Road Trip Wednesday: Favorite lines

Each week, YA Highway hosts Road Trip Wednesday, a blog carnival in which contributors discuss a topic on their blogs and invite readers to do the same.

This week's topic: What is your favorite line from your WIP (or from a book you read recently)?

This is an interesting one and I've been fascinated jumping from blog to blog and reading other people's responses.

From my just 'finished' story:
We are not in this together.

Wow, i think that pretty much sums up the whole story!
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That festive stuff!

Wishing everyone a Merry and safe Christmas.

Today is my youngest's birthday and with a Chrissy Eve baby we do some juggling at Christmastime. We want her to feel special but we want to focus on Christmas too. She's been a bit sick today so it's been sad so far.

Anyone have a close to Christmas birthday? What do you do to make it stand out?

I think i'd hate the combined pressie thing. But i can see why it happens.

Not long til Santa visits here...

Road trip Wednesday - 6 words

Each week, YA Highway hosts Road Trip Wednesday, a blog carnival in which contributors discuss a topic on their blogs and invite readers to do the same. This week's RTW topic is:

Six-word memoirs

This is.... hard. Much harder than I would have thought. Um, i found myself wondering what matters most about my life and what i most want to say. And as I've probably mentioned before, I'm rubbish at decisions (among other things).

What's most important to me? My family. Unquestioned. Then my writing probably, I have all kinds of science degrees but them... not so much.

So it's this, for now:

Loving my family. Making a difference.

Lame? i don't know...

What's yours?

Waiting... chew fingernails or start something new?

Okay, so the first thing is that when I chew nails they bleed. My mother despaired of me as a child, from the yucky polish to taking toys away she tried everything to get me to stop biting my nails. They would bleed at the edges and it would drive her insane. Then one day, I was about 13, for no reason at all... i stopped cold. And all that nail biting gave me nice strong nails.

But this subbing, querying thing has put all that in danger.

I know i need to write something else. I KNOW. But isn't wallowing so much easier?
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My CP sold!!

After um, shall we say quite a few, years of trying one of my fab CPs sold today.

Yep, she got THE CALL!

To Special Edition. And I am so, so pleased for her. It's been a long road but she's nailed the line she was aiming for and it has paid off big time.

Congratulations Helen Lacey!

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It is possible. It can happen!!

Critterpalooza

There's a great contest over at The Bookshelf Muse raising money for a great cause.

There are some cool prizes up for grabs if you're a reader or a writer.

Enjoy!
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Loving my story

We've had an intense few weeks, my story and I. It's been emotional but having come through this latest lot of editing i hope we're closer than ever - to making it great.

I have to admit there were times when I could hardly bear to face it. Maybe we needed some time apart, maybe we needed to remember what brought us together in the first place. Through it all though the spark flickered.

And we're back in a good place.

What about you - is the story love always there?

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