Winning With Ack! Mistakes

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Juniorette, pitching in with the ACK face.

Ack! Remember back when I admitted that I’d done something really stupid, writing-wise?

No, not that something stupid, or that ack!, either. I mean the one from last week, the publicizing-my-blog feature ack!

Now, another writer might get annoyed at making mistakes, over and over and over again. And if I didn’t learn something extremely helpful from every mistake I made, I would get annoyed.

Take, for example, that last mistake. I learned a little something about the importance of strong titles and hooking your blog readers with an interest-grabbing first line to your post. (You can find out the particulars over at this Muffin post.)

So I like to think I’m becoming a better writer, ack! by ack! by ack! Plus, I never seem to run out of material for blog posts.

It’s a win-win.

A Bizarre Thing Happened on the Way to Writing

ImageThe most bizarre thing happened to me the other day. Well… maybe not the most bizarre thing. But it was bizarre in a writing sort of way and why I bring it up here.

Though technically, you’ll have to zip over to this Muffin post to get the bizarre details.

(And now, I’m starting to think that perhaps I’ve oversold this particular bizarre situation. Like maybe you’re expecting to hear that J.K. Rowling and Stephen King met me in the grocery store and asked for my autograph.

Come on, people. As if J.K. and Stephen would shop on the same day–)