“Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It
is a matter of choice;
It is not a thing to be waited for,
It is a thing to be achieved.”
--William Jennings Bryan
So, yes!
Sign me up! It is with renewed zeal, grit and a true sense of community-mindedness
that I join up for ROW80! Thanks to my
fabulous CP Debbie for recommending it and a big nod to Kait for her lovely, inspirational
blog about Ghandi and Ten Rules for Writing. It has
moved me to new levels of determinationedness--and making up new, long,
important sounding words.
My goals for the eighty days:
1)
Re-edit
my MG fantasy manuscript “Dreamwalker: Isle of Glass”, putting in all the stuff
my beta-readers called me on—including my overuse of hyphens and
misappropriation of commas!!!
2)
Learn
exactly how to use a comma and a hyphen. (Thought I did know.)
3)
Write
and submit a magazine article. (Trying my hand at something fresh—if you will.)
4)
Put
the spit and polish on query and synopsis.
5)
Get
everything ready for querying by September 1st.
That’s all folks. See you in the ethers. And, thanks for having me.
All the best writers are revisers. :D
ReplyDeleteAnd good luck with ROW80. I think I've got about two months or so of writing before I'm done with my WIP, and then I'll be doing all that spit and polish too.
ROW80 will really keep you on track. Hope you achieve all that an more!
ReplyDeleteAwesome goals! Let me know about the magazine article. That's been one of my goals that has gone unfulfilled.
ReplyDeleteWelcome! I have a similar issue with commas and hyphens, and punctuation generally. I'm sure that last sentence demonstrates that.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your goals. I'll check up on you.
I've got the commas down pretty well (there are something like 26 comma rules according to my old Warriner's), but I need to work on hyphens. Magazine articles are fun. I love the research aspect. Good luck with that. Thanks for the link to Gandhi's Rules.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the support everyone! Always so nice of you to drop by!
ReplyDelete~Just Jill