Posts Tagged ‘stone sorter’
And so it begins . . .
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
I just sent out my first five queries. Excuse me while I go vomit from nerves!
Tags: querying, stone sorter, writing
phoebenorth.com updates!
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
I spiffied up my professional website in preparation for querying. Check it out! Pay special attention to the “fiction” section–there are now all sorts of goodies there, including the prologue and first chapter of my novel, a book cover mock-up, and a blurb. In case you’re curious about the book cover, but too lazy to [...]
Tags: art, stone sorter, website
Hopped Up on Goofballs
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
There’s an awesome post by Sherwood Smith up at the Bookview Cafe Blog about writing for teens. I’d have more to say about this if I wasn’t hopped up on codeine right now. Legal, I swear! I’ve had a lot of dental work lately and this weekend some mild, niggling pain turned into laying-on-the-ground-sobbing-in-pain. I’ve [...]
Tags: links, rambling, stone sorter, ya
How Far We’ve Come
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
If you can’t tell, I’m pretty hung up on the editing thing these days. In fact, yesterday, I did three things: cleaned up cat pee (ew!), napped, and edited. It was a good day. Except for the cat pee thing, I guess. But damn, I can’t help but feel like it makes me a boring [...]
Tags: editing, stone sorter, writing
Writing about Writing
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on editing for awhile, but I’ve been busy . . . editing! Who would have thunk it? I’ve said before that editing is hard work. That’s true. But I don’t think the phrase “hard work” really even begins to encompass the sort of hard work it really [...]
Tags: beta readers, editing, manifesto, MFA, stone sorter, writing
A Time to Plant, A Time to . . . Edit
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
Editing is rough stuff. I’m starting to think there may have been a reason that I’ve been letting my previous manuscripts fester stew. Editing, it seems, is hard work. I began editing what was then known as Convocation the day I finished it–November 30th. Then, it was just over fifty-thousand terse words long, in ten [...]
Tags: agents, fiction, nanowrimo, querying, stone sorter, writing
More Missing Digit LOLz
Posted by Phoebe | Filed under Uncategorized
Yahoo! Answers, should I date a girl with a missing finger?
Tags: editing, LOLz, research, stone sorter, thank god for ask.metafilter, writing
