GUTGAA Meet and Greet
For those of you that don’t know what GUTGAA is, it’s a month long contest held by Deana Barnhart that helps you Gear Up to Get an Agent. I’m super excited about participacting and here’s a little bit about me:
- Where do you write?
On my Vaio laptop either in my bedroom or in the living room of whatever home I’m living in at the time.
- Quick. Go to your writing space, sit down and look to your left. What is the first thing you see?
Pictures of my late kitties when they were kittens and a stuffed bear wearing an England hoodie.
- Favorite time to write?
Afternoon. I spend the morning getting psyched up.
- Drink of choice while writing?
Water. I keep it simple.
- When writing , do you listen to music or do you need complete silence?
Silence!!! I can handle television noise and a little background commotion, but too much distracts me.
- What was your inspiration for your latest manuscript and where did you find it?
Seventh grade English class. Squirrel carrying an acorn. You can read more here
- What’s your most valuable writing tip?
Oh man, I have a whole blog worth of tips! Not sure if they’re any good 😉 I’d say my favorite tip is to write what you want to read and do it the way you want.
If you’re from GUTGAA stopping by, please share your blogs so we can coonect!
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GUTGAA is so fun, getting to know other writers! 🙂 Nice to meet & greet you!!
Hello! Your story of how you got your manuscript idea is awesome lol good stuff. Glad to meet you!
Thanks! Glad to meet you all too!
Yeah for joining the GUTGAA craziness! It’s nice to see familiar people around here 🙂 I love what you have next to your writing spot. Enjoy the blogfest!
I really should drink more water. ^_^ Best wishes with #GUTGAA!
Nive to meet you!
Yes. One thing I have learned is that this is all very subjective. You have to be diligence and always striving for excellence, but at the same time, never take anything personally.
So true on how subjective writing is. As a reader, there are books that I can appreciate are well written, but if I don’t care for the genre, I’m not as gung-ho to read the book. Although I will usually give any highly-recommended book a shot.
Definitely agree that you need to write what you want to read! Good luck! 🙂
Nice to meet you! My name is Lisa Ann, and I’m one of the first-round GUTGAA judges. Your WIP sounds awesome, and best of luck to you! I can’t wait to read everyone’s submissions!
Thanks for stopping by, Lisa Ann! I’m excited for the contest!
Hi there – nice to meet you! I love that you were able to turn something so simple and ordinary into something huge. I don’t know that any of my ideas have stemmed from something as simple as a squirrel and an acorn; they’ve all been a little bit more outlandish than that. But your advice of writing what you want to read is quite good – I mean, if you don’t write what you want to read, who will?
Hi Kay! Usually a little idea sparks hundreds of others, this one in particularly happened to be very simple. Thanks for visiting!
So nice to meet you! Your inspiration sounds great 😉
Love your advice–it’s the best way to achieve a quality story. See you around GUTGAA.
HI there! So nice to meet you. This is my first GUTGAA and I’m excited! Hope to get to know you better. I want to make some good friends and writing buddies 🙂
Nice to meet you! Now that my kids are off to school I have some time to check out the GUTGAA blogs today. Best of luck!
Nice to meet you! I’m having a lot of fun meeting so many new writers through GUTGAA.
arrrghh! Did my comment not go through? I wrote war and peace here for you, and it didn’t go through??? ack ack and triple ack! Ok…I am late to drop my daughter for lessons, so I will come back and rewrite what I can remember. LOL
btw..I AM doing GUTGAA…my meet and greet is at http://tiny.cc/ztt4jw =)
I have comments on moderate because I get the evil spammers like crazy lol No worries, got your comment x)
I pictured the nutty squirrel from Ice Age when I read your inspiration. Can’t wait to see more about it during GUTGAA!
Great to meet you and nice answers. The squirrel thing has me intrigued. 🙂 Good luck with GUTGAA and stop by my blog if you have the time: jadziabrandli.blogspot.com