Now that the construction dust has settled at my house for the time
being, I can return all my attention back to my writing.
Surprisingly, I haven’t gotten too far behind on my novel for the “Lion
& Steed” series for Ravenous Romance. With exactly one month to go until it’s
due, I’m only 5k under the bare minimum word count. Excellent! I’ve still got
so many little scenes to write to connect all the big scenes, not to mention
all the filling out of dialogue (adding the he said, he smiled, etc.), my main
concern will be not making the finished book too long. What a lovely dilemma
that is for a writer, I must say. *grins quite happily*
When we move our attention to the “Sicily” short story for Carina Press,
well, the progress on that did take a nasty hit. The last two days, I’ve gotten
basically zero work done on it, which, of course, puts me behind my
self-imposed schedule (deadline for completion I’ve set at March 8). If I don’t
get considerable wordage done on it today, I’ll get truly concerned. But I
refuse to shift the deadlines until there is no choice. I’m basically a
stubborn ass, if you hadn’t picked up on that yet.
Less than a week (2/20) until contracts are supposed to be sent out by
Dreamspinner Press for their “Mended” anthology. I’ve heard nothing on “Ravenscar”
(my short story submission) which is not surprising but still terribly
nerve-wracking. At this point, I’m almost dreading getting the word. I really, really want this, but I don’t think the
world-at-large gives a shit about that, lol. I’ll survive either way it goes,
but… I really, REALLY want this.
Time for a quick OCD check. I’m keeping a rather even keel on checking
my business email. If I’m online, once every 3-5 minutes is holding as the norm
(a pitiful, embarrassing norm but a norm, nonetheless). Checking the visitor
count to my website and blogs is wavering from just bothersome to a little bad.
Again, as long as I’m not online, I don’t have a problem. The fact that I worry
continuously about whether I’m just wasting my time doing these blogs, feeling
foolish at even trying to pull off successfully two fresh blogs a day, we won’t
mention, ok?
Well, the U.S. is now losing the hockey game to Russia 1-0 in the
second period. I’m one of those hockey fans who only really watch the sport
during the playoffs and the Olympics. I admit that’s pretty sorry but I do
enjoy a good game on the ice, especially when the announcers are good (yeah,
yeah, I know, not a true hockey fan, then).
Putin is at the game. Can you imagine the security? I don’t think I
want to…
U.S. just scored!! The game is tied! (Putin, I’m sure, is not happy
with the stupid penalty the Russian player committed that gave U.S. the power
play they scored on… Yeah, I don’t think I want to think about that either.)
Until this evening…
Chloe
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