Posts Tagged ‘synopsis’

The feedback I received on the long synopsis may be the best ever. Many of the reader’s comments overlapped, giving me specific areas to focus on, and I have every intention of emailing this tomorrow, just like I’d planned. So raise your glass, or mug, or whatever, and join me in toasting Sarah, Matthew, Vanessa, [...]

Looks like it’ll be a rainy day here in Blossomland. Just before the kids got on the bus a black wall cloud rolled over us, and now it’s raining pretty hard. Doesn’t look like it’ll be severe, just dark, warm, windy and wet. My favorite kind of day. It will make it extra hard to [...]

My mind is sort of a blank this morning, but I feel like connecting with the world so I’m posting anyway. I apologize in advance for any inanity which may follow.
Over the weekend a couple of my first readers got back to me with comments on my long synopsis. Their advice was right on and [...]

The 1st day of school was a success, as I thought it would. Little Bubba joked as we got ready for school, “You should have a welcome home party for us.” I laughed along with him, and he forgot about it. So that afternoon I went to the dollar store and got some balloons, party [...]

Had a couple of breakthroughs over the weekend.
One is measurable: I’ve jumped the last hurdle with the 15 page synopsis I’ve been working on for five weeks. Does that sound like a long time to be working on 15 pages? Well, it’s not as straightforward as that. I’d already written a short synopsis for my [...]

I love warm spring mornings, waiting for the bus with the two oldest children, soaking up nature’s joy in the rising sun. Today the kids almost missed the bus because of the distractions awaiting in our front yard. They lamented the violets losing their blossoms and reveled in the luxurious blooms of roses. They shed [...]

I felt so lethargic yesterday, really and truly crappy. I figured I wouldn’t be able to write a coherent sentence, but I needed some office time, so at seven o’clock I dragged my ass and laptop up the stairs. I was going to take it easy, probably do some free writing, maybe lie back [...]