The Quiet

The blank quietness on this blog makes me sad. It just shows how much my brain has been clogged these past weeks (months? has it been months?). I don’t want to say that I made a mistake spending this whole year doing all this ghostwriting, but maybe I made a teensy-tiny mistake? No point arguing [...]

Made All Changes, Sent the Ms In, and Now?

One more revision (due Wednesday) and I maybe just might be… done?

Revision Day

I have had the revision due for the last of my ghostwritten YA novels on Monday for weeks. I had other deadlines that came first. I wanted to go on vacation. I had to work late. I had company. I had to sleep. And now here we here, less than 24 hours from when the [...]

Lessons Learned While on Vacation

The sun—it burns.
An empty head can be a very happy head.
Visiting countries where it is not recommended to drink the water is not good for someone whose favorite all-time beverage is ice water. (I did not get sick, but juice—nor strawberry daiquiries—did not quench my thirst, so even now I feel so thirsty.)
It is sometimes [...]

Away

In an impossible feat that I really didn’t know I could do, I met a deadline Thursday. And another today. And now I’m done. I’m going away for a little while to relax. I’ve decided that I’m not going to be a freelance writer anymore, not while I have this full-time job. (I mean, after [...]

Smack-Down

I was rejected today.
It was a tough one.
It started as a what-if one, not mattering too much. But then random coincidences began to make me think that it might happen, it just might, otherwise why the signs showing themselves only to me (and decipherable only by me, which is the way of such coincidental signs)?
And [...]

It Gets Physical

I’m in a painful spot with a writing project. I hate it. I want it over. Whine, whine, I’ve said it before. I keep thinking to myself: Why did I agree to write this? A mistake, yes, but too late to do anything about it because I have cashed half of the advance already and [...]

Not Such a Good Day

I’m in a mood.
I’ve been getting up really early to write before work so I can make my remaining two deadlines, so I think I’m working at only 40 percent capacity throughout the day. Not all of my brain cells are here—some are sleeping and some have just popped from all the overuse these past [...]

Finished

I finished the 1st draft of the freelance novel late last night, emailed it in to the editors, and then opened the file to find a mistake on page 1: I’d noted (X words) on the front in big block letters to announce the word count, and forgot to fill in the X. Oh well.
Between [...]