Obsessive Rep Point Checkers Club (Volume IV)

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Just sent off Just Breathe to the publisher. Hope they like it.

I'm sure they will. ;) Good luck Vince.

And they're the luckiest sort--still on the rabbit! :D

Congrats, Vince, on the sub! I will pet the rabbit's feets (sic) in your honor.

And thanks again, Parumpdragon!

LOL. Yes, they are still on the bunneh - that is important. :)

;)

Yes, definitely good luck on the book!
 

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Finished the rewrite on the novella and gave it to Housemate for commentary. Since I dislike the ending, I'm hoping she will too and give me something to work with. But, then, I generally dislike my endings, that's nothing new.

Will be spending some part of the day working on a collab with Housemate for the anthologies. We decided to create a character and set of stories that will fill in world details as we need to bring them out, since we have 2 years or so worth of stories and no one's setting up the next really big thing well. But, that should be our job. We're the creators/editors, after all.

And then it's back to the MIP. I sat down during the week (work was REALLY slow on night) and figured out the main antag's complete plan from the beginning, and how events complicate things are the book moves along, but how he could still think he's going to win. He's something of a conspiracy theorist, so he's fun to work with.

Oddly, it seems that my plate is a little over full for once. LOL!
 

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That sounds interesting DeleyanLee! So, you're on a final draft of a novella, are working on a collab for an Anthology of connected stories, and you have an MIP (what's MIP btw? I'm familiar with WIP for Work-In-Progress, but not this term).

Busy busy -- but best of all it seems as if you've made progress on all of them. Much more impressive than a list of things you haven't started. :)
 

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MIP=Manuscript/Monster/Mess/Migraine/Masterpiece In Progress

It covers all my various moods during the writing process.
 

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Well, I see you're all doing well with this writing thing.

Me, I'm barely hanging on to the mom thing right now.

Graduation is Thursday. I've still got got a bajilliondy things to do before then. Writing is NOT on my menu for a while yet. Maybe after graduation, I can get the short story I've been mulling on paper - but definatly no new work on novels until after we get back from London.
 

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Yeppers, graduation is tough on the mom plans. Seriously. My daughter's graduation from college almost started a family feud a couple years ago. My one sister still hasn't talked to me (which has been really sweet, actually.)
 

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Man, you'd think graduation would be a happy time for a family. Like a wedding.

But I know this happens. First hand.
 

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And I've started a new WIP today. Which is good since I'm sitting at home for another week or two. Heading back to the YA kind of book. Still a romance and all. And for once, I love my original opening line.

The mother looked at the two small children in the back seat, one asleep and one dead, and she felt nothing.

Hope this comes out good.
 

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Thanks. I told my wife what it's about and her eyes glazed over. Since this is not a straight forward love story, that's actually a good sign.
 

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Quick question. This has been bugging the crap (may I say that - too late, sorry) out of me.Does it sound dodgy to have a male romance writer?
 

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Gosh darnit I hope not!
I just seem to get raised eyebrows when I tell folks that I am writing romance. Not that I give a ----, but i was afraid that prospective readers of my work would have the same response. It is my first and the "what if" is stilling nagging at my heels
 

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I've got one due to be published 12-2013 that's a paranormal romance. I've got one under submission that's a new adult romance.

I did play around with using a pen name to hide my gender. My favorite was JD Vincent. (J for Jessica, D for Danielle, both my daughters.) But my family all convinced me to use my real name.
 

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Gosh darnit I hope not!
Sorry, seem to have lost my post. Connection is as slow as a turtle in hibernation. Anyway. I have gotten raised eyebrows when telling people I am writing romance. A male? Romance? Do readers feel the same?
 

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I did play around with using a pen name to hide my gender. [/QUOTE said:
I also thought of that, but hey, this is me - my story, so live with it
 

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Quick question. This has been bugging the crap (may I say that - too late, sorry) out of me.Does it sound dodgy to have a male romance writer?

Gosh darnit I hope not!

I just seem to get raised eyebrows when I tell folks that I am writing romance. Not that I give a ----, but i was afraid that prospective readers of my work would have the same response. It is my first and the "what if" is stilling nagging at my heels

What type of romance are you writing?

Genre Romance (adult--the genre most people think of when they think romance) has a BIG bias for female writers. In recent years, there's been small showing of obviously male writers, but the tradition has been more for guys to take female pen names. Once they're established, they often "come out" as men (Leigh Greenwood was elected president of RWA), but still keep their pen names.

I don't know about YA romances, since I don't read YA at all.

But, hey, all's fair. SF/F female writers do better if they take male or neutral pen names since there's a bias against female writers in that genre. It's changing, but Oh So Very Slowly. Why do you think I'm Deleyan Lee? ;)
 

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What type of romance are you writing?


Well at this stage I am not sure of the sub-genre. I haven't classed it yet. It is actually a story of true love set in the here and now. No fantasy. They do "battle their demons" in a realm but that is an add-on. Sort of an internal battle, not another world. It could be classed as a straight forward love story, perhaps?
 

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What type of romance are you writing?

Well at this stage I am not sure of the sub-genre. I haven't classed it yet. It is actually a story of true love set in the here and now. No fantasy. They do "battle their demons" in a realm but that is an add-on. Sort of an internal battle, not another world. It could be classed as a straight forward love story, perhaps?

You need to keep the [ /QUOTE] in your quoting for it to quote properly, kiddo. ;)

And Genre Romance isn't a subgenre, it's a genre, just as YA is a genre. (YA Romance is the subgenre.)

Until you finish writing the story, I wouldn't worry about categorizing it. Once you have a complete draft, once you really know what story you've written, then you can think about genre and/or subgenre and then tweak it to "fit better" if you want. But first, get the story.
 

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:hi: reppers. I hope everyone is well. It's been a while since I popped in here.
 

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Thanks. By subgenre I meant Romance - paranorm, fantasy etc. At this stage it is just good old-fashioned Romance. Your advice rings true. I used to be so phased about the tech's of it that I forgot to just go ahead and write
 
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