my scramblings & ramblings
FINALLY! Some of my notes have been transcribed, and they are here for your knowledge and enjoyment.
I mainly pulled out the most important points I’ve learned from the talks, so some of these will be really short. I hope you like what I have so far, more coming soon!!!
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I stole this from a really old entry belonging to mandywriter:
First & Middle name: Ronica Lanean, but call me Ronni 
How long have you been writing? As long as I can remember. I wasn’t always necessarily writing down stories, but I’ve been writing since I was at least 8. I’ve been making up stuff as long as I can remember.
Who’s your dream publisher: Penguin, Random House, Time Warner…anyone, really.
Tell me about your WIP(s): CRUSH: Seventeen-year old Corinne Manahan is torn between two boys: the one she’s falling in love with, and the son she gave up for adoption.
Where do you live? Central OH.
Day job? Assistant Production Editor for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
One word that summarizes your high school existance: Blah.
Pets: 3 cats, 4 fish and a snail.
What do you love most about your life?: I’m pretty blessed.
Feel free to steal and post…. 
(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)
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[X-posted at bananagirl19]
Hello! I am back from an amazing, exhausting, completely fun weekend in Chicago! The Chicago-North RWA chapter is incredible, and so are the people I met there.
FRIDAY
Mandy (mandywriter) picked me up from the airport and it was like we’d been friends forever, which we pretty much have. We started talking and joking right away. She took me to the hotel and chilled out while I unpacked in my VERY NICE hotel room. Let me tell you about this room. It was more like a suite. 25 inch TV, desk, easy chair, couch with a foldaway, king sized bed. Beautiful. I’d ordered strawberries and champagne, but I didn’t open it right away, and I’m glad I waited. More on that later. 🙂
Mandy and I registered for the conference (we were the first two!), then went out to lunch at a place called RAM. I’d never heard of it, but it was pretty nice. Of course, I got the messiest meal ever, but it was really yummy. By the time we got back to the hotel, Sara (sbennettwealer) was there! We went up to their room and hung out for a while, then headed down to the conference. I spotted Dia (agentobscura) right away, so we went to say Hi. She gave us all a group hug and seriously, we all hit it off right away. I felt like I’d been hanging out with these women my whole life.
The first thing we did was attend a “panel” of sorts. Four authors, open dialogue. It was interesting. Alesia Holliday, Mary Alice Monroe, Jennifer Crusie, and Bob Mayer spoke and it was funny and really nice. Afterwards, I went to Alesia to introduce myself and she recognized my name from the Yahoo! teenchicklit loop. She was awesome, and here I am with her:
We had a HUGE break, so Sara, Mandy, Gail and I went to an Italian restaurant. It was yummy. I got a half order which turned out to be a good decision, because it was the perfect amount of food. When we went back, there was class. Sara and I went to “Get Out of Deadwood” where we met Stephanie Hale (stephhale) and a really cool girl named Carmen. We went and had chocolate at the Chocolate Reception (um, check out this damn sign:)
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The Chicago Spring Fling is next Friday!!!! Oh my gosh!! How excited am I??
The schedule has been posted, so these are the classes I plan to take:
Friday:
Getting out of Deadwood
Saturday:
Be the Best Applicant for the (Writing) Job
Making Your Characters Real
Charms for the Writing Life /Gris-Gris for Writers
Inside an Editor’s Mind
The Care and Feeding of Agents
While I am there, I get to meet cool people, do cool things, and hopefully get insanely inspired to finish my current WIP (which is now titled!). I’ve never been steeped in writing like that before, so I’m definitely looking forward to learning what I can, networking, and just being there. Good times!
(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)
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April Goal:
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Overall:
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40,661 / 50,000
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If I use the 250 words per page counting method:
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YEE-HAW!!!!!!!!
(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)
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