Well, yall, I seem to have succumbed to the swine flu. I guess that is what I have. I feel like hammered dog poop, and I took the regular flu shot. So I guess this is the porcine version.
I need to be working on my nanowrimo, but I feel too punk. Maybe later.
Love to all, if I don’t survive this!
In my day to day life, I work in the legal office of a district school system. Yes, school systems have to have their own lawyers — having 6000 employees and 40,000 kids means all the legal work we and several outsourced lawfirms can handle. We basically run a restaurant chain, transportation service, and maintenance business as well as doing all the teaching, child-care and human resource issues that go with the schools.
So right now is just about the busiest time of a very busy year. But I am still making my time to write. I feel like my brain is just bursting with ideas. I wish I had time to write all of them. Guess I have to try to sort out the best and devote all my spare minutes to them.
I am going to be interviewing Cheryl Smith, who just made her first sale to Berkley over on the Southern Sizzle blog — check it out!
It was a horrible weekend. We had to put Mama in a nursing home last month, and yesterday was my first visit since then. She was royally ticked off at me and didn’t seem to recognize DD (age 12). She finally went off on me when I said we wouldn’t discuss the reasons anymore (after numerous attempts to explain why she can’t live at home). She became violent — my little sweet Baptist mother! — and DD went hysterical. Suffice it to say that the nurses don’t want me to visit again anytime soon.
At least any lingering doubts about the decision have been alleviated. She cannot live at home anymore.
I do need to remember the pain and horror of the event, though. If I can put it on paper, I can convey my characters’ feelings when the worst that can happen, happens.
To quote one of my Regency heroines, “Lud, what a coil!!!”
Go check out my posse of romance-writin’ hot mamas at southernsizzleromance.wordpress.com!
So I have a request for a partial from Scott Eagan of the Greyhaus Agency. Great! But I can’t seem to stop messing with my manuscript!!!
I keep trying to improve it, make it perfect. Of course, you have to edit and improve things — everything you send needs to be the best it can be. But where is the line between editing and fidgeting?
I’m not sure I’m improving it. I am just changing it. But until the darn thing goes in the mailbox, I think I am going to be worrying at it like a sore tooth. I wish it was morning so I could take it to the Post Office and then it would be beyond my control.
Of course, for all the playing with it and fiddling with it, as soon as I mail it, I will find a typo. Never fails.
Let’s see if the gods of computerdom will let me upload the incredible Billy Zane from Titanic (bad boys are always so much more interesting than the hero!)
I am sooooo the goddess of editing. I have five colors of highlite pen and a copy of Browne and King. I scare myself sometimes.
and for some reason, my computer won’t load today’s eye candy. I owe y’all two next time!
Oh, y’all know I might have a clip of two of Mr. Darcy lying around the computer somewhere!
I have been at my DH’s family reunion this week — of course, after being married this long, they are my family too. We have been boating, fishing, swimming, shopping, etc. So there has been no writing going on. But I promise myself I will get back in the harness as soon as this week is over!
For all my eye-candy fans, here is my favorite Capt. Wentworth, Rupert Penry Jones. (Cmon, Jenn, you know you like him!)
Captain Wentworth
I found an old book at the library — Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Browne and King, copyright 1993. It is fabulous! It actually explains why things work and don’t work, and gives you examples of good writers doing great things, and great writers doing bad things, so you can see for yourself. I am about to go through my novel and rip it apart and rebuild it with this book by my side.
Cannot recommend it highly enough! See if you can find a copy. Then again, if you write Georgian/Regency romance, don’t find it. Leave it for me to use — I need all the advantages I can get!
And now I will go find todays treat for the visual –
Captain Kirk!
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