Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Day Nine - a dismal day of words!

Day Nine

Word Count: 338

Fave Line: 'Ah... Spar, the heigh of Cameron's Loch culture.'

Total words thus far: 8964

And my exciting news is I finalled in the Romance Writers of Australia Valerie Parv Award with a mss I thought would never final in any contests due to its controversial nature. Can't wait to see what the judges thought of it but will have to wait till August when the winner is announced! Patience is a virtue and all that stuff!!!

15 comments:

Becca said...

BRILLIANT you!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Woohoo, Rach! With news like that, you're allowed to take the day off writing to celebrate!

Not sure what excuse I have for my zero words...but anyway.


Enjoy your excitement!

Anne McAllister said...

Way to go, Rach! Congratulations. Will be thinking of you in August.

Janette Radevski said...
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Janette Radevski said...

Sorry - meant to correct a spelling error and deleted my post instead. What I meant to write was:

Go Rach! You are choc full of talent and have my fingers crossed for you.

Romy Sommer said...

Incredible - that's such great news, Rach! We're all rooting for you.

Cathryn Hein said...

YIPPEE YOO HAA!!!!!

Fantastic news, Rach. But not at all surprising cos as Bec says, you're BRILLIANT!

Nicky Strickland said...

Congratulations on finalling (er, is that a word *lol*).

Fantastic achievment!

Lacey Devlin said...

Go you!!!! You've got me itching to know what the controversy was!! Give me ms now! :)

Lacey Devlin said...

Please ;)

Unknown said...

RACH!!! How wonderful - SO proud of you love!

Hugs
Cait

Jackie Ashenden said...

That's so great, Rach! Congrats to you. And with that kind of news, who cares about the word count?? :-)

Rachael Johns said...

Thanks to all of you for your lovely, lovely comments. I've said it before and I've said it again...

YOU GUYS SERIOUSLY ROCK!

Having you here to share my highs and lows with really makes this writing lark so much more fun!

Lacey - if you'd really like to read it, email me Pink.Ink077@gmail.com

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