Sometimes I hit this point where I just can’t think about any more writing advice, and I just have to put my head down and write. Hopefully, it all comes out in the wash with good critique. I do know I’m a better writer now than two years ago, and maybe in two more years I’ll be even better.

In related issues, I finished my edits on chapter nine of Waking Kiara, including a whole new scene for my bad guy. My ultimate goal is to get her polished and submitted at least three places by the end of this year, along with finishing my story Fair Play and my next rough draft, Maya’s Web. By NaNo, I hope to be working on Seshat’s Seduction (slightly moved around, title wise). Slow and steady–call me the tortoise, I guess. But everything seems to be coming along, so that’s a great thing.

I also have brutal allergies this season, anyone else?

I like seeing the way a story can change through edits, too. Being part of a critique group where I get to read and reread chapters is a neat way to see how things evolve for writers (besides myself). How a sentence that worked becomes a paragraph and an entire paragraph will get killed in favor of another. How you can alter a scene’s pacing by cutting here and adding there. It is really neat to see a good story become great.

On that note I edited (thanks to my critique buddy, vivid_cognition) and submitted my story for eXtasy’s September anthology, Cafe Nowhere. Whee! I also joined my local chapter of the RWA, and attended their monthly meeting. It was great to see people coming together. This year’s goal is “submit,” which gives me a giggle but is right in line with my goals. I hope to get Waking Kiara ready to submit to agents, start my very first round of NY rejections, by the third quarter of the year this year.

Lastly, I am sheeple and I joined twitter. You can be my twitter friend: ameliajune, or you can read my twitter feed on my sidebar over there —–>

Have I mentioned how thrilled I am to be writing again? ‘Cause I am!