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Comment on Into the Dragon’s Maw by jane

jane — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:53:19 +0000

Okay!

Comment on Into the Dragon’s Maw by Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:26:30 +0000

One of the things a writer needs is courage … you have that in spades, but you can also write. So get it done, okay?

Comment on Into the Dragon’s Maw by Gloria Hannon

Gloria Hannon — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:38:40 +0000

Jane, that’s great!

Wow, to think that 5% more work and you might have a publishable novel, maybe even a publishable series1

Terrific.

Get busy!

Comment on Semper Fidelis by jane

jane — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:31:26 +0000

Thanks, guys! George, as big as I talk in my post, this is not going to be the easiest attitude shift for me to make. But I think I can get there.

Comment on Semper Fidelis by Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:20:45 +0000

Wow, Jane. That was beautiful. I need to plagiarize your heart.

Comment on Semper Fidelis by George

George — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:08:26 +0000

Excellent, Jane. I am encouraged by your assessment of the boot camp. It really was a life changing experience. I am going to adopt one of your take-home lessons in particular: the one about no longer being ashamed to identify myself as a writer. It’s so hard to take one’s self seriously as an author when one has not been published yet, but Mr. Card definitely proved– to all of us, I think– that we ARE writers.

I will try never to doubt that again.

Comment on Boot Camp: Workshop Revelations by jane

jane — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:05:20 +0000

If you have an opportunity to do the whole thing in the future, Roxanne, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Intense, yes, but worth it!

Comment on Boot Camp: Workshop Revelations by Roxanne

Roxanne — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:31:45 +0000

Sounds like the rest of the week was pretty intense. Wish I could have stayed for the whole thing. I know it’s all I think about since I came back and I was only there for two days of it. Good luck on your story.

Comment on Boot Camp: Workshop Revelations by jane

jane — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:10:10 +0000

Oh, I definitely am! I think I probably have to take some time to process first, though.

Thanks for coming by my blog! I adored your story too, and would love to see it when you get another draft.

Comment on Boot Camp: Workshop Revelations by Karen Jackson

Karen Jackson — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:52:37 +0000

It was an amazing week Jane – thanks for keeping it all alive by blogging about it. I’m having the same dazed feeling today – happy to be home, yet missing everyone, my head full of the comments, and the big and little moments. You really nailed it on the head about the critiquing process at the workshop. It is a very intimate process, and you get to know the inside of a person’s head from their writing and their critiquing, in a way unique to almost any other process. I appreciated that everyone handled that respectfully.
And I’ll add – I loved your story!!! But you already knew that. We were both suffering from no research time. Looking forward to reading it when it’s done, with lots of cool, researched details, whenever you decide to set it (you are going to finish it, right??!!)