Hi everyone! Not sure what familiar faces I'll come across but if you think you know me, or want to get to know me, contact me (however one does that). Looking forward to learning my way around the site and join some classes. Never too old to learn a thing or two right?

Patricia Rickrode
w/a Jansen Schmidt

So, I posted about me yesterday under someone else's thread and it was suggested I start my own with a lil about me.

In acuality, I've been writing since I was about 12 or 13, but created stories in my head a lot earlier. (NOT to be confused with my fantasies.) In my teens, my stories were a mix of third and first person, with POV all over the place. But they were all about me, my boyfriend, my best friend and her boyfriend. Hand written, page after page after page. I don't know if my Daddy got a hold of it and read it, or just knew what I was doing and told me to throw that crap away. Some of it went, but not all of it and I continued to write. I took a creative writing class in high school and my teacher told me my writing was trite and I'd never sell anything. If she is still alive, which I doubt, I hope she knows the market share romance holds today.

I've sold some poetry, won some small awards with poetry, placed as a semi finalist in RWA's Golden Heart, and won some small awards with short stories and first chapters. It's not the size of the award so much as it is the validation that someone thinks your work is that good. Though, I have to admit, the critique I had on my first completed manuscript sent to bed with a brandy bottle and tears. I put it away and haven't touched it since. And, now, it will all have to be retyped because it was put on a disk long enough ago that the newer computers can't read it. Perfect time to edit, right?

Writer's are a breed of their own. We write for many reasons, one of which to quiet the voices in our head, demanding their story be told first. I was seeing a psycologist when we live in Italy. The conversation went something like this, actually verbatim:

"Do you hear voices in your head?"
"Of course I do, I'm a writer!"
"I don't mean the make believe ones."
"Neither do I."

He never saw me again.I'm looking forward to being here and learning as much as I can. My genre's currently are historical romance, fantasy, horror/Sy-Fy and Poetry. I also have around 100 erotica short stories and two complete manuscripts. The count is one completed manuscript, three half done manuscripts and a couple of first chapters I'm really excited about. I participate in NANOWRMO (sp) and sometimes JANO.

I look forward to chatting with as many of you as I can.

My goal is to do another edit/revision of last year's NaNo novel in preparation to finish it during 2017 NaNoWriMo. Yup, that's right, I won last year with only about half the novel finished. And, I need to get back in the grove of the story and clean up some stuff in the first half so I'm ready to go in November.

I'm hoping you can all help keep me working on this goal.

I joined for the upcoming BDSM for Writers class. But am finding more here than I expected

While I belong to a local critique group, no one reads or writes erotica, so only my short stories are usually reviewed. Would love to find a beta, critique partner or a critique group!

I do have a published short story in an anthology and am preparing a submissions for two others. Have also begun blogging on my new author website.

I have created a goal of release dates for my Erotica and Futuristic Romance. I believe this site and classes will help me reach those goals.

I have just started writing again after many months. (Broke my ankle!) That said, I was sporadic at best, prior to that.

I am now working on a new book, and the plan is for it to be the first in a series. (I've never written a series before, so that could be interesting.)

My goal is 1,000 words per days. Most days I've written around 1,300 to 1,600 so pretty happy with that. I've only had one day where I've not reached my goal, and that was 737 words.

The aim is to write a novella of around 25,000 to 30,000 words every three months maximum.

Hello there! My name is Lexie Hancock, I am a university student from Ontario, and I am a newly published author. I write fiction, fantasy, and the like. I joined this page, because I am very familiar with NaNoWriMo and thought this site could present more of a challenge than the standard 50k words that I can easily surpass. Does anyone have any good pointers how to get started and involved?

By December 31, 2017 I will have:

1. submitted 2 manuscripts. Specifically, two category-length contemporary romances.
2. I will research agents and develop a list of at least three that I would consider submitting to.
3. Become active in my local RWA chapters by attending at least 1/2 of the meetings for both of the local chapters for the rest of the year. I may choose at that point to continue with both or pick one.

I will update this with progress by adding a comment at the beginning of every month.

Hi All,

I'm new to Savvyauthors.com. I haven't tried to find a critique partner until now, but I read this is a good place to find one. If I'm in the wrong forum for searching for critique partners, please redirect me.

Thanks!
Shina

Hello Savvy Authors,

I am a newbie to writing groups, this is my first try. I am looking for editing tools and suggestions to organize roughly nine months of free writing. The first part of my writing journey has been “getting it down on paper”. Now I’m going back to make sense of it all and am looking to see what others have done before I start on this giant task.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hello,

I've never attended a webinar at Savvy Authors before. I just signed up for Liz Pelletier's "Third Pass Editing Webinar" but I don't have a clue how to access it. Will an email be sent to me with a link before the event?

Thanks!

Greetings fellow SavvyAuthor members. My journey to finishing my first MS has been a long and winding road. I began writing what I thought was book one of a YA trilogy only to find out at the WD Writing Conference in Philadelphia that the age range for the protagonist is very specific. Unfortunately, there was no way I could adjust my character to fit the range w/o impacting the story. My MS was within the desired word count range for YA, but not nearly enough to make it as an adult Sci-Fi / Thriller. So I wrote the entire trilogy as a single novel with three parts and have been exploring the exciting world of querying agents and publishers.

I am currently trying to remain active on Twitter (@david_neuner) and am preparing to begin a new novel while my MS is being considered.

There will be a few of us sprinting most nights in the SavvyChat sprint room. We've decided we all suck at writing and editing every day. LOL Tonight we'are starting at 7pm EST/4PM PST.

If you want some motivation mojo drop in and write with us!

After paying for a premium membership a month ago, I'm a bit frustrated with this site. Is there no place for us members to yack??? Can anyone tell me if the courses and webinars and stuff worth the price??? Is there any place for me to write and share my UNPUBLISHED work just for fun and/or for review? The whole site seems to be solely a "money maker for the webmaster" and doesn't seem to offer any value for the money paid. I'm new, but I don't see any activity here and I'm curious as to what I'm doing wrong or how I get into "the good stuff".

Just sayin' . . . . . .

Hey guys, just wanted to pop in and say hi. Just found SavvyAuthors with their Spring Wow'Em contest (which I've already entered as well). Trying to get a literary agent and querying my butt off, it seems. Hope the contest goes well for me and everyone else out there. XD

Hello fellow writers! I'm new to the space and am most interested in meeting critique partners. I have a finished manuscript, but only friends have read it (and I think they're too lovely and supportive to give any hard-nosed criticism). I'm most interested in local meetups but can't seem to find any online. Does anyone know if SavvyWriters connects writers in that way?

Uh, hi.

I'm a wife and mom. I'm owned by four cats. My favorite show is Chuck. I love all sorts of music. I'm from South Carolina and I currently live in Lubbock. Yeah, that's all I've got at the moment.

I have no idea what this site is about but I paid for a membership anyway because it looks like a fun and educational place to hang out.

Cheers,
Kodiak (aka Jeff in real life )

Some of our best instructors are our members! If you have a unique skill or a new twist on a writing technique and want to share check out our 2018 Request for Class Proposals! @RJ Garside is scheduling classes for our 2018 calendar.

Need more information...click here

Have you checked out our great list of agents and editors for PITCHFEST?
June 13-16

Hey!

When I send out queries, the agent almost always requests they be pasted in the email as well as the first pages or chapter. After working very hard to get the format just so in my MS, when I paste into the email, it comes out all wrong. Indents are gone, and the text is pushed over to the left of the email. I don't feel good about sending it that way. I have a MAC.

Has anyone else had this problem and know what to do about it?

Thanks,
Martha McKiever

Hi, I'm Lynn Stevens. I write romance and my novel FULL COUNT is releasing soon through Entangled Embrace.
I'm terrible at writing introduction threads. LOL

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Three years on from Egypt, Anna Davies embarks on her first cruise with best friend Sandra. A few days into the holiday they are woken by three blasts from the ship’s foghorn, indicating that someone has fallen overboard. A woman is lost at sea; the ship turns around to search for her, but she has disappeared into the night.

Was it suicide? Did she lose her balance and fall - or was there foul play involved? Did her husband push her? Would anyone be able to prove whether this was murder or an unfortunate accident?

What a perfect place to stage a murder!

Hi from the sunny North Coast of Spain!
Even though it's been ages I've been around SavvyAuthors, it's been a long time I haven't logged in or attended any workshop.
Not that I have a lot of time. I work at my town hall attending people with disabilities and their families, and also run a family. But I plan to publish a few small-ish novelettes in Spanish this year as a way to increase the income that gets home so I need to get to know the nuts and bolts of self publishing and how to use social media to the most.

Hot off the press! Missing at Sea, the second book in the Anna Davies Mystery series is now available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XFKJTV4/

Three years on from Egypt, Anna Davies embarks on her first cruise with best friend Sandra. A few days into the holiday they are woken by three blasts from the ship’s foghorn, indicating that someone has fallen overboard. A woman is lost at sea; the ship turns around to search for her, but she has disappeared into the night.

Was it suicide? Did she lose her balance and fall - or was there foul play involved? Did her husband push her? Would anyone be able to prove whether this was murder or an unfortunate accident?

What a perfect place to stage a murder!

Hi all - was linked to this site through the upcoming class on forensics in mystery - looks interesting! I'm a scatterbug writer - depending on the character, I may end up writing mystery, literary fiction, or poetry. I've had some luck with publication in humour, short story, mystery, and non-fiction, but am now working on some longer works - a non-fiction book about MS and intimate relationships, and a few novellas I've been working on for years. It's time to send them into the world... I'm an artist/crafter in my other life, making
I'm an artist/crafter in my other life, making needlefelted creatures and people and exploring other fibre arts.

Heading to the Iceland Writers Retreat in a few weeks and so excited!