So: I finished a book manuscript ( Read more... )

Yup. September. Ba-di-ya, say do you remember time. How the hell did that happen? Only yesterday it was July, and I was wrapping up a couple of drafts and going to the gym every day and frying whole chickens. Now it's suddenly cold at night and I'm waiting to hear back from a publisher and oh yeah, WORK.

The busy-ness has been a little overwhelming ( Read more... )

I'm starting to think that writing a book proposal is even more of a pain in the ass than writing a book.

Still gacked from ( Read more... )

Not dead, I promise. Just busy with stuff. Real life. Writing. Going to the gym. Seeing the occasional movie with spuffyduds and likeadeuce.

Not reading much, perhaps because I've been doing so much writing. But at least I've got a few books in mind.

Also, tomorrow I'm going birding. Woot!

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It's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say, but even the large, flaccid, and inert critters of nature can be provoked to roar and take action, as anyone who's witnessed a hippo attack will agree. And if I am the hippo in this tale, so be it: I will bellow and overturn canoes and send swimmers panicking for the shore as necessary.

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Yeah, yeah, I know: "Writing is rewriting."

But yesterday I came home from work and knocked off 62 pages of revision on the MS I'm sending out by the first.

And then today I managed only 38 pages.

So I've got two more days to do another 175 pages. At least I've got Monday off from work...

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I was poking around the mysterious recesses of my computer today, and I found the opening part of a crossover fic that Spuffyduds and I were supposed to be collaborating on.

How come she never did write the next section, huh?

Inspired by the examples of my LJ beta buddies, I have finished writing my notes on a non-LJ friend's manuscript.

I am that much closer to Nirvana now.


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Well. I've been busy ( Read more... )