1st day of snowed in writing project

Sunday's night a big snow storm hit the South. And I ended up snowed in at the house I'm house sitting. So I have no company around, it's the perfect day to get some writing in.


I also finish reading Alex Flinn's Beastly.

Yesterday I wrote 1,500 more words on my novel current title Keep Faith.
Today I'm snowed in again so I hope to get another 1,500 words done.

The Child On The Page

As I say last week I went to Auburn for a writers conference called The Child On The Page.
I learned a great deal there.
Here a list of the writers
Julianna Baggott
Peter Huggins
Peter Campion
Irene Latham
Elizabeth O. Dulemba
Dan Latimer
Rachel Hawkins
Emma Bolden
Judy Troy


And the one agent
Holly Root
This is going to sound crazy but I went just because Holly was there, and I didn't take her workshop "Polish Your Pitch"  The idea intimidated me to much.  Being in her class to polish a pitch for a novel that not even out of the beginning chapters of the first draft, didn't sound like a good idea at the time I signed up for the conference.  But now I WISH I had taking the workshop anyway!  I mean I want to meet her but I only got to say something to her about the cookies at the coffee table set in in the middle of the foyer.  And I didn't realize at the time I was talking to her.  I looked at her name tag after as she deciding which cookies she wanted and then I'm speechless, lol.  Lucky I don't think she noticed lol.
Anyway....
At the panel the next day she and her client Rachel Hawkin had a great conversion with the amazon 11 years old girl who interview them.  Wonderful! Funny! Really wish I took her workshop! lol
ok a few things I learned from the workshops I did take.

From Judy Troy:
Stories are made up of background facts and plot. You become the character through the background facts.
Fiction is not life, its a illusion.  There nothing random about fiction.
Don't make your character a victim.  Don't set her or him up against to many bad things.
Surprise yourself.  End up writing what you didn't know you knew.  Go Deep.  Tell the Truth. 
No tears from the writer, no tears from the reader.  Writers must feel as they are writing.  Go Deep (into your own emotions and memories)

What I learned from Rachel Hawkin.
"Write the **** book."

On the next day, from the panel I learned:

From Julianna Baggott:
"When there's no wind, roll."  talking about inspiration, and the lack of.
From Peter Huggins
"Leave yourself behind."
Judy Troy also said something about this in her workshop the day before.  It's something I need to work on and just let my characters tell thier stories.

I really really had a great, wonderful, fun time and hope to make it to next year conference, The Haunting Muse.

~Annie

Back to old story

I have decide to put Daughters of Wisdom on hold and work instead of my first draft of Keep Faith.

Daughters of Wisdom has changed into something different, more small scale then the idea before and I believe a better story.  I need to let it brew in my head for a short time.
So...
I have decided to give Keep Faith another try.
The thing about Keep Faith is I realized when reading the first draft I had more of a trigry then a single title.
So I'm going to try to work on the "first book"
Now I have to go work on it.  Talk to y'all later.
~Annie

Auburn Writers Conference

Hi, I'm going to Auburn, Alabama for The Child On The Page Conference this weekend.  Its their first one!  I'm so excited! Rachel Hawkins will be there and Holly Root! 

writing-getting back in the seat and hands on keyboard.

I'm back sorry I haven't updated in a long time.  I started back to work at school and the board hired me for full time! So I don't have as many free hours in the day anymore.  Plus I got sick, but I'm better now.  So now I need a plan to write for two hours everyday.  And I plan to write from 6 pm. to 8 pm everyday. This is another attempt at Project Nora.

I also need to post my reviews for

a twitter pitch for my story

If right now I was to twitter pitch my story I would tweet:
After her daddy made a deal with the beast (her mother's estranged family) a teen girl made a small decision that might have cost lives.

But my story not ready as you can see from my Project Nora posts.
and plus my pitch could change as i finish the rest of the story.

~Annie

Write, write!

ok so I wrote for an hour today.  I was aiming for 2 hours, but I don't know here Marjorie and Luke are headed next so I need to daydream and brainstrom alittle.
So in chapter 4 I learned Luke doesn't like people wasting his time, and Marjorie never back down from a challenge, even an unspoken one.

So far I'm in the middle of chapter 4.

~Annie

Ahhh moment in story

So I have reach 2,405 words in story.
Marjorie Fisher just found out why her daddy brought them to the close gate community of Glam. It didn't look good for her.

~Annie

Writerly Snack & My Rough Draft (Story)

I got this quiz off of Myra McEntire's blog

Here are my result:

(As you can see something freaky is going on with my font. So I tried to make this post readable. If you can't read it please please let me know. Thanks)

Annie's Result: Popcorn and Pretzels on quiz: What Kind of Writerly Snack Are You? Who: Hipsters and Rebels When: When you’re spending more time perusing Cracked or Huffington than writing that thing you’re supposed to be writing. Or searching for the newest band on the scene so you can be the first to discover – then dump – them. Why: Just. Need. To. Munch. Brewer’s yeast, sea salt caramel and spicy red pepper popcorn for the tragically hip and deluded. Pretzels because they’re cheap and less common than chips. Plain popcorn eaters may see their way out, thx. Quiz Maker Take this quiz & get your result

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Wow scary. It's true I go looking for something else to do other then write. I think I'm scare I'm wasting my time. I mean when I look back over my story (big mistake) and I see are the mistakes (what missing [like i need more details) and I worry that my characters are not alive and beliveable)

Here the thing i KNOW I'M NOT WASTING MY TIME. I love creating the story and its part of who I am creating stories. I still have a lot to learn about writing them down. The only way to do that is to write and learn from my mistakes.

Also I have to remind myself what I'm looking over is my very very rough first draft or as I like to call it my long outline lol.

BTW

I plan to write today and I plan to post about the experience (at least post my word count. lol)

~Annie

At coffee shop

Well I'm at Rivertown Coffee in Florence, Alabama (trying to download songs [a soundtrack for my new old story] from iTunes)

Yeah still working on Keep Faith.

But under a new title. Daughters of Wisdom.

So far I only have one hundred and something words written.