: personal, the business side, ventastic

Writing to a Formula

02.18.2009
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Let me preface this by saying, I have children.  From 4 to 14, which means I watch everything from The Secret Life of an American Teenager to The Imagination Movers.  And, yeah, I realize my kids should be reading.  My kids do read.  They just also watch television and play video games.  Sueme.  TV is [...]

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Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, cliches, romance novels, ventastic

Um…no

01.03.2009

Remember this material girl recommend that I bought on the spot? I thought that the furniture stuck onto the paper, like colorforms.  I thought wrong.  It clearly says so, on the back of the book.  Unfortunately, it does NOT say so on Amazon’s web site. This is what I got: Click to enlarge, but you [...]

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Demotivation and Despair | Link Licker Pick

11.13.2008

Bitterness Never be afraid to share your dreams with the world, because there’s nothing the world loves more than the taste of really sweet dreams. If you go over to Despair, Inc.’s site, you’ll find dozens more of these hilarious demotivators. I want them all.

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Tagged as: because we all need a way to waste an hour, gifts, ventastic

Censorship is a Dirty Whore

10.16.2008

Want to hear something amusing?  It occurred to me that my mother might read this, or my aunt, both of whom I love dearly (who will call me on this)…and I nearly censored myself.  Ironic?  I think so.  So sorry Mom and Auntie T., but that’s just what censorship is. Ooookay, and this post starts [...]

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Tagged as: all writers are readers, because we all need a way to waste an hour, ventastic

Bite me, synopsis.

09.10.2008

So, I’m attempting to write my first synopsis. And it’s bringing back all these horrible memories of being paralyzed with fear–literally, can’t write a word, paralyzed–when I first started writing and I read all of these how-to books and web sites. Here’s what I’ve gathered, so far: It’s the opposite of show-not-tell.  Tell, tell, tell!  [...]

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Tagged as: craft, stupid synopsis, ventastic, writing articles

Backstory

12.10.2007

I’m editing. Yes, still. And I’m having one of those moments, you know, when you want to smack yourself on the forehead, but instead of saying, “You could’ve had a V8!” you say, “How could you not have known that?!” Backstory. Oh, sure, I had backstory. I knew all about my heroine’s childhood, her parents, [...]

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Tagged as: craft, editing, process, ventastic

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