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Woke up to stormy weather….nice. We need the rain. Sadly, it’s already moving out. The rest of the day will be very high winds. Ick. Oklahoma, ya know, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain…or so the song says. And man, does it ever.

Today is laundry day. Then again, every day is :laundry:, so that’s not really news, is it?

So…started working on editing my book yesterday. So far so good, but the first half has mostly been bitch slapped into some working order already. I don’t expect to run into any roadblocks until I get to the crap that is the last half of the book, the one I just vomited down on paper to get the book done. That part should be…interesting.

But I’m plugging along and all goes well. Kind of reacquainting myself with my characters and their journey again. Making sure the character ARC makes sense and flows like it should. And hopefully the plot flies along in some semblance of order. :chair:

Does anyone watch Grey’s Anatomy? Omg, this week’s show made me sob. Biker Dude was sitting in the living room with me and said…are you getting all sniffly over there? Of course my answer was yes. I was a mess. Love, love love that show. It really hit my emotional buttons this week. 😥

And on a final note….I’ve got a secret. Hope to be able to share next week :giggle:

Hey, Guess What?

Writing & Publishing

The book is done!!!! :cheer:

Wooo hoo! Finished it last night!

Kicked its ass. Or maybe it kicked mine.

Either way, it’s done. The draft, anyway.

Now..let the editing begin, because I have six days to whip it into shape so I can send it off to my editor.

But at least…THE BOOK IS DONE!!!!! :hips:

Tuesday, Progress and all that

Writing & Publishing

I have less than 50 pages in copyedits left, so I’ll finish those today. Actually I have to finish those today because that baby is going back to Bantam tomorrow. :giggle:

I did manage to sneak in some writing yesterday too. Got 10 pages in because I couldn’t not write something. Progress is progress, ya know, and the deadline is breathing down my neck.

For those who asked about Fast Draft, it’s the creation of author Candace Havens. She gives workshops on how to do it, but basically it’s write a book in two weeks. Here’s the link to her site and workshop loop. I’m just using what I learned, which is basically write the damn book, turn off the internal editor and get the pages down. Trust me, it works. If I hadn’t been slammed with copyedits last week I’d have done a lot more, but I still managed a crapload of pages last week while juggling copyedits on top of that.