Good news, bad news, and touchstones
Whew. I finished reading through (and taking notes on) Kat3 today...and I really, honestly loved the last 100 pages. Which was a HUGE relief, as I'd been fretting over a bunch of things beforehand. Loving the ending, though, and having faith in that last third of the book, makes the first two-thirds feel so much more fix-able, and gives me a direction to work towards.
So...I am tentatively feeling excited about the rewrite. Please wish me luck!
Sadly, I'm feeling very un-psyched about the fact that we absolutely, definitely will NOT be going to WisCon this year, after all. We just couldn't get all our travel documentation taken care of in time. My first UK passport, MrD's American and UK passports...the timing just didn't work out...which was completely my fault for not being better organized. Gaarh. I much prefer to be able to blame other people for things like this! Alas, that's not an option this time round...and I am going to really miss seeing so many of my friends this year, not to mention the awesome client dinner party my agent has organized for the WisCon weekend. Wahhh! :(
We WILL be at the Hay-on-Wye festival, which starts the same weekend at the end of May (and then goes on for about a week), and our tentative plan is to spend my birthday wandering around the festival toddler-free. It'll be really nice, I know, and I'm hoping to enjoy it a lot. But I will still be feeling deeply WisCon-wistful.
But! I have done more than enough whining for one journal entry. So I'm going to close with this:
A Most Improper Magick will be published in LESS THAN THREE MONTHS in the UK! My publisher will be getting proofs of the final cover sometime this week, and I'm really, really hoping to be able to share it with you guys soon afterwards. They're emailing me the pdf of the final, ready-for-printing version of the book by the end of this week. It is all so cool that it feels completely surreal.
When I get most frustrated about the things I've screwed up, or the things I might not be able to do this year that I really wanted to do...well, that's what I hang on to. My Kat books are being published, and that is such a dream come true, it's hard not to feel that things are balancing out somehow.
What about you guys? What do you hang onto when you're frustrated with yourself or your situation?
So...I am tentatively feeling excited about the rewrite. Please wish me luck!
Sadly, I'm feeling very un-psyched about the fact that we absolutely, definitely will NOT be going to WisCon this year, after all. We just couldn't get all our travel documentation taken care of in time. My first UK passport, MrD's American and UK passports...the timing just didn't work out...which was completely my fault for not being better organized. Gaarh. I much prefer to be able to blame other people for things like this! Alas, that's not an option this time round...and I am going to really miss seeing so many of my friends this year, not to mention the awesome client dinner party my agent has organized for the WisCon weekend. Wahhh! :(
We WILL be at the Hay-on-Wye festival, which starts the same weekend at the end of May (and then goes on for about a week), and our tentative plan is to spend my birthday wandering around the festival toddler-free. It'll be really nice, I know, and I'm hoping to enjoy it a lot. But I will still be feeling deeply WisCon-wistful.
But! I have done more than enough whining for one journal entry. So I'm going to close with this:
A Most Improper Magick will be published in LESS THAN THREE MONTHS in the UK! My publisher will be getting proofs of the final cover sometime this week, and I'm really, really hoping to be able to share it with you guys soon afterwards. They're emailing me the pdf of the final, ready-for-printing version of the book by the end of this week. It is all so cool that it feels completely surreal.
When I get most frustrated about the things I've screwed up, or the things I might not be able to do this year that I really wanted to do...well, that's what I hang on to. My Kat books are being published, and that is such a dream come true, it's hard not to feel that things are balancing out somehow.
What about you guys? What do you hang onto when you're frustrated with yourself or your situation?