My new favorite blog belongs to an agent who writes under the name, "Miss Snark". I have no idea who she really is. I suspect people know and just aren't telling me. I'm always the last to know everything, lol. I'm just not one of the cool kids.
Whatever. She makes me so happy for the following reasons: I love honesty, sarcasm, and humor. Plus she is a veritable motherload of information. The kind of information that is difficult to track down. Thank the frickin' universe for people like her.
Anyway, I added the link to my favorite links list on the right. Go check it out. Read it every day and reap the benefits of her font of wisdom.
OK, maybe that's laying it on a bit thick, but I do love her.
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Hi Alicia...you are so right. I checked out Miss Snark's blog. Really good info. Lots of stuff I had no idea about. Thanks for the link.
I also appreciated your comments on perfectionism in your 'week from hell' post. I started writing my novel (nanowrimo.com -national novel writing month) last night, and it was hard not to analyze every word and sentence I wrote!
You have to write what they call a "don't look down" draft. The idea is to just allow yourself creativity and not analyze the quality right off the bat. I find this easier if I have fully plotted out the book and also have in my mind my world, characters, etc so I have a lot to work with.
I think the line of thought is that it is difficult to both copy edit and be creative and come up with well-constructed sentences all at once. So you get the book out first, then go through it for character, dialogue, description, etc., then you go through it for the writing quality, then you go through it and line edit. Something like that. Otherwise you'll never get the danged thing done. :-)
Thanks.I'll take your advice. I am writing today. We'll see how it goes!
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