The best thing about teaching is when a student’s face
lights up with understanding—the ‘light bulb’ turns on as months of reinforcing
skills and encouragement click into place.
A similar phenomenon happens with writing. When a cp helps me turn an average word into a beautiful one, switches a telling emotion into a showing action, and amps up the intensity in a scene—it’s like watching a 1000 watts shine through my manuscript.
I've lucked into a marvelous group of critique partners--my light bulbs. Cassie, Jade, Jenny, and Kelley have become some of my closest friends and greatest support. They are kind, generous, creative, encouraging, and lift my spirits on a daily basis. These ladies are some of the funniest people on the planet! We even have a silly name that is way too crazy to share :) And of course, they are incredibly talented writers. So talented, I marvel at their editing expertise, story ideas, and answers to my many writing dilemmas.
In honor of our lil' support system, we've decided to start a group blog to share hope and encouragement with other writers. Falling For Fiction: Lifting Writers One Post At A Time is our next adventure and we hope you will come along :)
Our group blog debuts on April 1st as part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.
Come join us!
Woohoo for, oh wait I'm not supposed to share that name, FFF girls. Love you guys and I can't wait for April Fools Day. ;0)
ReplyDeleteYAY! GO _ _ _ _ _ _ _ !
DeleteYay! All your guys' posts on this sound so awesome! I think I need to work on mine, lol.
ReplyDeleteSo fun! Great interview Cassie on Mark's blog, I think that's enough to get people to want to find out what you're getting yourself into ;)
DeleteThat sounds pretty cool! :) I can't wait to check it out! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Krista :) Looking forward to your visits and feedback!
DeleteYay, looking forward to this new blog idea!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully it's as fun and funny and helpful for everyone as it has been for me :)
DeleteI'm so pumped! Another fantastic blog to follow. How could I resist? :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new blog! That's a great announcement!
ReplyDeleteYay!!!! I cannot WAIT for this. I'm just so excited to share what we all have with everyone else. It's gotta be awesome, right? :) :)
ReplyDeleteLove the analogy of the light bulb. Its so true.
That is SO AWESOME! I'm excited for you guys to launch the blog. I know it will be spectacular! And you're right - it really does amp the MS like a 1000 watt light bulb! LOVE that description!
ReplyDeleteYou're so right! When I finally find a word I was looking for, I can feel I totally light up!
ReplyDeleteIt happened recently with the adjective "perturbed". I wanted to find a way to describe how I felt listening to Tchaikovskij's Symphony 4 (Second Movement), and the word was suggested to me by Marcel Proust. Of course I knew the word, but I can't really explain why I never thought of it. Maybe because I'm not a great writer and Proust is!!!
Thanks for sharing!
I've been following all your lovely co-horts, and I don't know how I've missed you. Got you on my list now. I'm sure your guys will do wonderful things with this new blog. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely looking forward to your new group blog! :)
ReplyDeleteHey lady. I'm just stopping by to say I saw someone I recognized over at Cupid :) I'm entry 47. Good luck, best wishes to you!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new blog! You have found such a great critique group and I can't wait for the new blog. I also just noticed you're in the top 50 on Cupid's Agent Invasion Contest!!! Super CONGRATS!!
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