Pages for my July deadline have been sent off, but that doesn’t mean the pressure’s off. Lots to do, not much work time this month, especially if I want to catch up and get ahead in my schedule for edits. Since I’m not much fun today, here’s a photo of Shiloh:
Third Day is Love
Deadline work continues. I really dislike rewriting scenes. Some edits are quick and easy, and others are rather like slogging through knee-deep mud with two feet of water on top of that. I’m currently working through a section of the latter, which means I suspect I’ll be turning in ten chapters instead of twelve as [...]
More Progress
Yesterday I made notes on another quarter of the manuscript, and today I started in on translating those notes back to the computer. I worked through a whopping six pages of manuscript today, which doesn’t seem like much on the surface. On the other hand, these pages were the former opening of the novel, which [...]
Novel Progress
I’ve split my time today between doing lots of laundry and working on the novel revisions. I’m happy to announce that almost all the laundry is done (one load to fold, one to dry and fold, then towels to do tomorrow) and that I can consider myself solidly finished with revisions on 21% of the [...]
Quiet Week
It’s been a quiet week, if you start marking the week after my travel home from Seton Hill. I got good work done on the manuscript on Tuesday and Wednesday, spent a rather productive day on Thursday at the job that pays me, and gave myself most of Friday and Saturday off, in part because [...]
Good News
I appear to not be dead yet. ‘Yet’ is the key word there. But I have groceries, I picked up the dog, I took a nap (you all know I love me some naps) and I’ve consolidated and updated my to-do list for the manuscript revisions I agreed to finish by the end of this [...]
*happy novel dance*
It’s DONE! *happy novel dance* Of course, “done” means the whole plot arc is there. It also means there are 8 pages of notes about things that need to be done, scenes that need to be rewritten or just plain written in the first place, and seemingly endless hours of revisions and edits. I expect [...]
Outside?
Betsy says it’s supposed to be a nice day today, which means she might open the door to the porch this afternoon. Then I’ll get to go out and eat all the bugs and watch the birds flying around and it will be lovely. Here’s hoping! She’s still working on her novel, but she seems [...]
Gone Dark. . .ish
Public Service Announcement: I’m going dark this week in an effort to facilitate the finishing of my manuscript. I won’t be chatting at all… I’m actually thinking of taking that icon off my dock for the week so I’m not even tempted during my breaks. I’ll probably keep up with my LJ friends list and [...]
Randomania
I’m almost done with all the extended deadline stuff. If today goes well, I’ll be even more well on my way. Tomorrow’s pretty busy. At the very least, I’ll be baking a dessert and shopping for a wedding shower gift for one of my friends, then going to said shower in the evening. If I [...]