Made a list of current and WIPs to-be. I'm excited about all of them -- two YAs, two chapter book series ideas, two NF. Any NF writers out there? I've had one proposal for years, but haven't done much with it because it seems expensive and I'm not sure how to format/pitch it. If anyone's willing to trade critiques (this is about 6 pages), let ( Read more... )

Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven't gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven't gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph.

Since I've decided today to put a couple of deleted scenes back in, this ( Read more... )