Sounds like a great story. I can’t wait to read it. And your blog is interesting too.

-AJ

BTW, thanks for picking up my e-book.

I’ve been following it more since I started working on the paranormal. I’d like to see RWA be useful, but it doesn’t look like it ever will be to me as it stands. Maybe I’m optimistic, but I have a feeling that if they don’t get their act together, then a new organization will be created to fill the gaps they are leaving… because the importance of those gaps is growing.

However, all the RWA bashing from non-RWA members isn’t going to accomplish anything and really serves no purpose. As long as people continue to sign up and pay their dues RWA, like any group, doesn’t care. And, as long as people who get frustrated by RWA’s attitude leave the group and don’t attempt to work any change inside the system itself, again — RWA will continue as it always has.

Sounds like a cop-out right? Well, from what I can tell RWA is pretty much all about the contacts and since they aren’t interested in erotic or alt-romances more than likely writers of such won’t find too much of interest belonging to the group. *shrugs*

Honestly, as I mentioned…the sort of double-fee system going on there turns me off. Then, seeing all the fees for their writing contests as well as for the awards, really makes me not interested.

I suspect in the end RWA will either continue to grow more inclusive in terms of their policies — or they will finally join the computer age and realize people can get the information they are basically charging for online free if they dig hard enough. I hope that’s not the case. RWA sounds like a good program at least contact and knowledge wise (and handy in that you don’t have to go running around finding it for yourself — but like anything else if they don’t evolve they’ll become obsolete.

And, no matter how much writers place importance on the various awards give out by RWA — the bottom line is, 90% of the reading population doesn’t care about that nifty little symbol on the book cover. *shrugs*

/ends rant

Love your CPs.

Indeed, I do!

Love your CPs.

To me, head hopping is changing in the middle of someone else’s pov and than changing right back. I rarely find it in published books. Some romance authors do quick changes back and forth between the hero/heroine but it’s always done smoothly enough so you know who’s pov you are in at the time.

Dunno. Maybe I’m just overthinking and should just say “fuck it” and write.

In regards to Savage Lands .. *ponder*

You could handle it organically, as a “fun” project, and not worry quite so much about it. If you don’t want to do a full/semi outline, I’d suggest a variant on the 500-word premise, including a sketch of the ending. That gives you enough to go on without the intricacy required in an outline.

It would also give you something to actively write while you’re doing the prewriting for Wings and Luzon. Honestly, you’re going to be pretty bored the next few classes, as you’ve already done the work ahead of time. So I’d figure out your premise and go for it.

*wanders off deep in thought*

… *makes note to knock her male upside the head with some hard wood if he makes mistakes like that*

As Angela Knight said regarding writing novellas — You can solve one problem, get rid of one bad guy in a short. You can’t fix all the problems of the whole world. Focus.

What I’ve done when I was writing longhand and didn’t want to bother typing it up for a wordcount–

1) Count the number of words per line for about ten lines.
2) Average it.
3) Multiply the average by the number of lines on the page.

That should give you a rough estimate of how much you’ve written.

Only.

I get much better results from doing it by hand and leaving it in a notebook to reference and the thought of trying to estimate how many words are on a page is too much for me to contemplate. *grin*

But, looks like if you only get about half of these done - you’ll be sure to have made your goal!