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Chatgpt AI and what it came up with
Chatgpt AI wrote an outline of the content about my book that I entered.
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My book, Second Chance at Happiness is coming along fine. I am almost done with the edits. I was expecting a fifth edit and wondered where the book was since the editor hadn’t contacted me in over a month. I received the fifth set of edits two days ago. Yesterday, I opened the email and […]
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I received the second set of edits for my novel June 2, 2020.
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My first round of edits are off to Ambassador International, the publisher of my novel Second Chance at Happiness inspirational, historical novel.
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The first round of edits are done on the manuscript I’m working on for Ambassador International. It feels good and bad at the same time. Good because I’m glad I’m done. Bad because I know I have more work to do. I need to read through the story in one sitting–76,000 words and edit as […]
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If I’m to be successful, I need to carve out time to write. The precursor to writing time is hours spent checking emails and social messaging. And I wonder where the time went and why I’m not being more productive. Even now, when I could be editing a story, I find myself catching up and […]
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Writing Contests: the Key to My Creativity?
I was just perusing Facebook this morning when I came upon a share from another writer friend about a contest to win a mentor. The thought of having a mentor–someone who will read my work, tell me what to change and what is strong–sounds wonderful. I want to enter this contest. I just have to […]
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So I’m more focused on creating art than I am at writing (and editing my work) right now. Maybe I need to focus on short stories in order to attempt to sell something, but then what if that goes south too? Will I give up on that? No. I may take a long break from […]
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June 30, 2017 I submitted under 6,000 words of my short contemporary romance book with the working title, The Cattle Barron’s Redemption, to Pages From The Heart Contest. I don’t expect to win. All I want are the comments on the work I submitted. I’ll know something in late September…I think. In the meantime, I […]
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