I visited Eleni Konstantine’s new Library blog this morning, she had posted a review for Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. Any way seeing as it was my first visit to Eleni’s new site, me being me, had to have a sticky beak. Seem’s Eleni’s doing a challenge, a READING CHALLENGE. Not one to pass on a challenge, I’ve signed up for two reading challenges. 100+ Reading Challenge and 
Support Your Local Library Challenge, both of these can be found on J. Kaye’s blog.
Now this has me thinking (did you feel the earth move?) eHarlequin held a reading challenge last year, so i may as well go and see if they are doing the same this year. In for one in for them all.
You will be able to read about my reading challenge progress on my Review site, may as well put it to some use seeing as I’m taking time off from Fallen Angel Reviews. I’m not sure if I’ll post reviews on the books I read yet, I’ll see how I go for time, my editing has to be my first priority.
As for my other challenge, the editing one, well let’s just say, better luck next month.
That’s it for now.
Sandie
Yes, I finally managed to conquer the challenge I missed last year. Kiwi Writers, ‘Submit a Book 2010′, is dusted. I submitted a novella for CC a couple of weeks ago. Now the wait begins. This doesn’t mean I’m finished the challenge, I still have a heap of editing to do.
Now, because I’m so nice, I challenged the girls over at RWAus NaNo loop to a monthly challenge during January. Some are going great guns, while the rest of us are crawling behind. The first week, I was on fire. Last week, well let’s not think about last week, it was not good.
I’m also going to do the NaNoEdMo in March again. Why not? I’m editing anyway, so may as well have someone to answer to, someone to keep me honest.
Well that’s it for me this week, I’ll be back next week with an up date on my progress. Let’s hope it’s better than last week.
See ya,
Sandie
Drats, I forgot all about entering the ‘Submit a Book in 2009’ challenge over on the Kiwi Writers site. I guess it is at least one way to make sure I submit something by the end of the year. I can do this, I know I can, all I have to do is edit one novel have it critiqued do any re-writes and submit it by the end of the month. That gives me what? 29 days.
Yep, I can do it, I know I can. If I recite that enough I may even believe it. Oh and I just signed up for the 2010 Submit a Book Challenge.
Another challenge I was under taking this year is falling by the wayside. Yes, my diet. You know how some people don’t eat when they are stressed? Well I eat and eat. Chocolate, cream biscuits, potato chips, ice cream all the things I’m not suppose to eat. Somehow I don’t think my diet consultant is going to be very happy with me next time I see her. Maybe I could get a padlock for the pantry and give the key to my hubby. No that wouldn’t work. I’ll just have to find where I left my will-power and work harder.
Okay, back to my editing so I can reach my goal.
Sandie
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.~
Happy writing
Sandie
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~ Karl Kraus
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~ James Michener
Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong. ~ Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Happy Writing
Sandie
Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk. ~ Will Shetterly
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.~ Mark Twain
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ~ Jules Renard, “Diary,” February 1895
Happy writing
Sandie
Most beginning writers – and I was the same – are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they’ve never tasted themselves. How can you make a great – or even an adequate – bouillabaisse if you’ve never had any? If you don’t really understand why people read mysteries – or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever – then there’s no way in the world you’re going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression “Write what you know.” ~ Daniel Quinn
Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~ Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Happy writing
Sandie
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. ~ John Ruskin
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~ Vladimir Nabakov
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~ Anton Chekhov
Happy Writing
Sandie
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new. ~ Neil Gaiman
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith, “All Trivia,” Afterthoughts, 1931
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~ Norbet Platt
Happy writing
Sandie
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ~ E.L. Doctorow
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. ~ William Faulkner
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. ~ Jessamyn West
Happy writing
Sandie
