Catching up time after the Holidays
Everyday Writing
Catching up time after the Holidays
Everyday Writing

Catching up time after the Holidays

I’ve been away so long I’m not sure if my blog remem­bers me.


Snow snow and more freakin’ snow. It’s pretty but.… I’m done. Even though I’m sure it’s not. Win­ter­’s not even half over, so we can expect more. I walked daugh­ter to school today to make sure she did­n’t have to plough her way across the field by her­self. But thank­fully some oth­er folks had been that way first.

Ok, now why am I really here? Not to com­plain about the snow, coz that’s been done before. No, it’s time to get back into the time man­age­ment with which I was doing so well before Christ­mas happened. I have writ­ing to fit in, rewrit­ing, and even–gasp!–Outsidethehome-type-work! I have to write to Fleet­wood Rob­bins, who has yet to let me know what he thought of my first 100 pages. Hope­fully he will give me an open­ing to sub­mit the New Improved ver­sion. Colleen tells me, “I have some pacing issues,” 24 hours AFTER I hit Send.… Oh well, it’s being improved any­way, that’s the main thing. 

Thanks to Melanie for the remind­er to write to Fleet­wood. She is need­ing to do the same thing.

Also did some brain­storm­ing over the hol­i­days (not even con­sciously. Some­times simply tak­ing a break is all I need to bring for­ward some new ideas). Poor Janak is in trouble now. I needed a way to make at least one of the char­ac­ters suf­fer more after the ogre attack, and it looks like Janak is going to come away with some per­man­ent dam­age, poor fel­low. He will take it ill, I know, coz he’s just a born com­plain­er at the best of times. It reminds me of when my dad used to say, “Quit cry­ing, or I’ll give you some­thing to cry about!” (Which nev­er made sense to me.… Surely I am cry­ing because I have some­thing to… Grown-ups just don’t GET these things). In any event, Janak needs some­thing to bitch about, so here he goes.

And Kyer­’s in big­ger trouble, too. I’m not sure, but I think I need to have Ronav remove her from the room for his ini­tial “dis­cus­sion” with her. That could prompt some extra nas­ti­ness. I’ll give it a try and see what happens.

Ok, this is get­ting long and I’m not really say­ing much. Just think­ing “aloud” as it were.