One Thing Remains

One step forward, never seems to get you nowhere

I have spent most of my day packing, which mind you, is exciting as hell. I am burnt out and praying to God that they get the elevator fixed before we move, because I am not carting all this crap down 6 flights of stairs.

My brother burnt through the last half of my book yesterday. He literally read over a hundred word document pages in one sitting, which is quite a feat. I called him up once he was done and we had a good hour long (long distance) talk about everything. He found some parts slow and others he really liked, so I took notes and am now just waiting on my editor to finish reading the book.

I have a lot of ideas of what we could cut and where I want to take the manuscript, which is exciting, but curbing me away from CC at this moment. I didn't even submit another chapter yesterday like I usually do, nor have I looked at the chapter that came down today. I just don't want to waste my time with things that will likely be changing in the next little while.

I finished doing my own full manuscript edit and we are now hovering at just over 200,000 words, which is a significant drop from the 270k that we started at. There is hope that this can still be a single book. Anyways I suppose I should go check my critiques and such. Ciao

Meet me by the River's Edge

I'm not sure if we belong here, if I ever really left, or If I can go home.

I am almost done another full edit, only about ten chapters to go, which isn't far considering I am sixty chapters in.

Is it weird to enjoy your own writing? People always say 'write what you want to read' and that's something I have always stuck with, but you hear more often than not about writers who can't look at their manuscripts anymore. Sure there are some parts I am sick of, but those are the parts that are getting cut. I thoroughly enjoy my story, maybe I am just weird.

I guess if I am not sick of it after ten years, I don't know if I ever will be.

A friend of mine is helping with the editing, which is nice since he actually knows what he's doing and went to school for journalism. I'll be the first to admit that my grammar is no great work of art.

On another note, we got a place in Vancouver, we go in on Friday to sign the contract and then we move at the end of the month. It's scary, I have never lived in a big city before, but I suppose it can only be a good thing?

As long as our lives our settled by then, I am still planning on going to Cos & Effect in mid August, sadly I haven't had the time or the funds to make a costume though. I figure I might throw together something just for shits and giggles. Josie, a friend from my childhood, may be visiting and we joked how I should make Rain's costume and advertise my book, which is actually a very interesting prospect and might be something I do in the future. I have never worked with real leather or made a jacket, but it could be fun? The jacket is gorgeous, I would love to have one:Anyways, I suppose I should get back to writing. A side note, I wrote a few paragraphs for my next novel, The Photographer, I'm excited to work on that book once I am all done with Rain.

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Love like Winter

Warn your warmth to turn away, here it's December every day

Plenty of changes to come. My first reader just finished the book and the overall opinion was good, but as was suspected the weakness is in the start. I am realizing that the book is far further from ready than I thought and I think a lot of that was because things were feeling stagnant and I wanted things to get moving. Well things are moving now and it will be for the best for the story.

A friend of mine is helping with the editing, which is a great relief and is extremely helpful. Grammar was never my strong suit, but I am learning. This whole thing has been a huge learning process, which has been exciting and frustrating all at once.

I feel that there is so much to do, with everything. On top of all the book stuff, we will be moving at the end of the month. We have to find a place in North Vancouver that allows cats and then we have to do the actual move and set everything up under the new address etc. So there may be some downtime during that era, but hopefully thing will return to normal soon enough.

I will be attending Cos & Effect in August assuming all goes as planned. Unfortunately due to the hectic nature of life I haven't had much time to work on a costume, so I'll probably just be taking pictures. I may do some advertising for the book, but we will see.

I just realized that it is not Wednesday so you guys get an early blog post, lucky you! Off to work!

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