Weekend Coffee Share. “What I Can Plan and What I Can’t.” 1/20
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Welcome to my Weekend Coffee Share, hosted by Allison at https://eclecticali.wordpress.com/
Oh, I’m feeling a little tired today. Last night I got a message that my beta-reader’s notes and suggestions were done, but I didn’t have time to view it yet. I am giving myself the weekend. I have one more beta reader who should be available the end of this month, and then I’ll revise, edit, and send to a professional editor the draft for my sequel to Detours in Time. This is hard work, and my full-time work isn’t getting easier. That’s okay, I’ve given myself the right to only publish one book this year if that is all that gets done. Meanwhile, I have other ideas hopping in my head that I’ve outlined or just typed into summary form to flesh out later. After years of giggling at my own ideas and losing them an hour later because all I could do was dream, I decided to start putting those dreams on paper. Thank God I did! This is such a wonderful mind exercise.
As I said, the editing/revising process is hard work, and it at times requires a good amount of sequestering. I found beta-readers in writing groups and plan to find an editor online who can give me a good turn around time. I’d like to get this book out over the summer when I have time off, so I can give it the nurturing it needs to grow a readership. Still, I like the sociability of blogging, so, right now I am tending to do one Weekend Coffee Share or reflection and one Flash Fiction challenge a week. We share them in one central place as well as on our blog so that we can see each other’s work and comment. There are frequent posters whom I know by name and I like to keep up with news from their parts of the world or see what sort of fiction they spit out based on the photo prompt. That is the sociability that keeps me writing when those reading my book won’t leave reviews and when I have a slow book week. It happens. I am in the acorn stage. Maybe one day I’ll be a tree. 
