Jennifer McKenzie
Romance--Boy meets girl. Romantic Suspense--Boy meets girl with dead bodies.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
A Little Good News Is Always Nice
After being ripped on my 500 word entry (and I'll never tell which one it was), I was FULL of trepidation when I sent a 100 word entry to the Crabby Cows. This time, however, I clicked http://crabbycows.blogspot.com and found positive remarks about my entry. Yaaay!
There are many days that I wonder if I'm wasting my time. When the CC's ripped the last one, it wasn't just my writing structure but my IDEA that got trashed. I thought "If I don't have good ideas, what the hell am I doing?" I did the gambit of whining, self-criticism and then, finally, acceptance. It's subjective. I recognize that most of my ideas fall in the conservative category. I'm not about blood, guts, rape, venom or tragic endings. I'm a romance writer, for God's sake! That means a happy ending and some hot love scenes. It's what I like to write.
Not that I don't feel good about getting a "Woot" from the CC. I do. It means that I can craft words and convey what I mean. Doing it in 100 was sooooo tough. I started with 150 words. Then I cut, slashed, removed until I had 116. Then I had to prune more. It was weird. I think it taught me to get to the meat of the emotions I wanted to write.
It was a great exercise. I'll keep practicing.
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