Great Comments Award

Thanks Cassie Mae!  Your blog is awesome and that's why it's so easy to comment on your posts :)  Hop over to her blog and check out her insightful and hilarious posts!  And don't forget to sign up for her blogfest too :)

Finding comments on my posts is so exciting!  I look forward to opening my blog and reading what people say, it makes my day.  I appreciate all the thoughts and giggles supporting me along with the rest of the writing bloggers out there! 

These are some fantastic commenters and their blogs to follow :)

Kelley at Between the Bookends

Trisha at WORD + STUFF

Laura at Daily Dodo

Bethany at Rookie Riter: Trying to get it write

Lynn(e) Schmidt at The Submission Process

Thank you and keep the comments flowing!

Best of the Best

Over the holidays, I was asked on a few different ocasions what I was writing about.  I love to talk about writing.  I love it even more when someone is interested enough to ask me about it.  But to briefly sum up the thing I've been bleeding my heart and soul into for over a year (I don't want to say how long it's really been)? 

My response usually goes something like, "Um, well, there's this girl and these beasts, and the Protectors, and there was a meteoric rain that destroyed the planet, um..."   

My brain spasms, my mouth sputters incoherancies, I feel like a failure because now my writing sounds like a bunch of hooey.

This should be simple. After all, I'm the one who made it up.

Try as I might, I cannot clearly state the gist of my manuscript.  In light of this, and the several blog competitions/contests coming up on the subject, I have dedicated this week's Best of the Best to writing a clear pitch/logline and hopefully soon I will be able to write one myself :) 

Best of the Best--pitch/logline

Nathan Bransford's How to Write a One Sentence Pitch

Writing Killer Loglines by Stina Lindenblatt

Story Sensei's Elevator Pitch

Amie Kaufman's Catch My Pitch

Janice Hardy's Here's the Pitch

Hallie Ephron's Crafting Your Pitch

Query Tracker's Writing a Logline/The One-Sentence Pitch

Michelle McLean's How to Write a Hook Line or Logline

Christopher Lockhart's The Construction of a Logline




I hope these help if you've found yourself in the same situation I continue to stumble into :)











Is it Getting HOT in Here? blog hop

Is it Getting HOT in Here?  blog hop

  

February 14th

with Cassie Mae (writer extraordinaire and blogmaster guru) at Reading, Writing, and Lovin' it! 

Those kissy scenes are challenging to write, but I love reading one when it's crafted so well it feels like I'm standing beside the characters, watching with inflamed cheeks as sparks fly between the two lovebirds. 

Please share one of your favorite kissing scenes from a book you've read, from your own WiP, make one up, or write about one of your own memorable kisses.  Then hop around to feel how sweet, romantic, or downright steamy other characters are getting smooched!

To Enter:

1. Add your link to the linky links at the end of this post.
2. Post your kiss story February 14th and don’t forget to grab the Is it Getting HOT in Here? blog hop picture!

3. You don’t have to follow us, but it would be awesome if you do!  We’ll follow you back ;)

The Prize:

2 lucky kiss stories will receive a 14 page edit from both Cassie Mae and me :) 

You can sign up any time before the blog hop begins.  Feel free to spread the word! We'd love to have lots of participants!  Don't forget to steam up your Valentine's day with all the other kisses!