Birthing the Blog

Song of the day: Falling On by Finger Eleven

 

Welcome! Welcome!

Welcome, brave soul, for visiting the debut post on MuseTracks. This blog is hosted by four aspiring authors planning to take over the world, er, I mean, four aspiring authors on their journey to publication.

Today I’ll give you a brief tour on what to expect from us here at MuseTracks.

First, I’ll start by letting you in on a little secret. Shhh. Marie-Claude, Candi, John and I are newbies. Crazy, I know. But we’d like to share with you our take on this topsy-turvy life we know as writing.

Since meeting on an online romance critique forum earlier this year, we’ve bonded, forming a clandestine club complete with passwords and secret handshakes. We bring to you volumes on what we have learned of the craft and writing industry; our trials and tribulations, our embarrassing mistakes, our woe-is-me tears, and our happy dances. Each of us have rocketed into the stratosphere on highs and scraped the bottom of the barrel on lows. And each of us has something to say about it. We are writers, hear us roar!

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to share our intuitive and snarky knowledge with other aspiring writers and have some fun along the way.

Here are a few topics we’ll be covering.

Research – tricky and easy ways to get the info you need

Contests – we’ve got plenty to say about these

Loooove Scenes – oh yeah – we’ve got you covered here – BowChicaWowWow

Home Life and the Writer  – A.K.A. “The Balancing Act,” “Guilt Trip Road,” or “When is This Hobby of Yours Going to Start Paying the Bills?”

Promotions – getting your name out there – they can run but they can’t hide

Agent Search – do I hear a collective groan?

The Male POV – we’ve got an advantage here with John at the helm

Book Trailers, Websites and MySpace – how to make them work to your advantage

Rejections – sniff – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Motivation – trapping it and holding it for ransom

Alpha Males – is it hot in here?

Our Experiences – to conferences, pitching, NanoWrimo, critiquing, queries, synopsis writing, post office nightmares and beyond. . .

Rule breaking – hear our rebel yells

And much, much more.

 

We’ll also feature series posts.

Interviews with Contest Winners – get insight on how these writers do it.

The Fit Writer – be smokin’ in that dress in time for the national RWA conference this summer OR keep your butt from getting writer’s “block” within your chair

Mood Music – guess the song and artist to posted lyrics that reflect our ever-changing frame of mind

 

There will be give-aways, links to awesome and helpful sites, posts of HOT, HOT, HOT eye candy for visual stimulation and we encourage open discussions.

Come in and take a look around. I promise it won’t hurt and you might even get some sick pleasure out of it.

Do you have any topics you’d like us to hash over? Let us know.

Jenn!