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I'm over at a few other blogs today. If you get a chance, come on over to see the Christmas Decorations at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/At http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/ the topic is Spoiled Milk. Ever sit down to read a good book and been disappointed?
If you haven't yet, check out the post below about the Paper War.
Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Paper War
I've been waging a war on paper the last few days. So far, paper is winning. The more I clean up, the more of it I find. The problem is, for much of it, I feel an obligation to do a thorough examination and decide whether or not it's worth keeping.The mailperson is my enemy. He, sometimes she, keeps leaving more paper in my mail box. I'm not talking about my Christmas cards, which I cherish, but all the other stuff dropped off for me to sort out. At times it's torture to come home and see the new pile the DH has set on the kitchen table.
I've discovered tons of magazines over a year old. They were trying to hide in a magazine holder on the side of the couch, but not doing a good job of it, since they were spilling over. Of course, I decided to check the headings on the covers to see if some of the information inside might prove valuable. Wouldn't you know it, I was right. Many articles seemed to good to give up.
I've already mentioned here before about how I also have a compulsion to print out emails that seem important to me. The result is I have lots of important pieces of paper. When there's an abundance, which is the most important? And, where's the one I really need? It is a quandary.
What about you? Is paper your enemy? Are you also waging a war against it? Who is winning?
Library Displays - See Make Mine Mystery Monday
Have you tried a library display? If you want to see mine, come on over to Make Mine Mystery on Monday.Thanks,
Morgan
Christmas Card Blues Is Up at Un:Bound Today
Hi Gang,I've written a short Christmas story which is being featured at Un:Bound today.
You may be able to relate to some of it.
I'd appreciate your going over to look and leave a comment.
Thanks,
Morgan
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I hope your Holiday was a great as mine and that the New Year will be the best ever for all of us.
I loved your little poem that you posted on my page. I am sorry it took me forever to respond! I would love to write a novel, it amazes me how much it would take to write a crime novel. Character development, plot, etc.... I am not sure I could do that, so I'll leave it to you. Hope you're having a great holiday season.
You want a story? Here's one. My first short story went out to six magazines and they all rejected it. I despaired, I desponded, I cried (almost). Then I got mad. I'll show them, I decided. I put that story away, wrote some more and acceptances began to come. One day I pulled out that first story and was shocked at how bad it was. It seems the process of writing, submitting, suffering rejection, rewriting and resubmitting had made me a better writer. After serious rework, the story was immediately accepted by not one but two magazines. The main character was so well liked, I made him the protagonist of my first novel, which was published in 2005. And you know what else? The scars from those first six rejections magically disappeared.
My advice is to join the Muse It Up Club and mingle with a bunch of writers just like you. They'll welcome you as one of their own. (Normal, sane people who don't write don't understand us, you know.) Then join a critique group. The give and take of critiquing and being critiqued is an essential part of growth as a writer.
Good luck and best wishes.
Thanks, you hit it on the nail, Mr. Hammer! I don't feel "normal" like the other "sharks" that are looking for a million bucks, but that doesn't mean I can stop eating or breathing either! I write a lot, but I'm a poor organizer, and something keeps me from finishing, although I finish everything else, BUT my writing.
I've got outlines all over the place; titles, and ideas, all over the place, and a few chapters of those I've wanted desperately to finish,....but I don't finish! I've got more a tendency to finish poems, got plenty of those. I put one on MySpace, and an editor wrote me, and said he really liked it....I thought: "maybe I should offer him a deal: 'help me finish something, and when I get published you can have an agent's %'" Is that dumb or what?
I need some encouragement practically daily (I'm terrible aren't I?)
Could you tell me a story? How did you get started, and what did it feel like when you first got published? Did it feel like you finally got heard?
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