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the road ahead

Yesterday was a momentous day in the land of The Blood Witch as I got across the 40K words mark.  I had hoped to be further along, but well…life.

Being a writer who has to hold down a day job and who lives alone, thus is responsible for all of the housework and grocery shopping and laundry, etc…sometimes mean that writing goes very slowly.

However, I can see my way to the end of this book.  I’m probably just over half way there, so the 50k for nano isn’t going to be the end of the book, not by a long shot.  But, I’m further along than I was and know how to get from here to there, where there is the end of the first quest.

And it leaves plenty of story line for the second quest.

I’m hoping to knock out a few thousand words today before I need to get out to get a few things at the store, do some food prep for the week and other fun things, like making some pumpkin pie bread to take to work this week.

I’ve also decided to take some time off between Christmas and New Years this year to go visit my father in Tucson.  I haven’t been down that way in a while.  I’m thinking that it would be a good time of year to do so.

Now then, I need more coffee and should probably eat before I sit down to make the words.  I hope your Sunday is wonderful, Readers, and filled with kindness.

 

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Today is the submissions deadline for the short story anthology that I am editing for the Sirens Conference, a benefit anthology that will help defray the costs of running a conference like this one.

This year we opened up submissions to include poetry and flash fiction, as well as the short stories we’ve always accepted.  The writers of this community are amazing and I genuinely LOVE getting to read the collection, let alone having a hand in helping bring it to fruition.

Of course, that means that today’s writing time is devoted to editing instead, but I have a couple hours blocked out of tomorrow to write, though whether I end up tweaking my short story for the anthology or working on one of the novels in progress is anyone’s guess.

For today, I plan to edit for a few hours, then I head out to the salon to re-greenify my hair, which is looking a little bit sad right now, before coming home to tackle laundry and housework.

The glamorous life of a writer, I tell ya!  Living the dream over here.

Hope your Saturday is glorious, Readers! I’m off to pour another cup of coffee before I open the first story.

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