Comments on: mission accomplished

By: Jane Bretl

Jane Bretl — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:53:26 +0000

Cindy, you are so kind! You put the positive spin on ignoring all my normal daily duties to selfishly indulge my writing fantasies… (oops, did I write that out loud?)

By: Jane Bretl

Jane Bretl — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:51:15 +0000

Thanks, Karen! No aliens in mine though, so how surprising can it be, really???

Kris, thanks and I am excited about the CreateSpace copy. So much work to do before I order THAT though…

Tom, thank you for your humorously optimistic comments, as usual! I’m thinking you can do the audio book version, in falsetto so you sound like a kid?

By: Jane Bretl

Jane Bretl — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:47:46 +0000

Congrats to you too, Julee! I’ll take a look as soon as I catch up on life…

Thanks, Christi — and congrats to you because 25K is a big ol’ chunk of words. Those extra moments are hidden in there somewhere (for draft 2…)

By: Julee

Julee — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:11:50 +0000

Congrats on your finish! I finished too! I don’t even want to look at mine till after the first of the year!

By: Christi Craig

Christi Craig — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:53:50 +0000

Congrats on making it to 50K! And, love how you say some of the scenes wrote themselves. I only punched out about 25K (give or take a few), so when I re-read it, I’ll look for those forgotten moments and hope they are gems as well!

And, my moment of desperate filler went something like “the rest of the afternoon was boring, kind of like this story.” Guess I ought to delete that from draft no.2

By: karen from mentor

karen from mentor — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:29:12 +0000

I laughed all the way through this Jane.
I’m so glad you muscled through and that you had surprising adventures with the characters you imagined.
Yay!
hugs!
Karen :0)

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:24:36 +0000

You go girl!

I like the thought of even the author being surprised at some of the things her characters do!

I saw on the NaNoWriMo website that one of the things you win by finishing is a free proof copy in paperback form by CreateSpace. Too cool! So catch your breath and start polishing! (I’d recommend leaving out the “this is lame this is lame” parts when you print it out. Although it is kind of amusing!)

Well, enjoy the afterglow! You did it!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:44:01 +0000

I can’t wait to buy and have signed a first ed. Please try and at least call when you pass through on the book tour.

Any thoughts on who will read the audio-book version?

Congratulations and Happy Holidays — it sounds like they arrived on schedule at the Bretl household!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:41:54 +0000

Man, if I could only be like you. You set a huge goal for yourself, and made it despite frequent stops for basketball games and robotics and all of those wonderful things we do as mothers. A HUGE congratulations and I hope that you will be able to work with this manuscript and turn it into something that will help motivate young minds to read more!

By: Jane Bretl

Jane Bretl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:51:19 +0000

Thanks, WriterKid! Alas, it will not be blog-worthy for quite some time… however, will you be one of my first readers?