Oh Captain, My Captain and other dreams

I'm feeling sick today, which is a shame because I really wanted to make some progress on the book, but I'm writing the BIG SCENE and I feel even more inadequate when my brain feels congested. Ugh. We're going to try, though.

My roommate and I watched Dead Poets Society last night. I cried. I love Robin Williams. Something about his half-shy smile and puppy-dog eyes.

The book is coming you guys, its going to be finished soon. Then its time for edits, which I'm hoping won't take as long as drafting did. I've spent so much time on the drafting, that seems only fair. I'm starting to do research on agents. Soon, you guys. Soon. Geez I'm ready to be done.

Short story collection is making progress too. Edits are finished. Maybe. Cover design is in the works. I may have to withdraw a few stories from submission but I'm thinking April 1 as a tentative release date. That's not a joke, by the way.

Job is great. I adore preschool kids, snotty noses and all. I only wish the hours and everything was more viable and secure. We'll see what happens there.

I think I want to start working on another picture book, too. Or a screenplay. Definitely a second novel, once this first one is done. Also I would love to learn to play the saxophone. And buy a turtle.

Happy Martin Luther King day. I hope you have a dream, too.

What's going in your life?

Sarah Allen