I’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

I’m pasting old blog posts from 2 years ago into WordPress and all I gotta say is, I’ve come a long way. I read over some of those posts and I want to edit them! I want to clean up the writing, add hyphens, rearrange sentences and a lot more. I’m not though. They need to remain as a reminder of where I’ve come from. I sure have gotten a lot more serious and ‘about the business’ in my posts though–holy smokes!

One of my first posts surprised me. I forgot what a noob (newbie) I was when it came to the humongous world of writing. I had not a clue. I owe a huge thank you to all those literary agents blogging their little hearts out as well as the community over at AgentQuery. Those two things have been huge in helping me get to where I am today–a better writer who has her head in the game (and knows which room the game happens to located as well).

Last Week’s Lesson

When to break the rules?

Will I ever know when breaking the rules serves my work for the better?

It is intimidating being a newbie writer and discovering that there are all these big rules about writing. Some of them are good, solid rules that should be the backbone of your writing, but others can come and go.

I am also discovering that different genres have their own rules and subsets of the rules.

So, this week’s lesson, I suppose, is not to take myself and my writing so freaking seriously and bend the rules when I feel that it serves my work for the best.