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- What is your genre?
- Mainly Fantasy, both YA and Adult, but also SF, mainstream, mild horror, occult, Christian Fantasy, Southern Regional, and a smattering of literary.
- What do you write?
- novels, short stories
- Are you a pantser, a plotter, or a hybrid?
- plotter
- What is your current project?
- YA Fantasy
- What stage is your current project in?
- I actually have three current projects. One is completed in an early draft form, and I am looking hard for a good beta for it. (Of course I would be willing to return the favor!) It is YA Fantasy and features both children and adults, so I definitely need a beta who enjoys reading about children.
The other two, a quirky YA fantasy and a straight ahead adult fantasy, both have great betas; I feel extremely blessed!
- I'm looking for a CP who
- wants to swap full drafts just for critique, is willing to swap chapters as we go
- How long have you been writing?
- As long as I can remember
- Published or Aspiring?
- published
- What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?
- Dialogue, characterization and strong plotting with unexpected twists.
- What do you feel is your greatest weakness as a writer?
- I don't enjoy writing description and I continue to work hard at writing really good, high-action fight scenes.
- Do you have any specialized knowledge in some field?
- I'm fairly knowledgeable about horses and dogs, and relatively informed about philosophy, theology and politics. I know a lot about tropical fish and martinis also.
- Age
- Old enough
- Where are you from?
- Southeastern US
- Looking for a CP or Taken?
- looking
- Where did you hear about Crit Partner Match? (we want to say thank you to them!)
- Absolutewrite
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I do hope my late winter/early spring is very productive. I've already cleaned up most of the stuff I'm taking to Springmingle. Now I need to settle into getting back on my normal track.
I'm diving into conference prep. (I'm a planner on certain things, this being one of them.) Caitlyn Dlouhy says in her bio she's looking for interesting projects for the next year. So, I'm really concentrating on having four in top shape. After all, she needs choices. I'll listen to what she has to say and then present what I thinks best fits her needs. Then I have to dive into a contemporary/historical fiction series I've been researching for years. More than I like thinking about. But it's going to be good (imho). So cold gone and I'm back in the saddle. Like the Pony Express of old, I'm in full gear.
Have you given a thought to going to Springmingle? It's run by Southern Breeze, the GA, AL, MS branch of SCBWI. They also hold a fall conference in Birmingham. Look them up at http://www.southern-breeze.org/. This year's editors promise some great workshops. Caitlyn Dlouhy's on voice will help me a lot. I'm interested to find out of she's more into first person than third. There's also a marketing guru who will offer advice on how we should do that for ourselves. Here all along I thought I just had to write and sell the story (to either publisher or agent). Now I find out I have to do everything else. Phew! This is a very difficult business but I'm not quitting.
If you'd like to see my crit stats, I've listed them on my page.
Amber
Just read your profile and think we might have something in common. I am desperately seeking a CP. I'm in the final stages of editing my current WIP and while my local writing group is a nice distraction, they have no interest/knowledge in the paranormal/fantasy/horror type genres. I live in the southeast (Georgia) and have been writing forever. Have several trunk novels but I'm determined to get published this time.