One story down…
It’s official–I just sent off Say Yes to the editor. We’ll see what she says.
I have the best beta in the WORLD. Amazingly, she found the story pretty clean, and pinpointed a couple of thematic threads I had dropped. So, wove those back in, got rid of some repeated words, changed some things around, and voila. The story is oodles better. For a YA vampire short, it’s pretty dark–but then, this is me we’re talking about. Sweetness and light doesn’t exactly happen in my head.
Now it’s just the gargoyle story. I’m ahead of schedule, so this should be good even if it needs a hideous amount of work on it to make it decent.
I think most of today is going to go toward reading SA again, so that I can start the lunge toward the end of the second book. Or I might just say “to hell with it” and throw out another chunk of the second book, and fix anything that needs to be fixed later after the corpse is finished and I reread the first one. I feel itchy today, like I have a pile of text wanting to break out for freedom through my fingers.
Not much else to report. I’m taking advantage of the decent (kind of) weather to air the house out. Soon I’ll close it back up and turn the heaters back on.
As a matter of fact, I’m chilled. Might as well do that now.
Catch ya on the flip side, Readers.
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December 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I really look forward to your blogs. Even the smaller ones because you are so very busy. Got my boss hooked on the Dante series. How cool is that! Your writing is wonderful.