Tag: NARWA

I wrote this post for the Editor’s Note in the Sept./Oct. issue of the NARWA newsletter, High Country Highlights.  However, I liked it too much not to share it here on the blog, too. Since I’m trying to get in edit-mode for the Golden Heart, the subject is dear...

I know my writer friends are busy — some of them getting ready for the same contest I plan to enter. As such, they’re probably too busy to read anything of mine. (And they could well be my competition!) With that thought in mind, I posted on Facebook that...

Now that the 2010 Golden Heart winners have been announced (none of them NARWAns, alas), it’s time to start gearing up for the 2011 competition. That is exactly what I’m planning to do. My request for judges arrived in my e-mail inbox a few days ago, and I think...

I’ve been having lots of family fun on vacation. Driving around the country, exploring Mall of America, playing games with the kids … But I’ve had next to no time to write. One day when I fired up the computer, the Boyfriend interrupted me about 10 minutes later. I’d...

During our last NARWA carpool, we were chatting away when my friends decided I was organized. My first thought? “Yeah, right.” I believe I said something like, “You wouldn’t say that if you saw my desk at work.” That’s true. My desk is one of the messiest in the...

It always amazes me how attending my RWA chapter meeting recharges my creative battery. Sure, it means a long day for me. I usually don’t get to bed until at least 2 a.m., and I’m up before 8 on meeting day. We meet from 10:30-ish to 2 p.m. and...

Sometimes, all it takes is a little shove to get moving again. I received one  today, courtesy of one of my NARWA sisters. Jacqui Jacoby was a guest blogger over at Seekerville. The topic? Surviving the Abyss. In it, she told the story of her lost year of productivity,...

I’m not surprised no one is reading my blog. Why should they when I haven’t been updating it? I’m sorry to say there hasn’t been much writing going on this past week or so. (Ran into a little writer’s block early in the week and then spent most of...

Again, I say, just because I haven’t been blogging doesn’t mean I’ve been slacking. No, I’ve been busy. I had to trim a five-page synopsis to a single page for the Harlequin American Editor Pitch contest. (Amazing what becomes important and what you suddenly realize can be left out...

Thanks to one of my NARWA sisters, I found another contest to enter … a chance to win a pitch with a Harlequin American editor. Since I’ve long envisioned “Operation Snag Mike Brad” as an American Romance, I decided to go for it. I can’t say I always envisioned...