Wed. Nov. 30: Close to the End of the Draft

Tessa gets more decorating done than I do

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Waxing Moon
Pluto Retrograde
Neptune Retrograde
Uranus Retrograde
Mercury Retrograde
Rainy and cooler

The morning just flew away. Yesterday was busy, too. Worked with my students, ran errands, prepped for the meeting in the evening, including doing photo collages of a couple of events. Meeting went well — my first as official Secretary of the organization. I’m going to type up the minutes later today, while it’s still all fresh.

The garage door was being persnickety yesterday — typical Mercury Retrograde.

Good morning’s work on HEART SNATCHER — only about one or two more chapters, and I’m done with the draft. I think it’ll come in around 112K, which gives me room for a lot of cutting, and some expansion. It gets tucked away until the whole class (or what’s left of it) starts the revision process in April. But I’m starting Book 2 (since it’s a trilogy) almost immediately, because Books 2 and 3 will influence the edits on Book 1.

Batted around some ideas yesterday and have to write up a couple of proposals. They’re a little whacky, but if we can pull them off, I think they’ll be a ton of fun — productive sessions that will give students something tangible to take with them.

Tons of errands today, more work with students (critiquing the short stories takes time and I can only do as much as I can do). I’m going to a Writers’ event this evening, which should be fun. Part of me thinks I should cancel — but I know I’ll resent it if I do. So I’m going — that will be the Artist Date for the week.

I am so ready for yoga tomorrow!

I still have a ton of prep to do for the Independent Book Fair in which I’m participating on Saturday. There are some long nights ahead of me this week.

Devon

Today’s word count: 2565
Total word count: 97,371

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