I would tell you…
~ Lost one of my writing coaches this week.
Julie
RIP – 12/2001 – 10/2017
She was an extraordinary pup and spent many hours sitting by my side while I wrote. Julie was one of my main inspirations for the story Aaron and Keja even though Keja is a golden retriever and Julie was a long-haired black lab mix who had a Rottweiler for a daddy. It was her time. She was in pain from arthritis and was having difficulty standing and walking. I feared how she would handle the winter months because last winter she was already struggling. Snow and ice were no longer her friends.
When she was a pup, she loved to lay in the snow until she was entirely white, and then walk with her mouth open scooping up the snow to eat. She’d have a choking fit whenever she tried to do this with a snowbank that had gobs of sand mixed with the snow. I’d try to warn her, but she wouldn’t listen.
May you rest in peace, Julie, we will miss you dearly.
~School Updates
This term is focused on Psychology and Statistics. I like – no – love psychology. Statistics well, it appears that statistically, most people don’t enjoy statistics because it is a hard concept to understand. I hope I pass. It was a huge risk taking statistics. I will continue to attempt to do my very best and not give up with that class the way I had given up on pre-calculus in high school. My saving grace is probably the fact that I have psychology at the same time to help temper any anxiety I feel about taking that risky class. 4 more weeks to go and statistics will be over!
~A little bit of Writer Advice
“I say, it’s getting tough out there selling books. I’m beginning to see the signs.”
Today I received my first desperate book review request from an author who does not realize that sending a chapter of their book to someone without it being requested is not really kosher.
I hit the delete button on that one.
I get it. You want your book reviewed so you might sell a few books, but please, don’t send me a bunch of crappy text in an email, and I don’t do Pdf’s either.
Right now, I really don’t have enough time to review random books. I work a full-time job, and I have plenty of school work eating up the rest of my time. Any books that I am reading at the moment are a prerequisite of my Professor, or they are directed at my potential career.
Unless you’re G.R.R. Martin with the book Winds of Winter you need to find someone else who is looking for something to read.
Go to Goodreads and give copies away in their book giveaways.
Or
On Amazon, create a giveaway with them to help find reviewers.
When you beg or spam readers you lose readership.
I don’t even know what that book was about. I can’t remember the name of the author who sent me the chapter. I only remember that I hit delete.
I’m booked up for the next 3 years.
~ NaNoWriMo is coming soon!
I’ve been plotting and doing a bit of writing. I still don’t know what this year’s story will be about, but I’m ready for November 1. Hopefully, I will have a stronger plot outline by then.
It has to be a romance no matter what.
Boy meets girl + girl meets boy = happy ever after.
Anyone have story twist suggestions?
I’m game to hear them.
Linda Nelson 