by MK England | Mar 9, 2016 | Drafting, Editing, Writing Groups, Writing Process
Getting critiqued is hard. There’s really no way around it. When you first start getting hardcore critiqued, it hurts. It took me the better part of a year to grow thick enough skin to really get something useful out of my critiques, and I felt horrible the entire...
by MK England | Dec 4, 2015 | Drafting, Editing, Goals
What. A. Month. #PitchWars agent round. Tons of querying. An R&R request. And, oh yeah… a little thing called NaNoWriMo. This was my first year as an Municipal Liaison for National Novel Writing Month, and it was pretty great. Stressful, busy, but fun and...
by MK England | Nov 10, 2015 | Editing, Publishing, Writing Process
Okay. I think I’m finally ready to talk about #PitchWars, the novel contest that has been consuming my life for the past two months. Between the agent round of #PitchWars and the start of NaNoWriMo, my feelings lately have been a lot like this: But here’s the real...
by MK England | Sep 14, 2015 | Interviews
Hello, creatures! Sarah Glenn Marsh and I did a joint mentor/mentee interview as part of the whole #PitchWars shindig, and it’s now up for your reading pleasure on Brenda Drake’s blog. Thanks to Marnise Nicole for coordinating the interview, and to Brenda...
by MK England | Sep 12, 2015 | Editing, Goals
I managed to break the back end of my site for a few days, so this post is long over due, but … I was selected as a 2015 #PitchWars mentee! The evening of the announcement went something like this: THANK YOU SO MUCH @SG_Marsh I’M SOBBING #PitchWars — MK...
