One:
After my cross-post from November Hill Press blog, and all the lovely support I got, I am happy to report that I got to the upload phase with the first novel this morning. I pretty immediately got stuck in preview mode though b/c of some formatting issues that have to be fixed, but I can say without qualification that my getting out of my slump is a direct result of comments here last week. So thank you to all who commented. I so appreciate it.
Two:
I am living in a boneyard. Sort of like a Stephen King short story. Bear has managed to locate and excavate every bone that has ever been given to Chase or Kyra since we moved here 5 years ago. Every morning I wake up to find that he has been on midnight digs and brought in more of his finds. There were years when I stepped on stray Lego parts or Playmobil parts and squealed in pain. Now I am stubbing my toes on bones. I had no idea we'd even GIVEN Chase and Kyra this many bones!
Three:
It is another gorgeous day and although I still have a list of things, I have spent time on other things too: emailing my writing group partner for support on the formatting glitch, eating the last piece of Mexican chocolate cake that husband made on Friday, and right now I am sitting here cheerfully typing in this blog post, thumbing my nose at the to do list, and letting the ship sail -- on autopilot.
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11 comments:
One - Congratulations!
Two - Ouch! The Bear must have very dirty paws.
Three - The cake sounds delicious. Autopilot is the only way to go.
Hope you manage to get a ride in with this beautiful weather.
Does a Mexican chocolate cake have some sort of chili pepper in it by chance?! Yum :)
Maybe put "autopilot" on the list...
I think I've joined your "nose thumbing" club :)
Billie, I wish you luck with the formatting conundrum - I'm afraid I cannot help there. I do believe my eyes are giving out - I read that Bear has taken up a career in archeology and that you edited the chocolate cake. I re-read more carefully and it made more sense but wasn't quite as colourful.
Arlene, autopilot is pretty nice, I admit!
V, the secret ingredient is cinnamon - and you can also use a special kind of Mexican chocolate, which we do when we can find it.
Also, there is coffee in the icing!
Beth, it's a fun club. Welcome!
Sheaffer, love your colorful reading of this.
I have to say - if editing manuscripts were as easy as editing that piece of cake was... it would be a... piece of cake! :)
right on! autopilot is my favorite setting ;-) hope you get your formatting woes resolved soon!
j, from the frying pan into the fire is what comes to mind with this formatting stuff - but hopefully not for too long a time!
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