Category Archives: Bucket List
Bucket List Update – End Mar 2012
Knocked a couple of films off my Bucket List in the last couple of weeks.
Saw The Hunger Games on opening night last Friday. Very good adaptation, I really liked all of the characters and Peeta had the right amount of charm that I’d felt from him in the books. I hope we get to see a bit more of Haymitch in the next film, I thought Woody played it well. Katniss was spunky and human – and the scene with Rue would have been heartbreaking was I not annoyed with the younger members of the audience who seemed to be laughing. Grrr. Speaking of Grrr I have been disgusted to read of the racism online towards the actors that played Rue and Thresh. Get. Over. It.
I also finally managed to see Breaking Dawn: Part 1. Having not enjoyed the films as much as I had hoped to I actually really enjoyed this one, best yet. And I’m still team Jacob despite the honeymoon scenes.
A week Monday I should be able to mark another thing off my Bucket List – on a roll.
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Comments on my pitch gratefully received
I sent in a short pitch of my WIP to Nicola Morgan at Help! I Need a Publisher!
It’s up on her blog today, along with two other YA pitches, and I’m sure all three of us would be very grateful for your constructive feedback. The comments so far have already picked on my undue fascination with commas so maybe I should send out a call – Help, I Need an Editor!
I’d already shared this with another pitcher Debby and she gave me some very helpful pointers. Thanks Debby. It’s always good to hear a range of opinions though.
Luckily I won Nicola’s ‘Write a Great Synopsis‘ (sponsored Amazon Associates link to the Kindle book) competition for a full synopsis critique and your comments will help me develop this short pitch into a longer synopsis to send for some Crabbit advice. I will of course be having another full read through of Nicola’s wonderful e-book too – I highly recommend it.
And by a wonderful coincidence or divine intervention – Nicola did have an e-mail addressed ‘Dear God’ this morning ;o) – the rest of my prize arrived today too. Huge thanks to Nicola for giving me the spider warning for Chapter 5 – I will make myself a calming cup of camomile in my new mug before tackling that one.
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April’s A-Z Blogging Challenge 2012
Because:
I have decided to have another go this year. So far 372 of us have signed up to join in with writing posts related to a particular letter of the alphabet during 26 days of April. I’ve copied the schedule below from the challenge blog for my own easy reference.
Now last year I went eclectic, writing on lots of different topics but this year I am going to go with the theme of my WIP (Work in Progress) – not looking forward to some of the letters! I’m hoping that this will motivate me to work on it more. I suspect that I will schedule many of the posts.
As a preview below are links to four posts I’ve already written about ‘Training Time’ – I hope they whet your appetite.
What I, Jane Thomas, resolves to do this year
New Year’s Resolutions – Gabrielle Sanders
If you are foolhardy and hope to join in click on the picture below that will take you to the challenge blog to sign up to the blog hop linky (sorry I can’t post it here – WordPress.com refuses to allow javascript).
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