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how about a free critique?? June 21, 2009

After my ‘first five pages/sentences’ post on giveagirlapen.com, Liz has decided to offer the chance for writers to send us girls your own first five sentences.
She will post them, with her critiques, on the site on June 28th.
This will give all writers the chance to receive help—to start with the best hook possible. We’re all here to network and root each other on && this is a great way to take advantage of that!!
Check out Liz’s post, which states the exact rules, and send in your work to ifyougiveagirl@gmail.com by June 27th.

I look forward to seeing what everyone has written. I love critiques—so much fun =)
I’ll be posting my first five sentences, as well, and hope that ya’ll will help me out, along with Liz! I welcome all advice—it’s always nice to see all views and take what makes sense to me and use the info for necessary changes…

Have a great Sunday, and Happy Father’s Day to those celebrating today.
Remember, if you give a girl… isn’t just for girls. We’re looking for any and all writers. So send your stuff in!!
I’ll talk to you all tomorrow!!

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*p.s. — is it just me, or is this really weird that the one post that i was sooo ridiculously insecure about is the one that’s garnered the most attention, turning into not one, but four posts!?!?!! Craziness!!!
just goes to show that we all need to have confidence in ourselves!!!

 

someone asked to use my work! June 21, 2009

over at giveagirlapen.com, I posted on Friday.
Well, I checked our email for the site, and someone had written asking if she could blog about what I’d written—giving me credit, of course.
I agreed, and she posted =)

you can check out my blog three posts down—the one titled ‘blogging’ has a link to it.
I found it interesting that it was the one thing I wrote that I was so completely unsure of, and it ended up really resonating with another writer.
Very cool.
Here’s her blog — clickityclickhere.
Sweet girl named Steena Holmes. She has a book out!!!

it’s 2 am again, so I’m heading to bed.
Well, I’m already in bed. I’m closing the computer and crashing.
Nite, all. I’ll write more later today!!
xx -e*