Beverly Jenness's Blog: Daily Struggles of an Unknown Author - Posts Tagged "book-three"

My giveaway for 'Stone City' is complete and copies have been mailed out to the winners.
Congratulations to those who were lucky enough to win one of the ten signed, first addition copies and happy reading!
With that hurdle crossed, I am concentrating on book three. I have yet to come up with a title for the newest installment to the 'From Earth to Terra' series. I am not going to even begin to guess at a completion date as it is still in the early stages.
I am greatly hampered in my writing due to an auto accident my husband and I were involved in New Year's Day. The other car ran a red light and I receive a crushed vertebrae requiring surgery and the installation of titanium rods and screws to the tune of 30 grand. It is painfully for me to sit at my desk and I have been looking for alternate ways to write. The first draft is done long hand and I can do that most anywhere but when I transpose the manuscript into the computer is where the trouble comes in. I tried standing at our pub table with my laptop but that was a no go. I'm too short to do that comfortably especially since I lost an inch and a half with the accident. I have managed to do some work sitting on the couch with my laptop but I am only comfortably in a modified fetal passion; simi reclined with my feet braced on the edge of the couch. Difficult to write in that position. But not to worry.
I will persevere, overcome and succeed!

It was a very good day yesterday. I made some REAL headway transcribing my hand written manuscript to my computer! No that doesn't mean book three is complete. I try not to get too much hand written before putting it on the computer. As I transfer it, I empelish the story and also watch the flow.
Sometimes, if I have a day or so in between writings I will leave out a critical part of the story or duplicate it further on. I have even eliminated entire sections (dozens of pages) because as I put it on the computer, I decide I don't like where that particular line is going or it just doesn't seem to fit well with the rest of the story. I wouldn't want to spend extra time writing a part of the storyline only to eliminate it.
There are times I have had to do that. No matter how much I love what I have written, if it doesn't enhance the story, it has to go. I do keep all those sections I have deleted from my books. You never know when they will make a book of their own or find their way back into the series.

I will put weed killer on the lawn and then my husband will mow. Kind of like amputating a limb with gangrene, the weed continue to flourish. I have discussed this with him at length on numerous occasions. He does the typical husband response(an indication that he isn't truly listening; the bobble head nod) I have even made a point of asking him when he intends to mow again. He will indicate he has no plans to mow for a day or so but as soon as I put the week killer down, he mows! It's like he feels guilty or something for not mowing if I'm working in the yard.
I thought I won this time though. I waited until after he mowed. With the crazy weather we were having I bought the kind that is rainproof in an hour. I figured I had won...wrong! No sooner had I finished and gone back into the house to work on book three of the 'From Earth to Terra' series, hubby decides to wash off the patio and sidewalk around the pool, (the edges of which is where the vast majority of the weeds thrive) washing away the weed killer.
On the positive side, he hasn't been in the front yard since he mowed it and that's where I started. So those little tenacious beasts are history!