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- September 3rd, 2010, 3:37 pm
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Page Critique Friday 9/3/10
- Replies: 21
- Views: 30231
Re: Page Critique Friday 9/3/10
Now, call me old school, but this doesn't really seem like a query to me. It's not a query. It's the first 500 words of her WIP. Query feedback is a few threads up! :) I think this works really well. I can feel Jim's desperation---Eddie's nonchalant replies are a perfect foil---and hear his voice. ...
- June 10th, 2010, 10:57 am
- Forum: Nominate Your Query or First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Topic: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
- Replies: 720
- Views: 453319
Re: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog
Title: The Pigeon Drop Genre: Mystery The young man caught Judith's attention the moment he entered the library. It wasn't just the way his gaze skittered away from hers, never landing on anything for more than a split second, or the way he huddled inside his long black duster, which was far too hea...
- December 22nd, 2009, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10024
Re: Editing - Hardcopy or computer?
At a friend's suggestion, I'm finding that the Review feature in Word helps me edit as effectively on screen as on paper--as effectively as I ever manage the process, anyway. I'm still scribbing in the margins, and <ctrl-F> makes it easier to mark the ripples of change than flipping through the enti...
- December 18th, 2009, 6:30 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Top 5 Favorite Christmas Albums?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7126
Re: Top 5 Favorite Christmas Albums?
Making Spirits Bright is one of my favorite Christmas albums (Dino makes any list on which I can logically put him). I will agree with the odd vibe in "Baby it's Cold Outside"--I always wonder if she'll be found in the spring when the snowman melts . . . My parents surprised me last year ...