Proofreading in New Hampshire

Shelburne, New Hampshire

Yesterday, I had promised my novel to my critique group. I wanted to give them a week to read it before our meeting next Monday night, and then I'll have a couple weeks after our meeting to do last changes before it goes to my editor. I hadn't read the book straight through yet, and that always brings up changes and tweaks. And in a book of around 140 pages, it will take hours and hours.

But I have looked at this book so much over the summer, and it's an emotional book for me, so I woke up without a lot of enthusiasm to go through it all over again.

"What would make this more fun?" I asked myself. The book is set in New Hampshire, so I thought it would make it a delight instead of a chore if I did the work in New Hampshire.

"I'm going to stop at the first library that I see when I cross the border," I told John.

Gorham Library, Gorham, New Hampshire

I picked the Gorham, New Hampshire library and worked there for seven hours yesterday! I didn't realize it would take that long, but it did.

The library was open until six pm, and with a whopping six minutes to spare before it closed, I hit SEND to my critique partners. I sat next to the middle-grade stacks where a copy of Touch Blue was on the shelf and huge moose antlers were on the wall.