Say Hello

Thought I would share a photo of two talented go-getters who don't sit around on their butts, waiting for someone to do something. Kelley St. John and Laura Hayden are two of the hardest working people I know. Kelley is a self-promotion queen and damn fine writer. Laura is a wizard at putting together the award ceremonies for the National RWA's conference and damn fine writer. And I'm proud to say they're members of my writing group, Southern Magic.

The Small Awards

Yesterday, at my writers' group meeting, our new Prez gave out little plastic/silk flowers for each accomplishment we did and then we tagged them with our names and placed them together as a bouquet. It was a big honking bouquet and I had four with my name on them! Talk about feeling good. It made me realize how much I was really doing toward becoming published.

She's a smart lady.

Collage Your Book

At our last writers group meeting, one of our authors, Laura Hayden, gave us pointers on putting a story collage together to help you in writing a new book. She has such energy and imagination and I knew whatever she came up with I would probably have a good time doing it.

I did. It was loads of fun. We all were laughing, teasing each other about the pictures we were looking for out of the ton of magazines we all brought. And the hour or so we had set aside to do it flew by.

Well, tonight I came across my collage and I found myself energized by it and I can't wait to start writing the story. So doing a collage works!