WineontheKeyboard

Can a writer ever have enough bookcases???

My wonderful dh just made these built in bookcases for our family room. Behold them empty and drool…

Notice detail of nice crisp beadboard. Love it.

Now I started filling it up with books. I still have LOTS more room!!

And now a close up of just a few of my writing books. I know, don’t say it, it’s an addiction a character flaw a minor weakness of mine…Just click on the image for a close up of the titles. Anyway, I’m one happer camper with all this new book space. And I haven’t even begin to fill them up!!

Life, such that it is by Kacey
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That’s write. Name your month time. No. Excuses. November.

Just do it!

In other writing news, I heard back from an editor who sent back my manuscript but will look at it again if I can beef up the conflict. So I’ve been busy with that. Interesting though, I was going back through my blog and came across this entry from right before I mailed this submission.

This is what I said before :

I was talking to my CP’s about this story too. I usually have BIG GMC. Here it is. Here it is again. Here, let me this again. But this story is more slice of life. It still has the goal, motivation, conflict…but it’s more gmc than GMC. It’s like what happens to these two families in the week where all these secrets are revealed and how they deal with it. Different than I’ve written before. We’ll have to see how well it’s received …

So I guess, instinctively, I knew the conflict needed to be stronger. I do think the story is good, the external conflict is good, but the internal conflict is weak. It’s not part of the black moment. So I’m working on fixing that now.

As another aside…why, oh why, do I find so many typos when I read through a manuscript that I’ve already sent to an editor???

Old Ramblings by Kacey
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