Friday!
Skips in circle of delight :)
Put down the scissors and took a machete to The Carver. Cut 4,000 words from it - yeah, me! Am discovering that I had a fondness for unnecessary dialogue tags and having my characters shrug a lot in this novel. So it's down to a more manageable length of 119,250 words. Which is still too long, but at least I'm feeling like I have a better grasp of it. I've been so busy working on it, though, I haven't written anything new in Magpie. But I kind of want to get both TC and Soul Stone out the door, so I may just dedicate this weekend to editing/revising. When I'm not doing other things.... :)
Meeting up with friends tonight around 9pm to hear a jazzy/blues band play. I was up late last night, too, so I may take a nap before heading back into the city. Wednesday night dance class went well, a sub was teaching, which was good because she's easier than my usual teacher. But I was still wicked sore Thurs. Got together with Joel last night to finish working on my audition pieces. It was very sweet of him, since he's in the middle of moving, and I'm feeling a lot more confident about the audition. At least we figured out how to finesse the ending of my "uptempo" piece so that I can sing it! My full range still isn't back :( But I'm sounding much stronger, thank God, and can project more.
Hmm...if I end up getting the part I want...and my agent sells both of my books...thus leading to the whole "revisions" process all over again...I could have one helluva busy summer! Maybe I'll figure out a way to cover my laptop with plastic so I can take it to the beach ;)
- D
Skips in circle of delight :)
Put down the scissors and took a machete to The Carver. Cut 4,000 words from it - yeah, me! Am discovering that I had a fondness for unnecessary dialogue tags and having my characters shrug a lot in this novel. So it's down to a more manageable length of 119,250 words. Which is still too long, but at least I'm feeling like I have a better grasp of it. I've been so busy working on it, though, I haven't written anything new in Magpie. But I kind of want to get both TC and Soul Stone out the door, so I may just dedicate this weekend to editing/revising. When I'm not doing other things.... :)
Meeting up with friends tonight around 9pm to hear a jazzy/blues band play. I was up late last night, too, so I may take a nap before heading back into the city. Wednesday night dance class went well, a sub was teaching, which was good because she's easier than my usual teacher. But I was still wicked sore Thurs. Got together with Joel last night to finish working on my audition pieces. It was very sweet of him, since he's in the middle of moving, and I'm feeling a lot more confident about the audition. At least we figured out how to finesse the ending of my "uptempo" piece so that I can sing it! My full range still isn't back :( But I'm sounding much stronger, thank God, and can project more.
Hmm...if I end up getting the part I want...and my agent sells both of my books...thus leading to the whole "revisions" process all over again...I could have one helluva busy summer! Maybe I'll figure out a way to cover my laptop with plastic so I can take it to the beach ;)
- D
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