Last year I attended Moonlight and Magnolias, a conference by the Georgia Romance Writers in October. I attended a workshop given by Stephanie Bond. Stephanie is so career focused and her topic was about… your career. She said that she uses the National RWA conference as a bench mark for where she is in her career. She uses that point to look at her contracts, her covers, to see where she was and where she is now.
I decided to use the October conference as my benchmark and my goal this year was to submit to an agent.
Well, good golly. It’s July. Have I submitted to an agent yet? No. Why not? I guess I’ve let myself get distracted.
So, I’m renewing my effort to make that benchmark. Starting today!
Wish me luck,
Alice
PS. Hope all my American friends had a great 4th of July.
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I submitted my winning entry last year and finally received my rejection notice this year-lol. But to me it wasn’t a suprise. I’d have beenmore surprised had they requested teh full lol. For now I’m moving ahead on a romantic suspense. Since I have a hard time figuring out somethings I write a chapter dealing with the heroine then the hero and some with the heroine’s kidnapped child. I hope it all flows on paper as it is in my mind lol. When I get ready to submit this time I will have a completed story not a hodge podge of things.. My rejection was plot was episodic and developing romance wasn’t strong enough. First thing, no first real thing I tried to write. I had several attemps at things, a Lord of the RIngs fan fiction-that was fun before I tried a historical western. I have ideas on how to go back and rewrite the western but right now this story is taking me in all the way.