Kimberly Gardner

August 15, 2010

10:00 am

This is my first week *officially* reporting in on my weekly goals, and it went pretty well, all things considered.

My goals were to finish two lessons for the novella writing workshop, write 3k on Jake and Dennis’s story and revise three chapters of DWD.

The revision didn’t happen. At all. Nada. I didn’t even look at that file this week. So that one goes back on the goals list for the coming week.

I didn write 3k on Jake and Dennis’s story and I was pretty happy with most of what I produced until I realized that I had the whole beginning of the story wrong. *sigh*

So it was back to the plot cards after reading my favorite plotting article from Holly Lisle. And I think I have a workable story even if I’m still not entirely sure about the beginning. Of course this is nothing new. Getting the beginning is always the hardest part for me. Why should this story be any different?

The good news is, I think I can still use most of what I’ve written.

And finally, I got two lessons done for the workshop. I also found out that there are ten people registered for the class. Six of them are RRW members but four are not. I’m going to do a little more promo this week so hopefully we’ll get a few more students.

So my goals for this week:

1 Revise three chapters of DWD.

2 Complete three lessns for the nvella workshop.

3 Come up with a solid beginning for Jake and Dennis and write 2k on that story.

Let’s see how I do. Have a great week. Continue Reading »

January 9, 2010

2:00 pm

A friend on the Rainbow Romance loop posted a link to this video. I’d seen it before, but was glad to watch it again because it’s one of the most inspiring messages I’ve heard on the writing life and being a writer. Enjoy!

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

January 2, 2010

1:00 pm

There’s a female impersonator plot bunny nipping at my heels.

 

On New Years Eve I saw this female impersonator named Randy Roberts and he is so amazing! Here’s a link to a little piece of video so you can see what I mean. I am now a total fangirl. *g*

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSisCkkPSL4

I’m a little late with this announcement, but I’ve been super busy over these past couple of days.

I’m thrilled to announce that the Rainbow Romance Writers is the newest special interest chapter of Romance Writers of America. WooHoo!

And I am chapter secretary which explains why I’ve been so busy. It’s a heck of a lot of work getting a new chapter off the ground, even with the help and support of a group of fabulous writers like J.L. Langley, Jade Buchanan, Sarabell, Laura Baumbach, Jet Mykles and a ton of others too numerous to list.

We’ve all been working our fingers, and brains, to the bone to make this happen, and this week (on April 29th to be exact) we got the good word. We’re official!

In fact, here’s the announcement right from the mother ship itself.

 

“RWA Announces New Chapter
Romance Writers of America announces the formation of a new special-interest chapter, Rainbow Romance Writers, whose purpose is to advance the professional
interests of career-focused GLBT romance writers through networking and advocacy, dissemination of information, professional education, publications, and
other appropriate activities, and to provide continuing support for writers within the romance publishing industry. For more information on RWA’s newest
chapter, contact Sharon Bolger at
sabolger@hotmail.com
. Or visit their Web site at
http://www.rainbowromancewriters.com/

The wonderful authors from the FWF blog have put together a fabulous gift basket for the fifth annual Brenda Novak auction. All proceeds from the auction go toward diabetes research, to help find a cure for those like Brenda’s son who suffer from this disease. Over the past five years Brenda’s online auction has raised over $500,000, so please help out if you can. And in the process you can bid on some really cool stuff.

 

The basket that we have donated includes:

-an original Michael Bonfiglio lapel pin (http://www.wilddot.com/)

-a USB fob with a handmade chainmaille keyring made by Maura Anderson that is filled to overflowing with electronic books, including “Giving Thanks” by Maura Anderson, “Details of the Hunt” by Laura Baumbach, “Naked Richmond” by Ally Blue, “Black Wolf” and “Horsfall: Tail of Two Brothers” by Jade Buchanan, “Hard Fall” by James Buchanan, “The Shape of a Heart” by Kimberly Gardner, “The Tin Star” by JL Langley and more!

-an autographed copy of “A Bit of Rough” by Laura Baumbach

-an autographed copy of “Untamed Heart” by Ally Blue

-an autographed copy of “Fireflies” by Ally Blue

-an autographed copy of “Temperature’s Rising” by Jade Buchanan

-an autographed copy of “Lord Carabas” by James Buchanan

-an autographed copy of “Phoenix Rising” by Kimberly Gardner

-an autographed copy of “With Caution” by JL Langley

-an autographed copy of “My Fair Captain” by JL Langley

-an autographed copy of “Heaven Sent 1″ by Jet Mykles

-an autographed copy of “The Name of the Game” by Willa Okati

 

Also included are:

 

-a laptop bag

-a rainbow cloth bookmark

-a “Lovers, Dreamers and Me” mousepad from Willa Okati

-a “Phoenix Rising” mug and t-shirt

-a size Large “Heaven” t-shirt

-an MLR Press mousepad

-a “Heaven Sent” keychain and bookmarks

-a book light

-other goodies like pens, chapstick, bookmarks and a few naughty items!

 

Remember, bidding will begin on May 1st and will run until May 31st! If you’re interested in bidding on this basket, you can access it directly here:

http://brendanovak.auctionanything.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=1379086

Contest alert!

Here on my blog and over at FWF, I’m running a contest. The purpose is to find the perfect name for my fictional bookstore and to give away a cool prize. Continue Reading »

The boys from my new story, Sugar in the Raw, are playing nice, giving it up for me, and I’ve already got nearly 2,500 words done on the MS. Yay!

So in lieu of a real post–because I’m afraid to stop the flow–I’m going to share a link to a cool, and very helpful, site for building fantasy worlds. Continue Reading »

I am perhaps the most name impaired person on the face of the earth. Luckily, all but one of my pets already had a name when I adopted them. Also lucky that I never had to name a child. The poor kid would be going to high school before I had decided on the exactly right name for him. Lol! Continue Reading »

A friend turned me on to this site. And when she told me about it she said, be careful it’s really addictive.

And she was right!

Free Rice is a vocabulary site where you can play a little word game and for every correct answer you give, a donation of free rice (paid for by the site advertizers) is made to the UN World Food Program.

This is how it works.

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