Amber Michelle Cook
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 Writing Accomplishments 2011

Writing (fiction)
  • The ending of Feyhaim
  • A SW poetry
  • MotM, Part 5 (= a screenplay)
  • Short fiction
    • Through the Ages
    • FCI
    • Mind Games
    • Defense Mechanisms
  • Improv Writing (4 x)

Writing (business)
  • CW application essay
  • OLF application essays
  • Bio
  • 3 Cover letters
  • 3 Queries
  • Feyhaim synopsis
  • 4 pitches

Rewriting/Editing
  • Novels
    • NotVD, Bk 1
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
      • The First page
      • First Ten pages
      • First Fifty pages
    • SW
      • Prologue
      • Ch 1
      • Ch 3
      • All of the poetries
      • Whole novel line edits
    • TFTA
      • Ch 1
      • Ch 2
      • Ch 3
      • Ch 4
    • Feyhaim
      • Ch 1
      • Ch 2
      • Ch 3
    • B&G, Bk 1
      • Ch 1
  • Short fiction
    • WtFLB
    • WDMT
    • Through the Ages
    • FCI
    • Mind Games
    • Defense Mechanisms
  • Business
    • NotVD synopsis
    • 2 pitches

Completed
  • WtFLB

Submitted
  • For representation
    • NotVD, Bk 1
  • For publication
    • NotVD, Bk 1
    • WtFLB
    • WDMT
    • Through the Ages
    • FCI
    • Mind Games
    • Defense Mechanisms
  • To contests
    • TFTA
    • Through the Ages
    • WDMT
    • FCI
    • Mind Games
    • Defense Mechanisms

Applied to
  • Dad and Ellen for financial aid to attend the WW conference
  • The Oregon Literacy Fellowship
  • CW for financial aid

Events
  • NaNoEdMo
  • Scriptfrenzy
  • Elizabeth Lyon workshop
  • WW Conference
    • Two Adv. Manuscript critiques
    • Three free critique sessions
  • Editpalooza
  • OC33
    • writers workshop
    • ORC
  • NWAS
  • WW meetings
  • Wordstock

Started
  • What If Writers (now closed)
  • My Wubbulous Writing website
  • The SpecLit Society

Pitches
  • ABNA pitch
  • 2 Savvy Author pitches
  • 4 WW conference pitches
  • Pitch Practice to the Pros

Critique
  • Weekly Feedback Circle
  • Plot Ninjas, ongoing
  • WiW, ongoing (for 6 months)
  • Exchanges with John

Business cards
  • Updated
  • Printed
  • Handed out

Createspace free print copy
  • Fhm layout
  • Fhm cover
  • Fhm blurbing

Reading out loud
  • Practiced
  • Improved style

Workshop
  • Brought Elizabeth Lyon to town
  • Set it up in time for EdMo
  • took the workshop

Dealing with rejections

Celebrating successes

Webresearching agents

Improving punctuation

Considering self-publishing

More presence in social networking online

Sharing me as a writer and my writing

Working on platform

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