season of rains

mid-week ramblings

Got over 3K words on the new book. Can I just say that the romance in this story is going to be SO much fun to write?

I still get a warm fuzzy contented feeling when I think back on Saturday. D. took the older kids and went out the entire morning and early afternoon. Left to ourselves, the baby and I played, puttered around, wrote (well, I did that and A. offered moral support), had lunch, rested. It was great (and most of my wordage is from that morning).

I wish I had bought that secondhand piano when I had the chance. Ah well, there will be other pianos.

Can I say that synopses are darn hard to write? Yes? Okay:

Synopses. Are. Darn. Hard. To. Write!

I just reached the how-to-revise portion of How to Think Sideways course. I’m totally psyched! SoR needs major work and if I can fix it in just one more pass-through, I’ll be a happy camper.

Speaking of SoR, I have way too many irons in the fire. Kai’s book to write. SoR to revsie and submit. Several shorts waiting to have something done to (and with) them.

I need a plan.

No, make that A Plan. A Big Plan. With lists, deadlines and spreadsheets!

How’s your week going?

challenge: complete

The Stories

Xenobiologist
Broken (an Elinor story)
Exposure
Beauty & Beast retelling (unnamed, because I suck at names :P)

The Wordcounts

4410
6244
1637
3510

Written in collaboration with Angst & Whining, hot chocolate, and the album The Better Life by 3 Doors Down.

Not a bad end to the year. Working on Kai’s book begins in earnest now.

the Plan

I love Plans! And now I have one!

So, here is my writing Plan for the rest of the year:

Write short stories. These may or may not include: an Elinor story; a story set in the Out of Shape world; a retelling of Beauty and the Beast; something to submit to Beneath Ceaseless Skies; the story I came up with while drawing a wall with lots and lots of bricks, the Captive Xenobiologist who has been begging me to rescue her soon, please, okay? thanks; something else entirely.
Playful, low-key planning of Kai’s book. (Maybe I can even come up with a title. That would rock.)
AND, if my beta readers get back to me soon-ish: If their edits are light, I will happily re-revise Season of Rains before sending it to my second-round betas; if the comments are more along the lines of “this is broken like a very broken thing”, then I will spork my eyes, throw myself a pity party, and sulk for several days. And re-revise next year.

malaise

SoR progress: 249/249 pages.

So, this revision is done and sent to two trusty beta readers. There are still some minor details I need to take care of (fixing the astrological system, coming up with an alternate to rather lame minor plot point, for examples) but I’d rather hold off on the cosmetic parts until I find out whether or not I need to do heart surgery on this thing.

I’ve had a case of the blahs all week. They started Sunday, so I’m blaming the time change. That, and too much cheap Halloween candy, the week-long misery of my runny-nosed runny-eyed daughter and the fact we’ve been cooped up because of it. But the weekend is in sight and I’m feeling a lot more chipper this afternoon. Now if only I can get excited about one of the many writing projects on to my platter…

Start a novel or write a short story? Decisions, decisions.