My First Writers Conference Part 2: Terror! Sinking Feelings! Etc.!
Now, let’s not gloss over the fact that I woke up that morning feeling like I was going to vomit from a nerve-induced frenzy. Literally all I’ve been thinking about the past couple weeks is this dreaded Pitch Slam (even the words Pitch and Slam sound vaguely violent). The last few days in particular have…
My First Writer’s Conference Part 1: Great Unexpectations
I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Writer’s Digest Conference West, as this was my first ever Writer’s Con. My main experience with groups of individuals gathering for a likeminded purpose are comic conventions. Now, a convention is not a conference, and yet I kept imagining WDCW as a place full of people dressed up…
First Draft Complete!
After nearly two whole years of working on this manuscript (on and off, not non-stop, mind you) I finally have the first complete draft of my first complete novel! It clocks in at 95,000 words and 365 pages. In other words, there’s still a lot of work (read: editing, trimming, slicing, and dicing) to be…