The End of May

Trying to do a bit of editing and writing both today. I need to gather markets for both my daughter and I to send submissions to, but the internet is still acting up. It has been for a few weeks now and it's so frustrating. Makes it very hard to do the non-fiction and fiction research also. And of course the library's not open as a backup. If I need to, I'll go to the office though and use the computer there.

There's a lot of 'bringing out' I want to do to book one yet, and I'm preparing to do that. But first I'm going to do the first revisions on the first chapter of book two. I have a small bit to add into chapter two and then I can post chapters two and three for crits. I'll repost chapter one on CoRT and NCO, but think I'll skip OWW for awhile. I've got a few crits for NCO to do, and I'll copy four more to do crits on OWW soon and post another sub there … maybe one of the stories.

I've went through my stories and poems, thinking I'd have a lot to send out again. I do, sort of, but not as much as I'd like to have. I'm going to have to really work on more stories. I've gotten two more thought completely out and need to write those before they leave me completely.

Other than that, I think I have about fifty-two stories to read for the anthology now. I think I'll weed them down to forty, if that many are good enough, and pass a first batch onto the editors for their reading and scoring. I have to make the score sheets out for them on those yet too.

May 20, 2006

Really not as much as I wanted.. I haven't had time to spend at Forward Motion. I am getting crits done here and there - and have four more to put in computer for OWW tonight. But my writing didn’t go where I really thought it would.

Yet, it's going. I have more poems. My book is coming along. I have two more planned out now. And I have a story completely thought out to fit into the South Reach theme - an incident that occurs after book two and before the next Druid Mage series.

I need to really stop and get some revisions done. There a bunch of stories and poems that can go out the door once I get them revised.

I'm also moseying along in the copywriting course. I hope to really progress on this thing quickly. I've talked to hubby for it, and I think he's on board with me.

I'm getting ready to revise book one too - and I'm afraid it may take me longer than I think. I've been watching movie interviews that involve the author and screenwriters and the other people in the production. It's been making me think of what I would need to put in to make it more visual, more experiencing, and more usable for the possibility of movie productions. Not that I honestly believe mine fit the type that goes to movies, but I do believe that thinking about these things as you write help make the book better and more involving. There's other things I neglected that I have to add to it. Not sure if the revisions will lengthen the ms. by much or not.