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It has been many months since I wrote a post, except for the GYWO community posts I write now and then. I just came back online last night after almost 2 months without internet. The first 3 weeks were great! I got so much done! I got into a good treadmill habit, cooked, read a lot, hammered out words... And then it started to get dark earlier, and though the cold isn't here yet, the darkness made me feel lonely. So next thing you know I am using all my data up on my phone. Not good.
So got back on the internets and here I am watching netflix, some documentary about water. This is however research, for real! Water and the lack and manipulation of plays a big role in my ms so I thought this would be interesting. In fact it is, and has given me some ideas, but it sure is frightening too what parts of the world do with precious water. (Focus on a tanning factory in India made me nauseous, watching that chemical-laden brackish water pouring into a river where people bathe and wash and I don't want to know what else).
I am waiting to hear from Hodderscape. Decisions started going out on the 29th of September. Nothing yet. Will they want more? Will they say thanks but no thanks? Who knows? Whether or not they want the rest, I'm having so much fun with this story. I'd like to have it finished by end of the year but we will see.
I also pulled out my ancient fantasy I stopped working on about 15 years ago. I have no wish to pursue self publishing with it, or traditional publishing (as I am pursuing that with the current ms). So I am seriously considering having fun with Wattpad with it. I've got quite a bit of it and I'd like to finish it. It is funny, rereading that which I wrote long ago makes me realize just how well I wrote back then. Would that I had never let those who destroyed my belief in what I was doing get near it. But I am happy with what I am doing now. YA fantasy aka A Girl's Adventure Story is my jam. As is writing in first person. SO MUCH LOVE.
Otherwise not much else going on. Kids are good (and both have serious partners! oh my stars), work is good (busy as always), getting my treadmill time in almost every day. I'm doing Couch to 5k but took off last week. Why did I do that? Got to get back into it. My son is staying with me a couple nights a week which is nice, and that is all.
Now to curl up and reread what I wrote by hand at lunch today. I only meant to jot a few things down and ended up writing six handwritten pages.
So got back on the internets and here I am watching netflix, some documentary about water. This is however research, for real! Water and the lack and manipulation of plays a big role in my ms so I thought this would be interesting. In fact it is, and has given me some ideas, but it sure is frightening too what parts of the world do with precious water. (Focus on a tanning factory in India made me nauseous, watching that chemical-laden brackish water pouring into a river where people bathe and wash and I don't want to know what else).
I am waiting to hear from Hodderscape. Decisions started going out on the 29th of September. Nothing yet. Will they want more? Will they say thanks but no thanks? Who knows? Whether or not they want the rest, I'm having so much fun with this story. I'd like to have it finished by end of the year but we will see.
I also pulled out my ancient fantasy I stopped working on about 15 years ago. I have no wish to pursue self publishing with it, or traditional publishing (as I am pursuing that with the current ms). So I am seriously considering having fun with Wattpad with it. I've got quite a bit of it and I'd like to finish it. It is funny, rereading that which I wrote long ago makes me realize just how well I wrote back then. Would that I had never let those who destroyed my belief in what I was doing get near it. But I am happy with what I am doing now. YA fantasy aka A Girl's Adventure Story is my jam. As is writing in first person. SO MUCH LOVE.
Otherwise not much else going on. Kids are good (and both have serious partners! oh my stars), work is good (busy as always), getting my treadmill time in almost every day. I'm doing Couch to 5k but took off last week. Why did I do that? Got to get back into it. My son is staying with me a couple nights a week which is nice, and that is all.
Now to curl up and reread what I wrote by hand at lunch today. I only meant to jot a few things down and ended up writing six handwritten pages.
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Date: 2015-10-07 02:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-07 05:36 pm (UTC)And after that, while it rests/hunts for an agent/whatever, I will finallllllyyyy turn to my boy player story. Unless I should begin the 2nd in the first series, but interestingly to me the general advice given at Dragoncon in the YA panels was to NOT write the 2nd until the first finds a home/agent. That will be weird to me as I am already excited about book 2... WHO KNOWS WHAT IS RIGHT? Maybe Hodderscape will want it and then that decision will be made for me (DREAM ON GIRL).
Anyway. Life is good and I love my story. That is all. LOL!
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Date: 2015-10-07 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-07 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-08 01:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-08 01:31 am (UTC)I try not to check and worry, but every time I get an email at my pro account, I'm like, "Tor? Is it you?" (It is not. Their response time can be as long as 7 months and I'm not even to 5 yet.)
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Date: 2015-10-08 02:17 am (UTC)I am retyping that which I hand wrote this week and it feels so drively. Ahhhhh... I may end up cutting it all. But not until the rewrite. I am determined to move forward and get this draft down asap. THEN I can fix. Right????
:)
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Date: 2015-10-08 02:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-09 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-09 03:48 pm (UTC)The best news about writing is that we all make our own rules. Do what you need to do.
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Date: 2015-10-09 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-09 02:18 am (UTC)Glad to hear about the writing. I'm waiting to hear from Carina on my latest opus. We are coming up on two months and still no word.Sigh
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Date: 2015-10-09 03:41 pm (UTC)Well - I have decided that I will find my discipline a different way. LOL! Living alone as I do, I need my peoples. That being said, I definitely am fine with cutting back the tv watching. There just isn't time to watch all the things everyone else does, not with working 45ish hours a week, commuting, keeping eye on my MIL, writing group fun, etc.