Sunday, April 22, 2012

Elaine Ash browbeats me to write


I met Elaine Ash on Twitter a couple of months ago. She invited me to do a guest blog on her blog, Ashedit. At that time, the post on her blog was, "I, Crappy Writer" and I mistook it to be the title of her blog. It kind of depressed me, yet still, being invited to write on a blog of that title must mean something, right? If one must be a crappy writer, one can at least be a great crappy writer.

Elaine assured me that was only the name of the post that day, and that her blog is a respected blog. She also mentioned she is a professional editor. While I may have been tempted to offer her a guest post on "I, Crappy Writer," I was not willing to submit a post on a nice, professional editor's blog.

I mean, really.

But Elaine is persistent, confident, and does not take "no" for an answer. All the things you'd want in a professional editor.

Please click here to see my guest post on Ashedit. And please feel free to leave a comment.

8 comments:

  1. Melanie, I really enjoyed working with you. Even though you LOVE to hide behind the "crappy writer" smokescreen, you are anything but crappy. No, Melanie, you fail miserably at being crappy. I bet your novel is a scream, because you are, at heart, a very funny gal. Thanks a bunch for the guest post. What's next?

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  2. Thanks, Elaine. It was fun, like when you ski down the face of Heavenly Valley completely out of control, you hit ice, plow over the edge into an avalanche out-of-bounds area, your ski hits you in the back of the head, leaving a red spotch in the snow, you drag yourself back up to the ski area and finally make it down to the bottom alive.

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  3. No. I am not leaving you in my will.

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    1. Perry,

      So there goes any hope of eventually having any servants.

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  4. Hi, I came across you on Twitter. Historical writer here too.

    I love this post. I can relate sometimes. What matters most, though, is you get your thoughts and your stories out there.

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  5. T.S. Tran,

    Thanks. I'm trying to get my stories out there, but not my thoughts. One must think in order to have thoughts to share. After mowing for the last two hours, I just want to veg.

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  6. Dear, I bestow upon thee, my just and worthy liege, ALL of my thots, all of my desires, and all of my hopes and dreams in our blogs. Actually, because I saw Heaven, Heaven’s a super-sonic, killer-proposal-relationship IF we pass the test of this finite existence, IF we exceed-the-rules and become the Great Beyond: while faith is certainly justified, the reward of faith is to believe what you don’t see beyond the furthest star. We’ll have a tonOfun for the length and breadth of eternity, lovely girly, where we’ll have a cumulative, effusive euphoria; a BIG-ol, kick-ass, rock-solid, party-hardy for many eons celebrating our resurrection, nekk’n and luuuv’n, drink’n and dancing, full-throttle, mind-blowin, bawl-bustin, virtual reality, baby… on earth? whorizontal taxes - the death of U.S. Upstairs, however, we can fly: like a true, major’s child, we were born 2B wild. God bless you. Love you, doll. See ya SOON.

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