I was kind of counting on this week to make up for last week. At 1,000 words a day for 7 days I need to do 7,000 words a week just to stay even. I did 5,734. It would have been worse but I managed to bust through at the end of the week and did a couple thousand on Friday. Whoohoo! Still, with every single week running behind, I don’t think I’m going to have this puppy done by […]
This is it for my FF promo stuff for a while, honest. I just couldn’t resist a little retrospective: 1 – Came into existence. Thank you, ladies, for joining. 2 – Inspired Lara’s story Perfect Pleasure, which has already been requested by an editor, though the only place it has been out is in a FF round, and a RWA contest. 3 – Inspired Anastasia’s story For Love and Honor. 4 – Kept Sindee going on Wings of Desire […]
FanLit Forever’s Anniversary Celebration ends tomorrow with Tessa Dare’s blog and a final round of challenges. It’s been a great year, and a wonderful party. All the guest blogs have been enjoyable. It was great to see old Avon FanLit friends again as well as to make new friends. And Victoria Alexander’s chat session was insightful and entertaining. She has already volunteered to do it again next February! A lot of work went into the launching of http://www.RomanceRoundtable.com, scheduling the events […]
Here’s my Sven update: I managed 4,480 words this week. That’s not so good in a couple of different way. One is that I used to write that much in a single day. The other is that part of those words – almost a thousand of them – were cut and pasted in from previous work, so they probably shouldn’t count except they go toward my total word count. I tell myself I was busy, but really, I’ve only been […]
13 Reasons My Husband is Glad I Read Romance1- I find them inspirational 2 – After reading about a particularly twisted hero I am always so grateful I ended up with him. 3 – He likes to laugh at the covers. 4 – I read the good parts out loud. 5 – Not THOSE good parts, silly. The ones with great wording and characterization. 6 – He like the other good parts too. 7 – I’m always in a better […]
Check this out: Can you write the beginning of a story which will have the reader yearning to read more? Well we’re giving you an opportunity to take home a $50 Visa GC by doing just that. Contestants will have a week to come up with a 1000-1500 word beginning to a story which not only starts with a hook, but leaves us dying to read more. Limit of 2 entries per contestant. For instructions on how to enter, visit […]
If you’re looking for socks, you need to go back one more week. 😀 Thirteen Reasons to Check Out FanLit Forever FanLit Forever turns 1 on November 1st. As I mentioned elsewhere, we’re throwing a party. You’re all invited, even if you’ve never heard of the Avon FanLit contest or FanLit Forever before. So why should you bother, and what can you do? 13 Reasons to crash Fanit Forever’s party: 1 – We are launching a new blog. It’s a […]
Thirteen Things on my nightstand 1 – The alarm clock, which is covered in dust despite my habit of slapping the snooze alarm several times every morning. 2 – Whatever book I’m reading when I go to bed. 3 – A back scratchier. 4 – A box. Ok, I’m done. What, you want to know what’s IN the box? Oh fine. 5 – (in the box) A notebook 6 – a flashlight 7- a selection of pens and pencils 8 […]
What herb are you? YOU ARE ROSEMARY Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join| Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab CodeGo take the quiz, then come back and tell me what you are. Alice
As if the 100 words a day for 100 days challenge on FanLit Forever wasn’t enough I’ve joined the 70 Days of Sweat challge at http://70daysofsweat.com/wordpress/archives/71 Wish me luck! If you’re doing it too, stop and say “hi!” Alice
This is a Mr. Linky thing. Hope it works: Let’s test it. Go ahead and put in your blog link to see if it will list you. Alice
I’m not sure what the deal is with WordPress, but I can’t do a thing with my previous post, so I’m going to put my links here. Maybe it’ll work and maybe it won’t. It’s worth a try. 1. Jen 2. Jennifer Shirk 3. Debbie Mumford 4. Paige Tyler 5. Kaige 6. Morgan St. John 7. Heather 8. Ericka Scott 9. tara s nichols 10.
Thirteen Things about Alice Audrey 1 – To give me something to write on Thursdays. Hey, this daily blogging business can be a challenge. 2 – To give me a way to tempt the ladies of Romance Divas into checking me out. 3 – To make me get out of my shell and meet people. 4 – To help me organize my thoughts 5 – To find out just how hard it can be to come up with 13 of […]
In case you missed it the first time, check this out. Carefully. Alice