by DianneSalerni | Aug 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
I want to thank everybody who stopped by here in the last few days to offer congratulations. Thanks so much for all your encouragement and good wishes! I just love this wonderful writing community!After the excitement of the past couple days, I’m going to take...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 17, 2011 | caged graves, Clarion, Sara Crowe
I love my agent, Sara Crowe! Well, that’s old news. I’ve been loving her since a) she raved about one of my characters and offered to represent me and b) her sharp editorial eye picked out what my manuscripts were lacking and pointed me in the right direction to fix...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 17, 2011 | WIP, writing
I see a lot of talk on the blogs about writing characters – especially establishing goals for your characters, putting obstacles in their path, directing your characters like rats in a maze by blocking the path and making them work harder to fight their way...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 15, 2011 | The Practice Room, writing
When I first saw Google+ hitting the news and started getting invitations to join, I groaned. Facebook, yes. Twitter, I’m there. But ANOTHER ONE? I didn’t think I could do it. So, I deleted all the invitations and said, “The social networks stop here.” But then, Tina...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 12, 2011 | summer, writing
One of my teacher friends (I think it was Tracy Litchfield) recently bemoaned August 1st as the death knell of the summer. I agreed. August does to the summer what Sunday evening does to the weekend. Then, of course, one of my parent friends (Michelle Gonnella)...
