Comments for Busy Writing http://busywriting.net Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Writer’s Procrastination by Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter http://busywriting.net/2012/03/15/procrastination/#comment-448 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:20:17 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=964#comment-448 Oh come on. You KNOW you love alphabetizing your spice cupboard!

Just to give you a little push, I’ve sold some short stories, been invited to contribute to some more anthologies, gotten a positive comment from a Federal Cabinet Minister on one of my political columns, and gotten an email from a columnist at the Toronto Sun about another political column telling me well done.

Not too bad for a year in which I spent a lot of it in pain so bad I couldn’t think straight.

As a friend of mine says, it all comes down to getting backside into chair, and hands on keyboard :)

Wayne

PS: You’d damned well better finish this – I’m waiting to read it.

]]> Comment on The Return… by Wayne Borean http://busywriting.net/2012/02/26/the-return/#comment-403 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:44:07 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=915#comment-403

I thinks it’s mad at me.

Jealous. The word is jealous :)

Wayne

]]> Comment on The Return… by busywriting http://busywriting.net/2012/02/26/the-return/#comment-402 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:28:22 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=915#comment-402 Thanks! I’m glad to be back! I hope I stay at it for awhile!
:)

Thanks for posting!

Julie

]]> Comment on The Return… by Cathy http://busywriting.net/2012/02/26/the-return/#comment-401 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:42:00 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=915#comment-401 Julie,
Welcome back! I too am trying to get back into a more disciplined writing life. Your point about the amount of creative energy needed for teaching is true. Good luck! Glad you’re back.
Cathy

]]> Comment on Publish? Perish? by busywriting http://busywriting.net/2010/04/28/publish-perish/#comment-398 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:16:41 +0000 http://busywriting.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-398 Thanks so much for saying so! :)

Hopefully I will finish my novel soon so I can see about getting it published!

Julie J.

]]> Comment on Publish? Perish? by Monica Muzlera http://busywriting.net/2010/04/28/publish-perish/#comment-397 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:41:04 +0000 http://busywriting.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-397 You are a wonderful teacher… You go
beyong your responsability. As a writer,
you are histarically FUNNY! Love romance;
in histirical times…. Awe yes, Mr Darcy, I’ll
take him any day over Collin F. So!!! But
all those combinations AND you get someone
like you.. Extremely talented!!

]]> Comment on Cover Art Conundrum… by Wayne Borean http://busywriting.net/2011/10/01/cover-art-mr-darcy-where-r-your-chiseled-abs/#comment-392 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:42:02 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=907#comment-392 I was thinking that. Or maybe you might be able to enter book two in the contest :)

Wayne

]]> Comment on Cover Art Conundrum… by busywriting http://busywriting.net/2011/10/01/cover-art-mr-darcy-where-r-your-chiseled-abs/#comment-391 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:47:01 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=907#comment-391 Thanks Wayne for both comments. I’ll keep the contest in mind…for next year? Not done writing it yet! :)

Julie J.

]]> Comment on Cover Art Conundrum… by Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter http://busywriting.net/2011/10/01/cover-art-mr-darcy-where-r-your-chiseled-abs/#comment-390 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:31:03 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=907#comment-390 Guess what I just found?

The Emily Contest was first established by the West Houston Chapter of RWA® in 1990 in order to promote publication of previously unpublished writers of romance. The contest is unusual in that it does not limit its entrants to members of RWA. Rather, it is open to any writer who is not published as of the deadline date of the contest.

The Emily got its name as a result of its initial publicity campaign involving a young scribbler named Emily who was a victim of writer’s block. The contest was promoted as a way to end this malady. So the contest was named in honor of this anonymous character, rather than Emily Dickinson or Emily Bronte.

The first Emily contest chair was the late Arnette Lamb.

In the years that followed its inception, the Emily has garnered a reputation as one of the top contests in the romance writing genre. Many Emily winners and finalists have gone on to be published. The list follows.

Your book would fit in the:

Historical Romance includes romance novels set prior to 1950.

Category

They hold the contest every year. I think that it opens for entries on October 1.

Wayne

]]> Comment on Cover Art Conundrum… by Wayne Borean aka The Mad Hatter http://busywriting.net/2011/10/01/cover-art-mr-darcy-where-r-your-chiseled-abs/#comment-389 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:21:12 +0000 http://busywriting.net/?p=907#comment-389 Washboard abs don’t do anything for me. Dual Headlights on the other hand…

Seriously though, if you are publishing yourself, and intend to publish ebook versions only, you have to be really careful about cover art. Because of the small size of the images fine detail tends to disappear.

So before you start in on the cover, you need to decide whether you are going Dead Tree or EBook.

Wayne

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