Angela Verdenius's Blog - Posts Tagged "gah"
Those Days...and Blue's Progress
You know those days...you get forewarning the water will go off for 6 hrs, you write the note to remind everyone, you fill 3 buckets just in case, do everything needing water early, turn off the main...then you try to wet a cloth, can't figure out why, then are so glad no one is home to see you being a twit... You also do a general update to inform everyone on Goodreads of this and realise it's been done in the book update...Ooops. DARN IT!!!!
On a good note, Blue's story is clapping along nicely. I'm two thirds of the way through it and hammering it like crazy. Not quite sure how I feel about the story-line - yeah, I know, I do this all the time. I'm just a little concerned because of all the stops and starts this book has done over the last few months, and I've had to get my 'mojo' back twice between surgery rather than the full-on writing I usually do without stopping until it's completed. Never mind. I will continue to forge onward.
Another great thing is that I have 3 weeks off work starting Monday. I know, 3 weeks off that ISN'T sick leave! Mum is having an eye op so I'm her driver/nurse/cleaning lady etc, which is all fine, I'd planned for that. Also awesome is I have some horror DVDs waiting for me to watch and a stack of ebooks and paperbacks, and I intend during these holidays to hammer this book. My aim? I want to get this finished by the end of August, maybe sooner, depending on how things go. Like today, when it's my day off but I need to go in to work for several hours for meetings...gah! Okay, pulling up my big girl panties (flowered ones, in case anyone cares), I'll hammer Blue before I go and when I get home.
So yes, aiming to finish Blue's story by end of August, maybe sooner. I'll do my very best. Then the re-read and editing and fixing up mistakes and adding or deleting as necessary. So I can't promise it WILL be finished by end of August, but I can promise I WILL do my very best!!!
On a good note, Blue's story is clapping along nicely. I'm two thirds of the way through it and hammering it like crazy. Not quite sure how I feel about the story-line - yeah, I know, I do this all the time. I'm just a little concerned because of all the stops and starts this book has done over the last few months, and I've had to get my 'mojo' back twice between surgery rather than the full-on writing I usually do without stopping until it's completed. Never mind. I will continue to forge onward.
Another great thing is that I have 3 weeks off work starting Monday. I know, 3 weeks off that ISN'T sick leave! Mum is having an eye op so I'm her driver/nurse/cleaning lady etc, which is all fine, I'd planned for that. Also awesome is I have some horror DVDs waiting for me to watch and a stack of ebooks and paperbacks, and I intend during these holidays to hammer this book. My aim? I want to get this finished by the end of August, maybe sooner, depending on how things go. Like today, when it's my day off but I need to go in to work for several hours for meetings...gah! Okay, pulling up my big girl panties (flowered ones, in case anyone cares), I'll hammer Blue before I go and when I get home.
So yes, aiming to finish Blue's story by end of August, maybe sooner. I'll do my very best. Then the re-read and editing and fixing up mistakes and adding or deleting as necessary. So I can't promise it WILL be finished by end of August, but I can promise I WILL do my very best!!!
Still Studying
The writing? No go right now. Why? I'm studying and have to get this course for work done in a certain time limit, hence every second after work is spent studying studying studying. Had Easter Friday & Easter Monday off...and spent it studying.
Study looms its head everywhere I go. I'm at work...I think about the study waiting for me when I get home. I go for a walk...study waiting for me. I start the computer...groan at the study waiting for me. Look longingly at my book edits waiting for me, and the file of new story ideas...and GROAN BIG TIME because - wait for it - study is at the front! I'm even dreaming about study and work and stuff, I can't escape it right now. GROAN AGAIN!
GAH!!!!
Still, I am halfway through it, pounding towards the three quarter mark, sweating over the exams, and looking forward to finishing it so I can resume what I love - writing!
So yep, I have had my head down for awhile, but wanted to come up for air to assure you all that yep, I'm still here, and yep, I will still be writing - just have to get this &^%$@! study done first!!
Study looms its head everywhere I go. I'm at work...I think about the study waiting for me when I get home. I go for a walk...study waiting for me. I start the computer...groan at the study waiting for me. Look longingly at my book edits waiting for me, and the file of new story ideas...and GROAN BIG TIME because - wait for it - study is at the front! I'm even dreaming about study and work and stuff, I can't escape it right now. GROAN AGAIN!
GAH!!!!
Still, I am halfway through it, pounding towards the three quarter mark, sweating over the exams, and looking forward to finishing it so I can resume what I love - writing!
So yep, I have had my head down for awhile, but wanted to come up for air to assure you all that yep, I'm still here, and yep, I will still be writing - just have to get this &^%$@! study done first!!
New Book Progress
So, as usual, I was having a lot of trouble with the first chapter. It's always hard introducing new characters without rushing everything and trying to explain their different personalities in long explanations. Setting the scene, etc.
So I wrote and re-wrote and cursed a little (okay, a lot, because I do, let's be honest), and then I wrote five more pages and lost the lot (I thought) and cursed heaps because I had no idea why my manuscript hadn't saved those last 5 pages and I panicked then chucked a wobbly (yes, I admit it, I act like a 2 yr old at times), and stormed off to bed to read instead. Yesterday I got up and lo and behold, my 5 pages I'd lost had magically reappeared! Then I realized (much to my embarrassment) that the five pages had always been there but what I'd been looking at was an earlier piece I'd cut and pasted at the bottom of the working manuscript to check out later and maybe add...
Oh dear.
Never mind. The creative juices are flowing again, and I needed that break because I've re-written the scene and am happy with it! So much so the hero and I aren't fighting and I like him much better ;-)
Onward I go!
So I wrote and re-wrote and cursed a little (okay, a lot, because I do, let's be honest), and then I wrote five more pages and lost the lot (I thought) and cursed heaps because I had no idea why my manuscript hadn't saved those last 5 pages and I panicked then chucked a wobbly (yes, I admit it, I act like a 2 yr old at times), and stormed off to bed to read instead. Yesterday I got up and lo and behold, my 5 pages I'd lost had magically reappeared! Then I realized (much to my embarrassment) that the five pages had always been there but what I'd been looking at was an earlier piece I'd cut and pasted at the bottom of the working manuscript to check out later and maybe add...
Oh dear.
Never mind. The creative juices are flowing again, and I needed that break because I've re-written the scene and am happy with it! So much so the hero and I aren't fighting and I like him much better ;-)
Onward I go!
