Good morning everyone, hope it's was a good weekend for all. Mine was great, went to writer's conference, met Thursday B. who happened to come to Ok for a visit with family as conference was ending.
Mysti-Whoo-hoo glad to see you back girl. Thanks for starting this month's thread. Great goals, I admire all of you who post regularly on your blogs, especially when you have more than one. Go girl, apply for that examiner job. Oh, and the survive goal? That's important, do your best to achieve that goal, k?
Amy-WhoopDeeDoo, you're famous, being interviewed and all. We don't have to bow down to you do we, you know, like you're a queen or something? And I'm sure you didn't talk way more than she wanted to hear, she was interviewing you she wanted to hear. Not to mention, it's preferable to an enterview when your interviewee doesn't talk at all.
You'll do great on the speaking engagements. Hey, if I can do it you can do it.
wynter- those rotten day jobs, keeping our sweet wynter away from us. Now why should we put the whips away, please let us whip those mean people slaving you till all hours so you can't pop in on your peeps. Hang on girl, we'll all be here anytime you can sneak away and pop in.
sky- I've seen several posts of updates from you. I'm sure you met or exceeded your goals for April. Wow! great goals for May. I like the actual apply as opposed to find and bookmark goal. Can so relate to that one. And maintaining contact with your writer buds, (that's us-right?)that one is vital to your well-being.
Jen- great goals as usual and I know I told you, but congrats on the Publicity Director job.
Just waking up from a writer's conference here in OK. Yes, I got back to the house yesterday, but wasn't worth much. At any rate conference was great. Was able to meet our own ThursdayB who happened to come to town as the conference was ending. Plus, found out how I fared in the contests I entered. Answer-not good. But, the feedback from the judges was super. I'll be able to take their suggestions and make major improvements which will hopefully make the pieces more palatable to editors, we'll see.
Also, as Jen hinted, yes Dan Case at AWOC books was at the conference AND he wants my essays on quilting for his DEVOTED series. In fact, we had talked about it a couple of times and he told one group he had the book in the works before he told me he was accepting the idea. I have a July deadline for it. Yep, that's gonna be one of my goals for May and June, to finish it.
Also, while at the conference I snagged a time with an editor from Tyndale. They only take submissions from agents, unless they met the writer at a conference. I told her about a book idea that's been rolling around in my head (there's lots of room up there). She liked it and suggested a couple of ideas for it. She also gave me her business card and told me to send it to her when I got it written, even if it took 8 or 9 months. Another writer was blown away, she couldn't believe an editor gave me that much time. I haven't decided if I'm going to work on it while finishing DEVOTED or wait until it goes to the editor, but it will for sure go on the goal list even though it's fiction for July and August.
My real goals for May are:
DEVOTED stories (goal is 5/day, we'll see, but Julie introduced me to a site that is making that easier.
Build a website
Move the scholarship blog to the website
Close the general blog, after posting a friend's poem
Continue to send queries out (goal is 3 a week, we'll see)
Fix the columns, send them out to editors, actually talk to local editors about the column idea
Send the book proposal out this month. Really, I'm going to send it out. I'll let you know before I do it though, because I'll need all of you standing behind me helping me actually click on "send", and I know you'll be there when I get there.
Ok that should be it. Now time to get dressed (if I can decide what to wear) and head to Tulsa. Oh, btw, if I repeated anything, or this post just plain doesn't make sense, calk it up to fried, tired brain. Thanks.
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