Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Dark Moon
Saturn Retrograde
Mercury Retrograde
Rainy and mild

Well, this week will be a series of long, bureaucratic days because each step of paperwork has to be complete before the next one. That’s fine – I got what I needed to get done here at the local police level; now I wait for a copy of the report and then I can truck that around to all the other people who need it. My credit union, with whom I finally spoke, seemed bored by it all. The Fraud Department never even called me back. I also went to my other bank and changed my numbers, just to make sure.

And, of course, it snowed the whole time I was out and about. Not one weather person warned us.

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, July 22. I’m a guest on Michelle Pillow’s “Pillow Talk Tuesdays.” Don’t worry, I’ll remind you closer to the date!

I got out the work and the invoice to Confidential Job #2 yesterday morning, and now I can switch back over to CJ#1’s next assignment. Confidential Job #1 already paid me for the last invoice, which only went out a few days ago – love them. Ahem, I will NOT be putting that check into the credit union account!

I’m in the city all day today, working onsite somewhere else.

How many plumbers does it take to fix the toilet? Especially when one of the cats is upset that they had to move the litter box?

I knew I should have just bought the part at Home Depot and fixed it myself!

Spent most of the day polishing Tracking Medusa. Caught some glaring errors and wondered why it took me so long to catch them. Basically, I’ll have a whole new draft when I’m done with this. And I’m having total fits about sending it out in the next few days, but if it doesn’t go out, it can’t find the right publisher. So, out it goes. Short stories, plays, articles – all those are easy to push out of the nest. The novels are hard, because the investment is so deep on so many levels.

Oh, and the title of Wyatt is officially changed. I’ve re-titled it Old Fashioned Detective Work, which is literal in one sense, and plays against the story in another, so I think it works better for the piece. Had a good morning’s work, not in terms of word count, but in terms of story.

Devon

Old-Fashioned Detective Work – 15,356 words out of est. 20,000 (76%)

Devon’s Bookstore:

5 in 10: Create 5 Short Stories in Ten Weeks by Devon Ellington. This ebooklet takes you from inspiration to writing to revision to marketing. By the end of ten weeks, you will have either 5 short stories or a good chunk of a novella complete. And it’s only 50 cents, USD. Here.

Writing Rituals: Ideas to Support Creativity by Cerridwen Iris Shea. This ebooklet contains several rituals to help you start writing, get you through writer’s block, and help send your work on its way. It’s only 39 cents USD. (Note: Cerridwen Iris Shea is one of the six names under which I publish). Here.

Full Circle: An Ars Concordia Anthology. Edited by Colin Galbraith. This is a collection of short stories, poems, and other pieces by a writers’ group of which I am a member. My story is “Pauvre Bob”, set at Arlington Race Track in Illinois. You can download it free here: