On my list of things to do today...
Trying so hard to work on the last part of Consumed today. It needs to be DONE so we can start edits but I'm having trouble with the main character. I've lost my connection with her. I should probably print it out and go read it but I'm scared I'll get stuck in edits.
My ~20k story for sga_santa has been sent off and will be posted soon. Whoosh! I never thought I was going to find an ending for that story. It was only meant to be a few thousand words but the story just kept going! I actually want to keep playing around with the idea and see what else I can get from it. I'm not entirely happy with where it ended up and one of the characters (a lead one, no less) was very wooden on the page. I wasn't entirely true to where I wanted to end up and I think that was where I went wrong. Oh well. It's done now. It's gone. I can stop thinking about it... yeah, right!
My nephew came over with my other sister this weekend to visit so we've been having fun with him. He's learning SO MANY new words. He can almost say my name now. I really should just teach him that I'm Aunt Lar cause I know he can say that.
He pulled the cat's tail last night and then spent 15 minutes making the same yowling sound that she had made. The boy is a natural mimic. He had the same pitch and phrasing that she did. Of course, he thinks that's what a cat should say most of the time. And he calls her, "No, no" because that's what he hears when she's around. Either he's being told not to pull her tail or she's being told not to scratch him. They're playful enemies, those two.
Okay, enough procrastinating. I need to get back to the manuscript. My goal is to be at 20k in the story by the end of today. Let's hope that's the end of the story!
My ~20k story for sga_santa has been sent off and will be posted soon. Whoosh! I never thought I was going to find an ending for that story. It was only meant to be a few thousand words but the story just kept going! I actually want to keep playing around with the idea and see what else I can get from it. I'm not entirely happy with where it ended up and one of the characters (a lead one, no less) was very wooden on the page. I wasn't entirely true to where I wanted to end up and I think that was where I went wrong. Oh well. It's done now. It's gone. I can stop thinking about it... yeah, right!
My nephew came over with my other sister this weekend to visit so we've been having fun with him. He's learning SO MANY new words. He can almost say my name now. I really should just teach him that I'm Aunt Lar cause I know he can say that.
He pulled the cat's tail last night and then spent 15 minutes making the same yowling sound that she had made. The boy is a natural mimic. He had the same pitch and phrasing that she did. Of course, he thinks that's what a cat should say most of the time. And he calls her, "No, no" because that's what he hears when she's around. Either he's being told not to pull her tail or she's being told not to scratch him. They're playful enemies, those two.
Okay, enough procrastinating. I need to get back to the manuscript. My goal is to be at 20k in the story by the end of today. Let's hope that's the end of the story!