Comments for California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch

Comment on Always Check Your Spelling, Especially Proper Names! by Annette Langer by Violet Carr Moore

Violet Carr Moore — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:37:44 +0000

Dear Antenna,

Thanks for good advice.

Comment on First Lines, Last Days by Lani Longshore by Lani Longshore

Lani Longshore — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:40:17 +0000

You may be right – she certainly does everything she can to mess it up again when I’ve tried to clean the space!

Comment on First Lines, Last Days by Lani Longshore by julie royce

julie royce — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:21:11 +0000

Your blog made me smile. I could see your creative juices flowing in that cluttered enviroment. I think if you neatenized it, your muse would be distraught!

Comment on Treasure by Lani Longshore by Jurgen Wolff

Jurgen Wolff — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:44:50 +0000

I wanted to pass along that whether or not they finished a NaNoWriMo novel, anybody can still win a cash prize for their first line in the NaNoWriMo Best First Line Contest—but hurry—the deadline has been extended but only to midnight Wednesday, December 7. There’s no entry fee, nothing to buy and the first prize is $100, 2nd is $50, 3rd is $25, and 7 runners-up win a copy of my book, “Your Writing Coach”. Details and entry at: http://www.NaNoWriMoContest.com (ignore the deadline on that site, it has been extended to midnight, Dec. 7).

Comment on Speak to the future by Lani Longshore by Kathy Urban

Kathy Urban — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:39:35 +0000

Lani, thanks for the inspiration. I have a book two editors told me should be written as a middle grade novel. It won’t be close to 50,000 words, but I will use NaNoWriMo to kickstart this project that’s been on the back burner for too long. I’d be thrilled to have a completed novel by the end of November.

Comment on Speak to the future by Lani Longshore by Violet Carr Moore

Violet Carr Moore — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:14:06 +0000

I’ll hover over my keyboard at midnight plus one minute on Halloween, the November 1, 2011 starting date. I’m looking forward to the challenge of my fourth winner’s certificate while you’re speeding to meet a publishing deadline.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano

Comment on I Bought It! It’s Mine! (Isn’t it?) by Annette Langer by Patricia Bacon

Patricia Bacon — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:42:14 +0000

Good info, Nanette, particularly as applies to art work. Additionally, it’s interesting that one must obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce even “one” line of a poem in a book, but with permission one may quote 3,500 words from another author’s work, if, you are for instance, writing that author’s biography. Obviously, you cannot include it in a work of fiction.

Comment on The GPS I Want by Lani Longshore by Violet Carr Moore

Violet Carr Moore — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:55:08 +0000

Well said. Now all we have to do is remember to keep the GPS charged and handy.

Comment on The GPS I Want by Lani Longshore by julie royce

julie royce — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:52:48 +0000

What I want is an interactive feature so when I thank her (‘her’ because we call our Garmin, Ms. G) for saving my story from self-destructing, she knows how much she’s appreciated.

Comment on The GPS I Want by Lani Longshore by Camille Minichino

Camille Minichino — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:42:17 +0000

Love it, Lani!
My favorite GPS moments are when I miss an instruction and she says, with attitude, “Make a U-turn, now.”