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I've spent the last two days in a whirlwind flurry of polishing and reworking the first chapter of my fantasy novel, Altered Fates, for the Armadillocon workshop in August in Austin. I very nearly missed the deadline--ho hum, I was feeling lazy, decided to check the website...and SCREECHED! Submissions were due TODAY! This was discovered by me TUESDAY!!!
I yelled to my local writing peeps, they yelled back YOU CAN DO IT! and so I frantically pulled out the first chapter (which used to be the fourth) and spent yesterday and part of today (during work, shhh) adding and deleting and fixing and polishing and screeching yelling pulling hair out getting little sleep... WHEW!!!
DAMN that was FUN!!!
Seriously, I have not had that much fun, been so happy working on anything quite like that in quite some time. My passion for this story has been bubbling overboard lately--this story's time is now, at last. Taken about ten years to get it to this point, but now is the time, yes it is. Working on the first chapter again--time flew, nothing could distract me (even going over it in hard copy at Starbucks last night)and I realized (again) that the reason working on this novel makes me so happy is because it is damn good.
I have something special here, by golly. HAVE had something special for a long time, but evil people and circumstances beyond my control, and stupid attitudes and stubborness on my part forced it aside.
So, anyway!!! Now that that is sent in, I can relax, get back to beta'ing as I'd promised (uh, sorry about the sudden disappearance on that, KL! I went rather nutty!) and tomorrow, I leave early a.m. to go see my sister Leslie in Nashville. WHEE!! Four days of Being Away From Here will be a good thing. I need a break from Fort Worth, work, kids, dogs...scratch that. Not from the dogs.
When I get back I'll have two months to finish ballet boy--I want--no, it WILL be out of here by the time I go to Armadillocon end of August. Happily, two of my FW peeps will also be going. Whee! (they joined me in the panic over getting a chapter ready with less than 48 hours to do it, lol awesome). That'll be awesome wonderful fun, and both are far more familiar with the genre and the people in it than I am, so that will be added marvelousness.
So, here I go! Diving head first into the fantasy genre at long last. I think I am ready for it. Oh yeah.
I yelled to my local writing peeps, they yelled back YOU CAN DO IT! and so I frantically pulled out the first chapter (which used to be the fourth) and spent yesterday and part of today (during work, shhh) adding and deleting and fixing and polishing and screeching yelling pulling hair out getting little sleep... WHEW!!!
DAMN that was FUN!!!
Seriously, I have not had that much fun, been so happy working on anything quite like that in quite some time. My passion for this story has been bubbling overboard lately--this story's time is now, at last. Taken about ten years to get it to this point, but now is the time, yes it is. Working on the first chapter again--time flew, nothing could distract me (even going over it in hard copy at Starbucks last night)and I realized (again) that the reason working on this novel makes me so happy is because it is damn good.
I have something special here, by golly. HAVE had something special for a long time, but evil people and circumstances beyond my control, and stupid attitudes and stubborness on my part forced it aside.
So, anyway!!! Now that that is sent in, I can relax, get back to beta'ing as I'd promised (uh, sorry about the sudden disappearance on that, KL! I went rather nutty!) and tomorrow, I leave early a.m. to go see my sister Leslie in Nashville. WHEE!! Four days of Being Away From Here will be a good thing. I need a break from Fort Worth, work, kids, dogs...scratch that. Not from the dogs.
When I get back I'll have two months to finish ballet boy--I want--no, it WILL be out of here by the time I go to Armadillocon end of August. Happily, two of my FW peeps will also be going. Whee! (they joined me in the panic over getting a chapter ready with less than 48 hours to do it, lol awesome). That'll be awesome wonderful fun, and both are far more familiar with the genre and the people in it than I am, so that will be added marvelousness.
So, here I go! Diving head first into the fantasy genre at long last. I think I am ready for it. Oh yeah.
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