Wednesday, February 10, 2010

PRO Membership app sent out!

Working On: Paranormal Prequel
Waiting On: Response from Samhain and Golden Heart Contest
Sent Out: RWA PRO membership application

Busy day today, I finished up the edits for the volunteer editing I signed up for, then I filled out the forms, printed out my rejections, and copied my novel to a disk and sent it all out to RWA so they can (hopefully) make me into a PRO member. What are the benefits of being a PRO member? No idea. I need to do more research.

I was also in contact with Melena from ORWA because I wasn't able to access the chat loop on the ORWA website. There's a newsletter and everything we're supposed to get that I didn't know about, but again, my fault for lack of research.

Tomorrow when I get my ass to work for the morning shift, I need to remember to book of March 7, because that's when an Avon editor is going to come and speak with us, and before the actual meeting she'll be taking pitches, so I need to sign up for that too. Great excuse to spend money on a new shirt so I look somewhat professional when she gets here. Speaking of pitches, I need to work on that too.

unfortunately, I tried doing my taxes with one of those Same Day Cash Refund places, and something went wrong so I have to go back when the Canada Revenue agency is open again, so no tax refund for me today :( My horoscope was right. I'm facing challenges today.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Yes! Back To Work on my Short Story!

Working On: Paranormal Prequel
Waiting On: Response from Samhain Editor Laurie Rauch

The title isn't sarcasm. I finished with the Genesis and Phoenix awards for the Ottawa Romance Writers' Association and that means more free time for character building! I got started today, and after reading through what I had already written, because it had been a while, I realized how much I missed being with characters that I had created. So while re-reading (I know, you're not supposed to do that) I fixed up a few minor details I found, then got started on my next chapter, though the story still needs a lot of work and is far from done, I'm looking forward to getting on it.

All I need now is for my Write or Die desktop edition to re-download and I'll be moving at the speed of friggin' light baby, yeah!