My niece and I tonight

In honor of indigenous peoples day we watched the Windigo(sp?) episode of Monstrum in my mythology class. Thanks @dremilyzarka.bsky.social

I got my first full manuscript request! And then I won a prize for most promising manuscript!

The kids were rapping in my class and making rhymes to “house”. One of them said “arouse” and I told them to look it up. “What does it mean, Miss?” “There’s a dictionary behind you but suffice to say it means you’re… excited… about … something” A few minutes later “Oh! It means you’re h-o-r-n-e-y”

I had many goals for spring break… one was querying and I just sent out 4. I love this book so much, but I love all my books do much. This one is just so different I’m hoping that gives it a fighting chance…

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Reading some short contemporary YA instead of all this hardcore romantasy. It’s very refreshing to get back to my “roots” (most of the books I’ve written are contemporary YA)

Sometimes my students connect to my laptop when syncing their headphones. Today, I accepted the sync and started blasting Hamilton into their ears.

I just DNF’d a romance book because the stakes were too low. Yes, I know romance stakes are supposed to be low but these were just… ugh! You two are just doing life and nothing interesting is happening to either of you as you just do life! At least be entertaining and have sex once in a while!

For our third remote learning day I actually had TWO students visit me on Zoom! Sounds low, but students NEVER go to office hours so I feel super special

I’m going to try and manifest Full Request Friday this week. Any tips on what to say to the query gods?

Off my list of 100, I had a hard time finding 10 agents to query today… I also got a 3.5 hour rejection so that was new…

Since it’s not a query day I managed to get over 2000 words into a manuscript. It’s really coming along so I guess I found my focus while I wait for replies…

10 more queries today. My list of available agents is getting really short…

Querying week 2 Sent out 10 queries on Monday. Have received a rejection less than 24 hours after query sent…

Querying week 1 Sent out 10 queries on Monday 3 rejections on Friday. I will send out 10 more on Monday. Only 1/2 the agents on my list are accepting submissions so this may take a while…

Editing pet peeve: adding something to a statement or line of dialogue only to find you had already written the same thing three lines down 🤦🏻‍♀️

I finished the next draft of “my favorite teacher is running for Congress and I’m in love with a Canadian” YA novel. I have my list of 100 agents to query. Problem is, novel is 61,000 words. Too short? Can I find a few thousand words to add in the next few weeks?! Any literary agents, advice please!

4,300 words today! We’re working on the finale and I’m at 57k over all. This thing might be done by the end of the year!

Woah, 5,548 words today! And I feel like I could keep going but my back has other plans. Finally past the 50k mark and bad guys are closing in!

Hello, if I just added you and you are a literary agent, I’m thinking of querying you and staying up to date on your MSWL, if you’re asking…

November is over so back to revising the campaign novel… at 40,000. I added another 2700 today. I want to have it done by the end of the year so I can start querying when everyone opens back up.

Since July I’ve written 66,361 words in my projects. I’m bored at work (and I already wrote 2,500 today) so I messed around with Excel… huge change in focus after my meeting with @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social

This town of 300,000 people is so f’in small! My therapist’s son is in my class this afternoon. 🙄

For the second time in two weeks I’m trying to read a “grown up” book (aka not YA) and I just CAN’T! I feel like I’m slogging through a swamp of normal people who always remember the breath they were holding…

I hit a magic number today. I also got motivated by telling some students what my book was about. They all said they want to read it so I guess I need to finish it for them…

Ugh! Nothing but time and space to write and ZERO motivation!

Ok so I officially SUCK at NaNo. Not only have I not written in 2 weeks, I’ve also gotten bronchitis and had to home school for 5 days. Today I sat back down and cranked out over 1,100 words. Maybe there is still hope for this manuscript… #writing

Went to the Dr. Yesterday for a chest X-ray since I’m not getting better therefore no writing yesterday or today. I did put together a quick pitch for another WIP so maybe that counts?

Over 1000 words today in my NON #NaNoWriMo project so probably not good? But progress is progress, these are words in another manuscript I hope to have finished by January so Yey?

1,937 words so far. The book I’m writing is more interesting than the book I’m reading, but with this bronchitis my head and thoughts are foggy… Anyway, Lindsey and Kat (her future stepmom) have been kidnapped. Lindsey has released them from their zip ties… what’s next?

Day three of #nanowrimo and I added 1,396 words. Lindsey shot down a snobby salesperson showing her future stepmom her confidence.

I have bronchitis so no writing today. My MC (Lindsey) is still sitting in her room, discussing why her dad shouldn’t get married until she’s in college. She’s also teaching her best friend how to escape from zip ties.

Ok, so I’m going to try and up my social media presence by posting about my NaNoWriMo project. Starting tomorrow you’re all going to be hearing about Lindsey, the girl who likes to get kidnapped for fun!

Pics or it didn’t happen right? 14 years with my car including two cross country trips…

Mice being cute

We adopted some new #mice today!

I finished all my non-writing writing work (critique readings, contests etc) so now I have nothing left to do but actually write 😭 Maybe I should plot a NaNoWriMo project…

Got my first blue sky code and invited my husband. He was the one who got me stuck on Twitter so I guess I have to?

Ok writers, what are you scared of (punctuation wise) I’m terrified of em dashes…

I feel like my first post should be significant or memorable but since I can’t think of anything I’ll just be a 90’s child and post song lyrics: “Here we are now Entertain us”