Whew!
I'm mentally exhausted. I think I've been working on Soul Stone for over four hours. The majority of the day, at least. I re-wrote the ending, took care of lots of nitpicks, and basically took a machete to the manuscript. It feels good, in a weird sort of way, because most of the tough stuff is out of the way. Only now I'm worried about continuity - ie, is something I reference in one scene now no longer in the manuscript? or, does this still make sense? - and too close to the manuscript to see it for myself. I'm e-mailing all the changes I made home and combining it with the changes in the manuscript on my hard-drive at home tonight. Then I'll print it out tomorrow and ask my roommate to read over it. She's really good about catching those continuity things. The manuscript is still too long for YA, about 57,000 words, but I'm thinking that might be all right. The word counts are flexible, and the story has been pared to the minimum I could do, IMO, while still having it make sense. It's only fifteen pages longer than the revised Shapeshifter's Quest, so hopefully I'll be okay. I can't wait to put the damn thing in the mail.
I believed in the story, and still do, but I don't think I'm going to tackle a "re-writing/expanding" from an old manuscript project again :P
But - yeah! - almost done!
Did something soooo embarrassing today. My phone rings at 12:22 and it's my boss at the gym. "Hi Dena. Did I forget that you have a sub today?" Nope, I'd lost track of time while editing and had forgotten to go over to the gym to teach! I threw on my jacket (snowing in Boston - again -grrrr!), grabbed my gym bag and booked it over there. I felt so bad. I was only fifteen minutes late, but still! How spacy can you get?
Have to go to a potluck tonight for my small group bible study. Two of the girls are leaving. I made brownies on Monday but have already eaten half the batch, so I'm bringing a tupperware container with five brownies in it ;P I am a dork! But I'm just hanging out at work until it's time to head over to Cambridge. I've got two hours to kill, which sucks, but I didn't feel like going all the way home and then driving back into the city.
Found a place to get headshots taken - thanks Eric, you rock! - and am hoping to get over there Thursday night. Except that I look my best right after I've done my hair/make-up in the morning, not after a long day at work. And I have a huge zit by my mouth :( So maybe I'll wait until Sat., by which time it may have cleared up. Course, by then I could have another one...sigh. Do you know what's one of the most frustrating thing of being in your twenties? Buying both zit and wrinkle cream! I mean, come on, already! That's just not fair!
And - in the "I am a blonde" department - I realized today that I forgot to pay my car payment this month. Why? Because two weeks ago my checkbook fell out of my open purse in my car and I just scooped it up and threw it in the console. So every time I remember I have to pay that bill, I don't have my checkbook on me! I'm writing this in part in the hopes it will help me remember tonight to put my checkbook back in my purse. But I'm not holding my breath on that one :P
Wow. I am a space cadet. Must be the cold I'm fighting. (Hear that, cold? I'm fighting you! That means you are not yet victorious and I am not sick! So there! Get back, cold germs, back, I say!).
Uh, I think I'll go do something intelligent now. Just to prove to myself I'm not losing it :)
- D
I'm mentally exhausted. I think I've been working on Soul Stone for over four hours. The majority of the day, at least. I re-wrote the ending, took care of lots of nitpicks, and basically took a machete to the manuscript. It feels good, in a weird sort of way, because most of the tough stuff is out of the way. Only now I'm worried about continuity - ie, is something I reference in one scene now no longer in the manuscript? or, does this still make sense? - and too close to the manuscript to see it for myself. I'm e-mailing all the changes I made home and combining it with the changes in the manuscript on my hard-drive at home tonight. Then I'll print it out tomorrow and ask my roommate to read over it. She's really good about catching those continuity things. The manuscript is still too long for YA, about 57,000 words, but I'm thinking that might be all right. The word counts are flexible, and the story has been pared to the minimum I could do, IMO, while still having it make sense. It's only fifteen pages longer than the revised Shapeshifter's Quest, so hopefully I'll be okay. I can't wait to put the damn thing in the mail.
I believed in the story, and still do, but I don't think I'm going to tackle a "re-writing/expanding" from an old manuscript project again :P
But - yeah! - almost done!
Did something soooo embarrassing today. My phone rings at 12:22 and it's my boss at the gym. "Hi Dena. Did I forget that you have a sub today?" Nope, I'd lost track of time while editing and had forgotten to go over to the gym to teach! I threw on my jacket (snowing in Boston - again -grrrr!), grabbed my gym bag and booked it over there. I felt so bad. I was only fifteen minutes late, but still! How spacy can you get?
Have to go to a potluck tonight for my small group bible study. Two of the girls are leaving. I made brownies on Monday but have already eaten half the batch, so I'm bringing a tupperware container with five brownies in it ;P I am a dork! But I'm just hanging out at work until it's time to head over to Cambridge. I've got two hours to kill, which sucks, but I didn't feel like going all the way home and then driving back into the city.
Found a place to get headshots taken - thanks Eric, you rock! - and am hoping to get over there Thursday night. Except that I look my best right after I've done my hair/make-up in the morning, not after a long day at work. And I have a huge zit by my mouth :( So maybe I'll wait until Sat., by which time it may have cleared up. Course, by then I could have another one...sigh. Do you know what's one of the most frustrating thing of being in your twenties? Buying both zit and wrinkle cream! I mean, come on, already! That's just not fair!
And - in the "I am a blonde" department - I realized today that I forgot to pay my car payment this month. Why? Because two weeks ago my checkbook fell out of my open purse in my car and I just scooped it up and threw it in the console. So every time I remember I have to pay that bill, I don't have my checkbook on me! I'm writing this in part in the hopes it will help me remember tonight to put my checkbook back in my purse. But I'm not holding my breath on that one :P
Wow. I am a space cadet. Must be the cold I'm fighting. (Hear that, cold? I'm fighting you! That means you are not yet victorious and I am not sick! So there! Get back, cold germs, back, I say!).
Uh, I think I'll go do something intelligent now. Just to prove to myself I'm not losing it :)
- D
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