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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:46 pm
Easy A was fun, I liked it a lot. Saw an early afternoon show and had lunch and went to the bookstore. And tonight I am going over a friend's house while my husband plays D&D and planning to get caught up on my reading. My towering stack of library books due back in less than two weeks is starting to look um... unrealistic. XD
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:10 am
I just got mine in in time, actually. I never used to be this bad about returning them.
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:35 am
I used to work in a library (and still would if I could find another job) and I have only gotten worse about returning books, unfortunately. It doesn't help that I'm still in the system as staff so most things I check out don't accumulate fines. But I still have guilt. gonk
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:12 pm
The publishing industry... is so weird.
Also ridiculously slow. And temperamental.
That is all.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:47 pm
Hmmm, so no NaNoWriMo for me this year... need to do a novel revision instead.
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:24 am
Racheling have you turned something in to get published? The publishing industry IS really slow. T.T
This is actually going to be my first nano, I'm pretty nervous. Are you going to revise your entire novel?
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:54 am
Yeah, nothing exciting, just in the "trying to get published" stage and waiting, waiting, waiting... XD
But I got some notes back about the book I recently finished, and want to get the revision done by Thanksgiving.
It's not a complete rewrite, but I need to do a lot of restructuring, so it's going to take some time, which does mean no NaNo!
After that comes another round of revisions, but (hopefully) they should be more line-level nitpicks rather than major changes.
Don't be nervous about NaNo, it's all for fun! biggrin
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:50 am
Whoops, it's been over a month since I've been in here. Still working on revising my book, and today I'm planning to start reading it again. Got sick, that's been slowing me down. Boo! And clearly had no time for Nano this year, as usual, but it was just going to be for fun anyway.
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:45 pm
Got my revision done and sent off last week, so now I need something new to work on. I've been throwing around a few ideas, but I want to come up with an outline of some kind before I start working, especially because my ideas are so vague right now. I might also go back to one of the projects I put on hold and see if I feel like poking at either of them, but I don't know... they're both in a fantasy world, and I think I'm up for writing something more contemporary for now. If I can plot out this middle grade idea, it should be a fairly quick project, maybe 35-40k words, so that might be next. I just need a little more to go on...
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:35 pm
I'd hoped to hear back about my revision by Christmas, but since that didn't happen, I'm just going to focus on the new project while I wait.
I'm planning to write a school-based middle grade novel involving a mystery about why kids at school are starting to act strange. It should be a fun, quick project, and I hope it will be done in 30k words. It should be similar in style and length to books like The Homework Machine and Dork in Disguise.
Amazingly, I have a better outline than I've ever had for any previous books, and I'm hoping this means I'll be able to get a draft completed fairly quickly. Since this is the first time I'm writing a mystery, I'm going to have to find a lot of people to give it a quick read to make sure the evidence isn't too obvious.
Middle grade books are so much fun to read, so I'm excited about writing another one. I just need to get started! By the end of the week, I'm hoping to have a few thousand words. We'll see! It'll be nice to have a new project moving along. Hopefully when I hear back about the YA it won't need too much in the way of final edits before it can get sent out... I'm nervous!
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:11 pm
I'm so impatient... we're planning to replace my laptop with a new one with a discrete graphics card, and I kept thinking, oh, no rush...
Well, now that I know which one I'm planning to get, I want it now. xd But I think we're going to wait until after we file taxes so we can see if we owe anything and where our finances are.
Shiny new laptops that can run WoW better are probably bad for writing productivity though. ninja
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:15 pm
Sooo... typing this from my shiny new laptop. surprised heart
Writing is a little stalled as far as the new project, but it's actually really good. I did a lot of thinking about it and have a much better idea of what needs to happen. But in the meantime, I started reading over a half-finished project I'd shelved for a while, and it's really good! Woot! So since that's in a much better state and since I'm feeling ready to finally tackle the second half, I've been reading it over.
I have a good feeling about this year. One book ready to be submitted, one almost ready, and 50% of a first draft of a 3rd project isn't a bad start to 2011.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:37 pm
Well, my household has been taken over by the flu.
/crawls off to make some soup
This stinks.
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:38 am
No writing this week. Not until I get the news I'm waiting for. Too anxious.
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:30 pm
Here's hoping for good news, whatever it may be. And enjoy taking the week off from writing smile
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