I started well last week, writing, editing and sending off a short story to a women's mag (Mr Koala says I must earn more hard cash to pay for the new eucalypt, so I thought I'd try the fun way first). Then it was a slippery slope straight back down to the production of nothing. More of a precipice, really, a smooth one, and well-greased too.
However, today I am going to print out my first draft of The Woman in the Wall and get down to some serious editing. Beta readers - watch out. I hope it will be with you in a month or so. Some of you actually volunteered, you mad things! I'll be calling on you soon... Mwah!
All estmated timings, of course, depend on what kind of a state manuscript turns out to be in once I print it. I'm cautiously optimistic and also really looking forward to reading it again - particularly because when I read over the first 20,000 words a few months ago, having abandoned it for a while, I was quite impressed in a 'what? did I really write this?' kind of a way, so I hope I have the same feeling after reading the whole story. There will be endless logistics to sort out, of course, which is where you come in, my darlings.
And, in the meantime, I'm going to keep a fertile little corner of my mind turned over and ready for short story ideas for womens' mags - there's money in them there hills, my friends, and it's saved me from the wrath of Mr Koala in the past (writing? pah! waste of time! oh, did you say something about a cheque... that's good, keep writing then...).
And I'll be doing a Koala Check in the next 24 hours or so to see who needs to join me in a rankings slide, so get those stats up to date sharpish.
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Have done edits on 7 chapters and am calling it a night. It's better. Much better. Needs to be ready to submit and on a certain editor's desk before labor day (early September).
Wife says dinner's ready. Gotta run. Hope your muse sprinkles you with happy dust and lots of cheques.
I'm up to 11 chapters out of 36, roasted to a crisp, so I wish you well with your Koaloid revisions as a fellow sufferer.
Oh crap. I'll pop a note on here - I have to whittle approx 40K off of my novel length - and will be doing so over the next several weeks. 40K. Yeah. Been laying out the plan on this over the past few weeks, as I had time.
I'd say that keeps the koala a happy little camper, eh?
PS - Good luck with your story, and with your novel edits, McK.
Status update: Managed 1,132 words in the past week. :)
Good luck with the editing and short stories!!!!
I need to get my husband out of hte house so I can write. He's thinking about canceling his business trip, and me packing his suitcase for him is NOT giving him any clues, the cluess wonder he is.
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