In Which I Gear Up To Get An Agent

Woo hoo! Today's the first day of the spectacular Gearing Up To Get An Agent blogfest!

For those of you who don't know about it, it's this great event that lasts the WHOLE month (and a little more) with pitch contests and generally merrymaking for peeps who are at the stage of trying to get an agent (or small pub, too)

I have a widget over there (>) if you'd like more info on the whole shebang.

Today is the meet and greet, which is a bloghop for people to pop around and meet others participating in GUTGAA (that's just plain fun to say. Truth).

If you're not new to my blog, you may notice I changed my blog header. Back when I decided to get creative and make a blog header, I got a bit carried away and made like... 10. So my plan has always been to rotate them every few months. The beginning of September seemed as good a time as any.

If you're new to my blog, welcome! I'm Sarah and I blog MWF. Friday is reserved for my dog Yvie to post fun things to prepare us for the awesomeness that is the weekend, and Wednesdays are typically reserved for Wednesday Weirds, where I blog about weird stuff. Because weird is cool. Like bow ties. And fezzes. (BONUS NERD POINTS IF YOU GET THAT REFERENCE).

I write YA fantasy novels and adult horror short stories and am nerdy and love animals and games etc. That's kind of me in a nutshell.

Onto the questions!

-Where do you write?

Typically in my work office. (Pictures Here. Though they're a touch out of date) Which, since I work from home (yes, it is awesome) is also our animal room. I like writing on desktop pcs instead of laptops, when I have the choice.

-Quick. Go to your writing space, sit down and look to your left. What is the first thing you see?

My netbook. I have a netbook (named Nettypot) sitting on my desk so I can watch my gmail while I'm working. Querying makes crazy people of us alllllll.

-Favorite time to write?

In the morning, after I've showered but before lunch.

-Drink of choice while writing?

Water. I really like, and drink, a lot of water. It's delicious!

-When writing , do you listen to music or do you need complete silence?

I like to listen to music. It's extra fun if I can make a play list for whatever I'm working on, but usually it's just the radio or a CD or tevs.

-What was your inspiration for your latest manuscript and where did you find it?

The one I'm querying? Or writing? Well, "writing" means, put aside while I do some revisions on the querying one. And why did my font suddenly change? (and I'm waaaaay too lazy to fix it...) Either way, I believe both were inspired by video games. We do a lot of gaming in our house.

-What's your most valuable writing tip?

Write all the time! (font's back...) I know everyone says it and blah blah, but I can honestly say when I got in the mindset to write every day (not Saturdays for me, though) is when my writing got a lot better and I got a lot more serious about the whole thing.

Even if you only write a page a day, well, after a whole year, you'd have 365 pages! And that, dear friends, is a novel. BAM!

So there you go! Since it's a holiday today, I probably won't be in the interwebs much (discgolf and bbq are on my list today) but I'll be visiting blogs and responding to comments this evening and the rest of the week. Woo hoo!