tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post686927673556879170..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: PNWA Conferenceadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-22840843240880687882011-08-08T08:00:31.333-07:002011-08-08T08:00:31.333-07:00Thanks for your patient instruction at PNWA. I lea...Thanks for your patient instruction at PNWA. I learned a lot about scene construction, pacing, dialog, description... everything--even your take on outlining headlight-style. This is all stuff that I can use immediately in my draft and again when I get to revision. Fantastic.Bill Weinbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09060281411372787029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-44604709837118731802011-08-07T20:48:37.649-07:002011-08-07T20:48:37.649-07:00Nancy, thank you so very much for sacrificing your...Nancy, thank you so very much for sacrificing your voice for our benefit. Your 3 hour session was amazing. I have your Beginnings, Middles, and Ends. I cannot wait to get your book on Viewpoint.<br />CarlCarl Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594181098631235985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-38656604606946255082011-08-07T20:46:53.678-07:002011-08-07T20:46:53.678-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Carl Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594181098631235985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-55916624111832244162011-08-07T17:33:57.641-07:002011-08-07T17:33:57.641-07:00YOU WERE EXCELLENT!
I was writing furiously and t...YOU WERE EXCELLENT!<br /><br />I was writing furiously and thinking and revising my manuscript (in my head, of course; I was paying attention to <i>you</i> the entire time). <br /><br />Sometimes it seems like common sense: you just write so that others understand you and are emotionally drawn into the story. How hard is that? It's what gossip and phone calls are all about; it's what makes blogging so successful and fun.<br /><br />But there's that damned <i>craft</i> that's required, and that is nearly unteachable. It takes writing and revising and deleting and crying and banging the keyboard and swearing. It takes listening to well-meaning people who miss the entire point of your scene - surely they are just <i>stupid</i> - until you see that your scene is mostly just telling people what they should feel & maybe you should return to your day job counting passengers in the carpool lane. It takes writing a query letter and realizing your novel really isn't that good at all, and that your pitch is only what you <i>wish</i> your novel could be, and that it is in reality many, many words of little, little interest.<br /><br />I wished your seminar was ten hours longer, and yet I was impatient and waiting for it to end so I could return to my keyboard. You provoked me to want to be a <i>writer</i>. <br /><br />So thank you for that.stephen matlockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04547568823080880459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-35162738051447382362011-08-07T07:35:23.277-07:002011-08-07T07:35:23.277-07:00Thank you for teaching at PNWA. I really enjoyed t...Thank you for teaching at PNWA. I really enjoyed the workshop and our discussion about frugal weddings beforehand. Your book, "Beginnings, Middles, and Ends," remains my favorite. - Christy JohnsonFolly Blainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13968120424017617988noreply@blogger.com