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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 29 2012, 12:25 am
 As we keep saying in the sprints, “WOW, THAT WENT FAST!!!” It’s been a fabulous Festival, and I’ve loved getting to know lots of new folks and having the collective good energy for getting writing done. Please join us over at rubyslipperedsisterhood.com today for the Closing Ceremonies–and our last round of fabulous prizes!! Best of [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 27 2012, 10:48 pm
The Ruby Slippered Sisterhood’s Winter Writing Festival is coming to a close TOMORROW!!! Hard to believe, and maybe just a little unnerving for those who’ve been writing juggernauts since January 11 and who wouldn’t mind having continuing support to get their writing done. Four thoughts to keep in mind: 1. If you’ve been with us [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 26 2012, 11:46 pm
(*blush, blush*) Somewhere along the way here with the Brag Blog, I got my counting messed up, and was thinking we were a day ahead of where we really were in our march towards Fifty Days. So, um, it’s actually only Day Forty-Eight TODAY. (Not yesterday, even though the Brag blog said it was Day [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 26 2012, 12:33 am
This year, RWA will be calling finalists for the Golden Heart and Rita contests on March 26, which makes it exactly one month from today!! There’s going to be a lot of excitement, and we hope you’ll join us on the Ruby blog for our Live Blogging as news rolls in (and a very fun [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 25 2012, 3:09 pm
I’m not 100% what this means, but tonight at twilight, if you go outside and look to the horizon to the West, you should be able to see a really lovely convergence of the three brightest objects in the night sky: Jupiter, Venus, and the moon. They’ll be within 5 degrees of one another, which [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 24 2012, 12:02 am
During the Festival, lots of us have been focused on word counts: how many words during a sprint, how many words per day, how many words of a manuscript have we written? Stephen King famously writes 10 pages daily. That’s between 2500 and 3300 words every day. Every day, even holidays and his own birthday. [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 23 2012, 12:03 pm
As we move towards the end of the Winter Writing Festival, I’m thinking a lot about what’s made some people super-productive over the course of the last 45 days, and what’s made some folks (who seemed enthusiastic on January 11) drop out before the end. In some cases, I’m sure Life just came up with [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 22 2012, 12:34 am
Wow–if you’re 100% on target, you should have 44 points by the end of today. Wherever you are in the process, be sure to jump over to the Ruby blog at rubyslipperedsisterhood.com (or click on the bluc title line at the top of this page) and let us know how you did this week! [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 20 2012, 11:37 pm
Hope you’ve all got your beads and beignets and jazz records and are having an awesome time today! (Or, for those of you giving things up for Lent, having a feast of chocolate or white sugar or whatever’s going to be off limits for 40 days.) Over at the Ruby blog, I’ve got a little [...]
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Posted by Elisa Beatty Feb 19 2012, 11:35 pm
As we enter our last full week of the Festival (sigh!!!), I thought I’d share this simple bit of wisdom: “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” ~Mark Twain Simple. Clear. I can do that. Good luck today, [...]
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