I’m feeling pretty good right now. This is due in part to a variety of things.

First and foremost: my dinner. I was bad and didn’t eat dinner and cut right to dessert. Chocolate Brownie Overload. Hot fudge, chucks of brownie, chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and sprinkled with toasted almonds. Yummy! I can attest to the recuperative powers of chocolate!

Second: My inbox was packed today. I have no idea what’s up, but my mailing list has been getting hit a lot the last two days and the message board too. :confused: End of month or something? Anyway, it made me happy, things like that do. :blush:

Third: My daughter turned three at the start of this month and her personality has just grown in leaps and bounds. She’s a delight, a riot, a sweetheart! We have such fun together, talking and painting toenails and laughing about silly stuff.

Fourth: I was contacted by a favorite author of mine today. I was thrilled. Thrilled!

Fifth: Kate Duffy replied to a thread I’d started (quite by accident) and said that Brava loves historicals, but doesn’t get near enough of them submitted!! (You know how excited that made me. :rolleyes: )

Now, of course, I didn’t do much as far as writing is concerned, but just as I was about to despair of accomplishing anything, one of my cp’s returned a crit!! Yay. :hehe: So even though I haven’t actually written today, I’ll still be getting something done by going over the crit and tweaking my ms.

Oh and Sixth: my new fridge arrived today!! A huge relief. My other one just died on us one day. We’ve been using the freezer side as a fridge and lost everything we had frozen (a lot of meat ) BestBuy was backordered on our fridge so we’ve been pretty much without food for over a week. I’m certain you can imagine the strain. It sucked.

The only blight in my day is this niggling sensation in the back of my mind that I should be accomplishing so much more than I have, that I should have something to show for everything related to my writing. I love it when people sign up for the mailing list, I love it when someone new posts on the message board, but then I feel I should have something to offer in return. Something besides just… me. You know? As it is, I’ve got months to wait until my Arabella story comes out and after that… well, I better get off here and finish polishing my latest solicited ms. Possibly, that is the insistent niggling.

Well, rants are flying fast and furious, and I have one! My first, I think. :plain:

It is in my humble opinion that if you have something to say, you should have the [insert whatever you like here] to admit that you’re the one who said it. Rebutting, refuting, complaining, explaining, commenting, whatever and then signing with an alias or, my personal favorite, “Anonymous” (You don’t know who you are? Ask your mom, she’ll tell you!) is just plain chicken sh*t.

Sincerely,
Sylvia Day

[Disclaimer: The view expressed above is the opinion of the author and reflects the viewpoint of the site owner (a good thing since they're one and the same! ) Simply because it is my blog, I can write whatever I like here. If you don't like it or disagree, feel free to comment, as long as your name isn't Anonymous.]

What do you think? Was that a good first rant?

Today I heard from two separate authors that the market for historical romanticas is on a downward slide. Can I say I was crushed?
I was.

I have two finished historical romanticas. Together, they total over 70,000 words of my blood, sweat, and dreams. Not that I’ve given up on selling them, I just realized that as hard as I imagined it would be to sell them, it’s going to be even harder than that. So, willing to take drastic measures…

“Wanted: loving house for two wonderful historical romantica novellas. Included are great plots, to-die-for sexy heroes, smart take-no-prisoners heroines, and love stories to swoon over. Cared for from conception by a hard-working author with some talent. Up-to-date on shots, have papers. Please make “The Call” for more information - Sylvia@SylviaDay.com .“

:blush:

I was very surprised to read on Lori Foster’s Message Board that the judges were only sending Lori two or three entries out of the 200+ that had been entered. Less than 30 entries will ever get to Lori. The odds, quite frankly, suck. I was even more surprised to hear Janice Maynard say that in her pile less than 1/2 of 1% were historical entries.

Hmmm… I love historical romanticas!! I wish there were more of them.

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(Adults only, please. :blush: )

Okay, I’m working late on my revision of my ms, taking a look at one of my cp’s crits. Something she points out takes me by surprise. She writes:

“Man! I’d think that she would be angry at him for doing that to her!!“

I pause. :plain:
Think about it. :confused:

She’s absolutely right! :O That got me thinking and writing. Adding a bit here and there to flesh out the scene and make it cohesive with what the reader has learned about the heroine so far.

While I’m doing this, I type a bit of dialogue and some internal conflict and I get this momentary sensation of déjà vu.

I stop.
Re-read.
Think, “Did I write something similiar in one of my other mss?”
Answer, “No.”

Hmmm… It just fits.

I have no idea what happened. Maybe I’m going mad. :crazy: Perhaps exhaustion is setting in. :doze: Don’t know. Don’t care.

All I know is, after two and a half days of endless of procrastination and deep thought, I am back on track and writing again. :hehe:

(Man, I hope you guys are still friends with me after this nutty post. :blush: )

I goofed around with the blog again and added borders around the entries. I like how they’re grouped by days now, but I wanted to see what you guys thought. Do you like it this way? Or was the other way better?