Well, I've committed.
Forester's Son is in editing revisions. And truthfully, it makes me happy. But this book. This BOOK!! *argh* I've had it finished over a year, now. I think, that I was not good enough yet to consider revising this book at that time when I finished. I don't know that I'm perfectly qualified now, but I think I'm better after revising the older MS for Super Agent.
You know what's funny? That even my critique group refers to this MS as "The Book that Won't Die."
I can't let it, because I love it so. But holy cow is there a lot to do with it. I don't think I can get it all done in one month.
Have you ever had a book like this? Irritating but yet so rewarding?
Monday, 30 November 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Today is the day
that the pics of all my knitted stuff will come online. I know it.
**concentrates**
Mark my words.
**concentrates**
Mark my words.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Monday again!
Hey guys!
How was your writing weekend?
I have reached the End of the Revision. Hoorah! And now...I get to start writing and seriously working on Panic. Which is so cool.
But you know what?
These revisions were more fun...than I planned. I know what you're thinking. Revisions, fun? But they were. Thinking, really pointedly thinking about my characters, looking at my plot, reading what betas said...it's amazing that it could be fun. And yet. And yet! I loved it!
Which leads me to...Forester's son. I love this book, but it's got a mountain of problems. I've put all the information I learned revising the other into ideas for Forester's son and you know what? I think I can revise this mofo!
So that's what I'll also be doing. I've discovered I'm pretty good at writing ONE book and revising ONE book at the same time. It either takes different parts of the brain or the two plots are so different...but either way, I think I can do it. And so I will.
It's just so cool right now.
How was your writing weekend?
I have reached the End of the Revision. Hoorah! And now...I get to start writing and seriously working on Panic. Which is so cool.
But you know what?
These revisions were more fun...than I planned. I know what you're thinking. Revisions, fun? But they were. Thinking, really pointedly thinking about my characters, looking at my plot, reading what betas said...it's amazing that it could be fun. And yet. And yet! I loved it!
Which leads me to...Forester's son. I love this book, but it's got a mountain of problems. I've put all the information I learned revising the other into ideas for Forester's son and you know what? I think I can revise this mofo!
So that's what I'll also be doing. I've discovered I'm pretty good at writing ONE book and revising ONE book at the same time. It either takes different parts of the brain or the two plots are so different...but either way, I think I can do it. And so I will.
It's just so cool right now.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Thursday, 19 November 2009
BABY edition: I'm back.
Last week was rough. I always knew in theory that if you were sick and pregnant you weren't getting any medications, but I had it tried and tested last week. With a double ear infection and strep throat, my friends, this was not a pretty week. BUT. I am better. And very glad I live when I do, so that when I'm not pregnant, I can have medicine!
Little Loki, you are ever more waking me up. 5 am seems to be your optimal time. And I don't know how you do it, but you've got the cats waking up at the same time and insisting to be fed. How do they insist? By walking around on my head. (Well, and the one miaows fit to kill.)
I do not like this.
But it is very effective, their little trick, and gets me up like nothing else. I used to be able to fall back asleep, but not anymore. So I have the handy iPod touch and surf/check emails/twitter in this early time. While you practice your nunchuck throwing in my belly.
I have found a perfect coming home outfit for you, I think! It's not so easy, you know. (I know you're still in there for a bit, but every new day is one day less! Have patience, young grasshopper!) Anyway, it perfectly matches your "Pippi Longstocking Crack Den" style. They just need to get it in by the time you decide you want out. I've tagged it, and am watching like a hawk.
You don't just need to wear a standard BOY or GIRL colour, either. All colours are cool, and stripes particularly are on my favourite "little Lokis wear this!" list. And it is. It is perfect.
I woke up last Sunday and your papa said, "WOW!" I guess you decided to grow a lot. Because now the belly is really starting to show and it is an odd feeling, how all my muscles grow soft and
my back bends, and HURTS, and my legs swell (but only a little bit!). All my energy is sapped for you. I don't know where these people get off saying I'll have more energy during the second trimester. This is bollocks.
You need to get strong enough to be felt from the outside, though, as easily as I feel you on the inside. Your papa is pretty into the idea of being able to feel you move too.
And now a question for all you mums out there: is it true that I can only sleep on the left side? And not the back? Or the right side? Because I read that somewhere, have been trying to do it and let me tell you. Sleeping is BORING NOW.
*whimper*
But it's all I seem to do.
Little Loki, you are ever more waking me up. 5 am seems to be your optimal time. And I don't know how you do it, but you've got the cats waking up at the same time and insisting to be fed. How do they insist? By walking around on my head. (Well, and the one miaows fit to kill.)
I do not like this.
But it is very effective, their little trick, and gets me up like nothing else. I used to be able to fall back asleep, but not anymore. So I have the handy iPod touch and surf/check emails/twitter in this early time. While you practice your nunchuck throwing in my belly.
I have found a perfect coming home outfit for you, I think! It's not so easy, you know. (I know you're still in there for a bit, but every new day is one day less! Have patience, young grasshopper!) Anyway, it perfectly matches your "Pippi Longstocking Crack Den" style. They just need to get it in by the time you decide you want out. I've tagged it, and am watching like a hawk.
You don't just need to wear a standard BOY or GIRL colour, either. All colours are cool, and stripes particularly are on my favourite "little Lokis wear this!" list. And it is. It is perfect.
I woke up last Sunday and your papa said, "WOW!" I guess you decided to grow a lot. Because now the belly is really starting to show and it is an odd feeling, how all my muscles grow soft and
my back bends, and HURTS, and my legs swell (but only a little bit!). All my energy is sapped for you. I don't know where these people get off saying I'll have more energy during the second trimester. This is bollocks.
You need to get strong enough to be felt from the outside, though, as easily as I feel you on the inside. Your papa is pretty into the idea of being able to feel you move too.
And now a question for all you mums out there: is it true that I can only sleep on the left side? And not the back? Or the right side? Because I read that somewhere, have been trying to do it and let me tell you. Sleeping is BORING NOW.
*whimper*
But it's all I seem to do.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Lotsa firsts today!
Well.
My Wonder Agent has started reading PoloGRRL! This is exciting to me, and the first original manuscript she's read since POSSUM SUMMER. It's a first, and I'm sure there will be many more, but I was really rather surprised with myself at the range of emotions I felt when I read her short note.
Fear. (What if she doesn't like it??)
Elation. (I did it! She has the next book!)
Sadness. (I did the best I could. What happens if my best wasn't good enough?)
Irritation. (I should have looked it over one more time. Darnit, I should have looked it over one more time!)
But most of all, just a really anticipatory feeling. Waiting to see what she'll think.
And since I didn't get my betas my book yesterday, today is the day I shall do this. Please cross your fingers. :-)
My Wonder Agent has started reading PoloGRRL! This is exciting to me, and the first original manuscript she's read since POSSUM SUMMER. It's a first, and I'm sure there will be many more, but I was really rather surprised with myself at the range of emotions I felt when I read her short note.
Fear. (What if she doesn't like it??)
Elation. (I did it! She has the next book!)
Sadness. (I did the best I could. What happens if my best wasn't good enough?)
Irritation. (I should have looked it over one more time. Darnit, I should have looked it over one more time!)
But most of all, just a really anticipatory feeling. Waiting to see what she'll think.
And since I didn't get my betas my book yesterday, today is the day I shall do this. Please cross your fingers. :-)
Monday, 16 November 2009
Updates, Heart Attacks, Reactions and ...
... other fun stuff.
So, I'm almost done with my revisions! One more run through today, I think, and it's off to my lovely beta readers, who will (hopefully) skewer me on their talons of prickli-ness and my MS will be oh-so-polished.
And in other news...our poor little Black cat (my muse of perfection) had an attack on Sunday. We thought we were gonna lose him right there. It was horrible. They now suspect either a mini heart attack and/or a blood clot (thrombosis) which is quite likely I suspect, due to the symptoms and the way he had the attack. He got a nice long infusion at the vets, as well as a reaction to the pain medicine they gave him (which included further foaming at the mouth and about finished me off) and yet another XRAY. He is a fighter, though, and always stays. I thought I really would lose him yesterday, though, and I couldn't handle it.
It was a long day.
So I thought I'd make all the notes here for anyone searching the net with the same problems my boy(s) have.
My Sphynx, both castrated boys and from the same family lines have HCM, or Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's an enlarged heart muscle on the right side of the heart and they can't say exactly why some cats get it and others don't. (Humans get it too!) It's been found to run in lines, and likely the Sphynx cat breed got it from the American Shorthair breed (which was used for outcrossings and where it is also prevalent).
You'll often not notice anything wrong with your cat up until the moment they have their first attack. I was lucky to come in at the tail end of Black Cat's first attack, over a year and a half ago. Symptoms: flailing around, drool/foam at the mouth, have EXTREME trouble breathing (or be unable to for a time, which is a NIGHTMARE), it could include temporary to permanent paralysis of the hind end and definitely includes the poor cat doing numbers 1 and 2 wherever they are located. (In Black cat's case yesterday, uh, on me.)
Once you have found a cat cardiologist, they'll do an EKG and various other tests (as well as xrays) to pinpoint the problem, the measurements of the problem, and determine treatment. It's a nightmarish time, but with the use of Dimazon and Atenolol, some cats can be treated for long lengths of time successfully, although nothing is set in stone and complications such as thrombosis are common.
Anyway. Just a note of warning: If you want a Sphynx cat, or a Maine Coon cat, or an American Shorthair, check the heart results as far back as you can get them. It's terrible to lose a cat you love with no warning, but it's just as bad to come in and find your poor cat in a state of shock, covered in poo and pee, and practically dead.
I'll be happy to just worry about writing and work stuff this week, for real.
So, I'm almost done with my revisions! One more run through today, I think, and it's off to my lovely beta readers, who will (hopefully) skewer me on their talons of prickli-ness and my MS will be oh-so-polished.
And in other news...our poor little Black cat (my muse of perfection) had an attack on Sunday. We thought we were gonna lose him right there. It was horrible. They now suspect either a mini heart attack and/or a blood clot (thrombosis) which is quite likely I suspect, due to the symptoms and the way he had the attack. He got a nice long infusion at the vets, as well as a reaction to the pain medicine they gave him (which included further foaming at the mouth and about finished me off) and yet another XRAY. He is a fighter, though, and always stays. I thought I really would lose him yesterday, though, and I couldn't handle it.
It was a long day.
So I thought I'd make all the notes here for anyone searching the net with the same problems my boy(s) have.
My Sphynx, both castrated boys and from the same family lines have HCM, or Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's an enlarged heart muscle on the right side of the heart and they can't say exactly why some cats get it and others don't. (Humans get it too!) It's been found to run in lines, and likely the Sphynx cat breed got it from the American Shorthair breed (which was used for outcrossings and where it is also prevalent).
You'll often not notice anything wrong with your cat up until the moment they have their first attack. I was lucky to come in at the tail end of Black Cat's first attack, over a year and a half ago. Symptoms: flailing around, drool/foam at the mouth, have EXTREME trouble breathing (or be unable to for a time, which is a NIGHTMARE), it could include temporary to permanent paralysis of the hind end and definitely includes the poor cat doing numbers 1 and 2 wherever they are located. (In Black cat's case yesterday, uh, on me.)
Once you have found a cat cardiologist, they'll do an EKG and various other tests (as well as xrays) to pinpoint the problem, the measurements of the problem, and determine treatment. It's a nightmarish time, but with the use of Dimazon and Atenolol, some cats can be treated for long lengths of time successfully, although nothing is set in stone and complications such as thrombosis are common.
Anyway. Just a note of warning: If you want a Sphynx cat, or a Maine Coon cat, or an American Shorthair, check the heart results as far back as you can get them. It's terrible to lose a cat you love with no warning, but it's just as bad to come in and find your poor cat in a state of shock, covered in poo and pee, and practically dead.
I'll be happy to just worry about writing and work stuff this week, for real.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Light week
Unfortunately I'm a bit under the weather so I'll be taking some days off to recuperate.
Catch you on the flip side and all that.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Baby Edition: Fighting for time
Hey kiddo.
Well, you're growing and growing, and your pushes and bumps and smacks are becoming ever more obvious. Where before it was soda bubbles, now it's definite prods. You must be getting it together in there.
And your sense of hearing is here, and to the dismay of your papa, you seem to ADORE "The Wizard of Oz". We watched it the other night and you were going batshite insane in there. But only when Dorothy sang. It was really, really funny. But your papa thinks it's because the songs are so happy and bright, which I'm okay with. I'll buy that movie soundtrack and play it for you every day if it makes you happy.
Poor kid. I'm editing one book and writing one I absolutely adore, and you? You're stuck growing a brain and getting bigger. I hope all this imagination soaks into your pores, too, so you come out all interested in the world and wanting to be a part of it. And cheerful. Please. Oh, and a good sleeper. And not crying all the time.
Hee.
The other day your growing process gave me heartburn so bad I almost cried. That was not nice! I would love to know why it hits like that. Thankfully papa comes to the rescue once again and gets me heartburn medicine.
Your papa is my hero, and he'll be yours, too.
I do find to my dismay that the last of my brainpower has been assimilated by the book revising/writing process. I think I'm an empty husk for most of the day.
Well, you're growing and growing, and your pushes and bumps and smacks are becoming ever more obvious. Where before it was soda bubbles, now it's definite prods. You must be getting it together in there.
And your sense of hearing is here, and to the dismay of your papa, you seem to ADORE "The Wizard of Oz". We watched it the other night and you were going batshite insane in there. But only when Dorothy sang. It was really, really funny. But your papa thinks it's because the songs are so happy and bright, which I'm okay with. I'll buy that movie soundtrack and play it for you every day if it makes you happy.
Poor kid. I'm editing one book and writing one I absolutely adore, and you? You're stuck growing a brain and getting bigger. I hope all this imagination soaks into your pores, too, so you come out all interested in the world and wanting to be a part of it. And cheerful. Please. Oh, and a good sleeper. And not crying all the time.
Hee.
The other day your growing process gave me heartburn so bad I almost cried. That was not nice! I would love to know why it hits like that. Thankfully papa comes to the rescue once again and gets me heartburn medicine.
Your papa is my hero, and he'll be yours, too.
I do find to my dismay that the last of my brainpower has been assimilated by the book revising/writing process. I think I'm an empty husk for most of the day.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Wow, Wednesday already
I feel like my brain has used all its RAM.
I've got another five chapters, as well as 1k of new words. How you coming along?
(Sorry. I will report but I can't do a longer post. Brain really is gone.)
I've got another five chapters, as well as 1k of new words. How you coming along?
(Sorry. I will report but I can't do a longer post. Brain really is gone.)
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Moving along.
Isn't this boring? It is totally boring.
All I'm doing right now is writing. Or editing. Or revising. Or, when I need a break from it all, knitting. I'm making good steps in all directions, but then I come and report and it's so boooooring.
I mean, what can I say? I get a total kick out of PDS, the dog in this book is just insane hysterical and I heart him. My other revision is going well and I'm ten chapters in. I'm more than half, easy almost 3/4 through, with my lovely scarf and easily 3/4 finished with the cat's sweater, called the cat-cho by my knitting buddy. (There will be pictures.) And my brain is going in every direction and I don't remember anything.
Huh? What did I just say?
*sigh*
So things are going well. And this is such a boring post.
Sorry.
All I'm doing right now is writing. Or editing. Or revising. Or, when I need a break from it all, knitting. I'm making good steps in all directions, but then I come and report and it's so boooooring.
I mean, what can I say? I get a total kick out of PDS, the dog in this book is just insane hysterical and I heart him. My other revision is going well and I'm ten chapters in. I'm more than half, easy almost 3/4 through, with my lovely scarf and easily 3/4 finished with the cat's sweater, called the cat-cho by my knitting buddy. (There will be pictures.) And my brain is going in every direction and I don't remember anything.
Huh? What did I just say?
*sigh*
So things are going well. And this is such a boring post.
Sorry.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Back in the saddle...again
Happy Monday!
I know, right? But it's true! My Monday is so happy!
Why, you ask?
Well, for one, I've started PDS. And it's great. It's gonna be a ball, I can already tell. There are so many things I've never done that I'm doing with this book, and it's just a ball. I'm definitely using it as a crutch to get through the rewrites of an older book my agent wanted to see, which is also what I'm doing. It's a pretty hefty rewrite and so I'm not *really* counting it in my NaNo, but I'm definitely marking it here, because I want to be able to keep track of myself.
So I'm really busy!
I got
9K edited
and
1k of new words
How you doin' with yours?
I know, right? But it's true! My Monday is so happy!
Why, you ask?
Well, for one, I've started PDS. And it's great. It's gonna be a ball, I can already tell. There are so many things I've never done that I'm doing with this book, and it's just a ball. I'm definitely using it as a crutch to get through the rewrites of an older book my agent wanted to see, which is also what I'm doing. It's a pretty hefty rewrite and so I'm not *really* counting it in my NaNo, but I'm definitely marking it here, because I want to be able to keep track of myself.
So I'm really busy!
I got
9K edited
and
1k of new words
How you doin' with yours?
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