My Editing Cave Has Chocolate

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If it seems like I've vanished, I haven't. I'm still here, hunkered over my keyboard editing The Grave Winner until it's all sparkly. Actually, I'm done editing. Now I'm just reading through it for the millionth time to see if everything flows and makes some kind of sense. This might be the last time it's in my hands before it grows up to be a real book. *sniff, sniff*

I've read this story so many times now that it's hard to know if the setting is described perfectly, if character actions and reactions are realistic, or if the plot stemmed from the brain of a crazy person. Oh, wait - it did come from a crazy person! So yeah, that writer self-doubt is creeping in big time.

My solution? Chocolate. That stuff can cure anything. Do you have a papercut? Smear some chocolate sauce on it. Headache? Take two doses of chocolate chip cookies and chase it with chocolate-flavored coffee.

I did crawl out of my editing cave long enough to pitch a novella to three editors from three different publishing companies. Two requested to read it. I'll let you know how everything pans out with that.

Okie-doke. I'm heading back now. Peace out.