WORK-IN-PROGRESS
My work-in-progress, a novel, occupies most of my time these days. I’m revising. Last fall, I won a prize at The Book Promoter: an editorial review by editor/agent Svetlana Pironko of the Author Rights Agency.
After talking with her and reviewing the changes she suggested, I began a revision, this time on paper. I’m eighty pages in.
BUSINESS WRITING
As well, I follow a course from Susan Anderson — Freelance Writers Bootcamp — on writing for business, either business to business or business to client. Some of the types of writing she teaches — blogging, content writing for web-sites, white papers — are interesting to me. Her course teaches how to do those and about 10 more.
WORDPRESS
Yes, I have a WordPress blog and even my own domain name at Wordpress —ginny200.com — but I set it all up with only rudimentary knowledge. An article on Mashable, 13 cheap(or free) online classes to boost your digital skills, led me to a course called WordPress for Beginners. I’m taking it now.
EDITING
I have an extensive library of books about editing, everything from Self-editing for Fiction Writers, by Rennie Browne and Dave King, to the most recent, The Frugal Editor by Carolyn Howard-Johnson. A favourite is Revision and Self-Editing, by James Scott Bell.
All this to explain that I’ve been busy this winter.
Hi Ginny,
I’m impressed! Lokking forward to reading more from you soon. Happy spring (seems it’s almost here on this side of the Atlantic),
Nancy
Spring’s a few weeks away here. We had more snow last week and more coming although today is very mild—7C. When your favourite crabapple tree blooms, send me a picture, now that I know the tree. Ginny