Just Effing Entertain Me Book

Hello everybody! Thanks for all the great entries in the action line competition we’re doing, this is really fun – I’m going to have fun judging these! Keep ‘em coming until end of day tomorrow! Just Effing is again changing come next week. Not to worry; same URL, etc., but the blog will now be part of my new Julie Gray website, where you’ll be able to download podcasts and sign up for classes and MORE! But one side effect is that The Rouge Wave archives will no longer be available. Those have all been indexed and are in the process of being re-purposed into a brand new baby book. Well – no baby, actually – The Rouge Wave clocked in at over 200,000 words! When you’re writing a book, you worry about word count, not page count. You take the total number of words and then (generally) divide by 250 to figure out the number of pages. Yeah, so that would be an 800 page book on screenwriting. Not so good. Normally a non-fiction how-to book should be MAYBE 80,000 words. On the outside. So. Somebody has been doing some editing dontcha know. It’s been great fun and I must say, I DID write some pretty good stuff. If I say so myself! I apologize that the archives are no longer available for public consumption but just think – in a few months (hopefully!) you’ll order your brand new, shiny copy of Just Effing Entertain Me, thumb through it and say hey, I remember THAT post! And that one! And oh, musta missed that one. I just need to figure out how to have a scratch-n-sniff cupcake on the cover. Ha.

That is all. Now get back to work.