Milestone #1 reached!

Over the weekend, I send off my package for the 2013 Borderlands Bootcamp which included an outline of the characters, a 5 page synopsis, and a 32-page opening which was 2.5 chapters (just over 7,000 words). Happy Dance time!

 Okay, enough with the celebration, time to keep moving. Back to novel writing. I've updated my Scrivener document with the Borderlands content and created rough scene place holders that will allow me to jot things down and write the actual scenes. It's a great view of your novel. If you're at all serious about your writing, it's worth investing in Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php).

Also, there are a few good short story anthologies that have opened for submissions lately that I'm hoping to take a stab at over the next few months:

September 30th - Dead North - http://silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/dead-north-guidelines/

October 31th - Urban Fantasy themed anthology - http://www.elektrikmilkbathpress.com/submissions

November 30th - Urban Green Man -

http://www.urbangreenman.com/submissions.htm

I also made some progress on the word count on my novel pushing it to just over 32K.

Borderlands Writers Bootcamp

I'm in! It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I know my last blog entry detailed how I had decided to put my Black Knight Towing novel to rest, but it wouldn't let me. Trevor Galloway kept coming back to me and demanded to be written about.

With the deadlines for the several arts grants looming, I buckled up on wrote up 3 chapters, about 40 pages of the novel and whipped them into shape for submission. I used the same writing sample as my submission to the Borderlands Writers Bootcamp. Earlier this week I received an email telling me I was accepted! I did a little happy dance.

Now, my attention has turned to what I need to do to prepare for this bootcamp. For September 1st, I need to provide: 

• up to 35 opening pages of my novel 
• synopsis or chapter outline of remainder
• brief but encompassing list of major and secondary characters and their biographies

It's going to be an exciting and busy summer!