Wordle & FQD

I’m late in posting this, but I didn’t want to ignore it either. Wordle.net is an awesome way to lose a few hours messing around.

Call me crazy but this is my favorite new lens. I rushed pasted in my three WIPs. Bria and MJ and several other Divas did theirs.

You can fiddle with the color palette, orientation settings for the words and I think I set the maximum words to use at 150 (the default). Lots to play around with and procrastinate.

As you can see if you go look at the larger version of this one, the largest names are the heroine, the hero and a couple of secondaries (Lord and Lady Rylestone) — it’s slightly skewed to the secondaries because of title usage for their names and their home and no, I can’t cut one of the characters. Next you see two of my favorite echo words, “back” and “into” and some other theme related words “foal”, “mare”, and “stables”.

Bria’s set up an accountability group at RD and I’ve been setting my goals as 2 hours of writing on FQD for 6 days a week, journaling for 30 minutes a day and going through a craft lecture or blogging every other day. Yesterday was a bonus post for Andi.

Progress this week has been slow at best only about 2000 words in 12 hours of actual writing time. My mind has been craving more inputs and I’ve been reading one of Margie Lawson’s lectures every other day and trying to keep up with the exercises in it. I don’t expect progress to pick up much in this coming week either, especially since we should be hosting a bbq on Friday.

Andi pointed me to a new editor blog by Alicia Rasley and her friend Teresa Stevens: edittorrent and I keep going back to read and reread posts. Their redlines series is a must read. Installment #11 has some great tips on pitching and making sure your summary is in the right ballpark and can be converted into a query letter as well. Definitely worth a look.