What's Up Wednesdays

What’s Up Wednesdays is a blog hop hosted weekly by Jamie Morrow and Erin Funk to help authors network. You can find the rest of the WUW blog hop here


WHAT I'M READING I’m reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown for review and if not for that I would have quit by now. I’m not tremendously impressed (putting me in the minority). I think I have to just admit it. I don’t like YA dystopias. At All.
Hexed by Kevin Hearne. Honestly I’m really enjoying it. Too bad so many reviewers are trying to make me feel like a bad woman for enjoying it.

WHAT I'M WRITING (+ ONE WRITING GOAL) *
I met my goal of working on chapter 5 of Blood Red Roulette. I thought I had fixed chapter one. Apparently it’s still deeply flawed and I have to agree with the critique. Now I have to figure out how to fix it again. I’m getting so very close to chucking this. It’s apparently much worse than I think it is and doesn’t take long to point out glaring flaws I’m blind to.
I did get back to A Wolf in the Fold. I’m still not happy with it but it’s progressing at least a little. I need to make the one partner more of a character and I wasn’t accomplishing it through his lover’s eyes so he’s getting a few scenes of his own. I think I’m going to cut one of the sex scenes as well. It feels tacked on.
My goal for next week is to work more on Blood Red Roulette and A Wolf in the Fold. I wrote @ 2,900 words this past week.


WHAT WORKS FOR ME Getting critiques. Even if they hurt. At the end of the day, even the painful ones help. Finding good betas is harder than it should be. Sometimes I luck into more anonymous critiques like at Terrible Minds’ blog. He occasionally runs a critique post like the one here . I got some great thoughts on my paragraph, made me feel less like I’m failing at this.


WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Nope the next week wasn’t better as I hoped last week. On Valentine’s Day where in I was alone as usual, I broke my tooth and swallowed it. :( I’ve swallowed the temp caps I’ve put on it three times now. And thanks to the sudden snow storm I might not be able to get to the dentist. Cross your fingers for today because it’s killing me (and I’m diabetic. Open wounds are bad news). However in better news I took part of some authors’ promos over the holiday and one two books, one electronic and the other audio which is a first for me. That’s exciting. The Writer Recharge through this and that link is my second week results.