Jessica over @ Alliterative Allomorph gave me an award. Bow, curtsey and slip on my rear end. Thanks to my ...cry, sniff and thanks Jessica!
I have to pass it onto others and they have to go HERE to Advance Booking for their instructions. I think it is 7 I have to award, but I am afraid with my editing time looming, I have to focus. Therefore I will award 3 busy, busy writers who deserve the Prolific Blogger Award.
I pass this award to:
- Susan R Mills @ A Walk In My Shoes
- Megan @ Megan Rebekah Blogs
- Lindsey @ Dangerous With A Pen
Today the postie delivered my prize from MIRANDA NEVILLE. Thank You Miranda! I will be curling up with that very soon during my quiet time.
I received my copy of The Fire In Fiction by Donald Maass, I am looking forward to reading this during my, resource reading time.
My new organised writing time is working so well for me now. I have editing / proofreading time, writing time, research time, resource time and chocolate/wine time...where is the delete button when you want it? Forget the chocolate/ wine time I am on a d...angerous mission.
Where was I? Oh, yes, I have a set time for everything now, I hate routine but have found I need it as a discipline rule or I will flounder with the novel. Which, by the way has a new beta reader and she is brilliant. She is a reader, not a writer and she has picked up on so much. She noticed, typo and grammar errors and she also noticed that I had not put where my POV was centred, I had taken it for granted that my readers all know where the notorious Jack The Ripper did the dirty. A classic case of forgetting my reader cannot read my mind, only my book.
She critiques so well, no pandering to me, she tells me what she as a reader wants from it, and reads only the genre I am writing in. Her points are always valid, she surprised me I will say, but I am grateful to her as it all makes sense.
PS: She loves the manuscript so far, let's hope an agent does. *Smiles*.
11 Comments:
Congratulations on the award and glad your test reader loved your story. My test reader picked up on a lot of mistakes as well.
Thank you, Glynis! That's so sweet of you. And congrats for winning it. You deserve it.
Whenever I see a new award handed out I rush over to check the winners. I've found so many great new blogs from winner links. (I think that's how I found you Glynis, not sure, can't remember now). But these three are all new, so I'm off to check out their blogs! Enjoy your prize book-- always fun to get a book in the mail!
Alex, thanks for dropping by. It is not good that they do but great, because we can clean up before submitting.
Susan,you deserve it just for finding all the fantastic shoe pictures, LOL. Thank you.
Karen, me too. I am so glad you found me. You will not be disappointed with my choice, I am 100% certain of it.
Thanks for visiting.
Sounds like you have a great reader. She read in the genre and is honest with you. Yay!
And congrats on the award. You deserve it.
Helen
Straight From Hel
Thank you Helen. I am lucky with this one. The last one shared it with two friends, I was not happy. Luckily it was draft. This one is reading edit 1 and 2 papers. She is also loyal to my privacy.
Thanks for visiting me.
Congrats on your award and so happy you have found a reader who is giving you constructive criticism.
You deserved it :) Glad you found a good reader. They're really hard to come by!
Hey Glynis~~~ I'm making the rounds checking up on my blog buddies! Congrats on your award and win! XOXO :)
Congratulations on your award Glynis:)
Loree, Jessica, Carol and SPoems...Thank you so much for visiting today.
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