Bright Angel checking in

Hi All - which is probably just me at this point - but I like to keep a bit here so I will remember what I was up to later. Yes, I use my blog as a log - how bizarre you say? Works for me.

I finished a big revision of Bright Angel last night. Today I started what I hope is the final revision. Hard to say but I am mostly happy with the balcony view - the structure, the plot, the characters etc... and now want to be down on the floor fine tuning the language, eliminating saggy words, tightening and brightening. I went at the first few chapters this morning but I'm mostly flexing my muscles and reading about this stage of revision. Getting ready - putting on my marathon clothes and doing lots of leg stretches if you know what I mean. Do I? Know what I mean? Yes! I'm sneaking up on it. I'm terrified. There. Now you know. Plus I have to work on all these short sentences. Yes!

My plan is to finish all of this including brightening up my synopsis and get it out to some agents by March 1st.

Here is a picture of me this morning - I took it, of course! Who'd you expect? Bella?

Fresh Start New Year

Hi all dear people. I haven't been posting - on fb I have - photos and poems everyday but not here. I will though, once all the company has gone and I'm on the second stage of being here. I started a new blog about my Labrador experience. Here it is - it is called Sojourner.

I'm brewing up a wild storm of something to do with being here and what is happening in my heart and soul. Not sure where or what but something.

Watch for it. It is brewing out there... see?

The Weather and its influence on the garden-variety writer

It is gray, snowing, blowing, carrying on like a ... like a Labrador November I guess. And I'm wasting time instead of revising. Why? Beats me. This is the ideal writing weather if you ask me. It gives nothing and demands you get your entertainment elsewhere. To be strictly honest I did a bit of revising on The Rock Walker. I would like to go back and do some more. My goal is to be finished that and have feedback in hand by the end of the month. That means I should have this revision done by the end of the week. And no reason not to.

Yesterday we walked for ages - please read about it shortly in my other blog - Living the Complicated Simple Life -   I'll post pictures and a bit about the whole wonderful surreal aspect of the day.

Okay then. Back to work. Whiiiitishhhh (sound of a whip). I hereby promise to do at least three more chapters. I have thirty-six out of fifty-six so twenty more to do. Hmmmm.... I"ll finish five more today. Then I have a reasonable five a day to finish the week. Yep. Short week due to Remembrance Day.

So now I have a goal.
First I'll make cocoa then I'll start using mytomatoes which is how I discipline myself - 25 minute timer. Two or three of them should see me clear.

Later dear hearts! Here is one of 137 photos I took yesterday.

Today I am Reading

Friday was a bust. The death of a young friend took me from my work. Instead I walked, I sat on my cushion pondering the imponderable and called friends back home. Today, after a slow gentle weekend, I am back at my desk. I've read part way through making very minor tinkerings. I will send the manuscript out this afternoon when I'm finished.
Then I will bring up The Rock Walker and begin again on that. Any of you all doing NaNoWriMo? Must say I had a slight pull. What better place than here? But no. I must finish all my revisions before starting something new. I do have a wee idea for a kid's book though. Need to talk to Kathy Kaulbach first.

finished this revision!

the sticky bits weren't really. More like a bit of push and then the new part slid in like it belonged there - which it did. Now I'm finished this revision. I will read the whole thing over to make sure it is still as cohesive as I think it is and then send it on to a couple of readers. Then while I wait to hear back from them I'm going to pull out The Rock Walker and see what sort of shape it is in. Be fun to have two novels out at the same time looking for homes!

now though, Bella and I will go for our mid-day ramble - then back for curried chicken soup and maybe I'll break into the chocolate bar stash to celebrate this particular deadline being met!

And how are you all?
Working away?
Feeling that good crisp autumn into winter feeling?
What could be better than working on plot points or revising for language when the air is cold and fresh? Nothing! That's what.