queenoftheskies

I wrote this morning and then I got really lazy and watched pay per view movies with the kids. It was really nice, though. I needed to relax.

Kitty Malik and I took a one hour nap and then I got up and fixed meatloaf and homemade cheddar mashed potatoes.

Why the hell was I productive this evening? I wanted to be lazy...er, finish my novel today.

I won't finish tonight, but that's okay, cause I made some good progress.

Mostly, what threw me off track was that the internal editor and I had a really nice talk in the bath tonight. For once, she was NOT trying to tell me what I was doing wrong or that what I was writing was crap. She WAS, however, in rewrite mode, and I explained to her that I have to finish and let the novel sit for a while before we can edit.

However, got some GREAT ideas for reshaping the beginning and maybe restructuring the way some of the plot threads fit together for the revised ending, since this is now a novel in and of itself and does not belong as a part of Xanali.

So, I'm pleased with those insights.

I will finish the section of scenes I'm working on tonight, I think, and then I just have a small section left to finish. If work isn't bad, maybe tomorrow. If it's hard, then I'll spread it out over a couple of days.

There's no rush and I'm just going to go straight into Xanali when I'm done, so, it's all part of the same story anyway, and there's not a huge rush.

Once I finish Out of the Darkness, Xanali, and Guardian Force, which are all connected with one another...but could probably stand alone if I rewrite correctly..then, I'm going to move into Wildfire.

Brain already has some ideas for it. Wildfire is finished. It was adapted from a screenplay I wrote, though, and is WAY short. Only around 200 pages. So, I do need to weave in a couple of new plot threads that I have for it and change the love interest part of the story.

I hope to add around 100-150 pages to it. It's not going to be as long as my other novels, so it might not take as long. I hope to edit/revise for the first pass while I'm adding.

I think it'll probably be the first novel that I query. Things can change, of course, but I think it'll be first.

Cool. It would be nice to start attempts at marketing this year.