Ready, Steady . . . Go!
Mar. 13th, 2021 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlToday is the first day of Spring Break. Although I'm going to do some small work projects, my main goals are two: writing and spring cleaning. The latter is mostly self-explanatory, deeper cleaning than usual, and pulling apart some drawers and cabinets and etc. looking to get rid of stuff. I have things in filing cabinets from academic articles I was going to write twenty years ago, or fifteen, or ten. Clearly if I was that motivated, they'd have been written by now. And another bookcase sorting -- same thing with books that have been sitting unread for fifteen years, or were bought for projects past, or etc.
My local chapter of Mystery Writers of America has a mentoring program where members can submit their first thirty pages and someone who is published will mentor you. Whether you have been previously published or not. Someone I know got Lyndsay Faye as her mentor! The only thing is that you can submit anytime between March 1 and March 31, and since Spring Break made sense for me to work on my revisions -- it's been seen by my Writers Group, which had excellent suggestions but kind of research intensive. So I'm a little worried that anyone with a historicals background may have already been taken by the time I submit. But that's okay -- my Writers Group is historicals people and I definitely need a mystery perspective.
So that's my week. It's sad not to be running up to Buffalo to see mom, or to see my BFF up in the Hudson Valley, one or both of which I usually do over spring break -- but as all of us are getting our second doses in the next few weeks . . . finally! In the next few months, some minor trips will happen!!!!!
My local chapter of Mystery Writers of America has a mentoring program where members can submit their first thirty pages and someone who is published will mentor you. Whether you have been previously published or not. Someone I know got Lyndsay Faye as her mentor! The only thing is that you can submit anytime between March 1 and March 31, and since Spring Break made sense for me to work on my revisions -- it's been seen by my Writers Group, which had excellent suggestions but kind of research intensive. So I'm a little worried that anyone with a historicals background may have already been taken by the time I submit. But that's okay -- my Writers Group is historicals people and I definitely need a mystery perspective.
So that's my week. It's sad not to be running up to Buffalo to see mom, or to see my BFF up in the Hudson Valley, one or both of which I usually do over spring break -- but as all of us are getting our second doses in the next few weeks . . . finally! In the next few months, some minor trips will happen!!!!!
