Fan mail

While enjoying my lunch (over a messy desk full of reports that need to be finished by the end of the school year, which happens to be today), I realized I’d not posted in some time. Mostly because the writing is going so well in the mornings (working on a short story as a reprieve from my novella-in-progress for another reason to maybe be discussed later).
 
So I logged on to send a post via email and found a note from a fellow writer who read one of my online articles on romance writing (Help! I Want to Be A Romance Writer at http://www.dabblingmum.com) and had, what appeared at first glance, to be a question on a query letter (as she wrote in the subject line), but instead had several other questions embedded.
 
One of the cool things about being a freelancer and choosing to write about (at least at this point in my life…I might change sometime) only things I really like/love/care about is that when I get these emails from readers asking advice, I feel smart. True, I’m not published in novel-length fiction yet, but I do know a little about writing (it would fill a thimble). And I love sharing whatever I know with whomever cares to ask.
 
And for the record, I really, really love writing query letters. I know–I’m insane (queries for nonfiction. Have only written one for fiction & that was some time ago) but that should come as no real surprise. I like it that way!
 
I’ll do my best to stop by here more often. But when the writing flows, the last thing I want to do is take myself out of that fantasy of word flow.
 

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