I'm in a pretty good mood.
I sent the first fifty thousand words of Dead Stop off to a proofreader, just to get some feedback to help me get a little boost towards my effort to finish this draft. It got a positive reaction. She seems to think it's worth finishing, which is always a good thing.
Now if I can just get the next thirty or forty thousand words to live up to the first.
So now the season has come to get that second wind and get cracking. I'll go ahead and enjoy labor day with the family, but starting Tuesday I focus on cranking out the verbage. It's about to get serious. Summer is over and the kids are back in school. No more excuses.
It's time to write.
I also have to accept that for one hour a day, I shall be waiting in a car line of parents in order to pick up the kids from school. I handled this last week by reading Stephen King's Bag of Bones. I guess I'm going to get my reading in as well this year, so I think it's about time to get myself a Kindle like my wife has. It makes more sense than starting a library in my car.
So lots of reading and writing.
It's about time.
Excellent idea on the Kindle, Nate. Research is an important part of being a writer. It is not "down time" or "wasted time" to be reading - it is valuable research time.
ReplyDeleteKarla wants me to hold off buying it in case our house burns down and there is nowhere to deliver it too. That's a new one :P
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