Will the Voices in My Head Please SHUT UP!!

Two posts in one week, can you believe it? I can't either. But since I still don't have a computer of my own this is the closest I get to writing down some of my ideas. I guess I could hand write them but it takes me way too long to transcribe them. (my mind rewrites everything as I go along then I get lost or head out on tangents... not very time effective)

I've been talking about my novel to my new co-workers and they're almost as excited about it as my old ones were. That makes me very happy. I know now that I'll have a good support system in place when I go a little crazy come November. That is, if I'm not already insane. You see, talking about my novel makes me think about my novel. That, in turn, makes me have ideas. And while I would normally welcome ideas about where to take my novel or new plot twists I can throw in there when I don't have time or a place to write it just makes me frustrated. I do try to jot down notes but when I'm in the middle of learning how to do something it is really hard to stop and write something down. I only have one more week of training then I'm on my own. I'll start keeping two notebooks by my computer, one for work and one for novel stuff.

Anyway, to get back on track with the title of this post, my characters have been going nuts. They are making it so difficult to concentrate. Where were they three months ago when I wanted to work on this novel? Nowhere! Jerks. I've been trying to appease them and let them know that I promise I will start working as soon as I possibly can but they just don't seem to care. And they don't care if all of them talk at once. How can I understand what they want when I can't figure out who is saying what? Jerks squared. They are so rude!

PS - Its not the best picture, but its a start...

It is Almost Time!

The hubby and I survived the move to Texas and we are settling in. I'm on my second week of work and loving every minute of it. We put a deposit down on an apartment and we should find out our exact move-in date sometime this week. It has a second bedroom so I FINALLY get my own workspace. So fantastic. I'm really lookingforward to just being able to go somewhere and have a little me time to read and write. And I am so ready to start writing again! I didn't realize how much I've missed it these past few, well months if I'm being completely honest.

Unfortunately, we have to replace our computer first, so sad. As much as I want that fancy computer with. The haandwriting software its just not in the budget. Hopefully it won't take too long to get one. I have a lot of work to do and its almost November!

Life and Other Nonsense That Gets In the Way

It has been almost a month since my last post, I apologize. And. I promise I will post pictures of my proof soon. As soon as I get it and my camera in the same place at the same time.

I haven't had much of a chance, meaning none at all, to work on my second rewrite. I had all intentions of doing it when we got back from vacation, which was fabulous, but things have been a little crazy in my house. We made the decision to move to Dallas and the move has been taking up most of my thoughts. I haven't been feeling very creative of late. If I can get the apartment together in a decent amount of time (we have a month) I will try to make time to work on it.

I really miss my characters. They've been talking to me sporadically wanting to know what's going on and, at times, it has been heartbreaking to ignore them. I'm hoping they won't choose to leave me when I finally get a chance to get back to them.

It Finally Came!

Its official, my very first novel is in print. And I promise as soon as I can I'll post a few pics of it. I'm super excited, even if the inside margins are kinda screwed up.

I'm off to vacation next week and as long as my life is not in complete turmoil when I get back I'll be returning to the revision.

And Rest!

I MADE IT! My deadline came and I was on schedule. This deadline was not going to whoosh past me and I just watch it fly by. I have finished revision one of my novel dropping about 40% of the original. It was a little difficult to see my page count go from 106 to only 66 but it means I've cut out a lot of the drivel (I'm hoping). So with that I am proud to say that I made it in time for the NaNoWriMo/CreateSpace deadline and was notified about an hour ago that my proof copy of my FIRST NOVEL EVER has been shipped.

Its probably awful, most likely a little sad, and definitely incoherent at times, but it is MINE!! And it will be in print, with my name on it, my words on the page, and on my bookshelf. And no, you can't read it. Not yet. At least one more revision before I consider beta readers.

I am, however, going to take a little time off before I start looking at a second revision. At least I am going to try. Stephen King says that one should lock it in a drawer and forget about it for six months before picking it up again. I don't have six months if I want to at least query agents before I'm 31. I'm going on vacation in 3 weeks so I figured when I get back I will print it out and start the arduous process all over again.

Oh, and I will post pictures of my proof copy when it comes in. And for those interested, after minutes and minutes of research I realized that my tired imagination actually had the right idea about how to kill demons! Go me.

The Final Week

So it has come down to the final week, well 5 days. And I am surprising moving along rather well. Now that all the wedding stuff is out of the way I can actually concentrate on working. When I can get myself motivated that is!

I actually finished typing up all that I had previously hand-written! I was pretty stoked when I came to that last page and realized I didn't have to lean over my notebook and type, hoping that I would transcribe it properly. And the stress of revising while I typed is over, too. It is really hard to revise a revision as you are going along. But I did it!

I also managed to get in another chapter tonight. And it has a really important scene in it that I (currently) really like how it turned out. Of course this is all subject to change as I go in for revision number dos. But I'm not going to worry about that right now. I'm going to rejoice in the fact that I only have 44 pages of original manuscript left to revise and then I have to figure out how to get it uploaded to the site that allows me a proof copy of my FIRST NOVEL EVER!!! (that warrants a lot more exclamation points, but I'm trying to be modest)

Looming Deadline

So I've been rolling merrily along working on my revisions when I get a chance but not putting in a whole lot of effort. (Shame on me) I figured I would really dig in after all the wedding festivies for my friend. I have until the end of June to get it done. No big rush, right? WRONG!! The deadline is June 1 not 30. Talk about a freak out! Once I regained composure I set out a schedule and as long as I stick to it I should be done by May 28.

I spent an hour last night typing up some stuff that I had hand written and tonight I'm shooting for 2 hours of work. I'm hoping to have everything that's hand written already done by Saturday. That will put me a little over halfway, and back in the writing mindset. I should be able to whip out the ending in no time. That is if there are no major changes to my plot.

I do have some research to do before that... I'm not really sure hbow to kill a demon and that's essential to the climax. And I'm hoping the knowledge will help me figure out a way to write a fight scene, as that is definitely not my strongg point.

Onward!