Wow, it’s been a long day today. Last week, a documentary maker called me to ask if I’d be a last minute addition to a documentary he’s doing. I said yes, so I spent all morning putting my thoughts together. This afternoon, the cameraman arrived and we shot for about three hours. More details on that when I hear from him on whether I did well enough that he’ll actually use some of my footage.
Then I spent a few hours reading the last few manuscripts on my stack that I’m judging for a contest. The deadline for judging is tomorrow, so I needed to wrap that up today. This is a contest for unpublished authors, so you expect to see some novices and some good writing. One of them was a real wow. I can’t understand why this author isn’t published yet, but he or she soon will be, I’m pretty sure. It’s always exciting to find a new author who is EXCELLENT.
Between all that, I’m feeling utterly thrashed today. It’s a good kind of thrashed. Tomorrow, we’ll look at some more of those one-sentence summaries that many of you submitted last week.
I’m glad it’s a good kind of thrashed.
We’ll see you tomorrow!
Oh, wait, that would be today, huh?
“I can’t understand why this author isn’t published yet” Man, I can’t wait for the day when someone says that about MY work…ha!
I seriously think that we all need to start one of those “reality” shows like American Idol, where unpublished authors read bits of their work, we vote on who we like, and then of course, the winner is published.
“I can’t understand why this author isn’t published yet” Man, I can’t wait for the day when someone says that about MY work…ha!
I seriously think that we all need to start one of those “reality” shows like American Idol, where unpublished authors read bits of their work, we vote on who we like, and then of course, the winner is published.
Just want to say that I, and I am sure others as well appreciate you.
Yvette
This sage says, remember words of wisdom from ancient song:
Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast
You gotta make the moment last
Just kickin’ down the cobblestones
Lookin’ for fun
Feelin’ groovy…
Blessings,
Joleena
Rest well, Randy.
Hope you get in the documentary. With three hours contributed, they’ll probably put some in…
Hopefully it will be the quote you want
…If not, if it’s an inadvertently strange quote, or out-of-contect quote that you get teased about,
….then (at the very least) you will have a fun anecdote to share at some writers’ conference after- dinner speech.
I like the reality show idea. To get that much feedback from editors and fans would be great ~ although you’d want it to be very niche-specific. There could be lots of spinoffs for various genres and you wouldn’t need to worry about appealing to action-adventure types if you’re a romance writer.
Anyone in TV land listening?