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a non writing post–really

so I indulged in a catch up on everything day. (after getting in a my new pages of course). I blog hopped. Did laundry. Cleaned my room and sorted through a bazillion foot high stack of “stuff and paper” ™ on my dresser. Dusted :shock: and other various boring things. (note to self: do not wear black tank top while dusty filthy rooms…)

Transfered most of the RWA mp3 workshops from 2004 National to my MP3 player. I wish…1) there was a good listing of the workshops on the CD…instead of the stupid PDF file that won’t let you copy and paste. 2) they had all the workshops in a big long list that you could just drag over into your Mp3 player, instead of two files of two different types…each in a different folder for each workshop. Anyway, I catalogued them into craft, publishing, career, etc. so they’d be easier to find on the mp3 player. Now I’m all set. I do hope they that Bill Stephens does a CD of all the workshops again for the conference this year.

But except for transfering the MP3’s….all of my to do list will just have to be done all over again in a very short time. Is “women’s work” :mad2: (okay, my dh helps around the house, but you know what I mean) always destined to be that way?? :angry:

tag lines and branding

Okay, so this has been beaten to death…but… do any of you have tag lines that you use on your promo stuff, website, business cards?

Like Suzanne McMinn’s “Romance with an edge of Danger”

I working on coming up with one for relationshipy romances ™ :mrgreen: Like SuperRomance, or Silhouette Special Edition, or single title character driven stories. Any ideas?

I have a degree in marketing..you’d think my brain would help me out on this. But for some reason this summer, my mind just refuses to make decisions… :biteme:

Emotion

in keeping with my blog posts on actual writing… :blah: Let’s talk about emotion. Conveying it. Use of it in dialogue tags. Do you have favorite lines you use for:

fear–something more original than her heart pounded :roll:
lust–
love…that flip flop heart thing
tired–
any other emotion–

I find when I revise that I use almost the same lines sometimes to convey the same emotion. :roll: and have to whack myself over the head to change them :wallbash:

Do you have any lines you use over and over and want to smack yourself silly for using…yet again :mad2:

Can you remember a perfect line you’ve written that really conveys your character’s emotion and fits their characterization perfectly??

I know I need more work on adding emotion to my writing. Any tips, hints? It seems like I either use too little…or so much it sounds melodramatic :crazy2: