Comments on: Drama Queen Gets Well Deserved Slap Round the Head https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:13:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: 竹青 https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2828 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:13:22 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2828 睇完之後覺得有d頓悟..感謝分享...................................................................

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2827 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:11:48 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2827 Lacey – nothing wrong with being good at vacuuming. 🙂 And no, we shall not repenteth the whine.
Yay on the good writing, but unbelievable plot devices? I’m sure lots is an overstatement!

Francine – ah, yeah, I should do eh? But I must admit to not liking to post my stuff online. I’m a little paranoid. Maybe one day.

]]> By: Francine https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2826 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:36:01 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2826 Hi,

Just a quickie . . .

Why not have some Internet funtime?

There are two blogfests advertised on my blog. Believe me they’re wonderful for taking oneself right out of the daily grind of writing to end goal day in day out!!

best
F

]]> By: Lacey Devlin https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2825 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:40:06 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2825 Well I am pretty darn good at that vacuuming now that you mention it…

I wouldn’t say it was a whine-fest because if it was I whined right along with you and I’m not repenting at all ;). Besides, whining is good for the complexion.

Two things I’m good at according to most recent R:
1. Good writing
2. Using lots of unbelievable plot devices (I personally believe this takes talent….)

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2823 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:29:36 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2823 Francine – thanks heaps! Yep, the waits are long and maybe I’m being a bit silly just targeting one line exclusively. But HMB is my white whale so I’ll keep on with it. I do have an ed who is happy to read my work so that’s great. Still toying with something else though…
Good luck with you stuff huh?

]]> By: Francine https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2821 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:56:12 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2821 Hi,

You’re not alone on this quest of yours. God, I took time out a week back (one day) to go cruising the super highway, and lordy there are thousands (possibly topping over one million)wannabe published writers on blogland, hundreds aiming at various HM&B lines.

Me too, and with a four month wait already wracked up on a MH ms and two months on a historical, I’d be pleased at answer of mere yes or no(bring on revision)because that way I’d know where I stand HM&B wise!

Having been published before and having had a taster of longish waiting times (nowhere near as long as at present)and the bum factor of revisions, there is a limit to how long I shall wait for reply from HM&B, but that’s because there are other publishers out there and as yet I have no reason to be loyal to HM&B as a writer! After all, I don’t purchase solely HM&B books to read either.

As a writer it’s okay to target one publisher (though sensible to play the field), but to target one line is banking a hell of a lot of patience and drawing on one’s resolve to believe that line alone will come up trumps!

Fortunately you’re way past the first hurdle, you have an editor’s eyes and that means you’re up with the leading runners so you’ll get placed eventually! Angst is a waste of good writing time, and if you want to be up with the front-runners next race then get in the writing saddle and dan well write!!!!!!

best
F

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2820 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:08:10 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2820 Caroline – having lived in London for a couple of years, I know exactly what you mean with that joke! lol! Luckily I am not an Essex girl.
Oh and hey, another good love scene writer! I’m particularly proud of that one, they are VERY hard to get right. And showing? I sometimes can find this difficult – maybe you could pass on a tip??

]]> By: Caroline https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2819 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:39:19 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2819 Hey Jackie – it’s good to whine – we all do it! Reminds me of a joke I once heard. Q “What’s an Essex girls favourite wine? A. “I wanna’ go shopping!” (Maybe you have to be British to understand this one!!)

OK. Things I am good at writing wise.
1. Good love scenes (aparantly!)
2. Showing not telling.

Caroline x

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2818 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:49:08 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2818 Wendy – don’t worry, you won’t have to get on the plane. I have seen sense. And I will still be complaining so brace yourself. 🙂 I’ve found that generally what we like to write, we’re pretty good at so I reckon you’d be right in thinking you’re good at dialogue and humour. Sounds like really, cool humour too!

]]> By: Wendy Tyler Ryan https://www.jackieashenden.com/drama-queen-gets-well-deserved-slap-round-the-head/#comment-2817 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:16:20 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=419#comment-2817 Jackie: Never apologise, but never talk about quitting either, or I may have to get on a plane and knock some Canadian sense into you. lol (don’t worry, everyone knows that Canadians are too polite to do anything remotely like that.

I’d like to think that I’m great with dialogue and I think I have a way with out-of-the-blue, backhanded humor. Who knows what others would say?

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